Thrilled by his findings, Bob sent his readings to Science magazine. ‘The editor returned them unpublished,’ he said. ‘He wrote me a letter. I’ll never forget it. He wrote, “Frankly we found some of the brain-wave patterns depicted in your paper very odd. Those EEGs couldn’t have come from real people.” ’ Bob paused and chuckled. ‘Couldn’t have come from real people,’ he repeated.