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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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. Each season moves through a different story tradition. Norse mythology, Egyptian myth, the great fairy tales from Cinderella to The Little Mermaid, the tales of 1001 Nights, and now Season Four, Homer's Odyssey. New episodes several times a week, 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 This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

  1. 18h ago

    The Moon Princess Kaguya · The Original Tale · 3 Hour Full Moon Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story for the night of the full moon, to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller reaches the last page of the old book, and she has saved it for this exact night: The Moon Princess, from The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, the tenth century Japanese story sometimes called the oldest fairy tale of all. An old bamboo cutter finds a stalk glowing in his grove, and inside it a princess small enough to rest in his two hands. She grows into a lady so gentle that five grand suitors are set five impossible tasks and refused without one unkind word, an emperor becomes her friend by letter, and when the moon at last sends its shining procession down for her, she leaves behind a letter and a gift, carried to the summit of the highest mountain in Japan. 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 farewell in it, but it is the gentlest farewell in any storybook, told with far more moonlight than sorrow. 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 12 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 12 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 princess the moon calls home, told on the night of the full moon, the last tale of the season. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters:0:00 Welcome3:26 The Grove of Green Light12:53 The Smallest Princess in the World23:04 The Five Suitors33:48 The Stone Bowl of the Buddha40:50 The Jeweled Branch of Horai51:45 The Robe of the Fire Rat59:02 The Jewel in the Dragon's Neck1:06:53 The Swallow's Shell1:16:20 The Emperor's Letters1:24:32 The Fifteenth Night of the Eighth Month1:38:09 The Smoke of the Mountain1:45:18 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 Moon Princess Kaguya · The Original Tale · 3 Hour Full Moon Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

  2. 2d ago

    The Snow Queen · 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 The Snow Queen, Andersen's long winter tale of 1844. A troll's mirror shatters into splinters finer than dust, one splinter finds a boy named Kay, and his friend Gerda simply sets out to bring him home. Her road passes roses growing along a roof gutter, a robber girl who lends her own white reindeer, and a wise woman near the top of the world who says the truest thing in the whole story: the girl's own gentle heart is already power enough. The ice palace gives way to patience, not to force, and two friends walk home into summer. 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 deep ice in it, but the whole story is about the thaw, and nearly every stranger Gerda meets ends up helping her on her way. 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 11 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 11 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 long walk north, and the thaw at the end of it. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters:0:00 Welcome3:32 The Mirror of the Trolls8:46 The Roses on the Roof Gutter15:36 The White Sledge25:12 The River and the Cherry Garden39:04 The Crow Who Knew a Princess48:40 The Prince and the Princess57:51 The Little Robber Girl1:10:58 The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman1:21:33 The Word Made of Ice1:30:13 The Road Home Runs Through Spring1:36:46 The Roses in Bloom1:43:24 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 Snow Queen · The Original Fairy Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

  3. 6d ago

    The Wizard of Oz · 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 The Wizard of Oz, as L. Frank Baum wrote it in 1900. The shoes are silver in the original, the Good Witch of the North leaves a kiss on Dorothy's forehead that keeps her safe on the whole road, the Emerald City hands out green spectacles at its gates, a field of poppies lies deep with sleep, and there is a small quiet country made entirely of china. The road is yellow brick and the pace is a walking pace, all the way there and all the way home. 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 witches in it, but the ones we walk beside are kind, and the road stays even underfoot the whole way. 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 10 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 10 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 yellow brick road at a bedtime pace. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters:0:00 Welcome2:43 The House on the Gray Prairie12:10 The Silver Shoes and the Kiss25:05 The Road of Yellow Brick38:54 The Man of Tin49:13 The Cowardly Lion1:01:46 The Field of Scarlet Poppies1:12:48 The Emerald City and the Green Spectacles1:26:17 The Four Faces of Oz1:38:12 The Golden Cap1:54:44 The Man Behind the Screen2:14:55 The China Country and Glinda the Good2:32:00 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 Wizard of Oz · The Original Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

  4. Aug 20

    Mulan · The Original Ballad · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    A slow, calm 3 hour storybook sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to the Ballad of Mulan, the short poem from the Northern Wei dynasty that began the whole legend, told long and slow. A daughter at her loom hears the army lists calling her father's name, so she buys a horse at one market, a saddle at another, a bridle at a third, a long whip at the fourth, and rides north in his place. Twelve years she serves, and her comrades never know. When the emperor offers her any reward she can name, she asks only for a swift horse home, and the ballad closes with its famous gentle riddle, two hares running side by side through the grass. 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 war at the far edges of it, but it stays at the edges; the story keeps its eyes on the loom, the river, the mountain road, and the long ride home. 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 9 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 9 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 daughter who rode twelve years in her father's place. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters:0:00 Welcome3:20 The Loom That Faced the Door8:57 Twelve Scrolls of Paper15:51 The Four Markets26:19 The Yellow River Nights34:56 The Horses of the Black Mountain41:55 Ten Thousand Miles Like Flying50:39 Twelve Winters, Twelve Springs58:30 The Hall of Light1:04:54 The Road Home1:12:39 The Dress by the Window1:20:19 The Two Hares1:27:58 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.

