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Fall asleep inside history. A calm sleep podcast that takes a single quiet night from the past, a medieval village, ancient Rome, a knight's whole life, and lets you sleep inside it. A real disclosed voice, sources in every episode, and no mid roll ads. New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Part of the Gildenmyth family. More at kingdomsatdusk.com.

  1. 3d ago ·  Bonus

    River Sounds for Sleeping | 3 Hours Aboard a Mississippi Riverboat at Night, No Talking

    Three hours of a stern wheel churning softly astern and the river sliding along a wooden hull, the gentle working creak of a big timber boat settling through the night, with no talking at all. This is the same boat from our Mississippi Riverboat After Dark story, running a calm river under clear stars. Black screen friendly.You will hear the steady soft beat of the paddle wheel, water along the hull, and the slow creak of old timber, low and constant, with no music, no voice, and no whistles or bells to startle you awake. Listen with the video on YouTube: add the episode link. 🕯 Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🌙 Norse myth sleep stories, The Sleeping Almanac: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac🕊 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

    River Sounds for Sleeping | 3 Hours Aboard a Mississippi Riverboat at Night, No Talking

  2. Sep 5 ·  Bonus

    Fountain Sounds for Sleeping | 3 Hours in a Silk Road Courtyard Under Desert Stars, No Talking

    Three hours of a small stone fountain running in the courtyard of an ancient Silk Road caravanserai, the desert night wind low beyond the thick walls and the camels settled in the straw, with no talking at all. This is the same inn from our Night at a Silk Road Caravanserai story, its gates barred against the cold desert night. Black screen friendly.You will hear water falling softly into a stone basin, a low steady desert wind beyond the walls, and the occasional quiet shift of resting animals, with no music and no voice. Listen with the video on YouTube: add the episode link. 🕯 Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🌙 Norse myth sleep stories, The Sleeping Almanac: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac🕊 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

    Fountain Sounds for Sleeping | 3 Hours in a Silk Road Courtyard Under Desert Stars, No Talking

  3. Sep 2

    You walk Istanbul by lantern light and fall asleep in a merchant's han | 3 Hour Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

    Fall asleep inside history. Tonight you are a traveler lodged in a stone han near the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul, almost four hundred years ago, on a clear cold evening in the greatest city in the world. You watch the covered bazaar close gate by gate at dusk, then walk out into a city where, by law, every person abroad after dark carries their own lantern, so the night streets become a field of slow moving stars. A seller of boza calls in the lane and you drink a gently warmed cup with cold hands. You spend an hour in a coffeehouse in its first great century, with a storyteller and the quiet click of backgammon, then walk home along the Golden Horn past the tethered caiques of the ferrymen while the muezzins' last call is answered from hill to hill across the water. The han gate is barred behind you, the courtyard fountain runs, and a brazier of coals and a thick quilt are waiting in your room.You will hear the stone hush of the han courtyard, a small fountain running at its center, coals settling in the brazier, a plane tree whispering over the roofs, and the far slow footsteps of the watchman with his swinging lantern. This is a three hour sleep story. The narration ends softly in the third hour, and then the quiet courtyard continues to the end. Black screen friendly. Chapters:0:00 Welcome7:14 The City At Dusk11:36 The Bazaar Gates Close16:43 The Lantern Law21:41 The Night Watch25:38 The Boza Seller30:08 The Coffeehouse37:10 The Storyteller42:08 The Quiet Hour46:59 Down To The Water51:00 The Caiques At Rest55:50 The Field Of Moving Stars1:00:10 The Last Call1:05:40 The Han Gate1:09:52 The Fountain And The Cat1:14:33 The Brazier And The Quilt1:19:45 The City Settles1:22:32 Drifting Listen with the video on YouTube: add the episode link. New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6pm Eastern. Nights carry you inside an ordinary evening from the past. Tales, every Friday, tell one true story from history, calm enough to sleep to and interesting enough to stay up for. 🕯 Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🌙 Norse myth sleep stories, The Sleeping Almanac: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac🕊 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 Sources: Evliya Celebi, the Seyahatname; Robert Mantran, Istanbul in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century; Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet, A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul; Ralph Hattox, Coffee and Coffeehouses; Suraiya Faroqhi, Subjects of the Sultan. A real human voice with AI assistance, fully disclosed. No mid roll ads, ever, so nothing wakes you.

