Dream With Jacob

Jacob Evans
  • 0.0 (0)
  • Alternative Health
  • Weekly

A sanctuary of sound for the soul. Here you’ll find enchanting bedtime stories, soothing talk downs, and gentle meditations—each crafted to calm your mind, open your heart, and guide you into rest. These offerings spark childlike magic in the heart, weaving mythical creatures, elements of nature, and poetic storytelling into a tranquil atmosphere for peaceful sleep. From serene oceans to starlit forests, each journey invites you to drift into a world of wonder, stillness, and dreams.

  1. 2 days ago

    The Nest Inside Your Anxiety | A Sleep Meditation For Anxious Minds

    This is a guided sleep meditation for anxiety and self-compassion, for anyone who's been holding on too tight and being too hard on themselves. Jacob keeps you company as you turn toward your anxiety without needing to explain it. What feels like a chaotic ball of clouds turns out to be a woven nest, and in its dark, warm center there's a place to rest that feels like home. The meditation stays with the tightness of trying so hard to stay afloat and the sadness under it, makes room for the thorns, and wraps all of it in warm, spacious compassion before settling you into sleep. 0:00 Intro 1:25 Settling Into the Night 5:10 Meeting the Cloud of Anxiety 9:15 The Nest Inside the Clouds 15:25 How Hard You've Been Holding 19:30 Room for the Thorns 21:10 You're Already Your Best Self 25:30 Resting in the Warm Center 29:00 Sleep Sounds What's covered in this video: - The opening settles the body with light breath guidance and makes room for wherever you are in life right now, late nights included. - The meditation invites you to turn toward anxiety as a physical sensation, setting aside the need to know why it's there. - A visualization turns the chaotic ball of clouds into a woven nest whose sticks are the anxiety and whose dark, spacious center is a warm place to rest. - A middle section notices how hard you've been holding on and trying to stay afloat, and makes space for the sadness and tears underneath. - The practice of warm, spacious self-compassion holds the tightness, the anxiety, and your life as it is, without needing anything to change first. - A reflection on perfectionism reminds you that you're already the best version of yourself, and that separating thought from sensation takes time. - The closing settles the body into heaviness and leaves you resting in the warm center of the nest as you fall asleep. Mentioned in this video: guided sleep meditation, sleep meditation for anxiety, night anxiety, anxiety-based insomnia, self-compassion, warm spacious compassion, being hard on yourself, perfectionism, inner critic, best version of yourself, tightness, holding on, trying to stay afloat, financial stress, sadness, tears, emotional release, sensation over story, mindfulness of feelings, acceptance, nest visualization, breath awareness, body relaxation, staying up late, healing, deep sleep, Dream With Jacob, Jacob Evans. Something shifted for me this week. I turned toward the anxiety I've been carrying, and it turned out to be a nest with a warm, open space in the middle, and I didn't want to leave. I also saw how hard I've been holding on just to be okay. I made this so you can rest there too. When you slow down and look at what you're feeling, what shape does it take? Tell me in the comments. Some of what I use for sleep, if you're curious: Sound machine → https://amzn.to/4b4fWeY Essential oil diffuser → https://amzn.to/4gmcksq Humidifier → https://amzn.to/4aBjOE8 Sleep mask + headphones → https://amzn.to/44go88b Cooling bamboo sheets → https://amzn.to/4eY0ylE As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. 💜 Support the Channel: ✨ Join Patreon for early access + exclusive stories → https://www.patreon.com/dreamwithjacob ☕ Buy me a cup of tea → https://ko-fi.com/dreamwithjacob 💫 A Gentle Invitation If this experience feels supportive, you're warmly invited to subscribe for weekly sleep meditations, bedtime stories, and calming journeys. And if something in you softened or shifted, feel free to leave a comment — your words are read and truly valued here. 🌙 Connect & Listen Elsewhere Instagram & TikTok: @dream_with_jacob Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/DreamWithJacob/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61590349902504 X: https://x.com/dreamwithjacob1 🎧 Insight Timer: dreamwithjacob 🎙️ All major podcast platforms: dreamwithjacob ✨ New sleep meditations, bedtime stories, and calming experiences released weekly If this brought you comfort tonight, consider sharing it with someone who could use a little more ease and rest. With warmth and gentleness, May your sleep be deep, your breath steady, and your dreams kind. — Jacob Evans 🌙✨ #sleepmeditation #anxietyrelief #selfcompassion #guidedmeditation #dreamwithjacob

