Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories - The Hypnos Conundrum: Parts 3 & 4 (Premium)

Episode Date: October 14, 2020

This is a preview episode. Get the full episode, and many more, ad free, on our supporter's feed: https://getsleepy.com/support. The Hypnos Conundrum: Parts 3 & 4Tonight, Abbe continues with the third and fourth days of the Starship Rem's journey to find the Hypnos flower. 😴  Sound design: spaceship cabin.  About Get Sleepy Premium: Help support the podcast, and get: Monday and Wednesday night episodes (with zero ads) The exclusive Thursday night bonus episode Access to the entire back catalog (also ad-free) Premium sleep meditations, extra-long episodes and more! We'll love you forever. ❤️ Get a 7 day free trial, and join the Get Sleepy community here https://getsleepy.com/support. And thank you so, so much.  Tom, and the team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi, Thomas here. You're listening to a preview episode. You can enjoy the entire story tonight by subscribing to our supporters' feed. There you'll get access to the entire back catalogue, bonus episodes, and more, and it's all completely ad-free. Click the link below to learn more and thank you so so much. Me and the team really appreciate your support. Today is the third day of the mission and the lead engineer's daily log has just arrived. Now let's begin with episode 3. The log of lead engineer Ronaz, mission the hitnost conundrum, day 3. Well, I guess it's just you and me again, computer. I must spend at least half of my days talking to computers or conduits or the engine of

this ship. I guess it's to be expected as the lead engineer. I spend more time with the insides of REM than I do with any of its crew members. And it's just as well. I've never really been much of a people person anyways. Ships are easier to understand. They also complicate it. I mean, they still have moods and opinions, that's for sure. But I've always found them more predictable than people.

If you learn a ship, you can really know a ship. I'm still getting to know the REM. It's a new ship, with all new sleek and shiny parts. I had a lot of fun being the first engineer to climb into some of the holding areas, and pull off the wall coverings. I was the first to touch many of the control panels on this ship. I know that probably sounds silly, but I think it was all the flashing lights on ships that made me want to become an engineer in the first place. As a kid, I used to look over my uncle's shoulder. He was an engineer too. I'd watch him poke

and prod at all the flashing lights on his circuit boards. He'd connect this to that, and a light would go from red to green, and it would be fixed, like new. It was like magic to me, and it still the least I've been honest. Every time I figure out a problem on a ship, I get that little surge of pride and wonder, and that's what's been particularly frustrating today. We have a serious plant problem that I just can't figure out how to fix. Ever since the away team came back with that hit moss flower, my ship hasn't been working the way it's supposed to. I know this

could be the scientific discovery of all time, but it is wreaking havoc on the rim. I'm not sure if the scientists just didn't know, but nobody informed me the flower grows like a weed. Yesterday, the team came back from the surface of dawn. Jack's, the lead science officer, put her plant trimmings in the lab. Over night, the flower went crazy. Jack sent me a message this morning telling me to get down to the science lab as quickly as I could. I was already awake of course, cleaning the floor panels in the engine room. I packed up my toolkit and headed for the lab. I didn't hurry that quickly because I figured a science emergency couldn't really be that bad.

But it turns out I was wrong. The hypnosflower trimming had been inside a specimen container Jack said. But when I got there, I found her picking up broken pieces of that container off the floor. It seems like overnight the flower sample grew this giant tendrel that snaked up the wall and all the way back into one of the ventilation conduits. It also grew a bunch of smaller tendrils that were hanging down from the ceiling and sprouting new growth of their own. The tendrils were all covered with these bright green leaves and dark purple flowers. The plant had grown straight through two empty specimen tanks, breaking the casing on both

sides and had completely coiled around the workbench and chair, making it impossible to get to any of the tools in any of the drawers, or to sit down. Where they used to be a ceiling, that's now what I can only describe as a miniature jungle. Small attendrils completely cover the top panels and the upper third of the walls. In some places the ends hang down nearly to head height, all covered in leaves and flowers. I had to brush one out of my face when I first walked into the room. It would have been pretty in a way, had it not damaged so many of the supplies in the science lab. We'll have to wait until we're docked back at Rhineath to replace all of them. Of all the parts of the plant that were where they shouldn't

be, the one that really concerned me was the tendril in the ventilation shaft. It's not affecting the function of the shaft. The thing is, from there, the plant could theoretically get anywhere on the ship. you