    You walk Istanbul by lantern light and fall asleep in a merchant's han | 3 Hour Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

  4. Aug 31

    You board a Mississippi riverboat at dusk and sleep as it steams south, 1876 | 4 Hour Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

    Fall asleep inside history. Tonight you are a passenger on a stern wheel packet boat leaving St. Louis at dusk in the autumn of 1876, steaming south down the Mississippi through a calm and starry night. You take supper in the long white cabin, walk the quiet guards while the towns slide past, look in at the engine room watch and the darkened pilot house where a man steers twelve hundred remembered miles of river, and listen as the leadsman sings the depth of the water up out of the dark, two soft words that mean all is well. The great wheel turns astern like a heartbeat, the boat ties up if fog ever closes the river, and your berth waits in a small white stateroom where the light comes gently through the transom.You will hear the steady soft churn of the stern wheel, water sliding along a wooden hull, the slow deep sigh of the scape pipes, the gentle working creak of a big timber boat, and far off, the leadsman's call and one whistle answered across the water. This is a four hour sleep story. The narration ends softly a little past the three hour mark, and then the river runs on beneath you until the fourth hour. Black screen friendly. Chapters:0:00 Welcome6:57 The Levee At Dusk12:19 Under The Great Bridge16:28 The Boat From Keel To Texas22:22 Supper In The Long Cabin26:30 The Guards At Evening30:59 The Engine Room Watch34:54 The Main Deck Sleeps39:19 The Leadsman'S Song45:00 The Pilot House52:48 Wooding Up By Torchlight57:39 When The River Closes1:02:13 Your Stateroom1:06:12 The Train On The Illinois Shore1:09:49 The Boat Settles1:15:13 Drifting Listen with the video on YouTube: add the episode link. New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6pm Eastern. Nights carry you inside an ordinary evening from the past. Tales, every Friday, tell one true story from history, calm enough to sleep to and interesting enough to stay up for. 🕯 Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🌙 Norse myth sleep stories, The Sleeping Almanac: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac🕊 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 Sources: Mark Twain, Old Times on the Mississippi and Life on the Mississippi; Louis C. Hunter, Steamboats on the Western Rivers; Frederick Way Jr., Way's Packet Directory; Thomas C. Buchanan, Black Life on the Mississippi; George Byron Merrick, Old Times on the Upper Mississippi. A real human voice with AI assistance, fully disclosed. No mid roll ads, ever, so nothing wakes you.

    You board a Mississippi riverboat at dusk and sleep as it steams south, 1876 | 4 Hour Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

  5. Aug 29 ·  Bonus

    Rain Sounds for Sleeping | 3 Hours of Gentle Rain on a Tea House Roof by West Lake, No Talking

    Three hours of warm gentle rain on the tiled roof and broad leaves of a lakeside tea house, drops falling from the deep eaves and a fine hiss of rain on open water, with no talking at all. This is the same tea house from our Rainy Night at a Tea House on West Lake story. Black screen friendly.You will hear soft steady rain on roof tiles and leaves, slow drips from the eaves, and the small lap of lake water under the balcony, with no music, no voice, and no thunder to startle you awake. Listen with the video on YouTube: add the episode link. 🕯 Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🌙 Norse myth sleep stories, The Sleeping Almanac: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac🕊 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

    Rain Sounds for Sleeping | 3 Hours of Gentle Rain on a Tea House Roof by West Lake, No Talking

  6. Aug 28

    The Richest Man Who Ever Lived | The True Story of Mansa Musa, Told for a Calm Night