  2. 2 Nov

    Revenge Bedtime Procrastination | A Sleep Talk-Down

    This is a sleep talk-down for revenge bedtime procrastination: staying up far too late because the night is the only part of the day that finally feels like yours. Jacob sits with you in the late hours as a companion, honoring why the night feels so free, then gently helping the day come to an end. The talk-down speaks to the dread of tomorrow, the inner critic that gets loud after midnight, and the deeper ache of feeling like you're not yet living what you're here for. It closes by inviting you to name one small thing you're looking forward to tomorrow, and lets you carry the night's freedom with you into sleep. 0:00 Intro 1:30 The Hour That Feels Like Yours 4:00 Revenge Bedtime Procrastination 7:35 When Tomorrow Feels Heavy 13:05 Handing Over the Inner Critic's List 17:10 A Seed in Autumn Soil 20:20 You Don't Have to Stay Up to Feel Free 22:30 One Thing to Look Forward To 25:45 Letting the Day End 28:15 Sleep Sounds What's covered in this video: - The opening meets you in the late-night hour and honors why staying up feels like freedom after a day of being useful to everyone else. - The talk-down names revenge bedtime procrastination and frames it with compassion, as a way of reclaiming time that feels like your own. - A middle section explores staying up to delay tomorrow, the anxiety and dread that can sit underneath it, and lets tomorrow wait on the other side of sleep. - Jacob takes the inner critic's list for the night, covering skipped workouts, unfinished plans, and the sense of being behind in life. - A seed resting in autumn soil becomes the image for feeling stuck or unsure of your purpose, with the reassurance that you're exactly where you're supposed to be. - The closing invites you to name one small thing you're looking forward to tomorrow, then settles the body and lets the day end like closing a good book. Mentioned in this video: sleep talk down, revenge bedtime procrastination, staying up late, night owl, insomnia, can't sleep, bedtime procrastination, late-night screen time, dread of tomorrow, Sunday night dread, anticipatory anxiety, night anxiety, inner critic, self-judgment, motivation, purpose, feeling behind in life, low mood, self-compassion, acceptance, gratitude for small things, looking forward to tomorrow, body relaxation, breath awareness, seed visualization, deep sleep, Dream With Jacob, Jacob Evans. With the clocks going back this weekend, the nights are getting longer, and I've been staying up later than I want to. For me those late hours are the only time that feels like mine, and some nights I'm also putting off tomorrow. I made this one for both of us. What's one small thing you're looking forward to tomorrow? Tell me in the comments. Some of what I use for sleep, if you're curious: Sound machine → https://amzn.to/4b4fWeY Essential oil diffuser → https://amzn.to/4gmcksq Humidifier → https://amzn.to/4aBjOE8 Sleep mask + headphones → https://amzn.to/44go88b Cooling bamboo sheets → https://amzn.to/4eY0ylE As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. 💜 Support the Channel: ✨ Join Patreon for early access + exclusive stories → https://www.patreon.com/dreamwithjacob ☕ Buy me a cup of tea → https://ko-fi.com/dreamwithjacob 💫 A Gentle Invitation If this experience feels supportive, you're warmly invited to subscribe for weekly sleep meditations, bedtime stories, and calming journeys. And if something in you softened or shifted, feel free to leave a comment — your words are read and truly valued here. 🌙 Connect & Listen Elsewhere Instagram & TikTok: @dream_with_jacob Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/DreamWithJacob/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61590349902504 X: https://x.com/dreamwithjacob1 🎧 Insight Timer: dreamwithjacob 🎙️ All major podcast platforms: dreamwithjacob ✨ New sleep meditations, bedtime stories, and calming experiences released weekly If this brought you comfort tonight, consider sharing it with someone who could use a little more ease and rest. With warmth and gentleness, May your sleep be deep, your breath steady, and your dreams kind. — Jacob Evans 🌙✨ #sleeptalkdown #revengebedtimeprocrastination #cantsleep #nightowl #dreamwithjacob

