Episode 24 | The Forest Waterfall Pool | Sleep Story

Tnight the Sleepy Journey Pod takes you to a deep forest waterfall, where a clear circular pool receives a column of water that has been falling against the same basalt cliff for thousands of years. The pod hovers in the mist-laden air beside the fall,held in the updraft,surrounded by fern banks heavy with condensed spray and moss boulders the size of small houses. Cold pool water below.Col damp air against the pod' exterior. The warmth of the gold-lit interior holding around you. Three layered sounds emerge slowly — the waterfall's continuous roar,the pool's softer percussion as it receives the fall,and the smallest sound of all, the slow irregular drip of spray-gathered water falling from the upper tree-fern fronds.cArtwelve unhurried chapters the green canopy light shifts, a cloud passes,the day softens toward evening,and the forest holds it all in its deep green dark.Knowledge dissolves into the scene — the age of the stone, the journey of the water from its high bog source, the two-hundred-million-year lineage of the tree ferns above the pool.A sleep story for anyone who needs to feel physically held by something older than memory.If this episode helps you rest,please consider supporting the show on Patreon, where you'll find bonus episodes, longer-form journeys, and white noise versions of every story for use throughout the night.Sleep well.