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Hello, I'm Josie Long and welcome to Shortcuts.

Today's episode is about dreams.

Let me tell you I'm a person who dreams a lot.

And I spoke to my friend Daniel, who's a dear friend of mine,

and he said that it could mean that I'm never sleeping deeply enough.

So that was a worry.

I'm recording this at half past 11 at night.

I'm looking at the window of my office and the sky is clear and freezing and dark.

I love it when the rest of the house is asleep.

It's like I'm not quite in the waking world.

This is shortcuts.

So I changed. I didn't believe everything.

Brief encounters. I've been thinking about time using an old cliche.

True stories. Thinking about the flow of time.

Radio adventures and found sound. Today, in dreams.

And I whispered to him, darling, are you dreaming? And he said, yes. And I said, gosh, is it a nice dream?

And he said, oh yes. And I said, gosh, is it a nice dream? And he said, oh yes, and gave me this bony smile. His dream, dream, dream, dream when I feel blue, in the night that I need you, to hold you to all the time when We're going to We're going to We're going to begin We're going to begin A a thought experiment, a gentle unravelling of our notion of time.

Here, in Glasgow, where I am, it's now almost a quarter to midnight on a frosted January night.

But what you're about to hear was recorded one morning last December by the radio producer Nadia Medi.

In it, the artist and experimental philosopher Jonathan Keats wades into the river with hopes of making a new time standard.

So what time is it right now?

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