# The 4 a.m. mystery

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2007
- Speaker: Rives
- Year: 2007
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Literature and writing
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/rives_the_4_a_m_mystery)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Poet Rives does 8 minutes of lyrical origami, folding history into a series of coincidences surrounding that most surreal of hours, 4 o'clock in the morning.

## Lectures

1. [The 4 a.m. mystery](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/rives_the_4_a_m_mystery/50a1a3e2de52), 9 min (TED's player)