Sleep Stories By Tony Walker

Some very poetic musings on the night to make you doze off.

This is a short excerpt from that wonderful, beautiful fantasy story Lud In The Mist by Hope Mirrlees. It represents the first two pages of the book repeated three times. The purpose of this reading is to put you to sleep. The full audiobook (not narrated by me) can be obtained from Audible. If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here  https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus Stories Or  https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working.

I have taken the liberty of reading this lovely-sounding poem by J R R Tolkien, which it is claimed (he claimed?) was written by Bilbo Baggins. I have read it three times, which is my practice with these sleep stories. Still, you could put it on repeat to help you doze off. Sleep tight! If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here  https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus Stories Or  https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working.

Imagine a garden that grows mirrors, and those mirrors are gateways into a million worlds. Imagine wandering and finding an oasis where you could have a sleep. Wouldn't that be restful? Listen in, and doze on. Get The Book The first twenty-three sleep stories are available in book form so you can read them out to someone you love who needs some shuteye. Maybe yourself… Here’s the https://amzn.to/3e9Czk7 (UK Link) Here’s the https://amzn.to/3dSqXBG (US Link)  Here’s the https://amzn.to/3sa19Gv (Australia Link)   The illustrations are by my daughter Imogen. Her Etsy store is https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/imogarts (here). Got to keep it in the family, obviously. CoffeeYou should avoid it, or go de-caff. Did you know it takes eleven hours on average to get rid of caffeine from your body and all the while it is blocking your sleepy receptors in your brain so you don't get sleepy? However, you can always buy me one if you appreciate my work. If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here  https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus Stories https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working.

Wandering round a Christmas market in a Romantic town in Germany. There is candy floss and merry-go-rounds, and old carriages with sleepy horses, cinnamon twirls and stollen cake galore. Why not visit and drift off to sleep? Get The Book The first twenty-three sleep stories are available in book form so you can read them out to someone you love who needs some shuteye. Maybe yourself… Here’s the https://amzn.to/3e9Czk7 (UK Link) Here’s the https://amzn.to/3dSqXBG (US Link)  Here’s the https://amzn.to/3sa19Gv (Australia Link)   The illustrations are by my daughter Imogen. Her Etsy store is https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/imogarts (here). Got to keep it in the family, obviously. CoffeeYou should avoid it, or go de-caff. Did you know it takes eleven hours on average to get rid of caffeine from your body and all the while it is blocking your sleepy receptors in your brain so you don't get sleepy? However, you can always buy me one if you appreciate my work. If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here  https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus Stories https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working.

A sparkly, glittery, cold winter's night when you're all wrapped up and the fireworks pepper the sky with wonder. A sleep story for adults to get you slumbering. Get The Book The first twenty-three sleep stories are available in book form so you can read them out to someone you love who needs some shuteye. Maybe yourself… Here’s the https://amzn.to/3e9Czk7 (UK Link) Here’s the https://amzn.to/3dSqXBG (US Link)  Here’s the https://amzn.to/3sa19Gv (Australia Link)   The illustrations are by my daughter Imogen. Her Etsy store is https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/imogarts (here). Got to keep it in the family, obviously. CoffeeYou should avoid it, or go de-caff. Did you know it takes eleven hours on average to get rid of caffeine from your body and all the while it is blocking your sleepy receptors in your brain so you don't get sleepy? However, you can always buy me one if you appreciate my work. If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here  https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus Stories https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working.

What if you find a magic box that led you into a sleepy dreamworld? The Box of Delights is a sleep story for adults designed to get you dozing. Don't listen to the end—drift off! Don't study it intensely, fall asleep. Dream on! Get The Book The first twenty-three sleep stories are available in book form so you can read them out to someone you love who needs some shuteye. Maybe yourself… Here’s the https://amzn.to/3e9Czk7 (UK Link) Here’s the https://amzn.to/3dSqXBG (US Link)  Here’s the https://amzn.to/3sa19Gv (Australia Link)   The illustrations are by my daughter Imogen. Her Etsy store is https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/imogarts (here). Got to keep it in the family, obviously. CoffeeYou should avoid it, or go de-caff. Did you know it takes eleven hours on average to get rid of caffeine from your body and all the while it is blocking your sleepy receptors in your brain so you don't get sleepy? However, you can always buy me one if you appreciate my work. If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here  https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus Stories https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working.

