340. Ben Alderson-Day — Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Importance of Sleep in Hypnosis
There's increasing understanding that things like your environment around you when you sleep can really influence those dreams. You can harness that by something called dream engineering. Some people will have very vivid dreams or even have, you know, lucid dreams where they can control what's going on so they could choose to fly. And some people, almost that kind of boundary between sleep and waking is a lot more porous anyway. That's where sometimes you get hypnagogia, but also you get things like sleep paralysis,. which is particularly conducive for certain kind of very scary presence phenomena or presence of hallucination.
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