Midnight Wisdom

Midnight Wisdom

By Khraim Hamadeh OmraniSociety & Culture
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Midnight Wisdom episodes

  • Week 106: Punch to the Heart

    Recorded on the 5th of November 2020. Felt like a good day. Regaining flow.


    I just got off the phone with my grandfather now. And was just present with him. Sunday 8th of November 4:37 pm.
    It's good to have him in my life, who knows how long I'll have him for.

    Things speak to me at night. And I speak to myself.

    Formulating sentences, putting them together. Thinking it all through.  I wish I could dedicate all my time to my art. But I am going through what I need to, should and have to go through as it all comes together.

    I think of her, always. But not all the time.

    Regaining the self.


    Anger. A consistency. A rage.

    1 hr 1 min
  • My Life: Week 103

    I recorded this week on my phone, at different times and segments after doing things and throughout all of it.


    I find it a much more interesting way to do it if I want to keep a real time journal I can look back to and reflect on.

    This week:
    Reflected on why pure reflection is considered the highest form of intelligence, even if someone isn't 'smart'. (11 minutes) Didn't come to any real answer.

    Started new job

    Got back into a nice rhythm

    Went to Hamburg and saw Dennis and Jan for the weekend

    Now I'm back (2-3 minutes)


    Feeling good.

    24 min
  • Midnight Thoughts: Let go

    There's so much room forwards for things to happen. Let's not limit it.

    11.10.2020

    Exactly a year after I've been in Berlin, and I've only noticed while recording. 

    I found a new job and I start in 2 days. 

    I'm remembering what meditation is for me. And I'm finding a calm piercing force in me all over again. 

    I'm waiting to heal from my injury that's still happening. And I'm finding sleeping on a yoga matt is helping me a bit again. It's interesting living with limited movement.

    We can create so much meaning for the things that brought us here, but sometimes all you have to do is let that go, so you can continue moving forward.

    16 min
  • Midnight Reflections: On writing, on work, on learning

    02.10.2020

    I recorded this right before going out to Mama bar.

    I had my first French dream that day, my head is in a weird haze the past few days. I haven't been sleeping really well because I've gotten too used to my room and my bed. I know that I'll be a very different person if I had my own house with a living room and actually different places to sit and different rooms to do things. But that's maybe one of the (minor) reasons I'm writing the story of an architect in his own house.  Met a lot of French people that night. It was one day after the full moon (harvest).

    I talk about the writing workshops, and how I think I'll really give ones when I'm more established. So I'm taking what I can from these classes as I can. I had to reflect about how being around and reflecting on writing's and exercises with other authors is affecting me, and my creative process. Like, do I want them to acknowledge my greatness, (ofc that doesn't benefit me) and would they think I overestimate myself. But essentially I think it boils down to will they love or hate me for my self-perceived artistic brilliance. 

    Fun stuff, right? 

    So I went back to class again without caring about that ideal again. I will be what I am and I will ask and say what I think is valuable, and I will also watch and see what also comes out from others, because things will come out of others. Although most of the time I do have a very strong opinion about what to say because I've been really on figuring out my writing process, and I think that process is what, in essence, should be taught and cultivated. 

    The deep reading class was super fun, for sure. I'm liking this thing, and how I'm exposed to different texts I'd otherwise never be exposed to. I smoked one during the class, and I found that interesting.

    I am a writer. I think like one and I talk like one.

    And work is also a thing I need to do. Money and what you can do with it is nice. Good food, good atmospheres and the comfort of being able to purchase is also nice. But I've grown resilient with being so close to not having any money. I have like 250 euros now for the entire month, which is, of course, super fun.

    That was a fun reflection, and it took me out of a state of boredom. it wasn't too cool, it was like I was mentally running around to find something to do instead of finding myself engaged in doing something particular.

    27 min
  • Midnight Thoughts: 1 year 11 months

    27.09.2020

    More than a year and eleven months now, I've been doing this.


    I talk about creation again, about where I am now.
    I'm almost done reading the long walk.
    I've been eating pretty much a lot of sugar, but I feel like I'm coming back to a better diet.
    I feel a power in myself and in my being, in my path and in myself.
    It's interesting. It's insane. It's what it is.
    I'm not attaching to it too much. But it is nice. 

    I have a scar to remind me that punching the world isn't the way.


    Let's see what I continue to learn soon.

    I'll do a midnight reflection to talk about it all.

    Attention is all.

    11 min
  • Midnight Thoughts: On Creation

    20.09.2020

    The book in front of me. Forming in front of me, by me, and through me.


    I would be doing something, anything, and then I'd feel drawn in, I'd feel an urge. A longing for the story.
    I let go, I hold on to the pencil, and find myself writing away.
    Carving, forming, unfolding. 

    All I have to do is let it come through, without so much obstruction. But an eye for construction.

    As it all comes through. 

    This is me, on creation.

    8 min
  • Midnight Thoughts: Tenet and Flow

    13.09.2020 3pm 

    I flowed enough to catch a free movie and a party. 

    I'm trying to listen more and more. I see that when my head is in a space of distraction, there is no need to "do" anything to get it out of that space.

    To finish or eliminate tasks to free up that space. There is always space. It's about reaching the clarity to find it, be it and live it.
    That's why in times like this, and like today, I'm meditating more. 

    Meditation in itself is an act. And it feels like right now is the time to do it. Without the attachment and without the need.

    I talk about a job I'm interested in, and things that have happened throughout the week I've been back in Berlin.

    34 min
  • Midnight Mirror: Moon Axis and Chess

    Recorded on the 3rd of September 2020 at the same time and place I recorded “3 days before 23” at on the 9th of June (I think I said 19th of May in the episode itself). I sat down in the quiet and cool night, and I listened to the entire thing. And then I recorded this one. A mirror. 

    I allow myself to hold that mirror up to myself thanks to technology. I realized talking is a method I use not to be alone. To reach myself.. differently.


    I talked about being there then and being here now and created an axis to tell myself where the moon is at that point as I record for when I listen later. Memory can only hold on too so much.

    I also talked about chess and the intricacies of moving within rules. I talk about Rami, Momo and the family.

    It felt good.

    Two nights later (yesterday night) was a very beautiful night I'll only have in memory.


    Recorded with my Bluetooth Bose QC 35II headphones.

    37 min

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