Back to Reality

2025-12-09 · 18 min · episode 57 · 19 entities

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Asserted relationships

→ hosted by Snap Judgment and PRX person

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→ discusses Arts concept

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Feed category: Arts
→ discusses Music concept

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→ discusses Performing Arts concept

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Feed category: performing arts
→ discusses Personal Journals concept

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Feed category: personal journals
→ discusses SNAP company

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Feed category: snap
→ discusses Arts/Performing Arts concept

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Feed category: Arts/Performing Arts
→ discusses Storytelling concept

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Feed category: storytelling
→ discusses Society & Culture/Documentary concept

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Feed category: Society & Culture/Documentary
→ discusses Society & Culture/Personal Journals concept

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Entities found in this episode

concepts 15

mentioned Arts concept

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evidence rules-v5
Feed category: Arts
mentioned Performing Arts concept

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evidence rules-v5
Feed category: performing arts
mentioned Personal Journals concept

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evidence rules-v5
Feed category: personal journals
mentioned Arts/Performing Arts concept

0.50

evidence rules-v5
Feed category: Arts/Performing Arts
mentioned Storytelling concept

0.50

evidence rules-v5
Feed category: storytelling
mentioned Society & Culture/Documentary concept

0.50

evidence rules-v5
Feed category: Society & Culture/Documentary
mentioned Society & Culture/Personal Journals concept

0.50

evidence rules-v5
Feed category: Society & Culture/Personal Journals
discusses Arts concept

0.40

evidence rules-v5
Feed category: Arts
discusses Music concept

0.40

evidence rules-v5
Feed category: music
discusses Performing Arts concept

0.40

evidence rules-v5
Feed category: performing arts
discusses Personal Journals concept

0.40

evidence rules-v5
Feed category: personal journals
discusses Arts/Performing Arts concept

0.40

evidence rules-v5
Feed category: Arts/Performing Arts
discusses Storytelling concept

0.40

evidence rules-v5
Feed category: storytelling
discusses Society & Culture/Documentary concept

0.40

evidence rules-v5
Feed category: Society & Culture/Documentary
discusses Society & Culture/Personal Journals concept

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evidence rules-v5
Feed category: Society & Culture/Personal Journals

persons 2

mentioned Snap Judgment and PRX person

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Feed author/publisher: Snap Judgment and PRX
hosted by Snap Judgment and PRX person

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evidence rules-v5
Feed author/publisher: Snap Judgment and PRX

companys 2

mentioned SNAP company

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Feed category: snap
discusses SNAP company

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evidence rules-v5
Feed category: snap

Episode description as stored

A woman wakes up in a hospital bed with no idea why she’s there. Her perception of reality is questionable. A doctor discovers a possible source for her delusions and what follows is her journey to recovery and back to herself. Thank you to Susannah Cahalan for sharing your story with us! Susannah tells the full tale of her descent into madness and rise out of it in her international bestselling memoir Brain on Fire . She's written a new book called The Acid Queen , about the reality-bending world of psychedelics. You can find Susannah on IG @suscahalan . Our friends at The Pulse will be continuing Susannah's story this coming week, as she investigates one of the most famous psychological experiments of all time... and discovers something incredible. You'll want to catch that on the next episode of WHYY's The Pulse , available on the NPR podcast feed. Produced by Justin Kramon, edited by Nancy Lopez, engineering by Boen Wang, music from Blue Dot Sessions. Season 16 - Episode 57 Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices