Rama exhaled, calmed himself, lowered his thick eyelids, and then began breathing, carefully controlling the air entering and exiting his body. The lines on the EEG readout grew longer and softer, from hyperactive beta waves to calming and meditative alpha, and then to long and low delta, the brain waves identified with deep sleep. Rama stayed in this comatose state for a half hour, becoming so relaxed at one point that he began gently snoring. When he “woke up,” he gave a detailed recap of the conversation in the room that had occurred while he displayed brain waves of deep sleep.
