Sleepy Speculations

By Dr. Benjamin Outram

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Sleepy Speculations is a long-form philosophical sleep podcast — slow, soft, deliberately wandering walks through metaphysics, consciousness, physics, and the contemplative traditions, designed to be fallen asleep inside. Each episode takes one philosophical strand — the principle of least action, why there is something rather than nothing, the old mythologies read as maps rather than history, what we mean when we say the word God — and walks it slowly through one evening's worth of careful attention. The format is intentionally slow and a little repetitive. The thinking is my own; the voice is AI-synthesised, chosen because no human reader can hold the soft register required for falling asleep across hundreds of episodes. Written and edited by Dr. Benjamin Outram (D.Phil, Oxford). New episodes weekly-ish. If you fall asleep before the end, that's the right way to use them.

Episode Date
If Something Can Never Be Detected, Is It There? — Where Knowing and Being Are One
Oct 29, 2026
What If We Put Schrödinger's Cat on Mars? — The Edge of the Actual
Oct 22, 2026
Can the Feeling of Insight Be Wrong? — The Angel of Light
Oct 15, 2026
What If Life Is Participation? — Do What We Are Doing
Oct 08, 2026
Is Reality a Guess? — Whose Dream Is It?
Oct 01, 2026
What If God Is a Possibility? — The Shape Goodness Converges On
Sep 24, 2026
Is Free Will an Illusion? — A Quiet Argument for Free Will
Sep 17, 2026
Is Religion the Mind Watching Itself? — The Cartographers of the Inside
Sep 10, 2026
What Is the World Really Made Of? — The Context Maximiser
Sep 03, 2026
What Is Looking Out of Your Eyes? — The Loop That Closes
Aug 27, 2026
What If the Old Myths Are True? — When the Story Is Real
Aug 20, 2026
Can the Future Cause the Past? — The Crack in the Arrow of Time
Aug 12, 2026
Can You Change What You Want? — The Wants Behind Your Wants
Aug 06, 2026
How Can Your Mind Imagine the Impossible? — The Museum of Impossible Things
Jul 30, 2026
Why Is There Anything at All? — The Gap Between Is and Isn't
Jul 23, 2026
Why Are You Alive Right Now? — The Elegant Path Through Time
Jul 06, 2026
An Invitation — Welcome to Sleepy Speculations
Jul 06, 2026