I was so upset at the like the first night after the dream where she's still like like physically shaking and she decides not to have another glass of brandy even though she wants it because she wants to be well you know ready for the day. It seems like that's a where this is had I think and like maybe she dies at the end or at least it's kind of terror. If she's had these insights in an extended dream and she wakes up she's gonna lose them and she's gonna go right back to her her robot life with with no anacron and an brandy and no demarcation between the days. That's depressing.
David and Tamler take the first excursion into the work of Haruki Murakami and talk about his short story “Sleep.” A thirty-year-old woman, the wife of a dentist and mother of a young boy, has a terrifying dream and when she wakes up, she no longer needs to sleep. This isn’t insomnia, it’s something else – she has never felt so alive, strong, and awake. She can swim laps for an hour in the afternoon and read Anna Karenina with perfect concentration until dawn. What is this condition? Is it real? What does it tell us about her past, her sense of self, her alienation from friends, family, and her role? This is a banger of a story folks, check it out.
Plus - if you had to say one word or sentence to distinguish yourself from an AI, what would you say?
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