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Bedtime Stories

A Crack in the Slab

Bedtime Stories

Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Time, for most of us, feels like the one true constant - a steady progression from past to future. Yet throughout history, people have reported moments where time - and perhaps even reality - seems to falter. Some claim to have been pulled into the past or thrust briefly into the future. Others describe slipping into worlds that look almost like our own, but with subtle, unsettling differences. In most cases, these experiences are fleeting glimpses across eras. In others, they resemble accidental detours into entirely separate dimensions. Unlike stories of time machines or interdimensional travel, these events - often called time slips or interdimensional rifts - are completely beyond the experiencer’s control. And in rare cases, they leave lasting and sometimes even tragic consequences. MUSIC  Tracks used by kind permission of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Tracks used by kind permission of CO.AG Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Kate's just off to work after sleeping in the best bed in the business.

0:05.0

And my word, doesn't she look ready for anything?

0:08.0

Something about her smile is just brighter.

0:10.0

Her eyes seem glintier, and she just feels so much more...

0:15.0

Kateier?

0:16.0

Of course it's no surprise really, because last night she slept at Premier Inn,

0:20.0

and she got up to

0:21.5

15% off with business booker. Get better sleep for your money. Premier in, rest easy. T's

0:28.7

and C is apply. Time for most of us feels like the one true constant, a steady progression

0:36.1

from past to future. Yet throughout

0:38.6

history people have reported moments where time, and perhaps even reality, seems to falter.

0:45.1

Some claim to have been pulled into the past or thrust briefly into the future. Others

0:49.7

describe slipping into worlds that look almost like our own, but with subtle unsettling differences.

0:56.0

In most cases, these experiences are fleeting glimpses across eras. In others, they resemble

1:01.5

accidental detours into entirely separate dimensions. Unlike stories of time machines or

1:07.6

interdimensional travel, these events, often called time slips or interdimensional

1:12.2

rifts, are completely beyond the experiences control, and in rare cases, they leave lasting

1:18.6

and sometimes even tragic consequences. I'm . The idea of time being more than a one-way street is nothing new.

2:07.6

Some of the world's oldest thinkers had suspicions that time has never been exactly what it seems.

2:14.6

More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek philosopher Plato described time as a moving

2:19.5

image of eternity. To him, it wasn't a force or a line, but more akin to the circular motion

2:26.7

of the stars and planets. This concept, that time, and possibly even reality might not be fixed,

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