NoSleep Podcast - Sleepless Decompositions Vol. 25

What you'll learn

• 1 (00:36) **Introduction & Theme** - David Cummings welcomes listeners to Sleepless Decompositions Vol. 25, introducing the theme of doctors confronting strange and esoteric horrors.
• 2 (04:20) **Story 1: "The Dead Are a River" - Dr. Carlisle Meets Patient Clifford Walker** - Dr. Winston Carlisle, a psychiatrist at Sparrowhead Sanatorium, reads the file of his first patient, Clifford Walker, a WWII veteran requesting a lobotomy for his nightmares.
• 3 (12:05) **Clifford's War Story and the "River of the Dead"** - Clifford recounts his time in the POW camp, describing the forced labor of digging trenches filled with sharpened bamboo spikes, which later became a trap for his own countrymen.
• 4 (17:00) **The Vision Escapes the Office** - Clifford has a violent panic attack after closing his eyes, screaming about things "crawling in the walls," and is restrained by an orderly.
• 5 (20:24) **The Nightmare Becomes Real** - Dr. Carlisle receives a call from the sanatorium informing him that Clifford has killed the orderly and gouged out his own eyes, writing "In the walls now" in blood.
• 6 (26:29) **Mid-Episode Break & Sponsors** - A break for sponsor messages, including Indacloud cannabis products and BetterHelp online therapy.
• 7 (30:03) **Story 2: "Geiston's Cave" - A Mathematician's New Home** - The second tale begins, narrated as diary entries of Dr. Mark Royland Jones, a Professor of Mathematics who has moved into the house of his predecessor in Bristol, England.

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