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