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hey weirdos I'm Ash and I'm Elena and this is Marvin [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's a listener turn oh which means it's
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brought to you for you by you from [ __ ] it's brought to you by you for you from
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you and All About You Now that we don't do them every week I don't know what the
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[ __ ] to say ah but here's your treat this is our treat it's everyone's treat it's just a treat treat treat say treat
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again treat uh yeah so it's a listener tale and I feel like it's been a hot second I know
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I'm like so excited we haven't done them for a month I know I I miss doing them more often but you know that's the way
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the cookie crumbles and here we are we're doing one so today we're gonna be doing a theme it's dreams and astral
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projections now you might be like what but that's how it is yeah but remember when I told you guys that I asked people
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in my dream what day it was and everybody got real mad at me and it was real weird well some of you have also
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had similar experiences with lucid dreaming and I am so fascinated with dreams and lucid dreaming there's I feel
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like there's something more to it that we can't understand I kind of think that like you go to a different realm when
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you're dreaming I kind of love that I think you might last night in my dream John did stand-up comedy that's very
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true and that it's another realm that's another [ __ ] although I think he would be a great stand-up comic because
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he has a great voice for it he does he does y'all love his voice it's true I do too like I'm that's why I'm hearing it
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but that's it that's the only reason voices the space is great too but like his voice A-Plus a plus shift keys so
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I'm gonna do the first one and the first one is called wow I'm just kidding wow toxic I'm bullying you stop bullying me
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this first one is entitled me and my kid had the same Nightmare and lucid dreaming glitch in The Matrix so this
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one says PDF attached old school smiley emoji I love that and I totally forgot to say my name but it's Molly LOL it's
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fine to use thank you Molly hey pod gurlies first of all I'm going to do the mandatory fangirl thing I'd
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say you can skip this part trim it down Etc but we all know what you'll say never and she wrote that I wrote this
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one time with just the glitch part but at the time I was pretty new to The Listener tale portion of the Pod for
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some reason I really slept on the listener Tales at first a lot of people did yeah and that's okay because you all
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came and you all said wow I slept on that a lot of people like to sleep on the listener Tails it's true you know
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but now that I've come to the light I'm resubmitting with Times New Roman size 14 double space PDF for your eyeballs
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viewing pleasure not a girl look at you Wally also I can't remember if it was Ash or Elena who said this but I was
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listening to one of your pods recently on that spooky dookie Romanian hell forest and one of y'all said through it
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was me one of y'all said you thought the words to Radioactive was you ready to rock you that was Ash OH my
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sash well I thought it was ready how did you think it was thinking we already know how I feel
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ready I love that oh and my late husband the live obviously alive at the time I'm so
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sorry was like the song title is literally radioactive we knew that Molly we knew but we didn't care so anyways
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you're not alone we were like why is this song called radioactive I love it ready know how I feel or ready to rock
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you so that said obviously I lost my husband I'm so sorry big hugs coming your way
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before his death I was a major True Crime junkie for a while after he died it was sudden I'm the one who found him
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and I had to call 9-1-1 and all that fun new trauma [ __ ] oh my God I I know we
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just said I'm sorry but like holy [ __ ] that's I can't imagine I'm so sorry I couldn't really stomach True Crime death
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related things or 9-1-1 calls which was just not like myself as a tried and true
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true crime junkie I don't blame you at all no I don't either and to be honest I still don't like 9-1-1 calls that's why
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we honestly we don't really we never put the audio to them because I think that's
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a really vulnerable time in someone's life is making a 9-1-1 call it's one of the
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worst things you'll ever have to do and even like transcripts of them every once
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in a while we'll talk about but they bum me out it's sad because it really is you're looking at the worst moment yeah
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of someone's life yeah so I get that your pod helped me get my feet wet after he died and ease back into one of my
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biggest interests while keeping it lighthearted and respectful and I love that about you guys so much thank you
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that's like a really big compliment it is I know that shit's heavy to share but sharing heavy [ __ ] here really do be the
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brand so Ayo but yeah I just wanted to share how much y'all helped me get help me in getting me to feel more like
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myself after the hardest thing I ever went through more more recently I was diagnosed with this ultra rare Pokemon
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of a metabolic genetic thing called cpt2 which makes me super weak and causes heart issues blah blah blah I did not
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say that that's in the actual writing yes Don't Cry For Me Argentina I'm so sorry that you're having to deal with
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this though no and anyway now I'm getting some treatment yay in less week in trying to get into the gym and me a
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lard ass same thoroughly looks forward to the gym because you live in my ear holes for an hour and I get endorphins
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dopamine win-win I love you and good for you you man yeah it's hard to motivate it yourself it's really harsh I ain't
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gone in about two weeks and it's hard to motivate yourself anyways but motivating
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yourself when you're going through the trauma that you went through and also dealing with a lot of like some disorder
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that you're dealing with that makes you weak I can't imagine exactly and it sounds like you have a kid and
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that's a whole other set of stressors and like busyness you know essentially Molly we think you're the baddest [ __ ]
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essentially Molly the baddest [ __ ] anyway enough about my trash pile we all got one let's give the people the weird
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[ __ ] they came here for recently I caught the listener tale tale where y'all were talking about lucid dreaming
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by accident and I remembered that you said to ask the people in your dream the date and time in your dream if you do
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lucid dream by accident and to report back well Flash Forward to January 10 2023 in the year of Our Lord that's
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Drew's birthday I love that in the year of Our Lord I had a dream and I that's how I know you're our people like just
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like just the way you wanted you talk oh yeah I had a dream and I actually Lucid
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dreamed which I typically don't do but I guess I was doing so because hey yo I had a kidney infection that had me
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waking up four times a night to pee and was disrupting you girl's rhythm in a big way
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[ __ ] worst perfect storm for lucid dreaming 0 out of ten do not recommend trying at home so for additional
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contacts before I actually get into this dream I feel like it's important to note
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that I have a desk job and Stream True Crime slash spook pods eight plus hours a day while I work commute in the shower
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for leisure Etc and never have nightmares not even after hours of streaming Jack the Ripper content if you
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know you know or a file as I like to say I also need to provide some context that
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will make sense later as a teen I was sent to one of those make your troubled kid better camps that abuse kids
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I was held there for over two years in Wyoming and it was all around it was a it was all around an awful time filled
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with abuse and physical punishments that's awful I've healed that part of my life and
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haven't had nightmares about it in a couple of years this happened over a decade ago you truly are like a badass
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you are to get through all you have that's why we crowned you side note Elena I had a hardcore run-in with a
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moose while I was there oh my God me and the Moose had a yelling contest to decide who got to keep the camp I won