  3. 26 Oct

    Letters to the Moon | Sleep Story for Feeling Unheard

    This is a cozy, magical bedtime story for anyone who feels unheard, about a boy who visits a hilltop cottage where an old man writes letters to the moon every night, and the moon writes back. A new episode of Sleepy Valley. Finn wanders up past the fireflies' river to the tallest hill in the valley and finds a round cottage with every window open and a paper boat floating out of one of them. Inside lives Barnaby, an old man with ink-stained fingers, a pot of cocoa and a stove whose warm air carries his folded letters up to the moon. When the moon answers in soft light through the curtains, Finn writes a letter of his own, full of the small things he's never told anyone. His crooked paper boat drifts up into the night, and the moon's reply finds him in a way he can feel. 0:00 Intro 1:55 The Tallest Hill in the Valley 4:15 A Paper Boat Rising 5:35 Barnaby, Who Writes to the Moon 10:40 Folding a Letter Into a Boat 12:45 The Moon Writes Back 15:55 The Things Finn Never Said 18:25 Finn's First Letter 23:15 A Reply Made of Moonlight 25:35 Asleep in Moonlight 27:30 Sleep Sounds What's covered in this video: - The opening follows Finn up the valley path, past the fireflies' river and the glowing Caretaker of Stars cottage, to a round cottage on the tallest hill where a paper boat is floating up toward the moon. - The middle introduces Barnaby, an old letter-writer who tells the moon about his ordinary days, folds each letter into a paper boat, and lets the warm air from his stove carry it up through the window. - The turn comes when the moon writes back in moving moonlight through the curtains, and Barnaby explains that you don't read her replies, you feel them land. - Finn writes his first letter about the small things he's never said out loud, being picked last, saying "I'm fine," a dream about flying, and feeling like his words go nowhere. - The closing sends Finn's crooked paper boat to the moon, wraps him in her reply of warm moonlight, and lets him fall asleep in the cottage while boats rise from windows all over the valley. Mentioned in this video: magical bedtime story, cozy sleep story, Sleepy Valley, sleep story for feeling unheard, being heard, being listened to, loneliness, feeling invisible, letters to the moon, paper boats, moonlight, cottage, keeper, letter writing, journaling before bed, saying I'm fine, Finn, Barnaby, sleep story for kids and adults, self-voiced sleep story, fall asleep fast, Dream With Jacob, Jacob Evans. Barnaby tells the moon about the bread rising and the heron at the pond, and she's glad to hear every bit of it. If you could fold one small thing from today into a paper boat and send it up tonight, what would it say? Tell me in the comments. Some of what I use for sleep, if you're curious: Sound machine → https://amzn.to/4b4fWeY Essential oil diffuser → https://amzn.to/4gmcksq Humidifier → https://amzn.to/4aBjOE8 Sleep mask + headphones → https://amzn.to/44go88b Cooling bamboo sheets → https://amzn.to/4eY0ylE As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. 💜 Support the Channel: ✨ Join Patreon for early access + exclusive stories → https://www.patreon.com/dreamwithjacob ☕ Buy me a cup of tea → https://ko-fi.com/dreamwithjacob 💫 A Gentle Invitation If this experience feels supportive, you're warmly invited to subscribe for weekly sleep meditations, bedtime stories, and calming journeys. And if something in you softened or shifted, feel free to leave a comment — your words are read and truly valued here. 🌙 Connect & Listen Elsewhere Instagram & TikTok: @dream_with_jacob Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/DreamWithJacob/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61590349902504 X: https://x.com/dreamwithjacob1 🎧 Insight Timer: dreamwithjacob 🎙️ All major podcast platforms: dreamwithjacob ✨ New sleep meditations, bedtime stories, and calming experiences released weekly If this brought you comfort tonight, consider sharing it with someone who could use a little more ease and rest. With warmth and gentleness, May your sleep be deep, your breath steady, and your dreams kind. — Jacob Evans 🌙✨ #bedtimestory #sleepstory #sleepyvalley #cozysleep #dreamwithjacob

