Further experimentation performed on monkeys has determined the temporal lobes to be the part of the brain which mediates various states of consciousness. In the study, monkeys were given LSD after having various parts of their brains removed. The monkeys continued to trip no matter what parts of the brains were missing. Only in the case where both temporal lobes were removed did the substance seem to have no affect the monkeys at all. Many hypnogists report states of instantaneous intuition, exhilaration with an inspired poem, mystical insights, and exquisite peaceful joy.
Occultists believe they can tap into clairvoyant experiences in the hypnagogic.
Hypnagogic stages of sleep, with all its hallucinatory imagery, tends to act as compelling explanations for many claims of alien or supernatural encounters. Hypnagogia is therefore an excellenet example of how determinedly searching for a scientific explanation can lead us out of superstition and into the light of reason. However, we also have to remember to keep ourselves open to the possibilities that go beyond our current mode of scientific thinking. Research into hypnagogia is shedding new light on the psychic process and the possibility of different levels of consciousness. Hypnagogia presets new dimensions of a true New Age exploration, waiting for us all to travel together into this New World.