Dream With Jacob

Jacob Evans
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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. 6d ago

    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

  2. Oct 12

    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

  3. Oct 8

    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

  4. Oct 5

    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

  5. Oct 1

    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…

  6. Sep 28

    The Cove of Hidden Pearls | Sleep Story for an Open Heart

    This is a magical bedtime story for healing and opening your heart again, about a young woman who follows a sea-foam fox to a moonlit cave of glowing pearls and finds the one shell that has been waiting for her. Follow Iris down a hidden stairway in the cliffs to a cove where jellyfish glow like lanterns in the shallows, and into a sea cave lined with mother-of-pearl. Its pools hold thousands of oysters, one for every person in the world, kept by Nacre until each person is ready to come. Iris knows her own shell the moment she sees it, and Nacre explains how a pearl is made and why a shell that has stayed shut this long has been protecting something precious the whole time. Gentle shoreline waves and a soft brown noise bed carry the story and continue long after it ends, for uninterrupted sleep. 0:00 Intro 1:30 The Sea-Foam Fox 4:00 Lanterns in the Shallows 5:35 The Cave of Glowing Pearls 7:05 The Keeper of Every Shell 10:00 The Shell That Was Hers 13:10 How a Pearl Is Made 16:55 Talking to the Shell 19:25 The Shell Opens 26:10 Sleeping by the Tide 29:25 Sleep Sounds What's covered in this video: - The opening follows Iris, restless on a moonlit night, as a small fox made of sea foam leads her down a hidden stairway in the cliffs. - The cove below glows with drifting jellyfish, and the fox leads her into a sea cave lined with mother-of-pearl, where thousands of oysters rest in terraced pools. - Nacre, the keeper, explains that every shell belongs to someone somewhere in the world, and she holds each one until its person is ready to come. - Iris senses which oyster is hers, and Nacre explains how a pearl forms around something small and sharp, reframing the closed shell as a protective, loving part. - The turn comes when Iris thanks her shell and tells it she wants to work together, and it opens on its own to reveal the pearl inside. - The closing settles Iris in a boathouse by the water with the open shell against her heart and the fox curled at her feet, as the tide slows her breathing into sleep. Mentioned in this video: magical bedtime story, sleep story for healing, opening your heart, learning to trust again, emotional healing, self-compassion, protective parts, vulnerability, heartbreak recovery, pearls, oysters, sea cave, mother-of-pearl, sea-foam fox, glowing jellyfish, moonlit cove, ocean sleep story, ocean waves for sleep, brown noise, self-voiced sleep story, Dream With Jacob, Jacob Evans. Some of the parts of us that feel the most stubborn, the walls we can't seem to take down, have been trying to keep us safe the whole time. In this story, somewhere in a glowing sea cave, there's a shell being kept for every one of us until we're ready. If the part of you that protects you could hear one thing from you tonight, what would you want to tell it? I'd love to read it 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 #healing #oceansleep #dreamwithjacob