  4. 19 Oct

    The Treehouse Between Worlds | Sleep Story for Feeling Small

    This is a cozy, magical bedtime story for anyone who feels small, about a boy who climbs into a treehouse high in the branches of an enormous tree that holds every world at once. Arlo can't sleep, and there's a glowing blue acorn on his windowsill. When he climbs his bunk-bed ladder holding it, the ladder keeps going, up through the ceiling and onto a mossy branch among swirling, colored stars. There he finds a treehouse built by dwarves and meets Bramble, a very old, very fast-talking squirrel who keeps the tree and carries every goodnight said in every world to wherever it's going. Together they wind down the giant trunk, past branches leading to a world of snow, a world of ocean and a world of floating lanterns, to the glowing roots, where an ancient dragon named Moss hums the tree into growing. Arlo learns why Bramble chose to be small and who his acorn is for, plants it among the roots, and falls asleep in a moss hammock in the treehouse. 0:00 Intro 2:00 The Acorn on the Windowsill 4:25 The Ladder That Kept Going 7:55 A Treehouse Among the Stars 9:15 Bramble, Keeper of the Tree 13:35 Branches to Other Worlds 16:10 The Dragon in the Roots 19:40 Why Bramble Chose Small 22:30 Planting a Goodnight 23:55 Asleep in the Treehouse 26:50 Sleep Sounds What's covered in this video: - The opening finds Arlo awake in his top bunk, where a glowing blue acorn on the windowsill turns his ladder into a climb up through the ceiling and into a giant tree among the stars. - The middle explores a cozy treehouse in the branches, full of glowing lizards, silver spiders and moths, and introduces Bramble, a quirky, wise squirrel who carries every goodnight from every world. - The descent winds down the trunk past glimpses of other worlds to the roots, where an ancient green dragon named Moss hums and breathes the tree into growing. - The turn comes when Bramble explains she can take any shape at all and chose to be small, and Arlo plants his acorn, a goodnight sent to him, to help hold the tree up. - The closing tucks Arlo into a moss hammock as the tree's creatures dim and the dragon's hum rises through the branches like a heartbeat. Mentioned in this video: magical bedtime story, cozy sleep story, sleep story for feeling small, belonging, self-worth, world tree, tree of life, treehouse, cosmic sleep story, nebula, stars, squirrel, shapeshifter, dwarves, dragon, glowing acorn, other worlds, goodnight, sleep story for kids and adults, fantasy sleep story, self-voiced sleep story, fall asleep fast, Dream With Jacob, Jacob Evans. Somewhere tonight, someone said goodnight and meant it for you. Bramble could be anything in all the worlds and chose to be small. If you could be any creature living in that tree, what would you pick? Tell me in the comments. Some of what I use for sleep, if you're curious: Sound machine → https://amzn.to/4b4fWeY Essential oil diffuser → https://amzn.to/4gmcksq Humidifier → https://amzn.to/4aBjOE8 Sleep mask + headphones → https://amzn.to/44go88b Cooling bamboo sheets → https://amzn.to/4eY0ylE As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. 💜 Support the Channel: ✨ Join Patreon for early access + exclusive stories → https://www.patreon.com/dreamwithjacob ☕ Buy me a cup of tea → https://ko-fi.com/dreamwithjacob 💫 A Gentle Invitation If this experience feels supportive, you're warmly invited to subscribe for weekly sleep meditations, bedtime stories, and calming journeys. And if something in you softened or shifted, feel free to leave a comment — your words are read and truly valued here. 🌙 Connect & Listen Elsewhere Instagram & TikTok: @dream_with_jacob Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/DreamWithJacob/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61590349902504 X: https://x.com/dreamwithjacob1 🎧 Insight Timer: dreamwithjacob 🎙️ All major podcast platforms: dreamwithjacob ✨ New sleep meditations, bedtime stories, and calming experiences released weekly If this brought you comfort tonight, consider sharing it with someone who could use a little more ease and rest. With warmth and gentleness, May your sleep be deep, your breath steady, and your dreams kind. — Jacob Evans 🌙✨ #bedtimestory #sleepstory #magicalsleepstory #cozysleep #dreamwithjacob

