I feel like you need to get out more and talk with other types of people. The sort of "skeptic" you are mentioning is going to act like this no matter what.

I have bookmarked your article and will read more later, but I think it's wonderful you are examining these topics. I'm presently living in a small town that I dreamed as a child. I could never understand how as a child, I'd dream about my current school and neighborhood, then in the dream, walk to stores and shops and other locations where I had never been before - now, many years later, here I have "walked" - in what I perceive as "life" - not in the "dream."

Having read further - I see it's the total idiot Shermer. Do not waste your time on him. He's like a moving chicane of anti-creativity and thought.

My husband, I think, knows more of this than I do. It's the same phenomenon as in my lane, the fools who scream "losing weight is just calories in-calories out, all fat people are lazy!" Uh. No.