I reminisce about a library I used to know, long ago, with its wooden shelves and quiet and big window that overlooked the western sea. I must admit, I dozed off there sometimes. I hope you will too. Get The Book The first twenty-three sleep stories are available in book form so you can read them out to someone you love who needs some shuteye. Maybe yourself… Here’s the https://amzn.to/3e9Czk7 (UK Link) Here’s the https://amzn.to/3dSqXBG (US Link)  Here’s the https://amzn.to/3sa19Gv (Australia Link)   The illustrations are by my daughter Imogen. Her Etsy store is https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/imogarts (here). Got to keep it in the family, obviously. CoffeeYou should avoid it, or go de-caff. Did you know it takes eleven hours on average to get rid of caffeine from your body and all the while it is blocking your sleepy receptors in your brain so you don't get sleepy? However, you can always buy me one if you appreciate my work. If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here  https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus Stories https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working.

What could be more relaxing than drifting on a long boat down a canal in the heart of rural England, enjoying the warm breeze, nature, and wildlife while the evening becomes night and the moon rises. Sleep on, sweet dreamer, sleep! Get The Book The first twenty-three sleep stories are available in book form so you can read them out to someone you love who needs some shuteye. Maybe yourself… Here’s the https://amzn.to/3e9Czk7 (UK Link) Here’s the https://amzn.to/3dSqXBG (US Link)  Here’s the https://amzn.to/3sa19Gv (Australia Link)   The illustrations are by my daughter Imogen. Her Etsy store is https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/imogarts (here). Got to keep it in the family, obviously. CoffeeYou should avoid it, or go de-caff. Did you know it takes eleven hours on average to get rid of caffeine from your body and all the while it is blocking your sleepy receptors in your brain so you don't get sleepy? However, you can always buy me one if you appreciate my work. If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here  https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus Stories https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working.

If you wait until the seven dwarfs have gone home to Snow White, I bet there is a sleepy place down that diamond mine, where you can rest on a bed of precious stones and sleep the night away. Get The Book The first twenty-three sleep stories are available in book form so you can read them out to someone you love who needs some shuteye. Maybe yourself… Here’s the https://amzn.to/3e9Czk7 (UK Link) Here’s the https://amzn.to/3dSqXBG (US Link)  Here’s the https://amzn.to/3sa19Gv (Australia Link)   The illustrations are by my daughter Imogen. Her Etsy store is https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/imogarts (here). Got to keep it in the family, obviously. CoffeeYou should avoid it, or go de-caff. Did you know it takes eleven hours on average to get rid of caffeine from your body and all the while it is blocking your sleepy receptors in your brain so you don't get sleepy? However, you can always buy me one if you appreciate my work. If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here  https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus Stories https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working.

Imagine if you could fly all the way through the solar system and out the distant constellations. The things you would see there would make you very sleepy, I bet. I hope they do. Get The Book The first twenty-three sleep stories are available in book form so you can read them out to someone you love who needs some shuteye. Maybe yourself… Here’s the https://amzn.to/3e9Czk7 (UK Link) Here’s the https://amzn.to/3dSqXBG (US Link)  Here’s the https://amzn.to/3sa19Gv (Australia Link)   The illustrations are by my daughter Imogen. Her Etsy store is https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/imogarts (here). Got to keep it in the family, obviously. CoffeeYou should avoid it, or go de-caff. Did you know it takes eleven hours on average to get rid of caffeine from your body and all the while it is blocking your sleepy receptors in your brain so you don't get sleepy? However, you can always buy me one if you appreciate my work. If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here  https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus Stories https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working.