  5. 12 Oct

    The Little Dragon Beneath the Mountain | Cozy Magical Sleep Story

    This is a magical, mysterious bedtime story about a boy who follows a rumbling sound beneath his garden at night and finds a little dragon whose fire has gone out, deep inside the mountain. Rowan loves his family's garden most after dark. One night the ground starts to grumble under his feet, and he follows it through a hidden crack in a mossy boulder, down a stairway of glowworms, to a small grey dragon named Pebble. Together they drift down an underground river of green stars, through a cave of ringing crystals and a hall of ancient sleeping dragons, to the fire at the mountain's heart, where Rowan helps Pebble light his fire again. Then the two of them curl up in the warm moss and fall asleep. 0:00 Intro 1:55 A Rumble Under the Garden 5:55 The Crack in the Boulder 9:20 Meeting Pebble 14:45 The River of Green Stars 17:55 The Hall of Sleeping Dragons 20:35 Lighting the Little Fire 25:25 A Dragon's Purr 30:45 Sleep Sounds What's covered in this video: - The opening sets Rowan in his moonlit garden, where a low rumble rises up through the stones and the soil beneath his feet. - The descent follows him through a hidden crack in a boulder and down a glowworm-lit stairway to meet Pebble, the youngest dragon under the mountain, whose fire has gone out. - The adventure carries them by stone raft along an underground river, through a cave of humming crystals and past a hall of ancient stone dragons asleep in the walls. - The closing relights Pebble's fire at the mountain's heart and settles both of them to sleep in a warm mossy hollow, where the rumble turns into a dragon's purr. Mentioned in this video: magical bedtime story, cozy sleep story, dragon bedtime story, sleep story for kids and adults, little dragon, sleeping dragons, mountain cave, underground river, glowworms, crystal cave, night garden, moonflowers, friendship, kindness, loneliness, sleep story for anxiety, self-voiced sleep story, fall asleep fast, Dream With Jacob, Jacob Evans. Sometimes the rumbling in the dark is something small that's been waiting a long time for someone to come. If you found a little dragon under your garden tonight, what would you name it? Tell me in the comments. Some of what I use for sleep, if you're curious: Sound machine → https://amzn.to/4b4fWeY Essential oil diffuser → https://amzn.to/4gmcksq Humidifier → https://amzn.to/4aBjOE8 Sleep mask + headphones → https://amzn.to/44go88b Cooling bamboo sheets → https://amzn.to/4eY0ylE As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. 💜 Support the Channel: ✨ Join Patreon for early access + exclusive stories → https://www.patreon.com/dreamwithjacob ☕ Buy me a cup of tea → https://ko-fi.com/dreamwithjacob 💫 A Gentle Invitation If this experience feels supportive, you're warmly invited to subscribe for weekly sleep meditations, bedtime stories, and calming journeys. And if something in you softened or shifted, feel free to leave a comment — your words are read and truly valued here. 🌙 Connect & Listen Elsewhere Instagram & TikTok: @dream_with_jacob Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/DreamWithJacob/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61590349902504 X: https://x.com/dreamwithjacob1 🎧 Insight Timer: dreamwithjacob 🎙️ All major podcast platforms: dreamwithjacob ✨ New sleep meditations, bedtime stories, and calming experiences released weekly If this brought you comfort tonight, consider sharing it with someone who could use a little more ease and rest. With warmth and gentleness, May your sleep be deep, your breath steady, and your dreams kind. — Jacob Evans 🌙✨ #bedtimestory #sleepstory #dragonstory #cozysleep #dreamwithjacob

