The Sleeping Almanac

The Sleeping Almanac · Norse Mythology Sleep Stories
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The Sleeping Almanac retells the world's oldest stories, myths, lost civilizations, and forgotten cosmologies, in slow, calm narration designed to be listened to as you fall asleep. 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. Season 1 is Norse mythology, told across a single season long arc from the nine worlds to Ragnarǫk. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. 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 This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

  1. 1d ago

    Sleeping Beauty · The Original Fairy Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to Sleeping Beauty the old way, from Perrault and from the Grimms' Briar Rose. A wish granted by the water, gifts spoken over a golden cradle, one spindle left in a high tower room, and then the enchantment the tale is named for: the whole castle falls asleep together, the cooks and the horses and the doves and the fire on the hearth, and a hedge of briars rises to guard the quiet. A hundred years pass in that stillness, and when the time is finally right, the hedge blooms and opens all by itself. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. The spindle does its small work early, and after that the entire story is one long, protected sleep, which is rather the point. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 7 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 7 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the castle that slept for a hundred years. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters:0:00 Welcome2:38 The Wish by the Water8:02 The Feast of the Golden Plates15:24 The Gifts of the Wise Women22:14 The Thirteenth Wish, and the Twelfth27:15 The Kingdom Without Spindles33:46 The Tower Room41:05 The Castle Falls Asleep50:48 The Hedge of Briars59:16 A Hundred Years of Quiet1:06:48 The Hedge in Bloom1:16:15 The Waking House1:28:25 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: add the link after the YouTube upload.New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🎙 David's interview podcast, Conversations That Count: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsThatCount-CTC🎧 Also on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3J6lZ10GvK07qCv3aQxnkR and Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/conversations-that-count-a31f16a6-3131-4c8f-982f-19d52407e8eb/id1890348796 This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

    Sleeping Beauty · The Original Fairy Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

  2. Season 4 Trailer

    Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac | Season Four, The Odyssey

    The world's oldest stories, told slowly enough to fall asleep to. The Sleeping Almanac is three hour sleep stories for anyone who lies down at night and cannot switch the day off. No music that swells, no sudden voices, no reason to open your eyes. Just one calm voice and a story old enough that people have been falling asleep to it for three thousand years. Four seasons so far. Norse gods. Egyptian nights. Old fairy tales retold long and slow. And Season Four, the Odyssey, told across twelve nights from the wrong shore to a bed carved from a living olive tree. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday night. Everything we make: gildenmyth.com

  3. 4d ago

    Alice in Wonderland · The Original Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to Alice in Wonderland, as Lewis Carroll first told it in 1865. A golden afternoon on a riverbank, a white rabbit with a waistcoat pocket and a watch inside it, a fall so long and slow it feels like floating, and a tea table where the dormouse sleeps peacefully through everything. The whole adventure is a dream from its first page to its last, which makes it the safest adventure there is, and at the end the dreamer simply wakes on the same warm bank, with her head in her sister's lap. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. It is all a dream on a riverbank, and the story knows it, so nothing in it can follow you anywhere except into sleep. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 6 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 6 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, a dream on a riverbank. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters:0:00 Welcome2:50 A Golden Afternoon, and a White Rabbit with a Watch9:53 The Little Golden Key19:06 The Pool of Tears and the Caucus Race35:22 The Rabbit Sends in Little Bill48:36 Advice from a Caterpillar1:01:08 Pepper, a Pig, and a Grin Without a Cat1:17:04 The Maddest Tea Party in All the World1:33:35 Painting the Roses Red1:50:06 The Mock Turtle's Story2:06:27 The Lobster Quadrille, and Who Stole the Tarts2:25:46 Alice's Evidence, and a Pack of Cards2:38:04 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: add the link after the YouTube upload.New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🎙 David's interview podcast, Conversations That Count: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsThatCount-CTC🎧 Also on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3J6lZ10GvK07qCv3aQxnkR and Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/conversations-that-count-a31f16a6-3131-4c8f-982f-19d52407e8eb/id1890348796 This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

    Alice in Wonderland · The Original Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

  4. 6d ago

    Peter Pan · The Original Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to Peter Pan, as J. M. Barrie wrote him in 1911. A nursery at number fourteen, a large gentle dog for a nurse, a boy who comes back for his lost shadow, and directions no map has ever improved: second star to the right, and straight on till morning. There are mermaids in a lagoon, a patient Never bird on her floating nest, a little house built around a sleeping girl, and a window kept open at the end, because some windows always are. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is a pirate in it, but tonight he is more pocket watch than menace, and the nursery window stays open the whole time. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 5 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 5 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the boy who would not grow up. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters:0:00 Welcome2:40 The Nursery at Number Fourteen16:38 The Boy Who Came for His Shadow37:09 Second Star to the Right46:55 The Island That Woke59:47 The Little House1:09:52 The Home Under the Ground1:20:30 The Mermaids' Lagoon1:33:10 The Never Bird1:40:12 Wendy's Story1:47:56 The Gentleman and the Clock1:57:28 The Window Left Open2:04:58 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: add the link after the YouTube upload.New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🎙 David's interview podcast, Conversations That Count: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsThatCount-CTC🎧 Also on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3J6lZ10GvK07qCv3aQxnkR and Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/conversations-that-count-a31f16a6-3131-4c8f-982f-19d52407e8eb/id1890348796 This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

