Nyx, Hypnos and Morpheus: The Complete Story of Night, Sleep and Dreams | Greek Mythology for Sleep

Nyx, Hypnos and Morpheus: The Complete Story of Night, Sleep and Dreams | Greek Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet retelling of the Greek gods of night, sleep and dreams, made for falling asleep to. Which is either very fitting or slightly too on the nose, depending on how you look at it.The whole story of the three of them, told at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.The mother came first, and she came very early — one of the oldest things in existence, older than most of the gods and feared by the ones who weren't. There's a moment in the old poems where the king of the gods wants to punish someone and stops, because they've taken shelter with her and even he won't go that far. Out of her came a long line of children, most of them things nobody wants: age, strife, blame, the end. But also sleep, and out of sleep came the dreams. What follows is where each of them lived — a house at the edge of the world where no light reaches and no sound carries, with a river running past it that makes you forget — and what they were said to do at night. Sleep is described as the gentlest of them, the only one everybody welcomes, and the one who once did a very dangerous favour for a goddess and regretted it. His son is the one who takes the shape of people in your dreams, which is a strangely specific job and the reason his name still means something today.But the point of this recording isn't really the story. It's the hour or two spent drifting through it. The voice stays low and even the whole way through. No music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Every sentence sits at roughly the same level as the one before it, so nothing ever pulls your attention back up to the surface.That's what makes it work on the nights when your head won't switch off. It's just interesting enough to give your thoughts something to hold, and slow enough that they let go of it on their own. You don't have to follow along. You don't have to remember any of it in the morning. If you drift off somewhere near the beginning and wake up much later, in the house where sleep lives, you've used this exactly the way it's meant to be used. Most people don't make it past the first half hour, and the rest will still be here tomorrow night.Put it on, turn the volume down, and let it go on without you.Mythology & Folklore for Sleep — long, calm retellings of Greek myths, Norse legends, Egyptian tales, Hindu epics, Chinese classics and old folklore from around the world, made for insomnia and the hours when you can't sleep. Bedtime stories for adults, told in a slow, quiet voice. New episodes every day.