Sleep Minute — Dreams & The Science of Sleep

In which Stephane gives us some ASMR while collecting felt objects in a cave.

Minute 57 in which Stephane walks off to the darkroom in a huff and Guy is surprisingly decent (which makes us suspicious, where is this anecdote about the goat on the cliff going?).

In which the co-workers are sympathetic for sulky Stephane.

In which Stephane acts like a petulant baby man-child when Stephanie turns him down. Minute 55 of The Science of Sleep by Michel Gondry.

In which Stephane blurs the line between his sleeping self and his waking self and confronts Stephanie. Minute 55 of The Science of Sleep by Michel Gondry.

The one with Gael in a cute fluffy cat outfit. A cute if bonkers minute of The Science of Sleep.

Minute 52! Yes we are still going after a long hiatus. We can't remember anyone's names but we continue Stephane's egotistical dream about being interviewed by his co-workers on his new book.

In Min 51 of The Science of Sleep Stephane conducts his dream city sequence and stands up to his co-workers.  We chat about insomnia, 80s toy robots and remote controlled cars. 

In which our heroes discuss record collecting and charity shopping and the dwindling thereof. Also decaff tea disasters and drug placebos, a ruined 90s Beck t-shirt and not appreciating the younger more skinnier times of life. The most expensive CD we may have bought back in the days of CDs. meanwhile Stephane has hooked a contraption up to his eyelids to control his dreams and is dreaming is calendar disasters are happening while Martine is being routinely sexually harassed. 

R.E.M. explanations Vintage clothes shopping Shoes and the perils of too-wide shoes The band R.E.M. and that mysterious button on the sixth form radio mix desk Album listening and Top of the Pops nostalgia  

Minute 28 of the Science of Sleep by Michel Gondry. Apologies for the huge gap. Stephane is having dinner with his Mum and Gerard, who he appears to be unimpressed with. Gerard does some impressive tricks and one less impressive. We hear that this strange dreaming Stephane has been doing has been going on since childhood.  We then spend the rest of the time discussing The Invisible Man which we had both just seen. Spoilers ahead. And spoilers for the spoiler - we didn't like it much. 

Min 47 of The Science of Sleep in which we get the end of the sexy snog and Stephanie sadly plays the melancholy piano piece alone in her flat. Stephane has a nightmare involving the cave. We chat about waffles and crumpets and a weird mirror dream. 

An exciting ep, with much snogging and sexy goth girls and bald mice (I mean bats). Gemma does talk at length about what she found on top of her wardrobe and we ponder what happened with Stephane and the goth girl off camera. Minute 46 y'all of The Science of Sleep. 

In which Zoe dances suggestively with Guy while Stephane looks jealously on and Stephanie gives him some music she has composed. 

In which Stephane does some childish (but cute) card trick with bicycle helmets and they all go to a bar and do shots. Was Guy just passing by or is he stalking Stephane? Why is Zoe there? Where is her boyfriend? What shots are they drinking? We also chat about Dune a bit. Welcome to minute 44 of The Science of Sleep, Michel Gondry's weird cute film.  Send us an email at scienceofsleepmin@gmail.com or hit me up on twitter @gemmazoey

Minute 43 of Gondry's The Science of Sleep. In which Stephane comes round to see Stephanie and Zoe. Why is Zoe third wheeling it? Does Stephanie need her there for courage or is Zoe just a bad friend?  Send us an email at scienceofsleepmin@gmail.com or hit me up on twitter @gemmazoey

In which Stephane continues the pretence that he doesn't live next door and Stephanie lures him over with Zoe as bait.  We wonder if Stephane knows they know he is pretending not to live next door and how he is going to sneak out and back in again. We digress on where Gemma used to live in Paris , where Zoe is going to stay in this tiny appartment, how to pronounce Gael (and whether Jools should message his Mexican friend to ask).  Send us a message at scienceofsleepmin@gmail.com or find Gemma on twitter @gemmazoey

Hello dear listener, welcome to minute 41 of The Science of Sleep with Gemma and Julian. In this minute, Stephanie and Zoe playfight in the shop and look up Stephane in the phone book. Remember phone books? And having to call a landline and ask to speak to your friend? Remember those cards you had so you could call home for free? Phoneboxes? What's that? You don't? You're too young? Oh good grief...were you even alive when this film came out?  Anyway,  enjoy and contact us on scienceofsleepmin@gmail.com or Gemma at gemmazoey on twitter. 

Sorry for such a long gap listener, life has been getting in the way. This was recorded a few weeks ago. No matter, this one is the one where we see Gael STARK/BUTT/TOTALLY f***ing naked. Ok ok calm down. Stephanie sees Stephane take the letter back in her hallway and is telling Zoe what the note she found under the door say. We are unsure why she doesn't mention that he was round her house but now I think it just was a missed conversation in the film.  We chat about speed walking, hot baths, nudity, leg cramps in dreams. smoke detectors going off in the middle of the night, helicopter rides, BMW drivers, how hard it is to find films without romance, Studio Ghibli, areas without human noise, people turning up at your place of work unexpectedly and Gemma swears a heck of a lot (so warnings if you dislike that).  Enjoy listener, and send us an email at scienceofsleepmin@gmail.com

Welcome to minute 39 of Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep. We chat about our holiday (now months ago, sigh) and Jools' trip to Birmingham. In the minute, Stephane is made to work in his dream while the office is chaotic around him. Stephanie tells Zoe about her dream of a turtle and a praying mantis having a fight over an elephant - created by the sound of Stephane putting the note under the door in his sleep walking next door. We see them at work in an art shop and some cool Gondry animation of the turtle and praying mantis on a planet. We learn that all tortoises are turtles but not all turtles are tortoises, or is it the other way round, I can't remember. These are the houses that Jools went to see in Birmingham -  https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/birmingham-back-to-backs