Local Man's 'Awakening' Suspiciously Coincides With Insomnia and Unresolved Custody Dispute

Friends and family of Brandon Woke have noted a striking temporal correlation between his recent 'spiritual and intellectual awakening' and two concurrent life events: chronic insomnia and a contentious custody dispute that was finalized in November. 'He was completely normal until about two weeks after the divorce,' said longtime friend Marcus Baseline. 'Watched football, grilled burgers, talked about normal stuff. Then one day he texted me a 4,000-word message at 3 AM about fluoride and I knew something had changed.' Woke, who now describes himself as 'awake,' says the timing is coincidental. 'The divorce didn't cause my awakening,' he said. 'The awakening caused the divorce. My ex-wife wasn't ready for the truth. Most people aren't. It's lonely being awake.' Woke's awakening manifests primarily in three activities: staying up until 4 AM consuming content on his phone, sharing long text messages with friends who have stopped responding, and purchasing items from online stores with names like TruthGear and FreedomWatchSupply. 'He sent me a link to a two-hour video about the moon at midnight on a Tuesday,' said friend Daniel Concerned. 'I said, dude, are you okay? He said I wasn't ready. I said, ready for what? He sent me another video. About the moon. It was four hours long.' Woke's therapist, whom he stopped seeing in October, declined to comment on the case but noted generally that 'major life disruptions can make people vulnerable to frameworks that offer simple explanations for complex feelings.' Woke interpreted this observation as 'exactly what they train therapists to say.' He has since started a blog called The Awake Dad, which posts daily at approximately 3:30 AM.