HBM053: Eleven Trips to Dreamworld
Here Be Monsters
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🗓️ 23 December 2015
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In 2014, Jeff Emtman mailed tape recorders to people around the world. He asked them to keep the recorders by their beds and flip them on early in the morning as their dreams were still fresh in their minds. Once the tape was full, they mailed it back to Jeff.
Until now, the dreams remained private. But, on this episode of Here Be Monsters, you'll hear a small collection of the first set of dreams.
In the coming months, more dreams will be uploaded to the Dream Tapes Project at DreamTapes.org. The project is currently seeking volunteers to help transcribe and upload hundreds of dreams. If you want to help out, please get in touch.
The Dreamers in this episode are: Anonymous Participant #001, Rebecca Williams, Micah Cruver, Alexandra Doumas, Beyana Magoon, Allison Baxter Lubbs, Lisa Sulenes, Traesti Gudmundson, Grace Woods, Samantha Wohlfeil, and Anonymous Participant #007.
The dreams in the episode were edited for time. Unedited dreams will live at the DTP website.
Music: Phantom Fauna
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| 0:00.0 | From the independent producer project of KCRW, this is Here Be Monsters. |
| 0:07.0 | Back in early 2014 I bought a bunch of tape recorders and blank tapes. I packaged them up into |
| 0:19.5 | little shoeboxes and I mailed them across the country and across the world to a couple dozen of my friends and acquaintances. |
| 0:26.0 | I asked them to keep the tape recorders by their bed and then each morning, first thing, flip them on and speak their sleepy recollections of their dreams |
| 0:35.6 | into the recorders. |
| 0:37.5 | My name is Rebecca William. |
| 0:43.0 | My name is Allison Baxter Loves. |
| 0:45.4 | Grace Woods. |
| 0:46.4 | Micah Kruger, June 18, 2014. |
| 0:51.4 | So I mailed these tapes. 2014. |
| 0:57.0 | So I mailed these tape recorders out about two years ago, and every once in a while when I open up my mailbox, I'll find a new tape. |
| 1:01.0 | And I popped that tape in a tape recorder and I play it back and sometimes it's |
| 1:05.0 | meaningless and sometimes it's profound. |
| 1:07.0 | I've always loved dreams. Dreamland is this place where the laws of physics and the laws of nature |
| 1:17.6 | and the laws of government are overrun in instance by the whims of the subconscious. |
| 1:26.5 | And until now, these streams have remained |
| 1:28.9 | in my personal collection of audio. |
| 1:31.5 | But today on Here Be Monsters, I want to share with you some of these dreams, a small |
| 1:36.1 | collection of my favorite trips to Dreamland. Here be monsters, the podcast about. |
| 1:44.0 | Of boxes. Hereby monsters. The podcast about. |
| 1:54.0 | A box of junk? The podcast about the unknown. |
| 2:00.0 | Hello. |
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