  6. 8 Oct

    Odysseus Comes Home to Penelope | The Odyssey Finale, Ep. 14

    This is the final episode of a sleep-story adaptation of Homer's Odyssey: after twenty years apart, Odysseus and Penelope are reunited through the secret of the olive tree bed, and Odysseus finds his father Laertes in the orchard. Euryclea climbs the stairs to wake Penelope, who can't let herself believe the news. She comes down and sits across the fire from the stranger, then tests him with the one secret only the two of them share: the bed Odysseus built around a living olive tree. Athena holds back the dawn so they can have a longer night, and Odysseus tells Penelope the whole story of his journey. In the morning he finds Laertes working in the orchard and proves who he is with the trees his father gave him as a boy, and Athena brings peace to Ithaca. Adapted from Samuel Butler's public-domain prose translation (Books XXIII–XXIV), with gentle narration for sleep. Jacob opens and closes this finale with a thank-you to everyone who followed the series. What's covered in this video: - Euryclea wakes Penelope with the news that Odysseus is home, and Penelope refuses to believe it. - Penelope sits across the fire from Odysseus in silence while Telemachus calls her heart harder than stone, and Phemius plays a wedding dance to hide what happened from the town. - Penelope tests Odysseus by asking for their bed to be moved, and he reveals that he built it around a living olive tree. - Odysseus and Penelope embrace like a shipwrecked sailor reaching land, and Athena holds back the dawn to lengthen their night. - Odysseus shares Teiresias's prophecy of the oar and a gentle old age, then tells Penelope his entire story, from the Lotus-Eaters to the Phaeacians. - In the underworld, Agamemnon hears the suitors' story and praises Penelope's faithfulness. - Odysseus finds his father Laertes in the orchard and proves who he is with the scar and the fruit trees Laertes gave him as a boy. - Athena and Zeus end the feud with the suitors' families and bring peace to Ithaca. Mentioned in this video: The Odyssey, Homer, Samuel Butler translation, Odyssey finale, Odysseus, Penelope, Telemachus, Laertes, Euryclea, Eurynome, Phemius, Medon, Dolius, Eupeithes, Halitherses, Athena, Zeus, Hermes, Agamemnon, Teiresias, Mentor, Ithaca, the olive tree bed, Penelope's test, the reunion of Odysseus and Penelope, Odysseus and Laertes, the orchard of Laertes, the meadow of asphodel, Lotus-Eaters, Cyclops, bag of winds, Circe, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, cattle of the Sun, Calypso, Phaeacians, Greek mythology sleep story, bedtime story for adults, Dream With Jacob, Jacob Evans. Fourteen episodes, twenty years, and it all comes down to a bed built around a living tree, a secret only two people in the world knew. Thank you for making this voyage with me. I'd love to know: which part of the Odyssey stayed with you the most? Tell me in the comments. Some of what I use for sleep, if you're curious: Sound machine → https://amzn.to/4b4fWeY Essential oil diffuser → https://amzn.to/4gmcksq Humidifier → https://amzn.to/4aBjOE8 Sleep mask + headphones → https://amzn.to/44go88b Cooling bamboo sheets → https://amzn.to/4eY0ylE As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. 💜 Support the Channel: ✨ Join Patreon for early access + exclusive stories → https://www.patreon.com/dreamwithjacob ☕ Buy me a cup of tea → https://ko-fi.com/dreamwithjacob 💫 A Gentle Invitation If this experience feels supportive, you're warmly invited to subscribe for weekly sleep meditations, bedtime stories, and calming journeys. And if something in you softened or shifted, feel free to leave a comment — your words are read and truly valued here. 🌙 Connect & Listen Elsewhere Instagram & TikTok: @dream_with_jacob Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/DreamWithJacob/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61590349902504 X: https://x.com/dreamwithjacob1 🎧 Insight Timer: dreamwithjacob 🎙️ All major podcast platforms: dreamwithjacob ✨ New sleep meditations, bedtime stories, and calming experiences released weekly If this brought you comfort tonight, consider sharing it with someone who could use a little more ease and rest. With warmth and gentleness, May your sleep be deep, your breath steady, and your dreams kind. — Jacob Evans 🌙✨ #theodyssey #sleepstory #greekmythology #bedtimestory #dreamwithjacob