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and didn't get speared by a moose so again this was a win-win oh my God you get better and better Molly line by line
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what the hell so back to the dream I dreamed that I was working in a daycare I've never been a daycare worker I am
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but a lowly insurance agent LOL but I was and I am a new employee at this daycare but I recognize some of the
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faces there no one's significant but the one that stands out is just some random
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girl I worked with two years ago who smelled of cat pee and had clickety-clackity nails and a Jack
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Skellington backpack slash purse for every occasion formal or otherwise huh I love that what what a gal what a gal I
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realized I was dreaming and in my dream we were locking up the daycare and walking outside some employee these were
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almost were already almost at their car but I was bringing up the rear with a couple of others who were showing me how
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to lock up I got outside the daycare and looked around and said to the people nearby me what's the date and time
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the people stopped in their tracks and were like why do you need to know at this point I was like nah Y'all
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[ __ ] be shy very loudly loud enough for the other people already at their cars to hear me
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does anyone have the dates and time and everyone stopped in their tracks and walked back to me slowly like freaking
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zombies or Bots or some other third thing that is spooky dookie and undesirable I looked around again and
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repeated at a normal volume what is the date and time at that point the person I used to work
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with looked at me and their neck and head twitched to the right like a malfunctioning robot and said you can
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give me 10 push-ups for asking that what this was extra strange because this is something that would be said back at the
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teen camp I went to as a kid in Wyoming my body did the warm I didn't do the push-ups good for you I just challenged
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firmly why won't anyone tell me the date and time one of the employees looked at
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a clipboard and said it's on the list and another person looked at me and said she's not on the list and then I woke up
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in a cold sweat about to piss myself that is spooky what the [ __ ] part of me wonders if it's a nightmare just because
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of having remembered what was said in the podcast but also I listened to Spooky pods far more gruesome on the reg
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and never have nightmares about the content so I feel like I just real life pissed off the simulation I think so
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that's what I felt I think so because I didn't feel like it was just something seeping into my subconscious no I'm sure
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it seeped in for me to ask but the response was too strange it was in your case you didn't even know like what the
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response was gonna be yeah like I didn't want to know and I the only thing that I
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heard later was somebody got like a even weirder response and my response was more just like people getting angry at
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me right and then I kept switching into other like scenarios and I just and even
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John got angry at me in my dream when I asked him weird I want to do it yeah if you thought that was weird hold on to
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your butt cheeks sisters it gets weirder Holden for context on the second story about my weird ass dream Encounters this
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happened a couple of months after my husband passed away he passed in the bed in our home so I had moved a new bed
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into the living room so I couldn't because I couldn't bring myself to go into the bedroom my girls were sleeping
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in their bedroom again at this point and it was a caddy corner to the doorless bedroom that was not in fact a bedroom
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additional context I have no bigger fear than snakes when I was in Wyoming I was
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almost bitten by more rattlesnakes than I can count I live in Florida and I've walked outside to find snakes sunbathing
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before and have noped all the way back in my home and jumped onto the kitchen table behind a closed door with the
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snake outside for safety this is not a she is not a Slytherin Mishi [Laughter] I'm a Slytherin girl I am not anyway I
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fell asleep aren't you a Hufflepuff sure am anyway I fell asleep like any other night that I can recall from those days
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and drifted off to sleep in my dream I saw my youngest daughter Ireland oh I love that that is a
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beautiful name the way you spell it is really cool I love that oh that's really pretty then four standing in front of me
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we seem to be in some type of dense jungly Garden she was almost glowing just angelic-like
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and precious parental bias aside out of nowhere a python slithered into view and
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began to approach Ireland as though it was sizing her up and it prepared to strike detaching its job oh my God right
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as it began to Lunge I dove in front of Ireland because you're a mom hell yeah reached my hand out and grabbed the
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massive nope noodle by the neck obsessed dope noodle I love that in my dream all
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I could see was fangs and jaws and I jolted awake in a cold sweat that's really scary now I'm a spiritual person
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I've had many instances of premonitions or encounters with Spirit especially my Hubs who still hangs around for chats
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and a joke every now and then when a dream is significant I feel like it just hits different and this one hit
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differently I know exactly what you mean like you can't really describe it but it
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does it's not a different vibe to it no sooner than I sat up in bed and began to
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process I heard the pitter patter of tiny feet running through my gaping door hole and pouncing onto my bed I Marilyn
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said I had a nightmare and crawled under my covers I snuggled her clothes and said me too nugget do you want to talk
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about it oh she thought about it for a moment then said no do you I smiled and said no I don't think so maybe another
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time oh well we eventually drifted back off to sleep and went about our routine for the day the kids loaded into my late
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husband's car affectionately referred to as Bessie then eventually Bussy then still later struggled on me
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we cranked struggle busy a few times and proceeded with school drop-offs work school pickups returning back to our
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house we didn't speak of the night before or our nightmares we just went about our day
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as I was cooking dinner Ireland said to me I had a nightmare last night I stopped cooking and sat down on the
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kitchen floor to be at her level asking do you want to talk about it you're such
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a good Mama I know like being at her level and stuff like he was a really good Mama and she said yeah I think I'm
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ready now I asked her to tell me what was bothering her and she whispered I had a
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dream about a snake chills I hugged her and said oh no what happened with the snake and Ireland
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replied the snake was about to eat me then you saved me with your hands and a big push oh my God
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I still have no idea what this dream means it feels super significant but I have no idea what to make about it and I
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think about it often I don't even know how to effectively segue here other than saying thank you so much for reading
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this if it makes it on the Pod I will caca my pantaloos guys and thanks for brightening my day
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thank you for brightening our day oh and here's a follow-up Shameless plug y'all
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and fall inspired me to start a podcast with my best friend Toby we are pre-recording now and can be found on
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Facebook and Instagram we are be called don't tell my therapist podcast oh my God or in the recording stages but we're
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about to drop our first episode which we'll talk about Robert the world's most haunted doll and Carl tanzler the Doctor
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Who mummified his patient and kept her in his bed for seven years there you go so keep it weird but not so weird that
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but that's a weird thing you have the same exact dream as your daughter and then like you don't even know why and
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you don't know what snake symbolize in a dream but I've Googled it for you and I'm gonna tell you in a second and then
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just like don't keep it that weird um but apparently snakes symbolize a person in the dreamer's Life who