    Peter Pan · The Original Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

  5. Aug 9

    Cinderella · The Original Fairy Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to Cinderella, exactly as Charles Perrault first set it down in 1697. A pumpkin hollowed out by a godmother's hand, six mice turned to six grey horses, a whiskered rat for a coachman, six lizards for footmen, and not one ball but two. The slipper is glass, it fits in front of everyone, and the story ends not in punishment but in forgiveness, with places found at court for both sisters. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There are unkind sisters in it, but the unkindness stays quiet, and the ending forgives them, which is how Perrault himself chose to close it. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 4 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 4 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the slipper of glass and the kindness at the end. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters:0:00 Welcome3:07 The House with the Cold Hearths9:01 Cinders, and the Two Names15:50 An Invitation Sealed in Red Wax23:33 Dressing the Sisters30:14 The Godmother in the Garden36:46 Six Mice, Three Rats, and Six Lizards46:26 The First Ball55:21 The Day Between1:04:33 The Stroke of Twelve1:11:41 The Slipper Tried Through the City1:16:59 Forgiveness, and Two Places at Court1:23:04 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: add the link after the YouTube upload.New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🎙 David's interview podcast, Conversations That Count: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsThatCount-CTC🎧 Also on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3J6lZ10GvK07qCv3aQxnkR and Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/conversations-that-count-a31f16a6-3131-4c8f-982f-19d52407e8eb/id1890348796 This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

    Cinderella · The Original Fairy Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

  6. Aug 6

    The Little Mermaid · The Original Fairy Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller turns to Hans Christian Andersen's little mermaid, the original telling of 1837. Far out where the water is blue as the bluest cornflower, the sea king's youngest daughter tends a garden shaped like the sun and listens to her grandmother's stories of the world above. Merfolk live three hundred years, ships drift overhead like slow clouds, and on her fifteenth birthday she rises through the quiet water to see the lights for herself. It is a tale of longing told gently, and it ends the way Andersen ended it, among the daughters of the air, with patience and quiet hope. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. The old tale carries sorrow in it, but we keep to its gentlest current, and no one is lost in the telling. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 3 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 3 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the sea's youngest daughter. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters:0:00 Welcome3:00 Far Out, Where the Water Is Blue9:23 Six Small Gardens15:13 Stories of the World Above21:16 Five Sisters, Five Evenings29:50 The Night She Rose35:39 The Storm, and the Shore44:33 Three Hundred Years52:31 The House Beyond the Whirlpools1:01:26 Two White Feet1:09:33 The Bride From the Temple1:17:58 The Daughters of the Air1:23:35 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: add the link after the YouTube upload.New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🎙 David's interview podcast, Conversations That Count: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsThatCount-CTC🎧 Also on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3J6lZ10GvK07qCv3aQxnkR and Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/conversations-that-count-a31f16a6-3131-4c8f-982f-19d52407e8eb/id1890348796 This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

    The Little Mermaid · The Original Fairy Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

  7. Aug 4

    Aladdin · The Original 1001 Nights Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the lamp is lit again and the storyteller opens the old book to Aladdin, told the way it was first told three centuries ago, long before any film. A tailor's son in a city in China, a stranger who calls him nephew, a cold fire on a mountainside, and not one genie but two, one in an old ring and one in a battered brass lamp. There is a garden where the fruit is made of jewels, a princess named Badroulbadour, forty basins of gold, and a palace built in a single quiet night. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is a scheming magician in it, but he is gently outwitted long before the end, and every door he closes is opened again. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 2 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 2 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the boy and the lamp, from the oldest telling. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters:0:00 Welcome3:08 The Tailor's Son8:50 The Stranger Who Called Him Nephew23:27 The Garden of Jewel Fruit31:04 The Ring Turned in the Dark39:43 The Genie of the Lamp46:18 The Princess Badroulbadour53:24 Forty Basins of Gold1:00:49 The Palace Built in a Night1:08:59 New Lamps for Old1:22:11 The Quiet Restoration1:29:02 The Good Years1:32:01 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: add the link after the YouTube upload.New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🎙 David's interview podcast, Conversations That Count: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsThatCount-CTC🎧 Also on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3J6lZ10GvK07qCv3aQxnkR and Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/conversations-that-count-a31f16a6-3131-4c8f-982f-19d52407e8eb/id1890348796 This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

    Aladdin · The Original 1001 Nights Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

  8. Aug 2

    1001 Nights · Scheherazade · The Original Arabian Nights Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    A slow, calm 3 hour Arabian Nights sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the lantern is lit for the first time, and the first tale in the old book is the storyteller's own. A quiet city at dusk, a king who has forgotten how to rest, and the vizier's daughter, Scheherazade, who volunteers to sit with him and tell a story that is never quite finished by dawn. Her little sister asks for the first tale, an ebony horse rises over the roofs of the world, and a thousand nights and one begin as gently as this one. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is a grieving king in it, but no harm comes to anyone in the telling, and the storyteller always knows exactly what she is doing. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 1 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 1 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the tale that holds all the others. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters:0:00 Welcome0:55 The Lamp Is Lit5:48 The City at Dusk13:07 The Vizier's Daughter19:40 One Thousand Books26:17 The First Night30:35 The Tale of the Ebony Horse37:15 The Night Ride44:54 The Palace on the Roof of the World49:56 Dawn, and the Tale Unfinished55:40 A Thousand Nights and One1:27:57 The Library of Night1:35:32 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: add the link after the YouTube upload.New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🎙 David's interview podcast, Conversations That Count: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsThatCount-CTC🎧 Also on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3J6lZ10GvK07qCv3aQxnkR and Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/conversations-that-count-a31f16a6-3131-4c8f-982f-19d52407e8eb/id1890348796 This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

    1001 Nights · Scheherazade · The Original Arabian Nights Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep
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The Sleeping Almanac retells the world's oldest stories, myths, lost civilizations, and forgotten cosmologies, in slow, calm narration designed to be listened to as you fall asleep. 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. Season 1 is Norse mythology, told across a single season long arc from the nine worlds to Ragnarǫk. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. 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 This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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    The Sleeping Almanac · Norse Mythology Sleep Stories
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
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