  7. 5 Oct

    Melt Away Neck & Jaw Tension | A Honey-Warm Sleep Meditation

    This is a guided sleep meditation for neck tension, jaw clenching, and teeth grinding, using a warm honey visualization that moves from the crown of your head down to your toes. Warm, heavy honey melts through the scalp, jaw, neck, shoulders, and the rest of the body, one area at a time, with gentle companion talk-down woven between each part. The meditation speaks directly to the muscles that brace and guard us all day, thanks them, and lets them rest, then leaves an overnight anchor so the jaw can keep softening while you sleep. 0:00 Intro 1:51 Setting Down the Armour 5:08 Warm Honey at the Crown 8:41 Why the Body Braces 11:06 Letting the Jaw Unclench 14:12 Melting Neck and Shoulder Tension 19:40 I've Got the Watch Tonight 21:42 Honey All the Way to Your Toes 25:43 If Your Jaw Tightens Tonight 29:15 Sleep Sounds What's covered in this video: - The opening frames everyday muscle tension as the body's armour, built to protect us through the day, and thanks the shoulders, neck, and jaw before releasing them. - A honey visualization begins at the crown and melts through the scalp, forehead, eyes, and temples. - A talk-down section reframes clenching and bracing as the body's way of protecting you, and hands the watch over to Jacob for the night. - The jaw release guides the back teeth apart and the tongue down from the roof of the mouth, for people who clench or grind their teeth at night. - The honey moves through the neck, the base of the skull, and the trapezius and shoulders, with a short breathing sequence at the shoulders. - The closing carries the honey through the arms, back, hips, and legs to the toes, and ends with an overnight anchor for nighttime jaw clenching. Mentioned in this video: guided sleep meditation, sleep talk down, honey visualization, body scan, somatic relaxation, progressive muscle release, jaw clenching, teeth grinding, bruxism, jaw tension, TMJ tension, neck tension, shoulder tension, trapezius, base of the skull, tongue posture, breath awareness, muscle armour, protective bracing, overnight sleep anchor, deep sleep, Dream With Jacob, Jacob Evans. A listener wrote to me recently about waking every morning with a sore jaw, neck, and shoulders, and about the muscles that act as our daily armour. I haven't stopped thinking about that phrase. So many of us hold the day in our bodies long after it ends, and I wanted to make something that speaks straight to those muscles and lets them rest. Where do you carry your day? Tell me in the comments. Some of what I use for sleep, if you're curious: Sound machine → https://amzn.to/4b4fWeY Essential oil diffuser → https://amzn.to/4gmcksq Humidifier → https://amzn.to/4aBjOE8 Sleep mask + headphones → https://amzn.to/44go88b Cooling bamboo sheets → https://amzn.to/4eY0ylE As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. 💜 Support the Channel: ✨ Join Patreon for early access + exclusive stories → https://www.patreon.com/dreamwithjacob ☕ Buy me a cup of tea → https://ko-fi.com/dreamwithjacob 💫 A Gentle Invitation If this experience feels supportive, you're warmly invited to subscribe for weekly sleep meditations, bedtime stories, and calming journeys. And if something in you softened or shifted, feel free to leave a comment — your words are read and truly valued here. 🌙 Connect & Listen Elsewhere Instagram & TikTok: @dream_with_jacob Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/DreamWithJacob/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61590349902504 X: https://x.com/dreamwithjacob1 🎧 Insight Timer: dreamwithjacob 🎙️ All major podcast platforms: dreamwithjacob ✨ New sleep meditations, bedtime stories, and calming experiences released weekly If this brought you comfort tonight, consider sharing it with someone who could use a little more ease and rest. With warmth and gentleness, May your sleep be deep, your breath steady, and your dreams kind. — Jacob Evans 🌙✨ #sleepmeditation #jawtension #necktension #teethgrinding #dreamwithjacob