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exhibits low dirty toxic or poisonous Behavior so it's maybe it's like you saved your daughter or even like saved
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your family from some kind of like toxic Behavior look at that I wonder if like did you cut anybody out of your life at
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that time or like oh I want to know or I don't know did you like avoid a job that
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you were gonna take or like something yeah there has to be something you know also I just have to put this out here
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because you provided us with some photos one the cover art for your podcast is magnafique I I would listen to that
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without knowing anything about it that cover art is Elite I love that cover me so much Mikey look holy [ __ ]
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I am obsessed Mikey has his entire mouth just like oh like I am I I have I can't I'm so obsessed with it
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also you and your husband are the [ __ ] cutest couple ever your husband your and I love your calling him the OG
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hubs oh my God and he does it looks like an Angelic vinyl album cover you in your
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house and then you said that your chapter two John you took advice and found a quality good John oh my God like
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you are hilarious you guys are adorable I'm just like wow I love you a lot I love you oh my God and your girls I love
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you forever oh my God stop it and you and your friend oh my God these children are [ __ ]
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adorable Molly we're in love with you and your family and snake baby into all of
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my gosh and that means I think you did you must have done something that you didn't know you did yeah like to save
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you and your girls from somebody or something that would have been poisonous this is from the cut it's as
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if the dream was Terror inducing start with how the dream made you feel that will tell you how urgently you want to
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identify the potential stressor in your life and address it a snake within a nightmare is a very good indication that
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your subconscious feels there's a toxic person in your life that is an immediate
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threat meaning their toxic Behavior has reached a point where your subconscious level has had it and it needs to slap
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you into attention there you go I think that's what it is ma'am so take a look and also take a
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look Queen Molly I'm excited to listen to don't tell my therapist podcast because holy [ __ ] I know let me see I'm
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on I'm wondering if it has come out yet and either way I'm waiting for it I'm gonna listen to it on the way and if
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it's already out I'm listening don't tell Mom we're gonna check and we're gonna tell you if it's out pissed
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no not yet no okay well we're no we're waiting with baited breath put it on your to be listened come on
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Molly and Toby let's move this Lily and Toby that was such a good story thing the best cover art ever oops oops
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exactly okay my next one is called listener tale glitch in time and I can already see that it is a bordered PDF
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and I'm literally so excited right now oh my goodness it's bordered with spider webs it sure is and then there's a
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little spider on the Slime I love it it's adorable it says hello attached is my tale about a glitch in time it is
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about a 10 minute read and is double is a double space puttifer also attached is
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my best Tinder pick and my cat who helped me write this I'm obsessed with all of you that's a great time pick your
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tattoo is Georgina oh is that Medusa I'm obsessed with your cat what's its name and thank you for this it says welcome
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to your worst nightmare ladies oh I'm excited I'm obsessed with this border OMG hey weirdos and spooky best friends
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Ash and Elena and Deb Deb I'm Liz and you can use my name I found your podcast when you were only at episode five whoa
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I especially like to listen when I'm feeling down or off just because you are both so kind and genuinely good people
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thank you and we share Love of All Things weird and it's nice to find a place where you feel understood don't
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listen to anybody about the underwater sound quality I think [ __ ] learned to swim because you guys are so amazing
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thank you I found you guys because of my long commute to work years ago I hated driving and needed a kick in the pants
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to want to get in my car and consider my pants kicked hell yeah I look forward to
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driving now even in the cold winters of the Albany area that's a shitty drive I know that yeah I work in an emergency
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room and I'm soon to be an emergency room nurse oh yeah another queen ready here's another
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queen Boop I don't really know what that means but it means something it's magic you know
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but anyway we can't explain it yeah it's just me and a few of my co-workers listen too hey yo Elena I swear your
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second book will be pre-ordered so fast the internet will explode the first one was amazing and I read it to everyone oh
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thank you the second book is really good too I started reading it and Ash congrats on your engagement
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thanks I've listened to all the listener tales and loved them all so much you are
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all so talented pppppppp lots of peas and an oi that was my cat on the keyboard he's helping I'll
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leave it thank you thank you I love it when you mentioned wanting stories about glitches in the in time
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this forgotten memory popped into my head and I figured I would share let me set the scene also ADHD brain warning I
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feel that it's maybe 2017 and I was about 21 in my third year of college at a huge university I'm talking like 30
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000 Underground that's big my major was Medicinal Chemistry because I wanted to be a
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doctor at the time but [ __ ] that for real I feel that that's a lot of school I feel that as well not long after this
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incident I incident excuse me I joined an ambulance crew and my goals changed because I realized I was an adrenaline
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junkie you're a badass anyway there were huge lecture halls with many people in each class even the very specific stupid
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math ones like this one class I was taking it was like analytical chemistry or something it's a normal day in
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Buffalo the sky's gray it's still too cold to not wear a huge jacket and the wind is blowing your hair around and
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numbing your face I'm there I walked from my little apartment to class which takes about 25 minutes I get
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to the room where my lecture is held and take off my big coat and attempt to fix
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my hair who am I trying to impress though these nerds so I forgot the hair and pull out my notebook oh so I forget
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the hair and pull out my notebook with my frozen hands I forgot gloves again today I'm not one of those girls who
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prints everything out and writes notes on the provided lecture slides from online that would be too easy I have my
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blank notebook page and pen and take my own goddamn notes because my goddamn ADHD brain would never let me pay
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attention otherwise it works for me and I don't know I'm not a doctor LOL I also
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never know what day it is and I like to write the date at the top so I flipped to the last page with the notes and see
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that the date was two days ago it's a Monday Wednesday type deal and today's Wednesday I scan the top of the
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page for the date and my eyes stop on October 18th my brow creases and the world stops for a second that date seems
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wrong I dig my phone out and touch the screen it is October 18th today oh weird I must have written the wrong date two
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days ago so no big deal that's definitely something I would do I look down at the rest of the page and read
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the first thing I wrote down just as the professor starts his lecture it is word for word the same sentence he
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says but in my handwriting and I don't remember writing it what I'm big confused at this point y'all he goes on
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and I already know everything he's teaching somehow and I already wrote notes for it even the tangents he goes
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off on and the jokes he tells I somehow remember hearing what he references a show that will be airing a new episode
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that night or the next night that I also watch and tell me why I have a memory of
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watching it already I'm looking around the big lecture hall and no one else is confused this goes on and on and I'm
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just following along with pages and pages of already written notes at this point I would be in a cold sweat I would
