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Sleepy Stoicism
by Luc Richard
Philosophical sleep audio from the Maritimes. Real field recordings, creeks, falls, and rain captured on location across New Brunswick, paired with slow, spare readings from the Stoics, written to be fallen asleep to. Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca at the pace of moving water. The narration is unhurried and finishes with ambient nature sounds. The location is real and named in every episode. Narration is AI-generated (ElevenLabs) from original scripts. Every ambient sound is real.
Episodes
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Why a Roman Senator Dismissed His Own Execution ⚔️ 💤
Follow Sleepy Stoicism so the next quiet hour is waiting: 🔴 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BayBorealImmersive 🟣 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleepy-stoicism/id6791053738 ☀️ DayStoic - One free Stoic quote in your inbox each morning https://www.daystoic.com/en 🛖 Come...
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Why Marcus Aurelius Didn't Want the Throne 💤
☀️ DayStoic - One free Stoic quote in your inbox each morninghttps://www.daystoic.com/en Follow Sleepy Stoicism so the next quiet hour is waiting: 🔴 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BayBorealImmersive 🟣 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleepy-stoicism/id6791053738 🛖 Come...
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Start Here - Ancient Stories for Nights When Sleep Won't Come
Listen and follow: 🟥 YouTube: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGbw83Fqn7bY 🟣 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleepy-stoicism/id6791053738 Stoic lives, quiet meditations, and stories told slowly for the end of the day. Beneath the narration, you’ll hear real places…
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Meditate on Your Place in the Cosmic Circle and Fall Asleep 💤
Follow Sleepy Stoicism so the next quiet hour is waiting: 🔴 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BayBorealImmersive 🟣 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleepy-stoicism/id6791053738 🛖 Come in, drifters. If you're lying awake feeling cut off from people and weighed down by...
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The Senator Who Walked Out on Nero | A Sleepy Stoic Life from Hopewell Rocks, New Brunswick
Follow Sleepy Stoicism so the next quiet hour is waiting: 🔴 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BayBorealImmersive 🟣 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleepy-stoicism/id6791053738 🛖 Come in, drifters. Cannot tell whether a stand you took was principle or pride? Tonight…
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Seneca in Nero's Court: Putting Down the World | A Sleepy Stoic Life from Cavendish, PEI
Follow Sleepy Stoicism so the next quiet hour is waiting: 🔴 YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGbw83Fqn7bY 🟣 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleepy-stoicism/id6791053738 🛖 Come in, drifters. A Stoic philosopher spent eight years governing the Roman Empire from a...
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Hercules at the Crossroads | A Stoic Sleep Story from Irishtown Nature Park, New Brunswick
Follow Sleepy Stoicism so the next quiet hour is waiting 🔴 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@BayBorealImmersive 🟣 Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleepy-stoicism/id6791053738 🛖 Come in, drifters. If you have been going to bed feeling like the day was empty, like nothing in…
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The Push and the Shape | A Stoic Sleep Story from Fundy National Park, New Brunswick
Follow Sleepy Stoicism so the next quiet hour is waiting 🔴 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@BayBorealImmersive 🟣 Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleepy-stoicism/id6791053738 🛖 Come in, drifters. What if the thing that makes you spiral when life hits is not the hit itself,...
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Seneca in Egypt: Healing a Fragile Body | A Sleepy Stoic Life from Martin's Head
Follow Sleepy Stoicism so the next quiet hour is waiting: 🔴 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BayBorealImmersive 🟣 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleepy-stoicism/id6791053738 🛖 Come in, drifters. Seneca was a young man when years of cold-water plunges, fasting, and hard...
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Cato the Younger | A Sleepy Stoic Life from White Rock, New Brunswick
Follow Sleepy Stoicism so the next quiet hour is waiting: 🔴 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BayBorealImmersive 🟣 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleepy-stoicism/id6791053738 🛖 Come in, drifters. Tonight, beside the creek at White Rock, New Brunswick, we follow Cato the...
