Speaker 1: It's a daily battle, and I'm not the only one
inside this fight, this war, this disruption. Creativity is an addiction.
If you don't feed that side of your inner core,
then it's not going to be an easy walk. Unplugged
because we will always say yes to creativity, totally uncut
because we all make mistakes. So turn it into a tool.
This is arrow unplugged. If you could see this forest
this morning, look at the colors, the greenness, the freshness, spring,
soon to be summer, it's all right here in front
of me. Even if you took the time to plant
a tree in your yard or created a little pot
to put something in, to watch life in plant form
shape in front of you, it is the greatest feeling
and connection because that plant is a part of you,
and how you take care of that plant says something
about you. It's a journey. It's an enormous amount of
pressure to help bring forward a plant life, something that
is completely disconnected from your human world, and yet you've
made it a part of your story. If you could
only see this forest, if you've never heard any stories
about this forest. In nineteen ninety seven, I planted seventeen
hundred trees on this lay of land, mainly because I
didn't want to mow the lawn anymore. That's the truth.
That's the truth. But I looked at the landscape of
all lawns connected. This was once a mighty forest, and
the goal in nineteen ninety seven was to bring it back. Hey, Saro,
this is the choice. This is what I was writing
while the sun was waking up on a brilliant new day,
and today we're reading from April twenty first, twenty twenty three.
I do a lot of talking in my sleep, so
much so that it keeps my wife awake. Now I've
done some research and that shows such an event is
often connected to PTSD. Medical officials claim it's completely one
hundred percent harmless to talk in your sleep. It doesn't
have an effect on a person's sleep, just those around us.
They say that two to three people out of ten
actually talking their sleep. I've been known to grab my
smartphone and physically record messages into it, which I find
days later. Oh hell, yes, I listened to it. Outside
of sounding extremely tired, what is heard are personal visions
and teachings that usually end up in my daily writing.
The subconscious wants to be heard I'm not the only one,
trust me. Keith Richards wrote Satisfaction for the Rolling Stones
after waking up in the middle of the night. Sadly,
what I speak of, according to my wife, isn't musical,
but often someone's saying bad things to me and my
words are in reaction. I always thought PTSD was connected
to the military, but continuing on with my research, I
found that to be not true. All people are affected
by PTSD. I've never met another talker in the middle
of the night, and yet for me to say that
I talk at the age of sixty, I need to
go back to the age of five and six, when
my mother would sit with me in my bedroom. She
would wake me up saying, son, you're talking. What do
you see? What are you listening to? You're talking? We
can hear you downstairs. WHOA. That shocked me because I
don't know that I'm talking out loud now. According to
my wife, I talk out loud, and it's in ways
that sound clear to her, but she doesn't know the
other side of what I'm reacting to. Is it PTSD?
Is there something going wrong? Not. According to researchers, it's
perfectly natural. Two to three people out of ten talk
in the middle of the night. What about you? Do
you talk? Do you not want to talk about you talking?
What would you be talking about if you could talk
twenty four hours a day, What would be that one
subject you would put your focus on. I think it's
associated with the fact that I have done every hour
of terrestrial radio. I did overnights, I did morning drive. Therefore,
I always had to be ready to talk. I listen
to podcasts, I listen to talk radio. I am surrounded
by conversation. Even my essential job, I am with people,
and I have conversations with people during my awake hours.
But inside my mind late at night, which I do
not know what I'm dreaming, nor do I know what
I'm talking about, but it's there, and I do ask
my wife to very gently wake me up or to
react to the conversation so that I can come back
to a normal world. Talking in your sleep once again,
is one hundred percent completely normal. But if it is PTSD,
what is the source of that energy? What are you
doing in the middle of the night that is keeping
you awake? I see melatonin sold by the bunches, but
people never complain about Oh man, God, you should see
the sales on this day. This is dangerous. So much
melatonin is being sold. The imagination, the mind, the body,
It just doesn't want to rest anymore. Why find out
what your why is. Maybe set up a recorder where
you are and listen to what you're speaking about, because
I do believe that the imagination and the desire to
be creative do not sleep. They're always activated. The rest
of us doesn't want to catch up. I'm Eryl, and
that's what I was writing while the sun was waking
up on a brilliant new day.