We'll be back soon with more from me and Rob's roadtrip, but this week you are getting a read-along with me, Sami, from my Substack SoundsLikeSami. This article is all about perception, synapses, human perception and how the phenomenon could be understood through this lens. The inspiration for this article came from something called a "download" that hit me like a title wave one day earlier this year. That download launched me into several months of deep diving through studies on perception, neuroplasticity, and synapses. If you'd like to read with me please visit https://soundslikesami.substack.com/p/neurons-synapses-and-the-phenomenon.

Thank you and enjoy!

Speaking From The Elephant In The Room- Talking About Death and the Afterlife in Paria, Utah

In this episode me and Rob dive deep into how we feel about death, what we think it might be, what it might mean, and I (Sami) share some of my strange personal experiences with death and mediumship and how that's shaped my views on loss and grief.

This episode is raw and tender and so very, very honest.

We hope you enjoy our new approach for this season. Thanks for sticking with us.

Hello and thank you to everyone who have been listeners to the Would You, Could You, Believe It Now? Podcast. For our next season we are rebranding and reorganizing this podcast to make life a little easier on ourselves and to set us up in the best way possible to keep delivering you stories on the taboo and the weird. This podcast will now be called Speaking for the Elephant in the Room and will be paired with articles from my Substack publication of the same name as well as with artwork that I've been making on our adventures. With this rebrand we'll be diving even deeper into the phenomenon of the weird, alien, and taboo looking into the psychology behind strange experiences and looking more at how we perceive our world. We're so excited about this rebrand and hope you are too!

This episode is all about neurons and neuroplasticity and how that affects the way we experience reality. In this episode we also talk about our experience attending Contact in the Desert, 2025 and we share some of our thoughts from talks we loves.

On this episode of Would You, Could You, Believe It Now? We talk plant consciousness. We go into current studies on plant consciousness and then take a dive into present and past Indigenous knowledge on plants and some of the beliefs surrounding the human-plant relationship. From telepathy to plant medicine, this episode covers it all!

Join us as we dive deep into dreams, some science behind them, what indigenous groups from around the world have to say about dreams, and even hear some of our own dream experiences with precognitive dreams, premonition dreams, and dream visitors! MEMBERS: stay tuned for a bonus episode about dreams made just for YOU! If you're interested in becoming a member you can find more on the SOUNDSLIKESAMI YouTube page. Members get exclusive content and the opportunity to submit topics for future episodes. Enjoy!

Would You, Could You, Believe It Now? Ep 4 Mantis Beings Part 2 We're back with part 2 from our member request this week finishing up our talk on the Mantis Beings! We dive a bit deeper into the Experiencer stories, including one of our own, as well as our own speculations and understandings. If you're curious about Mantids then this video is for you. If you'd like to request a topic for one of our upcoming episodes become a Member by signing up here on YouTube. Members gain early access to all videos, priority comment responses, and special video topic requests. We hope to see you there! Thank you and enjoy this week's chat about the Mantis Part 2!

We talk more about the Hopi Ancestral Petroglyphs located in Southern Utah (aka Anasazi Trail) and about the ancient stories of the Ant People and Mantis Being encounters from past and present times. If you want to see any pictures referenced in this audio only version please follow us on YouTube under SoundsLikeSami and find the Would You, Could You, Believe It Now? playlists!