Dreaming Under The Redwood😴 LONG BEDTIME STORY FOR GROWNUPS 💤 Adult Bedtime Story
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ธ.ค. 2024
- How to fall asleep fast? Try a guided sleep story for grownups deep sleep meditation.
This is a long guided sleep meditation deep relaxation bedtime story designed to reduce anxiety and calm an overactive mind. This guided meditation for sleep is to help you to reduce anxiety and let go of thoughts and worries while helping you to fall asleep fast.
This story was recorded during a livestream where viewers gave me ideas to create a story out of, I then ask them to close their eyes and adlib a sleep story for them live. This is the second longest guided sleep meditation story that I have created so far. It is over 85 minutes long.
This healing sleep story for adults is about you walking through a misty pine forest in search of a tree in a clearing. In the clearing you see a giant redwood tree. You watch worms and woodlice near a rotting branch on the ground near the tree before drifting asleep while resting against the tree. You imagine being a small child watching children racing snails. While watching the snails race you hear the sound of water in the background and discover yourself resting on the most beautiful golden sand on a beach. You walk along the beach, walk into the sea and dive down under the water in the shallows by the shore, noticing small fish and a stingray swimming gracefully. You then surf for a while before relaxing under a tree. You find your mind wandering to the feeling of rocking side and then discover yourself in a horse and cart in Victorian England. You enter a shop selling rugs and get given a flying carpet. You sit on the flying carpet and discover yourself flying over a golden desert at night. You fly the rug to a nearby town. You head to a cavern in the nearby hills, near the entrance you find some magic sand. In the cavern is an underground lake with a signs saying to collect a medallion from the lake dry. You meet a friendly Ogre who helps you solve the puzzle of getting the medallion. Once you have the medallion you put it around your neck and notice yourself suddenly drifting up out of your body, like rising up as a consciousness while remaining physically in place. You rise out of the cavern and out into the sky outside the cavern. While you float above the desert you use the medallion to roll time backwards and forwards. While you progress through time, you see a supernova. You travel through space nearer to the supernova and notice a planet which was destroyed by that supernova. You use your ability to reverse time, to intervene to save much of the life on that planet. After helping those on the planet you head back to the cavern and back to that shop, you leave the shop and head to a park. In the park you sit on the carpet under a tree eating sandwiches and watching those in this Victorian park. In the park you notice fairy circles on the ground and meet a fairy who tells you to go in search of a giant tortoise that you need to help. You sit on your magic carpet and think about finding that tortoise and find yourself in the countryside near a farm on a hill. You visit the farm and a greenhouse up on the farm, then you discover the giant tortoise, you learn the story of the giant tortoise and how to help. You travel into the past to a white palace, find a room with an aquarium within a mirror maze. You carefully navigate the mirror maze to a door at the far side of the room. In the room you discover the tortoise in the room and someone casting a spell on the tortoise. You freeze time and rescue the tortoise. After saving the tortoise, you find yourself waking under that redwood. You leave the redwood noticing the sun is setting and head back to your cabin. You relaxing by the fire in that cabin, enjoy the sounds of the crackling fire before heading to bed and drifting comfortably asleep.
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Spacing your words out is so brilliant, I start to drift off when there is a pause, and I’m able to fall asleep 😴 much faster then the videos I listen too that don’t pause. Thank you!!!💕💕
Space is generally very important... It is in the spaces that people can drift deeper into the experience...
I love re-finding previous stories and enjoying them again. I remember listening to this many times about a year ago and will enjoy it again tonight.
Since I wake up often at night, I particularly liked this longer sleep story. I smelled pine trees, watched a slug race, and went surfing. Thanks Dan!
You are amazing! Better than any sleeping pill! Thank you!
I’ve listened to this story dozens of times. It’s one of the best I’ve ever heard. Generally I fall asleep way before it ends. If I don’t, I enjoy the entire story.
My favorite part is imagining, in detail, the outfit I wear in each scene. So many descriptors! Love it a lot. Thanks.
Thanks Dan. I used to dread bedtime but due to you, not anymore. The way you describe experiencing nature is so captivating. And the fact you do this on the fly is pure genius. And it tickles me how you work in some of the suggestions given.
