Skeptophilia

In Ursula LeGuin's amazing and disturbing novel The Lathe of Heaven , a very ordinary guy finds that he has a completely unordinary abil...

Last night I dreamed that our local mall had been converted into a giant used book store.  (Something I would entirely approve of.)  We were...

In one of my favorite novels, The Lathe of Heaven  by Ursula LeGuin, the main character -- an unassuming man named George Orr -- figures out...

As long-time readers of Skeptophilia  know, it really torques my lug nuts when people take perfectly good scientific terms, re-define them h...

In Ursula LeGuin's amazing and disturbing novel The Lathe of Heaven , a very ordinary guy finds that he has a completely unordinary abil...

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation  episode "Night Terrors," the ship gets trapped in a phenomenon called "Tyken's Rif...

A lucid dream  occurs when you are aware you're dreaming while  you're dreaming -- and (apparently) with practice, you can learn to ...

In the episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation  called "Phantasms," the android Commander Data continues to pursue his lifelong ...

I was giving some thought this morning to why I've turned into such a diehard doubter of paranormal occurrences.  And I think one of the...

So, last night, this weird thing happened.  I was skinnydipping in the Caribbean, swimming along trying to get to the other side, when I not...