While Marko is skeptical, Corrigan tells him about how neuroscience studies dreams, and whether people who claim to lucid dream, wake up with demons and vampires on their chests, or astral project are making it up or really seeing some shit.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about how neuroscientists have come to understand things like lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, and astral projection
[01:12:16] Society is weird about Sundays, our book club is bendy, and we've got a watch-along coming up
[01:23:22] Marko talks about things that have gotten worse in the six years we've been doing this podcast

Stuff we referenced:

• The remote viewers (The Guardian)
• CIA Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process
• The cognitive neuroscience of lucid dreaming
• The neuroscience of lucid dreaming: Past, present, future
• Out-of-Body Experiences: Into the Astral?
• Why Sleep Paralysis Makes You See Ghosts
• Astral Projection: A Strange Out-of-Body Experience in Dissociative Disorder
• Astral Projection: An Intentional Out-of-body Experience
• The Rubber Hand Illusion - Horizon: Is Seeing Believing? - BBC
• Voluntary Out-of-Body Experience: An fMRI Study
• Astral projection: Facts and theories