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like I would feel like losing my [ __ ] there's even little pictures drawn in the margins like how all my notes are
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the lecture ends and I turn to my friend near me and say wow that was weird he literally gave the same lecture on
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Monday and she creased her brow and said what no he didn't that was all new to me
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what I would cry I would just cry cry it's been seven days since I last cried but I would cry do we have a sign we
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have a sign in the Pod lab to see how many days it's been since I've cried we're going on a week right now baby so
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don't make me cry so don't make me don't make me cry Argentina so I turned the pages back to Monday's notes and there
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they are different than today's I'm very confused but also pissed that I didn't need to be on campus today because I
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already knew everything I didn't feel a Deja Vu feeling that I had experienced everything before and I don't remember
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attending that specific lecture before either but I had all the knowledge and notes I would have acquired from going
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that's a glitch in the [ __ ] Matrix yeah the [ __ ] it is I never want to experience a glitch not like that for
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sure because I'll feel like I'll I had like gone around the bend or something so the rest of the day was also not
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weird at all except for the show that aired the next day I watched it with a group of friends and I could recall that
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I had seen that episode before even though it had never aired before what Walking Dead maybe nothing like that has
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ever happened to me before or since I'm getting Goosebumps right now just thinking about it did I travel to a new
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timeline or just pass through real quick and I don't know what's happening please
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help maybe a Liz from another timeline was just trying to help a girl out with these notes God knows I needed it I'm
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very connected to the spirit realm and very often have paranormal experiences but this was just very different I guess
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I just pushed it down where all my other emotions go oh well and decided not to process it and then I eventually forgot
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about it for years I figured no one would even believe me if I told them anyway so I've kept this one deep inside
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until now hell yeah keep it weird but not to worry that you get to class I already have the notes because some
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weird glitch in the time but you have no memory of actually taking said notes so
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you really should just have stayed home I need to know what all that kind of [ __ ] is like I just need someone to be
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like yep it's a simulation everybody but they won't but no one will tell you you
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will never tell us no one will tell us it's scary it's scary bums me out I don't like it
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oy well okay we're gonna move on because that's scary and I don't want to experience it I'm freaked out but we're
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gonna move on to listener Tales alternate universe when my brother and I found a road that doesn't seem to exist
00:26:52
I am quite literally so excited so we're getting better it says hey all the name is Joseph feel
00:26:59
free to use it because this will absolutely earn me some big bragging rights if you choose to read it on the
00:27:04
Pod well rocking rights achieved there it is first things first I love the show your boy has ADHD that must be the theme
00:27:11
too it has frequent episodes of hyper focus of which y'all's podcast has been the subject of since last April of last
00:27:18
since April of last year excuse me coming up on a record time for my obsessions if you're wondering what
00:27:24
currently holds the record it's Hamilton OH same at some point I watched it on Disney plus with my family and then
00:27:31
started listening to it on Spotify during a 13-hour drive to Florida to work in the Everglades National Park
00:27:36
that's so cool we saw a pelican oh we saw a pelican kill itself there by jumping into a crocodile oh no but
00:27:43
that's a story for another day all right anyway I became obsessed with Hamilton memorized the entire thing word for word
00:27:49
learned pretty much every historical discrepancy between the musical and the actual life and events of Hamilton's
00:27:55
life my lovely wife even got me on the biography Cherno wrote that inspired lin-manuel Miranda
00:28:02
to write the now world famous musical and took me to see it in real life a couple years back she's really the best
00:28:07
she's real life all that to say that y'all really might beat my Hamilton's Obsession record hell yeah anyway I
00:28:13
realize I'm rabbit trailing here I wish for a while that I had to tail to send y'all so when you told us to send in
00:28:19
Tales of traveling to alternate universes I got extremely excited because I have a chance to talk about
00:28:24
this I posted this on Reddit on our glitch in The Matrix some years ago it's like a Reddit thread uh some years ago
00:28:32
and it ended up being talked about on a few YouTube channels posted on blogs and
00:28:37
no one really seemed to have a satisfactory explanation for it well [ __ ] I've attached the story itself on a
00:28:42
14 size double space per tradition enjoy I love you Joseph this is going to sound like a load of
00:28:50
Croc [ __ ] but I swear up and down that this actually happened about four years
00:28:55
ago closer to 10 now if you're reading this in 2023 damn I'm confused I lived in this fairly
00:29:02
small fly spec of a town at the time I lived there for about 12 years so I knew my way around our house was about a mile
00:29:09
and a half away from the nearest neighborhood our mom intentionally picked that house due to the lack of
00:29:14
neighbors your mom and I have that in common it was tucked away that was great uh it was tucked away on
00:29:22
a back road with the word Woods surrounding it every now and then I like to take walks with my little brother who
00:29:28
at the time was about 13. we decided just to do just that we headed up the road and decided to try a new path or a
00:29:34
new clearing that we hadn't discovered yet when we noticed something a little shocking just off the road that led
00:29:40
almost directly to the neighborhood there was a brand new paved Road no there wasn't every Road in that part of
00:29:46
town was gravel road so seeing an out of place paved Road was pretty unusual we stared at it for a while and came to the
00:29:53
conclusion that it must have been made within the last few days due to the modern but slow growth of the Town
00:29:59
however we had no explanation for how they did it so fast we decided to explore it a bit
00:30:05
I remember as soon as we set foot on the road the air became notably colder by at
00:30:10
least five degrees the road itself was a black pavement but no dividing lines it
00:30:15
was surrounded by some thick red trees that resembled redwoods but they were too short and non-native to our state
00:30:21
Southern Arkansas we walked on the road for about three miles until we decided to head back due to it getting dark when
00:30:28
we got off the road we felt the temperature go back up my brother and I agreed to explore it the next day
00:30:33
also my brother ever so kindly reminded me that I left off a key detail when I posted this on Reddit some years ago as
00:30:41
we as we were headed back something kind of odd ran across the road it stopped maybe 80 feet in front of us and at
00:30:48
first glance it looked like a deer but after a moment really we realized it was something else was it a not dear not
00:30:54
deer it had short dark very excuse me it had short dark far very large black eyes
00:31:03
and a mouth that looked for lack of a better description to human for comfort the body of a regular whitetail deer in
00:31:12
four long legs it briefly looked at us lifted itself onto its back legs most of the way sniffed the air and then booked
00:31:20
it into the woods that was a not dear that was a not dear my friend we had lived in the area for some time at that
00:31:28
point and thought we were familiar with the wildlife but we had never seen anything like that that then or since
00:31:35
then whatever it was I really don't think it meant to harm us but more so wondered why these two hairless Apes
00:31:41
were gawking at it yeah right at roughly because it was probably like you're in an alternate Dimension my dudes
00:31:47
at roughly noon the following day we set back out to explore this place only discover that the entire Road was now
00:31:55
missing when I say missing I mean the trees that were cleared to make it make it had apparently grown back
00:32:03
with no sign of the redwood-like trees we even begin to explore the woods once more but only to find no sign that it
00:32:10
had ever existed when we asked our parents about it they said they knew nothing about a new road
00:32:16
work being done near us what I've searched and searched for this place as has my brother we even went as far as
00:32:22
finding some older maps of the area but nothing listed any road there we did however ask some of the long timers of
00:32:30
the town and one gentleman that we'll call Mr a said he thought he remembered finding a same or similar Road as a boy
00:32:37
in that area but said he didn't think too much about it as it was many many years back for him honestly I'm stumped
00:32:45
I don't even live in that state anymore nor does my brother but we've talked about going back home at some point to
00:32:50
see if we can track it down once more maybe in the era of smartphones we can actually get some photographic evidence
00:32:56
thanks for taking the time to read this if you all ever get if y'all are ever in
00:33:00
the Greater Atlanta area area where my wife and I now reside hit us up and we can tell you where to go that will
00:33:06
probably that you probably won't have a stolen organs oh no I don't want a stolen organ that is so weird it's
00:33:15
absolutely terrifying these are the kind of things that just like stump me just how do you explain these certain
00:33:22
glitches that it's like this existed then it didn't I don't know and people have had these things happen before like
00:33:28
this is a very common thing that somebody will be like I was here and I remember things happening like that
00:33:35
where I'll be like no I am 100 sure that there was a road here there was something here well and it's even like
00:33:40
the Mandela effect yeah when you look at like the burns and it's like I was looking at a tick
00:33:47
tock of it the other day and there were so many of them and I was like no that's
