Today we discuss encephalitis lethargica, the sleeping epidemic, a disease that seems to crop up every 50 years or so and turns people into living statues. Oh, and it's been over 50 years since the last time it cropped up. Join us as we learn what it's like to be completely conscious in an immovable body, and discuss a hallucinogenic cure that may be worse than the disease.

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