If you set out to walk in the mist, then found yourself among the clouds, what dreamy things you might see there? Things that would get you off to sleep, slumbering and dozing and napping all through the hours where there are rainbows and star falls and big fluffy clouds Get The Book The first twenty-three sleep stories are available in book form so you can read them out to someone you love who needs some shuteye. Maybe yourself… Here’s the https://amzn.to/3e9Czk7 (UK Link) Here’s the https://amzn.to/3dSqXBG (US Link)  Here’s the https://amzn.to/3sa19Gv (Australia Link)   The illustrations are by my daughter Imogen. Her Etsy store is https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/imogarts (here). Got to keep it in the family, obviously. CoffeeYou should avoid it, or go de-caff. Did you know it takes eleven hours on average to get rid of caffeine from your body and all the while it is blocking your sleepy receptors in your brain so you don't get sleepy? However, you can always buy me one if you appreciate my work. If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here  https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus Stories https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working.

This sleep story for adults tells the tale of a stroll across the idyllic summer day sands by the sea across from the island before you wend your way home through the sea grass to your cottage by the sea where you can have a very good sleep. Get The Book The first twenty-three sleep stories are available in book form so you can read them out to someone you love who needs some shuteye. Maybe yourself… Here’s the https://amzn.to/3e9Czk7 (UK Link) Here’s the https://amzn.to/3dSqXBG (US Link)  Here’s the https://amzn.to/3sa19Gv (Australia Link)   The illustrations are by my daughter Imogen. Her Etsy store is https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/imogarts (here). Got to keep it in the family, obviously. CoffeeYou should avoid it, or go de-caff. Did you know it takes eleven hours on average to get rid of caffeine from your body and all the while it is blocking your sleepy receptors in your brain so you don't get sleepy? However, you can always buy me one if you appreciate my work. If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here  https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus Stories https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working.

In this sleep story for adults, we take a dreamy rainy bus ride through London, starting at Kew Gardens, past Buckingham Place and the Regents Canal, taking a peek at the Zoo and then buy things we don't need at Camden Market before falling asleep on the bus and waking up at High Barnet, as always happens. Get The Book The first twenty-three sleep stories are available in book form so you can read them out to someone you love who needs some shuteye. Maybe yourself… Here’s the https://amzn.to/3e9Czk7 (UK Link) Here’s the https://amzn.to/3dSqXBG (US Link)  Here’s the https://amzn.to/3sa19Gv (Australia Link)   The illustrations are by my daughter Imogen. Her Etsy store is https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/imogarts (here). Got to keep it in the family, obviously. CoffeeYou should avoid it, or go de-caff. Did you know it takes eleven hours on average to get rid of caffeine from your body and all the while it is blocking your sleepy receptors in your brain so you don't get sleepy? However, you can always buy me one if you appreciate my work. If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here  https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus Stories https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working.

This is a whimsical sleep story for adults who want to doze off and slumber. It's my musings and sleepy-time ramblings about a mythical silver Christmas tree my mother used to put up for me when I was a lad, all those years ago, when things were lovely. Get The Book The first twenty-three sleep stories are available in book form so you can read them out to someone you love who needs some shuteye. Maybe yourself… Here’s the https://amzn.to/3e9Czk7 (UK Link) Here’s the https://amzn.to/3dSqXBG (US Link)  Here’s the https://amzn.to/3sa19Gv (Australia Link)   The illustrations are by my daughter Imogen. Her Etsy store is https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/imogarts (here). Got to keep it in the family, obviously. CoffeeYou should avoid it, or go de-caff. Did you know it takes eleven hours on average to get rid of caffeine from your body and all the while it is blocking your sleepy receptors in your brain so you don't get sleepy? However, you can always buy me one if you appreciate my work. If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here  https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus Stories https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working.

Wander through the dreamy mist in this sleep story, up through the wood, up the fairy staircase, carved by rain and clouds from limestone and meet the king of sleep who, with his magic wand gives you want you most want: slumber, sleep, dozy, dreamy dreams. Have a kip on me. At least that is my sincere hope for you. Get The Book The first twenty-three sleep stories are available in book form so you can read them out to someone you love who needs some shuteye. Maybe yourself… Here’s the https://amzn.to/3e9Czk7 (UK Link) Here’s the https://amzn.to/3dSqXBG (US Link)  Here’s the https://amzn.to/3sa19Gv (Australia Link)   The illustrations are by my daughter Imogen. Her Etsy store is https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/imogarts (here). Got to keep it in the family, obviously. CoffeeYou should avoid it, or go de-caff. Did you know it takes eleven hours on average to get rid of caffeine from your body and all the while it is blocking your sleepy receptors in your brain so you don't get sleepy? However, you can always buy me one if you appreciate my work. If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here  https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus Stories https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working.