    Mansa Musa of Mali is often called the richest man who ever lived, and this is his true story, told slowly and gently so you can fall asleep inside it. He ruled the Mali Empire at its height, from about 1312 to about 1337, a realm of gold fields and salt mines and river cities that took months to cross. In 1324 he set out on the pilgrimage to Mecca with a caravan the chroniclers could barely count, crossing the Sahara by starlight, and gave away so much gold in Cairo that the price of gold there, by one careful contemporary account, stayed low for a dozen years. He met the sultan of Egypt in one of history's politest standoffs, ran short of money on the way home like any traveler, and returned with something better than what he had spent: scholars, books, and a poet of Granada who built for him. He raised mosques at Timbuktu and Gao, and the city of Timbuktu grew into one of the great centers of learning on earth, its libraries alive to this day. We tell the story the way the chroniclers told it, al Umari, Ibn Battuta, Ibn Khaldun, and we say so gently wherever the legend has outgrown the evidence.Real history for sleep: a real human voice, sources listed below, no mid roll ads, and nothing sudden. This is a Tale episode, our Friday tradition: one true story from history, told at the fireside. The story ends softly around the 65 minute mark and the desert fireside continues to the 100 minute mark. Black screen friendly. And if you would like to spend a whole night inside the city of books itself, our episode A Night in Timbuktu is waiting on this channel. Chapters:0:00 Welcome5:47 The Country Of Gold12:09 The King Who Sailed West18:04 The Caravan Gathers22:19 The Road Of Stars26:01 Gold Like Weather30:14 The Politest Standoff33:13 The Holy City, And The Empty Purse39:08 The City Of Books45:13 The Traveler, The Historian, And The Map52:10 Drifting Listen with the video on YouTube: add the episode link. New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6pm Eastern. Nights carry you inside an ordinary evening from the past. Tales, every Friday, tell one true story from history, calm enough to sleep to and interesting enough to stay up for. 🕯 Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🌙 Norse myth sleep stories, The Sleeping Almanac: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac🕊 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 Sources: Al Umari in Levtzion and Hopkins, Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History; Ibn Battuta, the Travels; Ibn Khaldun, Kitab al Ibar; Nehemia Levtzion, Ancient Ghana and Mali; Michael A. Gomez, African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa. A real human voice with AI assistance, fully disclosed. No mid roll ads, ever, so nothing wakes you.

    The Richest Man Who Ever Lived | The True Story of Mansa Musa, Told for a Calm Night

  7. Aug 26

    You are snowed in for the night in a Russian izba and sleep on the great warm stove | 3 Hour Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

    Fall asleep inside history. Tonight you are on a winter road in the far north of Russia, about a hundred and fifty years ago, when snow closes the way and a village church rings its bell through the storm to bring you in. A peasant family opens their door, and the whole slow evening of a northern izba unfolds around you: the great brick stove that fills a quarter of the room and stays warm all night, the singing samovar and the long unhurried tea, black bread and honey and mushrooms salted from the autumn woods, the spinning wheel humming by splinter light, the grandmother telling an old tale of Frost while the children listen from the sleeping shelf, felt boots drying, the storm heard soft through log walls chinked with moss, and at the end of it all the warmest bed human beings ever built, made up for you on the broad warm back of the stove itself.You will hear the wind moving around the log walls, fine dry snow hissing at the little windows, the deep soft tick of the great stove giving back its heat all night, and through the wall the horse and the cow settling in the covered yard. This is a three hour sleep story with an extended narration. The story ends softly around the 2 hour 45 minute mark, and then the snow and the warm stove continue to the third hour. Black screen friendly. Chapters:0:00 Welcome6:27 The White Road10:00 The Bell In The Snow14:00 The Door In The Storm18:39 Warmth By Degrees22:11 A House Of Logs26:16 The Great Stove31:07 The Samovar Sings36:59 Bread And Salt47:07 The Splinter Light54:58 The Grandmother'S Tale1:01:20 The Red Corner1:06:30 The House Lies Down1:09:48 The Stove Bed1:14:21 Drifting Listen with the video on YouTube: add the episode link. New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6pm Eastern. Nights carry you inside an ordinary evening from the past. Tales, every Friday, tell one true story from history, calm enough to sleep to and interesting enough to stay up for. 🕯 Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🌙 Norse myth sleep stories, The Sleeping Almanac: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac🕊 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 Sources: Donald Mackenzie Wallace, Russia (1877); Alexander Afanasyev, Russian Folk Tales; R. E. F. Smith and David Christian, Bread and Salt; Mary Matossian, The Peasant Way of Life; Ben Eklof and Stephen Frank, editors, The World of the Russian Peasant; William Craft Brumfield's surveys of the wooden architecture of the Russian North. A real human voice with AI assistance, fully disclosed. No mid roll ads, ever, so nothing wakes you.