Good night all! Sweetest of dreams. 🌙
I often awake early hours of the morning and I get a lot of comfort from your stories,xx
Just wanted to say thanks-I actually used this during my lunch break and had an excellent half hour nap. Pretty amazing, as it isn't easy to relax in the middle of the day!
Woke up at 4 a.m. & cant get back to sleep😬 Todays my Birthday & I don't want to be tired while with my family later today. Dan you're the best!!Thank you so much! I struggled with insomnia since a child & this year came across your great stories..nothing has ever helped me..but your voice & stories do♡
Happy birthday, hope you have a great day...
@@DanJonesHypnosis Thank you so much,I appreciate you. Thay made me smile:) I hope that you have a great day!
I was having major anxiety trying to get to bed and thus just popped up like a miracle
I wish I'd discovered your wonderful channel earlier. You help me get back to sleep at 3:00 AM. Thank you!
Just what I need at 4am and not able to sleep.Thankyou Dan.
Hope you’re sleeping now!
Good stuff! Thank you!
Love your stories. I never make it to the end. 😴
I love your voice it's very satisfying to me please keep doing these.
Thank you... I post at least one new story every week...
I’m able to fall asleep better overall because you do such a great job with your videos!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!
Thank you so much, l just loved this.
Your stories are amazing, truly magical. 💕
I love sleep stories!
Thank you for you’re stories. I have TERRIBLE, VIVID and REALISTIC nightmares. They always center around lack of control, anxiety in the form of trying to save my family from zombies to shooters etc. I don’t think I get much sleep because I am always tired. And I am also a night person. But your stories help me go to sleep and also seem to reduce my nightmares. I went through something hard as a teenager, (things in my life changed suddenly and drastically, and the changes kept on coming) that was when the nightmares started. So, thank you for your stories and my nights of peace. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
As someone who had bad nightmares as a young child I urge you to try to lucid dream. I learned early on how to stop the nightmares which naturally taught me to lucid dream. The easiest thing I could do that took me out of the nightmare? Blinking. At first it actually woke me up. Then I got used to it and it would “wake me” in my dream. While it doesn’t wake me for real anymore, it at least jolts me from the nightmare and alerts me to the fact that I’m dreaming.
I really hope this can help you. I had such a horrific time until I learned to do this. ❤️
love your readings!
I have the most amazing dreams w these stories I love u so much
Thank you. ❤️ I start listening before I even lay down. It helps so much to start calming down.
I had to quit this one. I would drift off but the combo of a long pause and then the story starting again woke me up.
I think this does have some slightly longer pauses than I have used for a while. There is an 11 second pause, a 10 second pause and three 8 second pauses, all at key points in the story to help the listener become deeper absorbed in the experience.
It is the silences which deepen the experience most, which is why my guided sleep meditations used to have pauses of many minutes. But over the last few years an odd thing seemed to happen on TH-cam, people started disliking the pauses, whereas for years the part people liked most was how deep they went during the pauses which is what happens when I am doing therapy with someone and will perhaps go quiet for 10-15 minutes or more, or when I do group meditations where I will go quiet for perhaps 5 minutes or more.
But on TH-cam I have reduced my pauses down to usually no more than 4 seconds which makes the meditations less effective because it doesn't give people time to become absorbed in the experience, like if I say about noticing the colour of the sky, for most people it takes a while for that to form in their mind and to be seeing the colour of the sky. If I move on almost straightaway to talking about something else then they never get the chance to become deeply absorbed in the experience as it is always moving faster than they can experience it.
The idea is for my voice to be as unobtrusive as possible, so if the meditations are listened to, too loudly then my voice is likely to jolt you awake when I start speaking again, whereas if the meditations are listened to quietly, then my voice is hopefully just a gentle voice starting up again after a few seconds in the background.
The meditations I listen to to fall asleep are Meditainment meditations and, like most meditations, they pause for a couple of minutes before the speaker continues. I make sure that the meditation is on softly in the background so that it isn't like a sudden loud voice talking, but a gentle, quiet voice talking and it is unobtrusive and when pauses happen there is silence, you drift rapidly deeper and then the voice starts up gently and quietly again almost unnoticeably. This is what happens with groups in meditations sessions and when working with clients or teaching hypnotherapy, that I pause, I am talking softly and just loud enough to be heard and so when I start talking again it usually takes a few moments for people to suddenly realise I am talking again. I would say if someone is jolted alert because of my voice, my voice is too loud and so the volume probably needs turning down.
