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

The Sleeping Almanac · Sleep Stories from Myth and Fairy Tale
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Three hour sleep stories for adults, from the fairy tales and myths you already know. Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood, Homer's Odyssey, and the old gods of the North and of Egypt, each retold in slow, calm narration made to be listened to as you fall asleep. 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. Each episode is researched, written, and narrated to drift over you rather than demand your attention. The pacing is slow. The music never spikes. The goal is the opposite of keeping you awake. Each season moves through a different story tradition: Norse mythology, Egyptian myth, the great fairy tales, the tales of 1001 Nights, Homer's Odyssey, the myths of ancient Mesopotamia, and the lost books of the Bible. New episodes every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday night, every one of them three hours long. The almanac is now a book. Norse Myths Retold for Sleep gathers twelve of the oldest stories, retold to be read in a low lamp until the page slips from your hand. On Kindle now, free with Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2WLVPD First looks at new seasons, by email: https://gildenmyth.com/#gm-subscribe This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

  1. 19m ago ·  Bonus

    Norse Mythology Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 2 · Fenrir, Loki and the World Serpent

    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 airs live on our YouTube channel tonight. In this episode:0:00:00 Welcome0:00:33 The Binding of Fenrir1:48:13 The Binding of Loki3:36:37 Thor and the World Serpent5:04:36 The Giant's Bride, and the Theft of Mjolnir6:55:04 The Mead of Poetry8:33:11 Skadi, the Cold Mountain Bride9:50:32 Ambience, the long night Every story here is also in the feed as its own full episode. Watch the live compilation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy48y9NWX78More stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com

    Norse Mythology Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 2 · Fenrir, Loki and the World Serpent

  2. 1d ago

    Etana and the Eagle: The Full Surviving Story of a Forgotten Sumerian Myth | 3 Hour Sleep Story

    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. Etana is the oldest story of human flight, and hardly anybody has heard of it. A king of Kish has everything except the one ordinary thing he wants, and to get it he must go up. Tonight is the eagle and the serpent and the broken oath in the tree, the pit, the long climb, the earth going small below, and the most restful passage in this whole season: a man looking down at his own country until it is the size of a bread basket, and then smaller, and then gone. 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 5:05 The Shepherd of Kish 11:22 No Child 19:27 The Tree With Two Houses 23:42 The Broken Oath 28:02 The Dead Ox 32:03 The Pit 37:18 Eight Months 40:25 Up 45:00 The World Grown Small 50:37 The Fall 54:38 What the Seals Remember 1:03:11 Goodnight Over Kish 1:07:28 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. #etana #sleepstory #mesopotamia #sumerian #bedtimestoriesforadults #deepsleep #sleep #insomnia #calm #mythology

    Etana and the Eagle: The Full Surviving Story of a Forgotten Sumerian Myth | 3 Hour Sleep Story

  3. 2d ago ·  Bonus

    Norse Mythology Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 1 · The Nine Worlds to Ragnarok

    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 night Every 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

    Norse Mythology Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 1 · The Nine Worlds to Ragnarok

  4. 3d ago

    The Epic of Gilgamesh Part 3: The Full Story of the Flood and the Plant | 3 Hour Sleep Story

    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 Epic of Gilgamesh Part 3: The Full Story of the Flood and the Plant | 3 Hour Sleep Story

  5. 4d ago

    The Epic of Gilgamesh Part 2: The Full Story of the Bull of Heaven | 3 Hour Sleep Story

    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

    The Epic of Gilgamesh Part 2: The Full Story of the Bull of Heaven | 3 Hour Sleep Story

  6. 5d ago ·  Bonus

    Chinese Myth Music · 3 Hour Sleep Music · Silver Moon Ambience for Deep Sleep

    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

    Chinese Myth Music · 3 Hour Sleep Music · Silver Moon Ambience for Deep Sleep

  7. 6d ago

    The Epic of Gilgamesh Part 1: The Full Story of the Cedar Forest | 3 Hour Sleep Story

    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

    The Epic of Gilgamesh Part 1: The Full Story of the Cedar Forest | 3 Hour Sleep Story

  8. Sep 29 ·  Bonus

    Fairy Tale Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 2 · Sleeping Beauty to the Moon Princess Kaguya

    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 Fairy Tale 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 airs live on our YouTube channel tonight. In this episode:0:00:00 Sleeping Beauty1:35:02 Robin Hood3:06:36 The Ballad of Mulan4:41:28 The Wizard of Oz7:19:07 The Snow Queen9:08:35 The Moon Princess Kaguya11:01:03 Ambience, the long night Every story here is also in the feed as its own full episode. Watch the live compilation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4_eJWxBzyoMore stories and first looks at new seasons: gildenmyth.com

    Fairy Tale Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 2 · Sleeping Beauty to the Moon Princess Kaguya
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Three hour sleep stories for adults, from the fairy tales and myths you already know. Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood, Homer's Odyssey, and the old gods of the North and of Egypt, each retold in slow, calm narration made to be listened to as you fall asleep. 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. Each episode is researched, written, and narrated to drift over you rather than demand your attention. The pacing is slow. The music never spikes. The goal is the opposite of keeping you awake. Each season moves through a different story tradition: Norse mythology, Egyptian myth, the great fairy tales, the tales of 1001 Nights, Homer's Odyssey, the myths of ancient Mesopotamia, and the lost books of the Bible. New episodes every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday night, every one of them three hours long. The almanac is now a book. Norse Myths Retold for Sleep gathers twelve of the oldest stories, retold to be read in a low lamp until the page slips from your hand. On Kindle now, free with Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2WLVPD First looks at new seasons, by email: https://gildenmyth.com/#gm-subscribe This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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