    You are snowed in for the night in a Russian izba and sleep on the great warm stove | 3 Hour Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

  8. Aug 24

    You keep the night watch on a Polynesian voyaging canoe, a thousand years ago | Long Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

    Fall asleep inside history. Tonight you are far from every shore, a thousand years back, a young crew member on a double hulled Polynesian voyaging canoe making a calm night passage between islands. Beside you sits the navigator, an old man who carries the whole ocean in his head. There is no compass aboard, no chart, no metal, and no writing, and none is needed. You will learn how the horizon is a ring of doors where the stars rise and set, how one star hands the course to the next all night long, how the navigator reads the long ocean swell through the hull with his body, and how an island reaches out to meet a canoe with clouds and birds a full day before it can be seen. The evening meal is cooked on a hearth of sand as the sun goes down, the wake glows with the sea's own light, and everyone sleeps because one man who has never been lost is awake beside the sail.You will hear water running gently along two hulls, two voices of water braided together, the soft working creak of the lashings as the platform breathes with the swell, a steady warm trade wind, and the woven sail filling and settling overhead. This is an extended sleep story of three and a half hours. The narration ends softly around the three hour mark, and then the ocean carries on until the end. Black screen friendly. Chapters:0:00 Welcome7:45 The Day Lets Go11:43 The Canoe16:09 The Evening Meal20:22 The Navigator24:23 The Doors Of The Sky30:16 The Road Of Stars38:11 The Old Swell44:51 The Glowing Wake48:52 What The Old Man Carries56:21 The Watch Change1:01:56 Stories In The Dark1:07:46 The Island Comes Out To Meet You1:14:30 First Light On The Road1:18:55 The Canoe Runs On Listen with the video on YouTube: add the episode link. New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6pm Eastern. Nights carry you inside an ordinary evening from the past. Tales, every Friday, tell one true story from history, calm enough to sleep to and interesting enough to stay up for. 🕯 Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🌙 Norse myth sleep stories, The Sleeping Almanac: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac🕊 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 Sources: David Lewis, We, the Navigators; Ben Finney, Hokulea: The Way to Tahiti, and Voyage of Rediscovery; Sam Low, Hawaiki Rising; K. R. Howe, editor, Vaka Moana: Voyages of the Ancestors; the Polynesian Voyaging Society and the voyages of Hokulea, with the navigation of Mau Piailug and Nainoa Thompson; the journals of James Cook and Joseph Banks on the Tahitian navigator Tupaia. A real human voice with AI assistance, fully disclosed. No mid roll ads, ever, so nothing wakes you.

    You keep the night watch on a Polynesian voyaging canoe, a thousand years ago | Long Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads
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Fall asleep inside history. A calm sleep podcast that takes a single quiet night from the past, a medieval village, ancient Rome, a knight's whole life, and lets you sleep inside it. A real disclosed voice, sources in every episode, and no mid roll ads. New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Part of the Gildenmyth family. More at kingdomsatdusk.com.

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