I grew up in a highly dysfunctional family with a history of father's alcoholism and mother's mental illness. OBE and near death before the age of two. Army provided money for college and GA got me through the Ph.D. I controlled nightmares wtih dream programming as a university freshman and then learned how to control the other altered states. I rejected Freud by my second year as a university student and went on to explore psychological and physiological aspects of dreams, extended attention,  pain control and the like.