Do you ever stop to think about how weird some of the basic aspects of human existence are? Like, we never slow down enough to really contemplate that we’re just a giant rock floating through space with stuff sprouting out of the surface. I think of sleep in the same vein. It’s kind of weird, if you stop and think about it, that we’re just these living organisms that require the consumption of matter in order to survive, and we have to sit and reboot for eight hours every night. Yeah – that’s a good glimpse into my brain sometimes. But, to expand upon that a little bit, sleepwalking is another one of those phenomena that I don’t think we slow down to think about enough.
We just brush it off as some condition, laugh about it, and move on with our lives. But, it’s FUCKING WEIRD! Your entire body is supposed to be “shut down” for the night, and yet, here you are up walking around the house…with your eyes open….speaking jibberish…or even worse, coherent sentences that make no sense within the context of your everyday life (for example, I once told Brandon “I’m going to suck the poison out of Satan’s children” in my sleep when I was a teenager – that scares me, still to this day).
So, with that in mind, it was really fun to get our superstar Cryptid Queen, Rooster, on the line for the latest episode of Phone It In, diving into sleepwalking and some weird (and sad) stories surrounding it. From there, we spiral into sleep-talking and some of the weird stuff we’ve said or heard in our sleep. Finally, we wrap up with another frightening sleep phenomenon, sleep paralysis. I share some of my experiences with it – how petrified I was during particular episodes, what led to it, and how I eventually dug myself out of that funk. This episode is a ton of fun…despite how horrible I’ve made it sound in this post…
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Listen to “Ep. 31: Sleepwalking” on Spreaker.Stoney Keeley is the Editor in Chief of The SoBros Network, and a Dogs Playing Poker on velvet connoisseur. He is a strong supporter of Team GSD, #BeBetter, and ‘Minds right, asses tight.’ “Big Natural” covers the Tennessee Titans, Nashville, Yankee Candle, and a whole wealth of nonsense. Follow on Twitter @StoneyKeeley.
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