The Insomnia Studies Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-insomnia-studies My name doesn’t matter. What matters is where I work: a government-funded sleep research facility. Officially, we study the effects of prolonged wakefulness. Unofficially… it’s stranger than that. Every night, our patients are wired up to monitors and forced to listen to recordings—audio designed by researchers and machines to keep them awake for as long as possible. Some are simple tones. Others are stories, fragmented and unsettling. I've been smuggling copies of these recordings out of the building for weeks. That’s what you’re hearing here. I’m sharing them because I can’t tell if they’re fabrications—machine-generated nonsense meant to scramble tired minds—or if they’re drawing from something real. From people. From events. From something I'm not supposed to see. If you listen, if you recognize something, if you notice patterns I don’t—tell me. Together, maybe we can figure out what’s really going on inside those walls. Welcome to The Insomnia Studies. © 2025 Retired Media c6b7fbfc-d590-5633-aeda-f3bd60bf73bf no en Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:50:38 -0400 Wed, 03 Dec 2025 02:48:06 -0500 https://img.transistor.fm/6dgY0Vc8roF0cEGA_7o11HRFcYTatkC-9HCsNyO1t5c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82Yzdj/MTk5YTZhMTk4N2Fj/MjdmOTU4YmI5YThi/ZDMwZC5wbmc.jpg The Insomnia Studies episodic Helmholtz Watson My name doesn’t matter. What matters is where I work: a government-funded sleep research facility. Officially, we study the effects of prolonged wakefulness. Unofficially… it’s stranger than that. Every night, our patients are wired up to monitors and forced to listen to recordings—audio designed by researchers and machines to keep them awake for as long as possible. Some are simple tones. Others are stories, fragmented and unsettling. I've been smuggling copies of these recordings out of the building for weeks. That’s what you’re hearing here. I’m sharing them because I can’t tell if they’re fabrications—machine-generated nonsense meant to scramble tired minds—or if they’re drawing from something real. From people. From events. From something I'm not supposed to see. If you listen, if you recognize something, if you notice patterns I don’t—tell me. Together, maybe we can figure out what’s really going on inside those walls. Welcome to The Insomnia Studies. My name doesn’t matter. Helmholtz Watson No No Recording #3: The Green Glow 3 3 Recording #3: The Green Glow full 98219a10-67b4-41e3-a56f-eecaf9a5f46b https://share.transistor.fm/s/de2c1f66 Welcome to The Insomnia Studies - smuggled recordings from a research facility that keeps people awake by any means necessary.

Tonight... A burnout retreat to a borrowed cabin becomes a descent into sleepwalking and missing time.

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Tonight... A burnout retreat to a borrowed cabin becomes a descent into sleepwalking and missing time.

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Tonight... A burnout retreat to a borrowed cabin becomes a descent into sleepwalking and missing time.

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Tonight... A young fire lookout discovers that some jobs come with more than just isolation.

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Tonight... A young fire lookout discovers that some jobs come with more than just isolation.

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Tonight... A young fire lookout discovers that some jobs come with more than just isolation.

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Tonight... A woman scouting an abandoned summer camp encounters two officers who seem a little too eager to help.


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Tonight... A woman scouting an abandoned summer camp encounters two officers who seem a little too eager to help.


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Tonight... A woman scouting an abandoned summer camp encounters two officers who seem a little too eager to help.


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