The Hatman Nightmare is Real — Here’s the Neuroscience Behind It | Baland Jalal

FULL EPISODE: https://youtu.be/Evc3hPjDAJc

Neuroscientist Baland Jalal has spent his life exploring the mystery between science and the soul — and what he’s discovered about dreams, sleep paralysis, and consciousness will change the way you see reality itself.

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Across this series, Baland breaks down everything from why you can’t run in dreams to why millions of people see “The Hatman.”

He explains how the brain’s Ghost Receptor may connect us to other dimensions, why REM sleep could be a gateway to the spiritual realm, and how hallucinations, empathy, and the limbic system might reveal where God actually lives inside the mind.

Through his work with Harvard, Oliver Sacks, and sleep-paralysis studies, Baland unpacks how dreams are emotional simulations, how consciousness may arise from the heart of the brain, and why we’re all more prone to hallucination, love, and faith than we think.

This isn’t pseudoscience.

This is the cutting edge of neuroscience — and the edge of something much deeper.

🧩 Inside these clips:

Why you can’t move or run in dreams

How dream time bends reality itself

The hidden link between psychedelics and REM sleep

The Ghost Receptor — where science meets the spiritual realm

The Hatman phenomenon and why your brain invents faces

How faith and neuroscience might describe the same thing

Whether God communicates through the limbic center

The future of consciousness, empathy, and generational DNA

***TIMESTAMPS***

00:00 – Why Dreams Feel So Real

09:11 – The Science Behind Dream Recall

18:25 – Time Distortion in Dreams

28:42 – Dreams as Emotional Therapy & the Ghost Receptor

37:33 – When Science Meets Spirituality

45:51 – The Mystery of the Hatman

🎙️ Watch the full conversation on the Julian Dorey Podcast.

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