HBM088: Riptides and a Sinking Ship
Here Be Monsters
Here Be Monsters Podcast
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
A riptide recently pulled Ariana into open water off the shore of Santa Monica. She thinks it’s her closest brush with death thus far. A lifeguard rescued her.
Even before the incident in Santa Monica, Ariana had a deep fear of water and drowning—so deep that she wondered if some previous version of herself sunk in a shipwreck.
The are different kinds of panics, some more helpful than others.
Music: The Black Spot
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| 0:00.0 | Should we try this? |
| 0:05.0 | Sure. |
| 0:07.0 | Okay. |
| 0:10.0 | From KCRW, this is Here Be Monsters. |
| 0:17.0 | So here's just the method I taught myself for 30 seconds or so you go as fast as you can and then you can you can dip |
| 0:29.7 | under close your eyes under. |
| 0:33.0 | Close your eyes and then just see what you can remember. |
| 0:41.0 | I would say go to about 80%? |
| 0:45.0 | Does that sound all right? |
| 0:48.0 | Why not? |
| 1:27.0 | Oh, I haven't been thinking a lot about past life progression. Like in some sense if you remember something, even if it never happened, it's still real for you. Here be monsters, the podcast about, I think we could live our lives |
| 1:54.0 | never going into the ocean. |
| 1:56.0 | The podcast about the unknown. Oh, I'm not. What do you remember? What do you remember? I almost drowned recently. I was in the ocean in Santa Monica with my friend Kara. |
| 2:48.2 | We got pulled out by a tide, and we couldn't get back in. |
| 2:57.0 | And we had to be saved by a life card. Like every time that I would go under and not be able to breathe, I was thinking about the fact that she couldn't breathe because she was panicking a lot more than I was. |
| 3:11.0 | And she was saying things like like we're going to die. |
| 3:16.0 | Most recently. |
| 3:18.0 | Yeah, just a few months ago. |
| 3:45.0 | How close to death do you think you might have actually been that day in the water at Santa Monica? Probably closer than I've ever been. I think if we had kept panicking, we could have drowned. |
| 3:47.7 | And when we got onto the beach after having been in the water, the relief felt |
| 4:10.0 | like we both immediately called all of our loved ones and told them that we loved them. Should you drink it? drink it? |
| 4:12.0 | Sure. Oh, Oh, Do you think there's any chance this happened? |
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