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I think it takes a tremendous amount of courage and also charles. >> charles what about you? >> a guy named alfred man he was born in 1925 his father was a grocer he started 17 companies as a billionaire, hes given away $23 million. after 20 years got fda approval of inhaled insulin. and theres another one that went public this year, second sight that will bring sight to the blind. this is what american entrepreneurship is all about. this is not just stuff thats going to help people in this coun...

I think it takes a tremendous amount of courage and also charles. >> charles what about you? >> a guy named alfred man he was born in 1925 his father was a grocer he started 17 companies as a billionaire, hes given away $23 million. after 20 years got fda approval of inhaled insulin. and theres another one that went public this year, second sight that will bring sight to the blind. this is what american entrepreneurship is all about. this is not just stuff thats going to help people in this coun...

Television series "the six million dollar man", with lee majors, billed the first bionic action hero. second sight is a company that has built the argus two retinal prosthesis, offers hope for blind people to actually see and experience the world the cutting edge of the amazing discovery. joining us now, dr. robert greenberg, the president of second sight. welcome. great to have you here today. >> pressure to be here. thank you, uma. >> talk about this groundbreaking technology that we are talki...

Possessed or know people who are possessed wanting a priest to come and exorcise them. what do you make of that phenomenon? >> well, the safest answer i can give is i dont know. i dont know. the priest asked me what do you think? i dont know. i think it may be a complete mental crackup, a mental catastrophe that happens. only pathetic theory i have if you wake up in the morning and say its going to be a bad day and you walk around like this, youre going to invite something into yourself in your ...

He says extra sensory perceptions, they have second sight and i believe him. i believe anything he told me. and i didnt make any judgment call on any of it because im there as an actor -- >> but you made this movie, if you didnt, pretty well believe in this? >> no, i cant have a cynicism. i used to be an atheist. i used to be an agnostic. >> what changed? >> a little crisis in my life 35 years ago when i was hell-bent on destruction. i asked for help and, pow, bingo -- >> as a moment in atheist ...

He says extra sensory per senses, they have second sight and i believe him. i believe anything he told me. and i didnt make any judgment call on any of it because im there as an actor -- >> but you made this movie, if you didnt, pretty well believe in this? >> no, i cant have a cynicism. i used to an atheist nosttic. >> what changed? >> a little crisis in my life 35 years ago when i was hell-bent on destruction. i asked for help, and pow, bingo -- >> as a moment in atheist you decided to pray to...

Visiting death row. >> reporter: was it love at second sight? >> i think at that point it was third. >> reporter: he was 43, she was 38. religion an issue? with the two of you? i mean, im thinking -- >> no weve talked about it. >> reporter: irish catholic and a jewish girl from arizona. >> nope, not an issue. not for me. not for her. you know, its -- you know, we certainly -- we certainly talked about it. you know, like if we would ever have kids, you know, how would we do that? we discussed it....

Lasted the length of the vows. >> and then it just stopped. it was just -- it was just incredible. >> reporter: also at the wedding, his two daughters who live as he does in houston near nasa, while the congresswoman lives in d.c. and tucson. and sometimes 200 miles up in space, gave new meaning to long-distance relationship. so, what about this marriage. there you are traveling at, what, 17,000 -- ill get this one wrong -- >> 17,500 miles an hour. >> reporter: thank you very much. 17,500 miles ...

>> this is your first lesson in shared dreaming. >> pretty cool stuff. a new article suggests the movie about manipulating dreams may not be that far off. joining me now live is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at ucla. judith is also the author of a book called "second sight." does this seem pos usible or ju science fiction? >> dreams are an alternate state of reality. and so every night when we go to sleep, we go into a hole other world. so we have that existing already. so i think a...

So, you know, perhaps the movie really brings in what science is about to discover. >> you know, how do they dream up this movie? they thought about it in a dream. what is the meaning behind our dreams? is there a way to truly decipher them? >> oh, absolutely. in "second sight," i teach people how to remember dreams and interpret them. if you want to remember your dreams tonight, what you need to do is just ask a question before you go to sleep and then in the morning dont wake up too quickly an...