The Wood In Spring. Take a walk through a spring woodland on your own and then find a sleepy barn to doze in while the fluffy clouds drift by and the kind spring sunshine warms your tired bones. Get The Book The first twenty-three sleep stories are available in book form so you can read them out to someone you love who needs some shuteye. Maybe yourself… Here’s the https://amzn.to/3e9Czk7 (UK Link) Here’s the https://amzn.to/3dSqXBG (US Link)  Here’s the https://amzn.to/3sa19Gv (Australia Link)   The illustrations are by my daughter Imogen. Her Etsy store is https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/imogarts (here). Got to keep it in the family, obviously. CoffeeYou should avoid it, or go de-caff. Did you know it takes eleven hours on average to get rid of caffeine from your body and all the while it is blocking your sleepy receptors in your brain so you don't get sleepy? However, you can always buy me one if you appreciate my work. If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here  https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus Stories https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working.

My introduction to this podcast and this project. Get The Book The first twenty-three sleep stories are available in book form so you can read them out to someone you love who needs some shuteye. Maybe yourself… Here’s the https://amzn.to/3e9Czk7 (UK Link) Here’s the https://amzn.to/3dSqXBG (US Link)  Here’s the https://amzn.to/3sa19Gv (Australia Link)   The illustrations are by my daughter Imogen. Her Etsy store is https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/imogarts (here). Got to keep it in the family, obviously. CoffeeYou should avoid it, or go de-caff. Did you know it takes eleven hours on average to get rid of caffeine from your body and all the while it is blocking your sleepy receptors in your brain so you don't get sleepy? However, you can always buy me one if you appreciate my work. If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here  https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus Stories https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working.

This one is where I would want to be—in a cottage in the wood on a summer midnight with the owls and foxes and nightingales outside, a hot chocolate steaming on the table beside me, my marmalade cat Marmaduke purring on my lap, and my dog, George asleep on my feet. Sleep deeply, dear friends. I hope so anyway. Get The Book The first twenty-three sleep stories are available in book form so you can read them out to someone you love who needs some shuteye. Maybe yourself… Here’s the https://amzn.to/3e9Czk7 (UK Link) Here’s the https://amzn.to/3dSqXBG (US Link)  Here’s the https://amzn.to/3sa19Gv (Australia Link)   The illustrations are by my daughter Imogen. Her Etsy store is https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/imogarts (here). Got to keep it in the family, obviously. CoffeeYou should avoid it, or go de-caff. Did you know it takes eleven hours on average to get rid of caffeine from your body and all the while it is blocking your sleepy receptors in your brain so you don't get sleepy? However, you can always buy me one if you appreciate my work. If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here  https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus Stories https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working.

You may notice, or you may not (hopefully due to the fact that you are asleep) that there is no intro nor no outro neither. Someone commented that they didn't want any talking, just the story. So the story is what you have got x 3 as usual. This is a sleepy dozy climb up into a magical tree through all sorts of whimsical wonders, until at the end, you sleep. Get The Book The first twenty-three sleep stories are available in book form so you can read them out to someone you love who needs some shuteye. Maybe yourself… Here’s the https://amzn.to/3e9Czk7 (UK Link) Here’s the https://amzn.to/3dSqXBG (US Link)  Here’s the https://amzn.to/3sa19Gv (Australia Link)   The illustrations are by my daughter Imogen. Her Etsy store is https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/imogarts (here). Got to keep it in the family, obviously. CoffeeYou should avoid it, or go de-caff. Did you know it takes eleven hours on average to get rid of caffeine from your body and all the while it is blocking your sleepy receptors in your brain so you don't get sleepy? However, you can always buy me one if you appreciate my work. If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here  https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus Stories https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working.