00:33:51
not the correct version on The Bernstein Bears no it's The Bernstein Bears get out of here and then there's like so
00:33:57
many other ones yes it's [ __ ] weird dude it is so weird it's the government I think it is don't
00:34:04
shut down the podcast government oh my God imagine they wouldn't because then everybody would know everybody would
00:34:09
know okay you heard it here first government no I'm just kidding it's not even the government all right all right
00:34:16
well my next one is uh Grandma Cassidy as a Banshee or 9 11 morning dream damn I'm scared I'm assuming these are two
00:34:25
different things I I don't know it says hello ladies I've been listening to your
00:34:29
podcast for over a year and I love it thank you thank you as a former prosecutor I really enjoy your take on
00:34:35
cases it's refreshing to not hear uh to hear the not lawyer opinions on all things morbid I wish more of the lawyers
00:34:43
I work with had your common sense oh thanks I know your witty banter really makes your podcast outstanding I have an
00:34:49
hour-long commute and listening to you both take a deep dive into some of the gnarliest murders helps me pass the time
00:34:54
as I idle and Hugh carry and yeah in the Hugh Carey Tunnel and mentally count down my days until retirement I also
00:35:00
love all things I really enjoy the episodes on the Paranormal and the ghosts and the ghouls
00:35:06
my husband is not a Believer but I am and I have had some experiences that make me a True Believer especially in
00:35:13
ghosts I'm sorry I have to readjust it you might hear it okay squeakity squeak squeak even though I have a new chair
00:35:20
um it took me a bit to want to write this tale because I cry almost every time when I think about what happened
00:35:24
I'm dyslexic so my spelling is even worse when I'm emotional when I'm an emotional wreck I proof read this
00:35:29
several times so I hope it's legible um already I'm like what dyslexia yeah I have attached here a double space
00:35:36
pedophile 14 faunted Times New Roman hell yeah I would be honored if you read it on one of your listener Tales you can
00:35:42
use my name below is a photo of myself and Gavin at the last wedding we attended together it has been 21 years
00:35:48
since he passed away oh I'm sorry but you will always hold a special place in my heart keep it weird stay your awesome
00:35:55
selves love Bridget Bridget you guys are cuties I love you all right to let me see here
00:36:03
Grandma Cassidy as a Banshee I'm in my grandmother passed away when I was eight years old I'm 54 now so it was a long
00:36:10
ass time ago you are amazing I'm the youngest of her 22 grandchildren we are Irish Catholics so every sperm is sacred
00:36:18
I am one of five my mom's one of seven and Grandma was one of 13. holy [ __ ] [ __ ] you get the mathematically
00:36:26
progression and perhaps with each passing generation sperm was deemed less sacred
00:36:32
um imagine if my uncle had not been gay I might have been I might have had even more cousins damn his funeral is another
00:36:38
great tale not spooky or Supernatural just hilarious maybe one day I will send in a put a foot on that tail it is a
00:36:45
doozy why not however I digress I was the last person in my family to see her alive my grandmother lived in a
00:36:51
neighborhood for just a few years before she passed away or lived in my neighborhood excuse me because she just
00:36:56
lived in she lived in a neighborhood just a few years I was like Wow only a few years other than that she was living
00:37:01
in the woods she had spent most of her adult life in the house where she raised her massive
00:37:08
brood one day she was walking to her house from church because it was a day with a Y in it and of course Church
00:37:16
church and she was hit in that in the head with an object and robbed laud she was in her late 70s at the time and was
00:37:22
placed in a medically induced coma somebody beat and robbed a late 70s woman like what the [ __ ] is wrong on her
00:37:30
way home from church gross after this horrific attack she was finally convinced to sell her home of more than
00:37:35
60 years and moved closer to my family she moved into a row a house a few blocks away from us she was unhappy
00:37:43
because she missed her butcher her church and especially the Saint Jerome's Golden Age society and the rosary
00:37:48
Society because church because Church she did not venture out much oh and was a little depressed oh that makes me so
00:37:55
sad because we yell really hard I just want to fix this for her the day she passed she uncharacteristically did go
00:38:02
out oh she went to the bank and then she came to my grammar school I remember it
00:38:06
was a Wednesday because we had a half day so the public school kids could receive religious instruction and the
00:38:11
rosary Society could meet in our cafeteria sorry to bombard you with all the Catholic stuff but my mama loved her
00:38:17
Rosary in fact she often mistake she was often mistaken for a nun not the habit-wearing type but The Groovy
00:38:23
liberated post-vatican II polyester suit wearing type not that type of nothing you know just that kind and my pops love
00:38:30
to complain about the long ass sermons this is a favorite pastime among grumpy Irish Catholic men truth anywho I was
00:38:38
the teacher's pet yes that one Hermione had nothing on me you're raising your hand like do we have homework over the
00:38:45
weekend I was out of class running an urn for my teacher and I saw Grandma in the
00:38:49
cafeteria I waved to her and kept walking I figured she was there for the rosary society meeting and I had a very
00:38:55
important missive to uh yeah to deliver the principal and I was teacher's pet I had a reputation to uphold and I was a
00:39:01
massive nerd it's Leviosa I was happy that she decided to join the other purple-haired ladies for some
00:39:09
stale crumb cake wheat coffee and a few rounds of Hail Mary Hail Mary ale by the
00:39:15
time I got home from school she was gone saddest part she was she died while unlocking her door so we had to call the
00:39:21
medical examiner grandma and I were close I loved her costume jewelry and sleeping at her house when my parents
00:39:27
went out which wasn't often since my mom always wore a girdle and it took about a
00:39:30
week for her to get in and out of that bad boy I slept in Grandma's bed and I remember being fascinated by her
00:39:36
extremely sunken eyes you know same they were literally in the back of her skull
00:39:41
and then think even further when she slept she looked like the Crypt Keeper I was
00:39:48
terrified and fascinated you're like yo my grandma's eyes was deep oh I'm crying
00:40:03
those eyes though Nana okay [Laughter] forward to 2001. oh we should stop laughing oh no it's 2001. oh yeah that's
00:40:20
not good yeah that's a good thing okay okay you were correct in saying we should stop laughing yeah fast forward
00:40:26
to 2001. it's important to note I never dreamed about Grandma until the year 2001. I live in New York City and in
00:40:33
2001 I was living with Gavin who was a Brit in the summer of 2001 my dad got very sick with cancer I'm sorry he had
00:40:40
his lymph nodes removed and the surgery really took its toll we were all really worried that he might not survive
00:40:46
in early September 2001 I dreamed about my grandmother in the dream my grandmother was lying on the floor of an
00:40:53
all-white room wrapped in a shroud and my mother was sitting next to her sobbing in the dream I approached my Mom
00:40:59
and Grandma I moved the Shroud away from my Grandma's face and she sat up and let
00:41:03
out this horrific whale oh her face was so contorted she looked like the painting The Scream oh my God I woke up
00:41:09
so suddenly that Gavin woke up too I was upset because I believed my grandma was
00:41:14
trying to warn me about something awful to my mind she looked like a banshee which an Irish folklore is a Harbinger
00:41:20
for death just gonna say I told Gavin about the dream and said I think it meant that someone was going to die he
00:41:26
hugged me and told me that my dad was a tefl buzzard and he would live for he would live a long life oh Gavin oh no
00:41:33
and that was like such a sweet thing that he was like I'm gonna comfort you and now I see where this is going
00:41:38
oh on September 11 2001 Gavin got up early for work because he had a meeting his dad was visiting and he was driving
00:41:45
into Manhattan with Gavin to catch a bus to mass Gavin's aunt and uncle lived there he kissed me goodbye and said see
00:41:51
you tonight I fell back to sleep and got up about an hour later at the time we lived in is it Bayonne
00:41:57
Bayonne Bayonne I think Bayonne New Jersey I worked in Midtown but that day I had a court appearance in Brooklyn I
00:42:04
got to the World Trade Center where Gavin worked around 8 55. I was in the mezzanine under the towers and heading
00:42:10
toward the subway I heard a loud pop people started running and I had no idea what happened a security guard ran over
00:42:16
to me and told me to get out of the building now oh so ran out so I ran out and across the street the first Tower
00:42:23
was on fire and there was paper fluttering everywhere I asked a man what happened and he said plane hit the
00:42:28
building oh my God I tried to call Gavin but the cell service had cut I asked the
00:42:33
man you think they'll Evacuate the second tower I was worried because Gavin worked in the second tower he said
00:42:38
definitely so I decided to hop on the subway and go to court I thought that's some untrained pilot
00:42:45
like JF Gay Jr had gotten confused and crashed their plane by accident into the building that's what we all thought I
00:42:52
was a little distorted and took the training sorry disoriented and took the train going in the wrong direction I got
00:42:58
off at the next stop and went to the street level I saw all these people running up the street Away From The
00:43:03
Towers a woman grabbed my arm and said run and then I heard a very loud boom a few blocks away I found a pay phone I
00:43:11
wanted to call my office to tell them that something happened at the towers and I was not going to make it to court
00:43:15
as I waited on the line for the phone I heard someone say a second plane hit the
00:43:20
second tower oh my God my knees gave way someone grabbed me and all I could say was he's in the building oh completely
00:43:27
oh you're gonna like actually make me cry yeah completely dazed I somehow made my way to the office by the time I got
00:43:34
to Midtown the buildings had collapsed we were notified in November 2001 that his remains had been recovered I'm
00:43:40
always grateful that Grandma visited me and tried to warn me you see Gavin and I
00:43:44
usually commuted into the city together but that day he had a 7 A.M meeting I used to beat myself up wishing that I
00:43:50
understood my dream better you could never never if I knew then what I know now I would
00:43:55
have tried to get him to stay home or commute and commute with me he would be alive you could have had no no you would
00:44:01
have a way of knowing that there's no way one quick note Gavin visited a priest in
00:44:06
a vision the priest was Clairvoyant and often received visitors my cousin was on
00:44:11
a religious retreat because church that The Clairvoyant priest was running during the retreat he grabbed my cousin
00:44:18
and asked her did you lose someone in our national tragedy whoa my cousin said yes and he went on to say the person you
00:44:25
lost was British and talks very fast with a thick thick accent I had some trouble understanding him and then the
00:44:31