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Carrying the Weight | A Sleepy Stoic Life from Irishtown Nature Park, New Brunswick
Follow Sleepy Stoicism so the next quiet hour is waiting: 🔴 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BayBorealImmersive 🟣 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleepy-stoicism/id6791053738 🛖 Come in, drifters. Tonight, a quiet life from the Acadian forest at Irishtown Nature Park…
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Epictetus and the Clay Lamp | A Stoic Sleep Meditation from Haut-du-Ruisseau, New Brunswick
Follow Sleepy Stoicism so the next quiet hour is waiting: 🔴 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BayBorealImmersive🟣 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleepy-stoicism/id6791053738 🛖 Some nights the mind lies awake guarding one small thing: a plan that might break, a loss that...
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Marcus Aurelius at Carnuntum | A Sleepy Stoic Life from Mill Creek, New Brunswick
🛖 Come in, drifters. At Carnuntum, Marcus Aurelius carries a war through illness, cold, and unglamorous work, while soldiers, clerks, physicians, and messengers carry it with him. From the real water and wind of Mill Creek in New Brunswick, this Sleepy Stoic life follows the modest comforts and...
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The Hour You Still Have | A Stoic Sleep Story from Villa Borghese, Rome
🛖 Come in, drifters. While the Roman Senate decided his fate, Paconius Agrippinus kept his exercise hour and stepped into the cold bath. This Stoic sleep story, recorded beneath the Roman pines of Villa Borghese, is for the night when you are still awake and already measuring how tired you will…
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The Odyssey: The Long Way Home | A Stoic Sleep Story from Moneglia, Italy
🛖 Come in, drifters. A blind singer tells the story of Troy, and the victorious Odysseus hides his face and weeps. Tonight we follow his long return through war, pride, loss, hospitality, recognition, and the fear that experience has made ordinary human life impossible. 🌙 My real sleep routine,...
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When Life Doesn't Go to Plan | A Sleepy Stoic Life from Siena, Italy
🛖 Come in, drifters. Zeno loses a valuable cargo of purple in a shipwreck, reaches Athens, and follows a passing philosopher into the life he never planned. This Sleepy Stoic life moves from the bookseller's stall and Crates's lentil-porridge lesson to the Painted Porch, beneath real night…
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Start Here - Ancient Stories for Sleepless Nights
Some nights, tomorrow arrives before sleep does. Bay & Boreal: Sleepy Stoicism turns the lives and practices of the ancient Stoics into long sleep stories, quiet meditations, and gentle company for racing thoughts. Follow Seneca into exile, Fannia through a forbidden doorway, Zeno out of a...
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The Books She Carried into Exile | A Sleepy Stoic Life from Rome, Italy
🛖 Come in, drifters. It is full dark above a narrow alley near the Pantheon in Rome. Supper is still carrying on below: many voices gathered into a murmur, dishes, glasses, and chairs moving over stone. You do not have to stay awake to hear how the evening finishes. 🌙 My real sleep routine, the...
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Fear Is Not an Order | A Stoic Sleep Story from the Appian Way, Rome
🛖 Come in, drifters. It is toward evening beside the monument traditionally called the Tomb of Seneca, along the Appian Way in Rome. Insects fill the grass with a living chorus, an occasional bird calls above them, and the old road can keep moving without you. 🌙 My real sleep routine, the one I...
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Seneca's Eight Years in Exile | A Sleepy Stoic Life from Moneglia, Italy
🛖 Come in, drifters. A ship approaches Corsica carrying Seneca into eight years of exile. He wants to return to Rome almost the whole time, but the years on the island fill with study, weather, family concern, and two letters that reveal both his discipline and his longing. This Sleepy Stoic…
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The Year Seneca Asked to Leave | A Sleepy Stoic Life from the Sussex Bluffs, NB
🛖 Come in, drifters. I walked up in the afternoon and I have not moved since, and I do not intend to. It is full dark on the Bluffs now, the rock has given back the last of its heat, and there is a whole valley going to bed underneath us. 🌙 My real sleep routine, the one I actually run every...
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The Water Carrier | A Sleepy Stoic Life from the Maple Grove, NB
🛖 Come in, drifters, and mind your footing. No walking tonight, I did that before the light went. We're sitting inside a stand of sugar maples two hundred years old, on a dark ridge in Fundy National Park, with no water anywhere near us and a story that is made of almost nothing else. 🌙 My real...
