Sleep Minute — Dreams & The Science of Sleep

Hello listener! Welcome to minute 33 in which we discuss amongst other things, a cool YouTube video of a guy doing old English accents - https://youtu.be/3lXv3Tt4x20 check him out as he's got loads and they're really interesting. Also we ramble about surges in the National Grid, nanny cams, Eurovision and katabatic (not catatonic as I possibly said!) winds - https://youtu.be/Z4qvpHZzZGI one of my...

Hey listener! Welcome to Gemma and Julian on the London Underground and feeding ducks outside the Barbican. No minute chat, just a little ramble of us travelling on the tube with accompanying sound effects featuring duck couple and Tangerine the cat, a loud woman and man on the tube and the Underground announcer. I mean, kudos if you're actually listening to this stuff, or maybe it's worrying, wha...

In this weeks blatherthon, Gemma and Julian are sleepy and there is some plant talk, discussions of bespoke clothing, whether or not we would go out with someone with the same name, or opposite gender equivalent, as us (I wouldn't, Jools doesn't care). Stephane and Stephanie start throwing cotton wool clouds in the air and Stephane plays the correct chord on the piano and the cloud stays up! Then...

In which Stephane and Stephanie go into a shared dream land (limerence?) and get excited about their project. The water in the tap turns to cellophane like a Russian animation.  This week's films that I am stupidly surprised Jools has neither seen nor heard of are Hedgehog in the Fog - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS5mxXtStOY and Heavenly Creatures -   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt011...

In which Stephane gets excited about the sausage finger trick and we wonder how they filmed it. Stephanie and Stephane bond over their creative minds making a boat with plants in it. We talk about ossuaries and vertigo as well as spider hallucinations. Minute 30 of The Science of Sleep.    

Minute 29 of The Science of Sleep, in which Stephane and Stephanie start to get a bit flirty in some Gondry-esque illusion games. We chat about obituries (for some reason) and our haircuts and Jools' work for Kew Gardens. Enjoy listener! 

Ramble on minute 28; Stephane and Stephanie are connecting over Stephanie's found objects. She has a LOT of stuff in her room. 

In which Stephane and Stephanie have an awkward moment outside their front door, Stephanie assumes Stephane is there for Zoe. She makes an awkward joke. She still doesn't know that he lives there. We discuss laundrettes; the benefits and the pains as well as proverbs and the meaning behind 'a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush'. Spoiler alert - we come to no useful conclusions. 

In which we talk about minute 26, Guy and Stephane sit on a park bench and finish their lunch break and Stephane asks Guy for love advice for some inexplicable reason. We talk about extras in films, pantless fash mobs and whether that fart noise is real or not. 

In which Guy is disgusting and Stephane and him chat on a park bench while eating boring sandwiches. Let's just get through this minute. Gemma and Jools talk plants, friendly crows, and today's argument involves Jools being an Instagram creeper (I get to say that as I am the one writing this) and Jools is in need of coffee. We wonder if it is a real fart and how those fart noises are made, are fol...

Minute 24 everyone! Recorded a few weeks ago before schools opened up. We talk about seeing people in THE FLESH (shudder) and how amazing this is after not seeing anyone, about AI internet stars and other such nonsense. In the minute, Stephanie is annoyed with Zoe for lying and making her look bad, Stephane has somehow lied about being their neighbour, Guy is a dick and Martine throws out a homoph...

The one with the Heinz tomato soup coloured tracksuit. Gemma rants about work and Jools rants about chip portion sizes.  We chat about robot synchronizer language, pronunciations from books and the derivation of words. Jools talks about renaming offensive terms in coding and uses the word vernacular not once but three times. In the minute, Charlotte is angry at Zoe (yes I know I'm mixing acto...

Welcome to the hangry episode where we are both a bit grumpy and downbeat, it's lockdown, and times are dull and difficult. But we discuss 3D glasses, dreamscapes, a vintage jacket Gemma bought and Jools hangrily eats Matchmaker crumbs. 

