Medium Rare: Sleep, love, and money

Yesterday was Wednesday, and that can only mean one thing: Psychic Sylvia Browne was on Montel once again. Montel started the show as usual, giving a plug to Sylvia's book, If You Could See What I See. I've actually considered writing a book as a response to her book titled I Can See What You See Because You Don't Actually See Anything, but I can't seem to find a publisher for it because the title is also the complete text of the book. So it's really less of a "book" and more of a "sheet of paper with a sentence written on it," but whatever.

Sylvia begins the show by saying that through her work as a person who makes stuff up off the top of her head that she's come to realize that people are very "off kilter" these days, worried about the economy and their personal relationships. I actually found that  statement to be quite profound. She's absolutely right, this specific moment in human existence is nothing at all like before when everyone in the world was perfectly happy, financially secure, and had found the love of their lives. And who could forget all the dancing and singing? And the joy? And those little mushroom houses? Wait, I'm thinking of an episode of The Smurfs.

Besides people being worried about love and money, Sylvia dropped another bombshell, claiming that people these days seem to be breathing a lot of oxygen and that they tend to not morph into helicopters. Don't be frightened by her sixth sense. She's a psychic, this is what she does.

There was actually a very brief moment in the show when I thought maybe Sylvia was going to do away with the usual nonsense and actually provide some genuinely good advice to someone in the audience who was suffering from a disorder known as "sleep eating." This is when a person unknowingly prepares and eats food while they're asleep. It was a condition recently connected to the drug Ambien. To her and Montel's credit, they both tell her it's a disorder and to seek professional help. Sylvia even tells the girl it's not a ghost or a curse causing it. Of course, she then adds that the girl starved to death in a past life. I'm assuming she'll want to tell her doctor that, not because it's helpful, but because doctors have a tough job and it's nice to laugh now and again. Remember, this is the "Worried About Love and Money" era, we really need to look out for one another.