priest went on to say he wants her to know that he knows she tried to be strong and only cries when she's alone
00:44:36
he loves her and he is safe and happy and has Ricky tell her not to be sad oh Ricky was his beloved King Charles oh my
00:44:45
God Gavin carried a picture of Ricky on his keychain that was the first thing about him that let me know he was
00:44:51
boyfriend material on a humorous note Gavin had a very thick Northern British accent no one ever understood him I
00:44:58
often acted as a translator I proudly say that I am fluent in Cockney English I will be very excited if you share my
00:45:05
tale about Grandma Cassidy as a Banshee you guys are awesome and your podcast makes my horrific commute bearable stay
00:45:11
lovably weird love Bridget Bridget I'm so sorry that you went through that I am so sorry that is horrific we're sending
00:45:19
you like the biggest hugs right now seriously and the fact also that you made most of that hilarious to that
00:45:26
point like you completely prepared everybody with like who you are you're a true Queen so oh it's time time here's
00:45:35
your crown wow we're just we're crowning people left and right oh my God we literally
00:45:44
forgot to Crown oh my God we forgot to Crown Joseph we didn't Crown Joseph Joseph King [ __ ]
00:45:52
yours goes yeah right exactly that's what yours does everybody gets crowned today but
00:45:59
damn Bridget that was like beautifully told you and Gavin are beautiful together that picture is like oh I love
00:46:07
like break my heart I love you both oh I want to give you a hug I do too all right well I guess I think we have
00:46:13
time for one more I think Sarah all right let's see there's a few here so I'm gonna see which one do you think
00:46:20
I should do let's see here um I think the subject of a True Crime Story in another dimension exactly that
00:46:29
one I like it I just happen to see that it's 10 seconds all right hold on you're gonna have to
00:46:36
Vamp for a second oh my God guys what is up this is a podcast that I host with my
00:46:42
friend Elena who needs some help she's actually my sister just not my friend some of you think that we are cousins
00:46:47
some of you think that we are brothers some of you are wrong some of you are right we are just two human beings I
00:46:54
don't know where else to go [Laughter] okay here we go that reminded me of the America's Next Top Model Challenge
00:47:09
and Jade is like not good but she's incredible and Joni is like Joni's amazing anyway yeah that was good all
00:47:21
right so this one it did so this one's called I'm a subject of a True Crime Story in
00:47:29
another dimension please explain yeah that's it and it says you don't have to search feel free to use my name check
00:47:35
the attached pedophile check it for an eye friendly version of the story all right it says hello I attempted to write
00:47:42
oh wait who's this person it's Kayla Kayla okay I just was like where's your name hi Kayla I attempted to write up a
00:47:49
cute alliteration as a salutation but honestly it's 10 a.m on a Sunday and I'm deep into depression volume two this
00:47:55
time it's seasonal my only flavor of humor is dark roast yeah AKA a little too dark a little too
00:48:04
bitter and it's pretty easy to get peer pressured into saying you like it anywhoose any who's it I'm Kayla she her
00:48:12
double Libra with an Aries moon cause I know y'all like to know I love you double Libra hi thank you both to and
00:48:19
thank you both and to all the folks behind the scenes for bringing us the ear candy that is known as morbid
00:48:24
podcast my best friend Courtney Capricorn corn everyone needs a Capricorn bestie
00:48:30
we love a Capricorn we do well they have a small hobby cast that looks at horror
00:48:37
media and Finds Its parallel real life True Crime and scary stories oh that's cool it's a load of work slash stress to
00:48:43
create a podcast but Courtney's a nice friendship was forged in the fire of working as servers at a big restaurant
00:48:48
chain in our early and mid-20s and nothing I mean nothing will bond two women together like fighting in the
00:48:55
trenches of young adulthood while endless soup salad and breadsticks at the same time did you work at the Olive
00:49:00
Garden you absolutely did when you're here your family oh [ __ ] you're going to
00:49:04
be your family no but that's what Disney World says to you they say welcome home you say
00:49:14
welcome home and I say I don't [ __ ] live here that's actually exactly what she said happy to say we are out of the
00:49:19
soupy ditches now in more than a decade later still the best of friends do you like does parm cheese give you like
00:49:25
stress it says you don't have to read this part times there is such a thing as shameful
00:49:32
self-promotion but our cast is called Nothing scarier and it would be just feel amazing to know that you all know
00:49:38
it exists nothing scarier nothing scarier it's a podcast Courtney shared geld's podcast
00:49:45
with me and damn it if I didn't jump in with two feet and narria K in the world for what diving into the bottom of more
00:49:51
than 300 episodes of True Crime consumed at Breakneck speed could do to a person
00:49:55
just imagine what researching it does exactly that was a few months ago and I'm just about caught up now
00:50:02
only reason I haven't continued to rapidly devour episodes is that I shared y'all with my husband Gemini everyone
00:50:08
also needs a Gemini life partner in my opinion I was waiting for it and now we have to listen episodes together I mean
00:50:13
we could listen separately but there's a partner rule there right once a show goes from a my show to an R show you've
00:50:19
entered into a blood pack to that can't be broken I don't make the rules you are
00:50:23
absolutely correct you are correct thank you so much for all that you do including delivering stories with a
00:50:28
victim-first mindset and been bringing so much light and dignity to very often horrible and heartbreaking situations
00:50:33
thank you so much thank you if you all end up reading this on the cast I might not [ __ ] myself but I will have a full
00:50:39
on existential crisis in the best way possible as an air sign should so dear listeners if you see a 30-something year
00:50:46
old average looking chick Millennial completely disassociating while shopping with headphones in it might just be me
00:50:51
experiencing an out of body moment in a Serial aisle I'll start breathing again in like five minutes don't worry only
00:50:57
one headphone in when you're shopping that's right I was listening to one of your most recent listener episodes and
00:51:02
someone called out for other dimension stories specifically they mentioned someone retelling the story of them
00:51:07
getting trapped in a dream for a lifetime when I heard this I thought oh I have one of those what hang tight and
00:51:14
don't let the bedbugs bite as I tell you why I might be the subject of a True Crime Story in another dimension
00:51:19
even since I was ever since I was very little I've always had a tense relationship with sleep my family has
00:51:26
told me one of and you know what I feel like I should update everyone on this because people were like how is it going
00:51:31
my youngest sleeps now it's crazy it's awesome her temperament totally different so she sleeps now she
00:51:37
decided that she was over that whole thing and we were over in the beginning so I'm glad that she joined us ready
00:51:42
joined me but thank you guys for there you go knock on that [ __ ] guys for asking because people have been like
00:51:48
how's that going are you all right yeah so I appreciate you guys well but now you have puppies that don't sleep I do
00:51:53
now I have those but you know we've been conditioned for it and they fuzzy they fuzzy my family has told me one of the
00:51:59
only ways to get me to sleep was when when I was a wee BB was to allow me to lay on my dad's chest for a while and
00:52:06
listen to his heartbeat to fall asleep that is the purest thing I've ever heard in my goddamn life there are a number of
00:52:12
photos of me as a little human potato sleeping on my dad's chest holding him hostage with a tiny mite that can only
00:52:19
be wielded by a small sleep resistant child in a house with two absolutely exhausted parents wow I have never
00:52:26
related to a sentence more that's adorable by itself not being able to fall asleep without comfort as a kid
00:52:32
isn't that odd but as I grew up sleep and I would still not find the right pattern for our relationship as a kid I
00:52:38
was a night owl sleep just felt lucky if I was attempt it was attempted before 2
00:52:42
A.M oh sorry felt yucky if it was attempted before 2 A.M at the earliest honestly still does side note
00:52:49
someone sent my parents gift cards and gold stars because two of their three children shared a bedroom and could not
00:52:55
have had more opposite sleep oh no where I am and always will be a night owl to the extreme my younger sister a Virgo is
00:53:02
sunshine itself out like a light at dusk and up like the little beam of sunlight
00:53:07
she was with the Rising Sun not sure I'm sure you all can imagine the type of sister fights that can break out when
00:53:12
the disruption of sleep is as constant and unavoidable as taxes death and my sister's chipper Joy at 6am for real the
00:53:19
[ __ ] love you Jen love you Jen I was around four or five when I started sleepwalking for the first time I can
00:53:26
half remember one of the very first Dream bleeds I had as a kid I call them dream bleeds because while this one was
00:53:32
scary they aren't always scary sometimes my dreams just leak out and show up in the real world and the first truth I
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love how casual that is they just leak out you know just a dream bleed and the first Dream bleed I can recall I had
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woken up and found that all my stuffed animals were staring at me hate that every single one in the toy box peeking
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up at me every toy on the floor rotated to have its little face pointing at me even My Chosen bedtime companion a Care
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Bear they were all staring at me now I was fourish when this happened so I don't remember much more than the eyes
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and the fear at this point oh my God but at some point the eyes started blinking
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and my underdeveloped and my undeveloped brain screamed run for it I bolted out of the bedroom fish flopped like a
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salmon running a river over the baby gate covering the entrance to our room and ran for my parents even as they sent
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me back to bed I remember the eyes of my stuffed animals still following me sometimes the dream bleeds are like that
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and we'll hang around even after reason has called them out for not belonging there that's a terrifying dream I don't
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like it we moved to a new I also love the term dream read and I think it's a great band name hello Cleveland we are
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dream bleed can we please I'm gonna TM it no I'm just kidding I'm just kidding it's yours you came up with
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it we moved to a new home when I was five-ish and it was here with the dreams of that the dreams of my Village would
