Episode 153: Sleepy Time (Festival of Sleep Day)

After partying hard on New Year’s Eve and Day, a rest is surely deserved. In fact, there’s a day for that, called the Festival of Sleep Day, celebrated on January 3rd every year. Sleep can have some wonderful effects on the body: it lowers the blood pressure, regulates blood sugar, helps one solve a problem the next, relieve stress, and maintain weight. A lack of sleep, though, can cause heart attacks, heart failure, irregular heartbeats, high blood pressure, stroke, or diabetes. There are some that are able to function with about four hours of sleep, while some need eight or more hours to ensure the maximum benefit. For this week’s first episode of 2025, we’re playing tracks from video games that may help you fall asleep (according to an article on the internet): falling shapes set to music, climbing a spire, and surviving a mob of pixelated monsters. There’s also covers and remixes to follow each original track. Enjoy the episode, whether you plan to fall asleep to these tracks or my monotone voice…     Track Listing “Midnight Sky” – [Tetris Effect Connected] – composed by Hydelic (Noboru Mutoh, Takako Ishida) “Midnight Sky (Moon Lounge Mix)” – mixed by Hydelic “Slay the Spire” – [Slay the Spire] – composed by Clark Aboud “Slay the Spire Piano Remix” – remixed by GrandElemental “Reincarnated Echoes” – [Vampire Survivors] – composed by Daniele Zandara “[Epic Symphonic Metal] REINCARNATED ECHOES” – remixed by Mythic Souls Audio   YouTube playlist Discord channel   Source