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Desert Oracle Radio

Never the Twain Shall Meet

Desert Oracle Radio

Ken Layne

Places & Travel, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.9852 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We've all been dreaming a lot more than usual, or so it seems. Maybe we're just remembering our dreams during this strange time. Maybe we're just spending more time with our brains. But what happens when we all begin dreaming the same dream?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

0:17.0

Night has fallen on the desert

0:22.0

And I have been having a lot of interesting dreams

0:28.9

How about you

0:31.5

Now way back on March 17th

0:37.4

That magical St. Patrick's Day, without the mobs of amateurs

0:41.7

puking green beer in the streets, I posted something because the time seemed ripe for it.

0:53.3

If you have a notebook or diary gathering dust and don't have to wake to an alarm right now

0:59.2

try writing down whatever dreams you can remember as soon as you wake up it's astounding how much

1:06.7

is going on up there and how much of it we usually forget.

1:15.4

Nearly a month on, the reports are in.

1:18.4

People are having a lot of intense dreams.

1:26.3

Now, you know how much I think about the mysterious and the divine,

1:29.1

how it barges into the lives of even the most basic people now and again.

1:33.8

But before we go down that road, I'd like to offer a prosaic reason why many of us are

1:39.6

remembering our dreams right now, and here I am speaking exclusively of the housebound those who don't

1:45.4

work in any sort of essential job or maybe weren't working before all this whether due to

1:51.4

retirement or disability or unemployment or maybe even because they're rich as mitus and don't have to work.

2:05.3

When you don't wait to an alarm,

2:06.8

you tend to remember

2:07.7

more of your dreams.

2:10.6

When you don't need

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