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Marcus Aurelius at the Games | A Sleepy Stoic Life from the Colosseum, Rome
🛖 Come in, drifters. The real fountain beside the Colosseum carries this Sleepy Stoic life of Marcus Aurelius through the public games Rome expected him to attend, provide, and pay for. It is for the night when somebody else's noise, hurry, or certainty has followed you home and kept speaking...
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The Evening Review | A Stoic Sleep Story from Rotary St-Anselme Park, NB
🛖 Come in. No walking tonight, there's a bench by the still water at Rotary St-Anselme Park, and the evening is putting the pond away for the night. We're staying until it's done, and a little past it. 🌙 My real sleep routine, the one I actually run every night (affiliate links, so using them...
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The View from Above | A Stoic Sleep Meditation from the Sussex Bluffs, NB
🛖 Come in, and mind the drop. No walking tonight, I did the climbing before the light left. We're sitting on the open rock at the top of the Bluffs, with the whole of Dutch Valley going dark below us, one farm light at a time. 🌙 My real sleep routine, the one I actually run every night…
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The Open Hand | A Stoic Sleep Story from the Dobson Trail, NB
🛖 Come along. We're walking tonight, deep under the canopy on the Dobson Trail, while the last of the light leaves the trees. The path is soft, the evening is going out around us one bird at a time, and you don't have to do anything at all. 🌙 My real sleep routine, the one I actually run every...
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The Inner Citadel | A Stoic Sleep Story from Dickson Falls, NB
🛖 Come in, drifters. No walking tonight. There's a wooden platform at the bottom of the Dickson Falls ravine, right beside the water, and I came down the stairs early, so I'm already sitting. You lie where you are, and let the falls hold the hour. 🌙 My real sleep routine, the one I actually run...
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The Doused Fire | A Stoic Sleep Story from Irishtown Nature Park, NB
🛖 Come in. No walking tonight, we're staying in. The rain moved in at dusk and never let up, the lamp is turned low, and the roof is doing the thing tin roofs were made for. (00:00) Rain at Irishtown (03:46) The Argument That Didn't Finish (06:45) The Brother's Prescription (13:12) The Raised…
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No Great Thing Is Sudden | A Stoic Sleep Story from Rotary St-Anselme Park, NB
🛖 Come in. No walking tonight. There's a bench by the pond at Rotary St-Anselme, and I got here early, and I'm already sitting. Tonight is for the nights you feel behind in life, the midnight ledger that adds up where you should be by now and always returns the same verdict. Epictetus had the...
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The Imagined Storm | A Stoic Sleep Story from Crooked Creek Falls, NB
🛖 Come in. We're back at the hut tonight. The door's open, the lamp is low, and the fire is kept small on purpose, so the creek can do the talking. Tonight is for the three in the morning mind, the one that builds tomorrow's storm down to the last nail and makes you stand out in it. So I'm…
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The Lamp | A Stoic Sleep Story from Irishtown Nature Park, NB
🛖 Come along. The hut can keep the fire tonight, we're taking the path. The footsteps you hear are mine, real ones, on a real trail, and they'll carry you the whole way. You don't have to take a single step. Tonight, the life of Epictetus, the slave who couldn't be owned. Born property, lamed...
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The Dichotomy of Control | The Hut at Crooked Creek Falls, NB
🛖 Come in. The door's open, the lamp is low, and the fire is kept small on purpose, so the creek can do the talking. Tonight, the oldest and simplest idea the Stoics ever had: some things are yours, and most things are not. A slow walk through Epictetus' dichotomy of control, told from the hut…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Philosophical sleep audio from the Maritimes. Real field recordings, creeks, falls, and rain captured on location across New Brunswick, paired with slow, spare readings from the Stoics, written to be fallen asleep to. Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca at the pace of moving water. The narration is unhurried and finishes with ambient nature sounds. The location is real and named in every episode. Narration is AI-generated (ElevenLabs) from original scripts. Every ambient sound is real.
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Luc Richard
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Philosophical sleep audio from the Maritimes. Real field recordings, creeks, falls, and rain captured on location across New Brunswick, paired with slow, spare readings from the Stoics, written to be fallen asleep to. Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca at the pace of moving water. The narration...
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