Jools and I met (following the rules, outside at a distance) and to counteract the cold made a fire on the beach. Fireside crackles and the occasional burning coal shriek can be heard as we briefly go over minute 21 while sitting by the fire! Apologies for lower recording quality.  Photos on our Instagram page -  https://www.instagram.com/sleepminute/

In which Stephane is injured but Emma de Caunes just sprays him with foot deodoriser while Charlotte (Stephanie) berates her for the hole in the wall. Is Emma a horrible chaotic friend? I play Jools our weird ghost interruption, Jools discusses chess and there are probably some petty arguments. Join us for Minute 20 of The Science of Sleep!

In which we look at minute 19 of The Science of Sleep, Stephane is crushed under the piano which crashes onto the street and the lovely but patronising Emma de Caunes tends to his wounds. Today's argument - do all buildings in Paris have a uniform height.  https://youtu.be/rwAzSupGjmo - Maya's dog video channel, if you want some relaxing time.  https://www.queerouthere.com/ - My friend's...

In which we watch the 18th minute of Gondry's The Science of Sleep. Charlotte continues to dodge a passer-by in the street and Stephane explains it then is interrupted by drilling noises from next door.  We discuss buying things you never wear for the love of buying them; Jools' Friday Night Dinner shiny jacket https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7NwkR3fIoE ; the smell of cigarettes from th...

In minute 17 of The Science of Sleep, we meet Charlotte Gainsbourg and Emma de Caunes (she of Eurotrash star Antoine de Caunes daughter); Charlotte has a lot of birdcages and Emma de Caunes drills through Stephane's wall.  We talk about the plausibility of corduroy wallpaper, the actuality of someone drilling a hole into your flat from next door; Trumpton time, the Radio head video that Emma...

9Welcome to minute 16 of The Science of Sleep! Stephane berates his Mum irl but also in his dream state. We go back to the eggbox studio where some super 8 footage of Stephane's childhood plays out behind him. We talk about secret messages on blank cassettes, a flipper museum in Paris - http://www.museedupaysduder.com/musee-du-flipper-paris/, bagatelle, collectible toys and segueways.  Gemma...

Welcome  to Sleep Minute, a podcast where we discuss the Michel Gondry film The Science of Sleep minute by minute. In minute 15, Gemma goes on about The Untamed and Jools is indifferent; we wonder about the presence of touch in dreams; ponder what happened to those beloved clothes of old that have disappeared; wonder just how influential was Kurt Cobain fashion-wise in the 90s; discuss the la...

Minute 14; Stephane is dreaming and the razor has come to life attacking his boss and turning him into a tramp. Gondry animation is here! 

In which we discuss the horror of spiders; tiling difficulties; music buying methods; EMDR and dream like associations and whether Gondy has put in sneaky clues or are they just fun backdrop.  Those tiles Jools is going on about; https://www.cdjackfield.com/portfolio/blues-kitchen-shoreditch-london/ https://www.cdjackfield.com/ EMDR basic idea; https://www.emdr.com/what-is-emdr/ L'espirit d'e...

In which Stephane narrates his calendar of real life disasters and the others take the piss. We are possibly a teensy bit drunk and wonder what the sound in the flat is, range from A.I. generated faces to the idea of a collective spirituality in The Endless, touch on Harry Harlow's Wire Mother experiment and the realism of a robot mother from I Am Mother and listen to a succession of airport and t...

In which Stephane is taken to the bosses office (Pierre Vaneck) and begins to show his portfolio. We talk about snowy dreams and the language of dreams, a 3D print of Julian's head and whatever the heck magic wand theorem could be. 

Stephane tries to speak French, Guy and Serge fail to speak English, Stephane starts to show them his artwork.  We talk about our dreams again, solipsism, brain in a jar, Gemma's equal parts shame at not speaking better French and frustration at not being encouraged by some Parisians (disclaimer, not all Parisians).