A closer look
The modern mainstreaming of leaving your physical body behind was spearheaded by a radio broadcasting executive trying to optimize his nap time. In the 1950s, Robert Monroe was experimenting with audio frequencies to induce accelerated sleep-learning. Instead of learning Spanish, he accidentally started floating against his ceiling and encountering interdimensional entities. He documented these out-of-body experiences in a clinical, corporate tone, inadvertently becoming the grandfather of the entire modern astral projection movement. Productivity hacks really can go too far.