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start happening in this stream I would start sleepwalking more and more to the point that latches had to be put up high
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on our screen doors or else I might Escape into the night chasing one dream idea or another oh no like the time I
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walked to the back door late late in the night to go outside to go swimming in early spring in Michigan when we didn't
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have a pool or another another evening when I decided I needed to go outside and catch
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the buttons whatever they were I love this okay Coraline honestly nothing at this point really seems stranger unique
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I was a kid with a [ __ ] sleep pattern while my brain was developing the rational side of me is very aware that
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there isn't a lot of facts or measurables to pin the idea of me floating off to another dimension on
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however I'm not sure what else this could be called when I was six or seven in elementary
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school but not the upper level yet I started dreaming about my Village in my Village I was me internally my internal
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monologue my thoughts and feelings and wishes but on the outside I looked a little different whenever I went to my
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Village I would be lucid dreaming although at six or seven I didn't know what that was called it felt like I
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would go to sleep and wake up in a different place in time my first visit visit to the Village was scary I felt
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like I felt everything like I did when I was in my normal body but the body I was
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in was just slightly different than mine the skin a little darker sun-kissed hair
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a little shorter the one time I saw my Village face in a mirror it didn't look like me oh that's not like that I looked
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like I was a relative of non-dream me but my features were all different seeing my other face made me so sad that
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I never looked in a mirror again when visiting the village and for a long time if I suspected I might have a dream
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bleed going on in the real world I'd avoid a mirror until I could have confirmed I was fully awake
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interestingly enough this has led me to be able to navigate my house confidently
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in the dark especially during Late Night Trips bathroom trips no light means no mirror and chance to see my other face
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old habits die hard I guess side note I needed to take a break here for a minute because honestly I missed
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my Village and my friends there and I didn't realize that it would make me this homesick to write about my Village
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but that's not very tough rational totally chilled boss babe of me so let's get back to it over the years over the
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years from six-ish until I was in my mid-20s most often is most often when I dreamed I would go to my Village I would
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still have regular dreams but from six on in my life I very rarely have a dream where I am not aware I am dreaming I can
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choose pretty easily to take control of my dreams if I want to and don't frequently because as an adult I've
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learned that this is what triggers night terrors and dream breeds for almost 20 years of my life I built a
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life in my Village whoa that's really [ __ ] cool you have Minecraft in your brain you have the Sims in your brain
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yeah that's the generational difference here's the generational difference you got the Sims I knew my house there which
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I shared with other visitors whoa I knew the neighborhood and the people who worked for the village did you hire
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them I say Village because it was small in a valley surrounded by trees there were landlines but no cell phones even
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after cell phones were common in the real main worlds when I visited I could walk around town with my Village friends
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or by myself I was always around the same age I was in real life and typically had the same ideas I would in
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the real world that is non-violent ones or ideas of theft or destruction got to hear it one time in my Village I stole
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something from someone's house not glad to hear that being that I was aware I was dreaming a visitor and a teenager at
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the time I didn't think anything would come of it that was until the sheriff rolled up and took me to the station he
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told me I needed to be respectful to the Village even if I was a visitor he told
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me that because this visitor Village had visitors they had to be even more strict
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with the laws otherwise the people that belonged to the Village would be in total chaos what seemed reasonable to me
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there were the people that lived in this Village and they needed the people that
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visited from The Real World to be respectful the sheriff told me that they've had to lock visitors up before
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and even execute them to stop them from harming the village and that if he that he wouldn't want that to happen to me
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I've had enough and she wrote fair enough having the fear of the local law enforcement slammed into me I went back
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to my regular visits and was respectful to everyone visitors and residents alike
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you might be wondering at this point how does it all go wrong turns out it all goes wrong pretty spectacularly with a
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lot of blood some time served and what I think was my execution oh my God I should say here for the sake of the sake
00:59:32
again of trying to be rational I have a very active imagination a constant monologue a touch of mental health
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issues and if you believe my for you page probably some neuro spicy symptoms this is very relatable you know what
00:59:44
same I think you're just generic sign my real life during this time was touched by violence death and the divorce of my
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parents honestly this was good for everyone involved though you feel me and a number of other consequences for
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The Reckless Behavior one can develop as they grow up in a world as steady as House of Cards during House of as a
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house of cards during an earthquake it's very possible that just like a dream bleed I had a reality bleed back into my
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Village Dimension bringing with it some of the issues I was dealing with back into the main back in the main timeline
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I certainly hope so because I don't think I committed the crime they found me guilty of holy [ __ ]
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one visit to my Village in my early 20s everything would change I woke up quote unquote in my room in the cabin at the
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top of the northernmost Hill in the valley my Village room was covered in plants and had far too many windows for
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someone who typically slept in well past Sunrise it was beautiful though and the
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bed was comfortable waking up in the village is really the only time I can remember waking up feeling rested as a
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reminder when I was in the village I could feel everything like I do when I was in the real world I could hold my
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breath swimming with friends in the nearby River gravity applied and I could feel my feet hitting the Earth this
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place was either real or the most realistic dream to ever occur this is crazy I am fascinated by this but like
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in the best way on this particular day I put oh my God is that you that scared me too
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sorry everybody that's that's oh my goodness I apologize crazy girl I wanted to show everybody my
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Pinhead text Stone um so yeah on this particular day I put on my brown hiking boots and walked out
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my bedroom door in a hurry when I got to the hall there were there were and there
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weren't any other visitors there which was a little odd but wasn't any cause for concern I walked down the flight of
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stairs that led right to the front door and out into the day everything was silent no birds no people
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walking on the street no bugs in the air no one mowing the lawn nothing I remember feeling very very unsettled I'd
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been scared in the village before but nothing like this I decided to go to the neighbor's house to see if they were
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home I wish I would have gone back to my Village room and watered my plants maybe
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then I'd still be allowed back oh my God I want to mind this is just like fascinating to me I went to my
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neighbor's house a lovely woman and her husband lived there with their dogs I never remember exactly how many the door
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was unlocked and I was very and I very stupidly let myself in when I walked into the house all was similarly silent
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as the world was outside my fear grew but with it something different now like I said when I was here my feelings were
