Work · Podcast · 2026–
Sleepy Speculations
A long-form philosophical sleep podcast: slow, wandering walks through metaphysics, physics and consciousness, designed to be fallen asleep inside.
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.
Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube.
Ep. 11 · 19 September 2026
A Quiet Argument for Free Will
A Sleepy Walk Into Whether You Ever Actually Choose
Ep. 10 · 9 September 2026
The Cartographers of the Inside
What If Religion Is the Mind Watching Itself?
Ep. 9 · 3 September 2026
The Context Maximiser
A Sleepy Walk Into a Universe Made of Relations
Ep. 8 · 1 September 2026
The Loop That Closes
A Sleepy Walk to the One Place You Can't Look
Ep. 7 · 20 August 2026
When the Story Is Real
A Sleepy Walk Through the Ontology of Mythology
Ep. 6 · 11 August 2026
The Future Causing the Past
A Sleepy Walk Through Retrocausality & the Arrow of Time
Ep. 5 · 6 August 2026
What You Want to Want
A Sleepy Philosophy of Desire, Free Will & the Good
Ep. 4 · 25 July 2026
The Museum of Impossible Things
A Sleepy Walk Through the Imaginary Part of Your Mind
Ep. 3 · 25 July 2026
The Gap Between Is and Isn't
A Sleepy Walk Through Why There Is Anything at All
Ep. 2 · 25 July 2026
A Sleepy Walk Through the Path of Least Action
Ep. 1 · 25 July 2026
An Invitation
Welcome to Sleepy Speculations