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Sleepy Speculations
Sleepy Speculations episodes
- The Museum of Impossible ThingsA number that doesn't exist holds up the whole physical world. Is mind to physical reality what the imaginary numbers are to the real line? The dreams, the impossible shapes, and the places the very quiet people go — taken seriously as real. A slow night-walk up a staircase of stranger and stranger experiences.Written and narrated for sleep by Dr. Benjamin Outram. Sleepy Speculations.1 hr 22 min
- The Gap Between Is and Isn'tWhat if the most fundamental thing in reality isn't something — and isn't nothing either — but the gap between them? An honest walk through the most stubborn question in philosophy.Written and narrated for sleep by Dr. Benjamin Outram. Sleepy Speculations.1 hr 21 min
- An Invitation — Welcome to Sleepy SpeculationsBefore the first idea, an invitation. What this is, how to listen, and why a philosophy podcast might be the thing that finally helps you sleep — a short doorway into the long, slow speculations to come.Written and narrated for sleep by Dr. Benjamin Outram. Sleepy Speculations.13 min
- Why You're Alive Right NowWhat if your life is following the most elegant mathematical path through time, the way a photon does?Written and narrated for sleep by Dr. Benjamin Outram. Sleepy Speculations.46 min
About Sleepy Speculations
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Sleepy Speculations is a long-form philosophical sleep podcast — slow, soft, deliberately wandering walks through metaphysics, consciousness, physics, and the contemplative traditions, designed to be fallen asleep inside.
Each episode takes one philosophical strand — the principle of least action, why there is something rather than nothing, the old mythologies read as maps rather than history, what we mean when we say the word God — and walks it slowly through one evening's worth of careful attention. The format is intentionally slow and a little repetitive. The thinking is my own; the voice is AI-synthesised, chosen because no human reader can hold the soft register required for falling asleep across hundreds of episodes.
Written and edited by Dr. Benjamin Outram (D.Phil, Oxford).
New episodes weekly-ish. If you fall asleep before the end, that's the right way to use them.