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my feelings I controlled my actions it was me but just then walking into the Silent House of my kind neighbors who
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had been there since I first visited as a child I felt rage rage like I had not felt before in my real life or in my
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Village Life it was compelling and soon I felt like it was controlling me as I walked further into the house down the
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Long Hall that was characteristic of all the homes in the village regardless of their design style my boots started
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slipping and something on the floor oh no trigger warning for Gore and implied violence y'all
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I walked into the living room and saw everything that had been splattered in blood spray up the ceiling and the walls
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and puddles on the floor the rage I had been feeling took over them it was my body in my Village and I was no longer
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in control I started smashing photos on the walls turning over Furniture throwing things out of cabinets I
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remember running up the stairs and in and out of the bedrooms covering any mirrors with whatever I could find
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before destroying the rest of the rooms a few things to note here I never and very thankfully saw the bodies of my
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dream neighbors just blood and I had never before this visit not been in control of my dream body here at the
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Village never after the destruction of the house a number of villagers arrived at the front
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door I'm not sure how they got there or how everyone knew to come but they were there and suddenly I was in control
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again fear took over and I bolted into the woods I felt like I was running for my
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life which was silly because I knew I was dreaming right eventually the villagers caught me and
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arrested me for the absolutely heinous murder of my friendly dream neighbors for the next two years anytime I would
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dream about the village which was becoming more and more rare I would be in a Cell jailed and awaiting trial for
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the murders I swore I didn't commit what the [ __ ] my visitor friends would visit
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me in jail and tell me of all the things that they were doing to try to get me out eventually they would stop showing
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up this story is already very long but in the interest of brevity I'll jump to the
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last time I remember going to the Village which was now really my cell I woke up this time in prison I'd been
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convicted while I was in the real world it seemed I sat up over the side of my uncomfortable bed and looked around the
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room no one knows at all here in the prison but they did give me a paper and a pen to write with I was doodling
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thinking about what I had to do in the real main world at work tomorrow when the sheriff came in
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he sat down and told me my last appeal didn't go through that I would be executed the next day and that he wanted
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to come down to talk to me about it as a reminder I'd been visiting the village as a prisoner for years now and had
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several times been told there was nothing they could do if I was guilty the price was execution at this point in
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my life sadly my other dimension dream Village had become really boring way to pass my sleeping hours I had Lucidity
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but no freedom this is so wild it says I feel like you need to write a book about this truly I
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remember the sheriff telling me he was sad for me and that he'd miss me the only things I recall from the case was
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that they had my dream boots boot prints in the blood I'd been found on scene as
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a visitor I had no alibi and there were no other visitors at that time the case was open and shut the rules was the
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rules as I was warned years before would be enforced one way or another I told Sheriff that I would miss him in
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the village I told him about the controlling rage and he nodded as if this had happened to others before I
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woke up to my alarm for work before I got to say a proper goodbye but I made sure the sheriff knew I knew it wasn't
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his fault I might not be back and I never got to go back I have memories of the village of my neighbors my plants
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and my Adventures I wonder sometimes if I'll ever run into another visitor in my
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bill in my to my Village in the real world not sure how they would recognize me but I like to think we could prove to
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one another that this place exists maybe I shouldn't call this world the real world though because the village was
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very real to me this would be just the one I'm Tethered to and would come back to I like the life I've built here too
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but man do I miss my Village nowadays I choose to not take control of my dreams if I ever have a dream bleed
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my safety net is asking my husband if I'm awake or not thankfully he never uses this vulnerability to mess with me
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and quickly lets me know if I'm in the real world or still dreaming there are many many ways to write off my
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experience as a dream world escape and truly not another dimension I I entertain this and some of the other
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theories that have cropped up to explain my Village to me over the years as much
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as I entertain possibilities my heart knows that this place exists out there I feel homesick for my Village and my
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friends there and wish deeply that I could find a way to clear dream me's name or bring me back to life on that
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side but hopefully if a true crime podcast exists in the village now my case can at least be a tantalizing story
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of a possible wrong conviction or used to warn visitors to go back to their room if they arrive in the village to a
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strange silence I hope the fate of my dream meet I hope the fate of dream me at the village is a hotly contested
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controversy that the village folks still chat about to this day I hope the sheriff that warned me never feel felt
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guilty about the outcome and that my any family of my dream neighbors feel they did to get Justice if it means they'll
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be at peace lastly I hope you've enjoyed my story and if you ever find yourself waking up in a small village in a
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beautiful Valley you take a walk up the northernmost Hill to the large cabin on top while you're there please water my
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plants for me I don't think they've had a drink in a while sending love Kayla that was I just got full chills
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absolutely captivating I'm not kidding Kayla write a book write a book I make a show out of that make a
01:08:08
TV out of that I'll back you up that that is your [ __ ] story if anybody tries to steal it I will literally go
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crazy [ __ ] Kayla TM Kayla TM that is that's one of the most captivating stories that we've ever gotten on this
01:08:23
podcast and when you just ended that with if you ever wake up in a small village in a valley walk up the
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northernmost Hill to a small little it's large a large Cottage excuse me you water those [ __ ] plants because I
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don't think they've had a tree beyond words like that is that is the most haunting [ __ ] I've ever heard I
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believe your village exists it does I've never heard anything like that before guys I can't wait to go to sleep
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tonight holy [ __ ] I've never heard anything like that never in my GD life have I heard something like that we
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gotta end there but I will have dreams that like do you ever have a dream that you know you've had before yeah yeah
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like I have had that before I wonder if that's like a like a you know what I mean [ __ ] but
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it's like it's like that game Second Life lost me there it's like literally I only
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know of it because um they had like an office uh plotline about it but it's like a real game called second life and
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it's like basically a Sims kind of thing yeah but you make like a whole life and
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it's like that's what your village was that is your summer Village was that I'm like wow that was the perfect one then
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I'm just shook by that wow it's time for us to go to sleep holy [ __ ] so thanks for those listener Tales
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because yes DM you just rocked us yeah I don't have words left so I'm just gonna
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say the usual thank you for listening and we hope you keep listening and we hope you keep it weird
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just as weird as Kayla yeah keep it that weird just as weird as Kayla that's awesome
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damn [ __ ] oh my God Kayla we forgot to give you your crown are you ready oh oh
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