  8. 1 Oct

    The Odyssey Sleep Story, Episode 13: The Bow

    Tonight's episode is the one the whole Odyssey has been walking toward. Penelope brings down her husband's great bow after twenty years, and one suitor after another fails to bend it — until the old beggar by the door asks to hold it for a moment. When Odysseus strings it as easily as a musician strings a lyre, the string sings like a swallow, Zeus thunders from a clear sky, and the long homecoming finally turns. Has something you'd almost stopped hoping for ever arrived all at once? This is a sleep story continuing an abridged narration of Homer's Odyssey, adapted from Samuel Butler's public-domain 1900 translation and told as a bedtime series for adults who want something old, absorbing, and calming to fall asleep to. Episode 13 covers Books XX, XXI and XXII of the Odyssey. Odysseus lies awake through his last night as a beggar until Athena sends him to sleep, while Penelope weeps upstairs after dreaming her husband lay beside her. At dawn Zeus thunders from a cloudless sky and a tired mill-woman prays that this will be the suitors' last meal. Philoetius the cattle-man arrives and grieves for his absent master, Ctesippus hurls a cow's hoof at the stranger, and the seer Theoclymenus sees the hall running with blood and crowded with ghosts. Then Penelope brings out the bow of Odysseus and sets the contest: string it, and shoot through twelve axes. Telemachus nearly succeeds, the suitors fail one by one, and outside in the yard Odysseus reveals himself to Eumaeus and Philoetius by his scar. Back in the hall, Odysseus strings the bow, sends an arrow through every axe, and turns it on the suitors, with Telemachus, Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Athena at his side. 0:00 Intro 2:50 The Last Sleepless Night 9:20 Thunder From a Clear Sky 12:20 The Cattle-Man 16:55 The Seer's Vision 20:35 The Bow Comes Down 26:20 Twelve Axes in a Row 31:30 The Scar in the Courtyard 38:50 Into the Beggar's Hands 41:30 The Bow Sings 44:35 On the Threshold 54:40 A Swallow in the Rafters 1:02:20 The Hall Made Clean 1:08:15 Sleep Sounds What's covered in this video: - Odysseus's sleepless night, Athena's promise, and Penelope's dream that her husband was lying beside her. - The double omen at dawn: thunder from a clear sky, and the mill-woman's prayer. - Philoetius the cattle-man's loyalty, Ctesippus's thrown hoof, and Theoclymenus's vision of the doomed hall. - Penelope bringing down the bow of Iphitus and announcing the contest of the twelve axes. - Telemachus's attempt, the suitors' failures, and Odysseus revealing himself to Eumaeus and Philoetius by the scar. - The stringing of the bow, the shot through the axes, and the battle for the hall. - Athena on the rafters in the form of a swallow, the sparing of Phemius and Medon, and the purification of the house. Mentioned in this video: Odysseus, Penelope, Telemachus, Euryclea, Eumaeus, Philoetius, Melanthius, Antinous, Eurymachus, Amphinomus, Ctesippus, Leiodes, Theoclymenus, Phemius, Medon, Iphitus, Athena, Zeus, Apollo, Artemis, the bow of Odysseus, the twelve axes, the suitors of Ithaca, Homer's Odyssey, Samuel Butler translation, sleep story, bedtime story for adults, guided sleep narration, Dream With Jacob, Jacob Evans. Some of what I use for sleep, if you're curious: Sound machine → https://amzn.to/4b4fWeY Essential oil diffuser → https://amzn.to/4gmcksq Humidifier → https://amzn.to/4aBjOE8 Sleep mask + headphones → https://amzn.to/44go88b Cooling bamboo sheets → https://amzn.to/4eY0ylE As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. 💜 Support the Channel: ✨ Join Patreon for early access + exclusive stories → https://www.patreon.com/dreamwithjacob ☕ Buy me a cup of tea → https://ko-fi.com/dreamwithjacob 💫 A Gentle Invitation If this experience feels supportive, you're warmly invited to subscribe for weekly sleep meditations, bedtime stories, and calming journeys. And if something in you softened or shifted, feel free to leave a comment — your words are read and truly valued here. 🌙 Connect & Listen Elsewhere Instagram & TikTok: @dream_with_jacob Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/DreamWithJacob/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61590349902504 X: https://x.com/dreamwithjacob1 🎧 Insight Timer: dreamwithjacob 🎙️ All major podcast platforms: dreamwithjacob ✨ New sleep meditations, bedtime stories, and calming experiences released weekly If this brought you comfort tonight, consider sharing it with someone who could use a little more ease and rest. With warmth and gentleness, May your sleep be deep, your breath steady, and your dreams kind. — Jacob Evans 🌙✨ #DreamWithJacob #TheOdyssey #Odysseysleepstory #HomerOdysseyaudiobook…

See All (162)

About

A sanctuary of sound for the soul. Here you’ll find enchanting bedtime stories, soothing talk downs, and gentle meditations—each crafted to calm your mind, open your heart, and guide you into rest. These offerings spark childlike magic in the heart, weaving mythical creatures, elements of nature, and poetic storytelling into a tranquil atmosphere for peaceful sleep. From serene oceans to starlit forests, each journey invites you to drift into a world of wonder, stillness, and dreams.

Information

  • Creator
    Jacob Evans
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    162
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2024 All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Dream With Jacob

You Might Also Like