  7. Sep 24

    The Odyssey Sleep Story - Episode 12: The Scar

    Tonight's episode holds the moment this whole series has been walking toward since the first episode: Penelope and Odysseus sitting three feet apart, both of them lying to protect the same thing, and neither one able to say so out loud yet. And then, without any warning at all, the truth arrives anyway — not through a confession, but through Euryclea's hands, recognizing a twenty-year-old scar before her mind even catches up to what she's touching. Has the truth ever reached you that way — not through words, but through something your body knew before you let yourself admit it? 0:00 Intro 3:45 The Beggars at the Door 11:00 Penelope Comes Down 21:40 Hiding the Armor 23:50 A Stranger's Story 29:30 The Brooch and the Tears 36:10 What the Nurse Was Asked to Do 39:30 The Scar 47:55 Twenty Geese 53:30 The Bow Not Yet Strung 58:00 Sleep Sounds This is a sleep story continuing an abridged narration of Homer's Odyssey, adapted from Samuel Butler's public-domain 1900 translation, told as a bedtime series for adults who want something old, absorbing, and calming to fall asleep to. Episode 12 covers Books XVIII and XIX of the Odyssey: a town beggar named Irus picks a fight with the disguised Odysseus at his own front door and is beaten in a single blow, Athena arranges for Penelope to appear before the suitors and collect gifts from every one of them while giving nothing back, and the evening ends with Eurymachus hurling a footstool that misses Odysseus and strikes a servant instead. After the house grows quiet, Odysseus and Telemachus hide the household's weapons, and Odysseus sits down for a long fireside conversation with his own wife, who doesn't recognize him. He tells her an invented story about hosting her husband years ago on Crete, describes the exact clothes Odysseus wore right down to a gold brooch, and reduces her to tears without ever revealing who he is. When Penelope calls for the household's old nurse, Euryclea, to wash the stranger's feet, Euryclea's hands find a scar on his leg from a boyhood boar hunt — and recognizes her master instantly. The episode ends with Penelope recounting a dream of an eagle killing her twenty geese, and announcing a contest for the following day that will decide who she marries. What's covered in this video: - Odysseus's one-punch fight with the town beggar Irus, and the wary respect it earns him from Amphinomus, the one suitor who tries to warn the others. - Athena's staging of Penelope's appearance before the suitors, and the gifts she collects from them while planning to give her hand to none of them. - Eurymachus's footstool thrown at Odysseus, and Telemachus finally ordering the suitors home for the night. - Odysseus and Telemachus quietly moving the household's weapons out of the hall before the household wakes. - The long fireside conversation between Odysseus and Penelope, including his invented account of hosting her husband on Crete and his precise description of Odysseus's cloak, brooch, and shirt. - Euryclea washing the disguised Odysseus's feet, recognizing the scar from his boyhood boar hunt on Mount Parnassus, and being sworn to silence. - Penelope's dream of an eagle and her twenty geese, and her announcement of the axe-and-bow contest to be held the next day. 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 #guidedmeditation #sleepstory #bedtimestory #dreamwithjacob #talkdown #anxietyrelief #insomniarelief #relaxation #sleepmusic #calm #mindfulness #sleepaid #nighttimemeditation #deepsleep

  8. Sep 21

    The Autumn Cider Witch: A Cozy Magical Bedtime Story W/ Deep Crimson Noise & Rain Sounds

    This is a cozy autumn bedtime story about a boy who follows a trail of fireflies, gnomes, and fairies through the woods to a witch's cottage, where they brew the last cider of the season together. Follow August as he wanders from his grandparents' house into a foggy autumn forest full of small magic, and spends the evening helping a witch named Hazel brew her last batch of cider before winter. Rain sounds and deep crimson noise play underneath the story and continue long after it ends, for uninterrupted sleep. 0:00 Intro 3:20 A Sound in the Trees 5:35 Into the Foggy Woods 12:40 Hazel's Cottage 14:35 Brewing the Last Cider 19:05 Settling by the Fire 25:45 Rain & Crimson Noise What's covered in this video: - The opening follows August, restless at his grandparents' house on an autumn night, drawn outside by the distant sound of a kettle. - The walk through the woods introduces a compass-marked moth, a twig-and-acorn forest creature, amber late-season fireflies, gnomes, and a fairy glimpsed and lost again. - The middle section follows August helping Hazel gather and stir the last cider of the fall season, joined by gnomes and a small chorus of humming fairies. - The closing settles August by the fire with a mug of warm cider as rain begins outside, easing his body into sleep phrase by phrase — shoulders, jaw, legs, breath. Mentioned in this video: cozy bedtime story, autumn sleep story, sleep story for fall, forest witch, magical creatures, fireflies, gnomes, fairies, cider brewing, rain sounds for sleep, crimson noise, brown noise, self-voiced sleep story, Dream With Jacob, Jacob Evans. Opening Reflection: There's something about the first cold night of autumn that makes the whole world feel a little more magical, isn't there? Like the ordinary woods behind a house might just be hiding something after all. I'd love to know: what's your favorite cozy autumn memory — the kind you still think about when the leaves start turning? 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 #autumnvibes #cozyfall #dreamwithjacob

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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.

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  • Creator
    Jacob Evans
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    159
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Copyright 2024 All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Dream With Jacob

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