    Mulan · The Original Ballad · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

  5. Aug 18

    The Odyssey · The Gathering of the War · The Untold Story Before Troy · 3 Hour Sleep Story

    A slow, calm 3 hour Greek mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Everyone knows the ten years at Troy. Tonight is the story just before it, the half forgotten season when the war was still only a rumor crossing the water. A king plows his own field with salt to escape an oath he invented himself, and loses the one contest of wits he ever plainly lost. A goddess hides her son, the greatest warrior the world will ever know, in the last place anyone would think to look, among a king's daughters, in a borrowed dress. A peddler comes ashore with silks and a single spear, and one horn note undoes all the hiding in a heartbeat. And at the end, in one small bay, a thousand ships gather and wait for nothing in the world but a wind. This is Part 2 of 2. If you have not yet heard how Odysseus himself came to be, that story, The Making of Odysseus, is on this channel too. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. A war is coming for these men, but it stays far off all night, on the far side of the sea. Not one sword is raised in this telling. There are only farewells, disguises, clever men being clever, and ships gathering on quiet water. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. A Sleeping Almanac special · Part 2 of 2 · The full Odyssey season continues on this channel Chapters (real times, computed from the build audio, see status note above)0:00 Welcome7:06 Chapter One: The Sail with No Business There16:41 Chapter Two: The Warning of Twenty Years23:54 Chapter Three: The King Who Sowed Salt34:31 Chapter Four: The Leaving of Ithaca45:25 Chapter Five: The Boy with Two Fates53:36 Chapter Six: The Island of Hidden Things1:01:43 Chapter Seven: The Peddler at the Door1:11:08 Chapter Eight: The Horn and the Spear1:20:54 Chapter Nine: The Bay of a Thousand Fires1:29:43 Chapter Ten: The Counting of the Ships1:44:45 Chapter Eleven: The Last Night at Aulis1:50:09 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Sails Going Out at Dawn 🕯 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 This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, relaxation, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. Drawn from Homer's Iliad, including the Catalogue of Ships, Apollodorus' Bibliotheca, Hyginus' Fabulae, and the summary of the lost Cypria. These are retellings. Where the old stories turn toward fear or cruelty, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 6pm ET. 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. Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/v1sADE-DYKgNew episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 6pm ET. 🎙 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/id1890348796 #SleepStory #TheOdyssey #GreekMythology #Odysseus

  6. Aug 18

    Robin Hood · The Original Legend · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    A slow, calm 3 hour storybook sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to Robin Hood, from the oldest ballads and the Gest of Robyn Hode, the greenwood as it always was. A tall stranger met on a narrow bridge with a quarterstaff, a friar who carries an outlaw across a river and back again, a golden arrow won in plain sight, a poor knight lent four hundred pounds and his dignity with it, and a king who comes to the greenwood to see for himself. Sherwood at dusk is one of the calmest places any story has ever kept. 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 arrows in it, but they are aimed only at willow wands and targets, and nobody in the greenwood goes to sleep hungry or afraid. 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 8 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 8 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 greenwood and its gentleman outlaw. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters:0:00 Welcome2:28 The Greenwood10:04 The Stranger on the Bridge18:54 The Miller's Son and the Man in Scarlet26:34 The Knight at Dinner34:24 Four Hundred Pounds44:04 The Friar at the River51:07 The Golden Arrow56:03 The Splitting of the Wand1:03:08 The King Comes to the Greenwood1:09:28 Lincoln Green1:16:52 The Turning of the Year1:25:47 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.

    Robin Hood · The Original Legend · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

  7. Aug 16

    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

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    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 Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday night. Everything we make: gildenmyth.com

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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. Each season moves through a different story tradition. Norse mythology, Egyptian myth, the great fairy tales from Cinderella to The Little Mermaid, the tales of 1001 Nights, and now Season Four, Homer's Odyssey. New episodes several times a week, 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 This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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