The Sleeping Almanac: Sleep Stories for Adults from Myth and Fairy Tale

The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.A bonus for the long nights: six Norse Mythology sleep stories from this feed in one long episode, told back to back with short pauses between them, then a long stretch of quiet music so it keeps playing through the night. It is the same compilation that aired live on our YouTube channel.In this episode:0:00:00 The Nine Worlds1:50:03 Odin's Search for Wisdom3:46:57 Mjolnir, the Hammer of Thor5:49:17 Idunn's Apples7:45:31 The Death of Baldr9:48:08 Ragnarok11:12:46 Ambience, the long nightEvery story here is also in the feed as its own full episode.Watch the live compilation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPCZNu0t5NcMore stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com

The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.The Epic of Gilgamesh, night three, and it is the kind one. A king walks out of his own city in a lion skin looking for the one man who never died. Tonight is the mountain with the twin peaks, the woman with the beer house at the edge of the world, the ferryman and the punting poles, the flood told by the man who survived it, the test with the loaves, the plant at the bottom of the sea, and the ending that has been quietly changing people's minds for four thousand years. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. These are retellings drawn from the real tablets and the real history. Where the old stories turn toward fear or cruelty, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. Where scholars disagree, the disagreement is said out loud rather than smoothed over. Season Five of The Sleeping Almanac: Mesopotamia. Twelve nights. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 5:20 The Lion Skin 9:02 The Mountain With a Gate In It 13:07 Twelve Hours of Dark 17:30 The Garden of Stones 23:47 The Woman With the Tavern 28:54 What She Told Him 33:29 The Waters of Death 36:59 The Man Who Did Not Die 41:44 The Flood, in His Own Words 50:33 Seven Loaves 55:36 The Plant, and the Snake 1:00:09 The Wall 1:11:54 Calm music to drift off More to listen to and read: Gildenmyth (all our stories and books): https://gildenmyth.com Mortgages in plain language, Inside The Home Loan: https://insidethehomeloan.com 🎧 The Sleeping Almanac is now a podcast. Follow so the next story finds you: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com This channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 6pm ET. #gilgamesh #sleepstory #mesopotamia #epicofgilgamesh #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #mythology

The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.The Epic of Gilgamesh, night two, and this is the hard one. A goddess makes an offer and is refused. The Bull of Heaven comes down on Uruk and opens a fissure in the plain. The gods hold a council and somebody has to answer for it. And then a man sits beside a bed for six days and seven nights and will not let his friend go, until the seventh day, when he understands. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. These are retellings drawn from the real tablets and the real history. Where the old stories turn toward fear or cruelty, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. Where scholars disagree, the disagreement is said out loud rather than smoothed over. Season Five of The Sleeping Almanac: Mesopotamia. Twelve nights. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 5:07 The Bath 12:02 The Offer 17:50 The List 26:28 The Bull 30:20 The Killing of the Bull 33:20 The Haunch 37:24 The Council 41:58 The Door 45:19 The Curse and the Blessing 50:45 The House of Dust 58:36 Six Days and Seven Nights 1:06:06 The Statue, and the City Without Him 1:18:42 Calm music to drift off More to listen to and read: Gildenmyth (all our stories and books): https://gildenmyth.com Mortgages in plain language, Inside The Home Loan: https://insidethehomeloan.com 🎧 The Sleeping Almanac is now a podcast. Follow so the next story finds you: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com This channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 6pm ET. #gilgamesh #sleepstory #mesopotamia #epicofgilgamesh #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #mythology

Three hours of calm music from the world of Chinese myth, made to help you fall asleep and stay asleep through the whole night. A bonus for the quiet nights, the same music playing tonight on our live sleep stream, three hours with no talking at all.The music is original to the show, made with AI music tools and mixed for sleep: no melody that swells, no percussion, nothing sudden.If it helps you sleep, follow the show so each new story and each new night of music arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.Watch the live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8rpznmJnkYMore stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com

The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.The Epic of Gilgamesh is the story everybody has heard of and almost nobody has actually read, and it is three thousand lines long, so we are taking three nights over it. Tonight is the first: the wall of Uruk, a king who was too much for his own city, a wild man made out of clay and raised by gazelles, a wrestling match in a doorway that turns into the deepest friendship in ancient literature, and the long road to the cedar forest and the guardian who lived in it. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. You do not have to follow it. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. These are retellings drawn from the real tablets and the real history. Where the old stories turn toward fear or cruelty, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. Where scholars disagree, the disagreement is said out loud rather than smoothed over. Season Five of The Sleeping Almanac: Mesopotamia. Twelve nights. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 4:53 The Wall 9:28 The King Who Was Too Much 13:59 The One Made Out of Clay 20:06 The Trapper and the Woman 25:40 Bread and Beer 30:25 The Wrestling in the Doorway 35:53 The Plan, and Everyone Who Said No 41:24 The Road 47:53 The Forest That Was Not Silent 53:02 The Seven Terrors, and the Killing 59:37 What Enlil Did With the Radiance 1:06:01 The River of Timber 1:11:42 Calm music to drift off More to listen to and read: Gildenmyth (all our stories and books): https://gildenmyth.com Mortgages in plain language, Inside The Home Loan: https://insidethehomeloan.com 🎧 The Sleeping Almanac is now a podcast. Follow so the next story finds you: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com This channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 6pm ET. #gilgamesh #sleepstory #mesopotamia #epicofgilgamesh #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #mythology