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Speaker 1: It's a daily battle, and I'm not the only one

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inside this fight, this war, this disruption. Creativity is an addiction.

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If you don't feed that side of your inner core,

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then it's not going to be an easy walk. Unplugged

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because we will always say yes to creativity, totally uncut

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because we all make mistakes. So turn it into a tool.

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This is arrow unplugged. If you could see this forest

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this morning, look at the colors, the greenness, the freshness, spring,

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soon to be summer, it's all right here in front

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of me. Even if you took the time to plant

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a tree in your yard or created a little pot

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to put something in, to watch life in plant form

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shape in front of you, it is the greatest feeling

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and connection because that plant is a part of you,

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and how you take care of that plant says something

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about you. It's a journey. It's an enormous amount of

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pressure to help bring forward a plant life, something that

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is completely disconnected from your human world, and yet you've

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made it a part of your story. If you could

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only see this forest, if you've never heard any stories

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about this forest. In nineteen ninety seven, I planted seventeen

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hundred trees on this lay of land, mainly because I

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didn't want to mow the lawn anymore. That's the truth.

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That's the truth. But I looked at the landscape of

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all lawns connected. This was once a mighty forest, and

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the goal in nineteen ninety seven was to bring it back. Hey, Saro,

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this is the choice. This is what I was writing

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while the sun was waking up on a brilliant new day,

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and today we're reading from April twenty first, twenty twenty three.

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I do a lot of talking in my sleep, so

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much so that it keeps my wife awake. Now I've

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done some research and that shows such an event is

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often connected to PTSD. Medical officials claim it's completely one

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hundred percent harmless to talk in your sleep. It doesn't

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have an effect on a person's sleep, just those around us.

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They say that two to three people out of ten

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actually talking their sleep. I've been known to grab my

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smartphone and physically record messages into it, which I find

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days later. Oh hell, yes, I listened to it. Outside

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of sounding extremely tired, what is heard are personal visions

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and teachings that usually end up in my daily writing.

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The subconscious wants to be heard I'm not the only one,

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trust me. Keith Richards wrote Satisfaction for the Rolling Stones

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after waking up in the middle of the night. Sadly,

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what I speak of, according to my wife, isn't musical,

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but often someone's saying bad things to me and my

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words are in reaction. I always thought PTSD was connected

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to the military, but continuing on with my research, I

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found that to be not true. All people are affected

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by PTSD. I've never met another talker in the middle

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of the night, and yet for me to say that

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I talk at the age of sixty, I need to

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go back to the age of five and six, when

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my mother would sit with me in my bedroom. She

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would wake me up saying, son, you're talking. What do

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you see? What are you listening to? You're talking? We

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can hear you downstairs. WHOA. That shocked me because I

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don't know that I'm talking out loud now. According to

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my wife, I talk out loud, and it's in ways

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that sound clear to her, but she doesn't know the

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other side of what I'm reacting to. Is it PTSD?

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Is there something going wrong? Not. According to researchers, it's

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perfectly natural. Two to three people out of ten talk

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in the middle of the night. What about you? Do

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you talk? Do you not want to talk about you talking?

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What would you be talking about if you could talk

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twenty four hours a day, What would be that one

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subject you would put your focus on. I think it's

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associated with the fact that I have done every hour

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of terrestrial radio. I did overnights, I did morning drive. Therefore,

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I always had to be ready to talk. I listen

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to podcasts, I listen to talk radio. I am surrounded

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by conversation. Even my essential job, I am with people,

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and I have conversations with people during my awake hours.

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But inside my mind late at night, which I do

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not know what I'm dreaming, nor do I know what

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I'm talking about, but it's there, and I do ask

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my wife to very gently wake me up or to

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react to the conversation so that I can come back

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to a normal world. Talking in your sleep once again,

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is one hundred percent completely normal. But if it is PTSD,

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what is the source of that energy? What are you

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doing in the middle of the night that is keeping

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you awake? I see melatonin sold by the bunches, but

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people never complain about Oh man, God, you should see

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the sales on this day. This is dangerous. So much

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melatonin is being sold. The imagination, the mind, the body,

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It just doesn't want to rest anymore. Why find out

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what your why is. Maybe set up a recorder where

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you are and listen to what you're speaking about, because

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I do believe that the imagination and the desire to

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be creative do not sleep. They're always activated. The rest

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of us doesn't want to catch up. I'm Eryl, and

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that's what I was writing while the sun was waking

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up on a brilliant new day.