“The question posed most often is: How do you know you aren't dreaming, that what you experience is nothing more than a vivid dream or a hallucination of some sort?”

—  Robert Monroe

Journeys Out of the Body (1971), Chapter 14. Mind and Supermind

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American founder of The Monroe Institute 1915–1995

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