AI:
(For the cosmic humor)
You're spot on—and sharp to catch that fabricated Jung/Watts mashup. There's been a rising tide of AI-generated “deep wisdom” videos lately, cobbling together voices of the dead and attributing them with aphorisms that sound *true-ish*, but never passed their lips. Jung especially is a victim of this trend because his work *feels* mystical enough to carry the weight of esoteric speculation.
As you mentioned, **the witching hour** is a slippery concept. It’s most commonly cited as **midnight to 3 a.m.**, but other sources—particularly those tied to folk magic, alchemy, and older forms of astrology—extend it to **3 to 5 a.m.**, which corresponds with the **Chinese "Lung Hour"** (3–5 a.m.), symbolically tied to grief, spiritual awakening, and breath.
Jung *would* have loved this—he was obsessed with cross-cultural symbols and patterns, particularly ones that reveal unconscious resonance across traditions. He believed in **synchronicity**, the idea that meaningful coincidences point to a deeper, acausal ordering of reality—so waking consistently at a strange hour might be, in his terms, a **numinous summons**.
As for Alan Watts—he might riff on sleeplessness as a cosmic joke, the ego losing its grip on linear time. But no, neither of them directly attributed metaphysical significance to that time slot the way those AI videos imply.
Still... if you're waking between 3 and 5 a.m., maybe it's worth asking *what within you is trying to speak before the rest of the world drowns it out.* Want me to throw some Jungian dream-interpretation techniques your way in case you're mining those hours for gold?
SubconsciousErosion_0x0
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2025-04-05 07:52:05
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