The feedback I normally get is that through most of the experience the person barely noticed my voice or that I was speaking or not as they were so absorbed in their internal experience, which is what I am aiming for.
My most popular TH-cam video I've ever had on my channel was my original Deep Trance Experience video which at the point I deleted it in 2010 had over 750,000 views. It was almost 90 minutes long with a twenty minute pause in the middle to give time for the listener to become deeply absorbed in their internal experience. At that point I had never had comments against the pauses, this started in 2016 when I uploaded new sleep meditations but described them as like sleep stories for grownups and lots of people listened to them expecting them to be just me calmly reading stories, rather than previously when people would be used to them as meditations.
Most of my meditations until the ones posted in November and December generally have pauses of around 4 seconds or less, which means that you won't get so absorbed in the experience and they won't be so effective, but using these, you are less likely to drift so deeply in the pauses, so less likely to be jolted aware of me talking again.
Something that does happen to the most responsive people is that they become so deeply absorbed in the experience that short pauses seem long. Time distortion like this is very common among highly responsive people. So it is common for people to listen to a four second pause and complain about long pauses when outside of hypnosis or meditation they can listen to the same thing and four seconds just sounds like about twice the length of a pause at the end of a sentence (if the sentence is being spoken, for example by someone giving a presentation), or about the same as the length of a pause at the end of a paragraph being spoken.
When giving talks, because the person listening isn't reading, they need time to process what is being said. Pausing, and longer pauses, increase the focus and absorption, so if a speaker sets a scene (gives you sensory information to focus on - it takes a while for the sensory experience to develop) or asks a question, or asks you to think about/consider/reflect on something, etc, they will pause for longer to give you time to process and do this. In training as a speaker you would be taught to pause for about 3-7 seconds when you want the person to become deeper absorbed in something and listening to a speaker do this, people don't notice the length of the pauses. Generally in meditation and hypnosis or relaxation etc you want to slow things down further. You get taught to time speech with the listeners breathing, so that you speak on the listeners out breath and are silent on their inbreath, this significantly deepens their state because now whenever you speak they breath out and if you extend the time you are speaking a bit, then this deepens the listeners breathing and that triggers relaxation.
Obviously everyone is different in what they like and dislike, so for one person, although generally longer pauses deepen the state they may struggle with them, or they may want a story that moves forward fast-paced and not one that focuses on sensory details etc. On my channel (which currently has over 160 guided sleep meditations on it) I try to do slightly different things with different meditations so that hopefully people can find the ones which work well for them, which have the approach, the descriptions, the topic, the pauses etc just right for them. I don't expect ever those who love my stories the most, to like all of them, but to have their favourites and ones which just don't resonate for one reason or another. The Meditainment Meditation I mainly listen to is the same one I've listened to for almost 2 decades. They do lots I don't like, so I stick with the ones I do like, but try others and if they work and I like them then I may listen again to those ones.
These stories help me so much, I fall asleep in what seems like 5 minutes and I end up having no clue what the story was actually about but I sleep like a baby and really appreciate your efforts 😊
Thank you!!🙏🏼
It took me every night until tonight to finish this one 😁💜
Thank you Dan, Goodnight 😊💤💤😴
You're a genius sir. Thank you. My name is shirleen .
That was beautiful.
Thank you.
Love this Dan 👏🏻🙏🏻
I love this story, and I love the delivery of this story. The pauses are perfect! Mountains and trees are my happy place, my calm centre. I love the big redwoods, I have been through the huge one that cars could drive through (before it went down in a horrible storm), and found great peace in that forest. Thank you for this story, it is great!
Dan, I need to designate time to make a thorough comment/review of your videos. It has restored my health!
Hi Gabrielle, I'm glad they have been helpful...
Good night dan! 😴
This story was wild, thanks Dan
Need more with background sounds...like them much more than those without...
I release one of my past meditations per week remastered with background music and sound effects.
5:08am... let’s see if this works!
Thanks
I fell asleep before I woke up
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Passed out
F Saa
Trypophobia warning - was very enchanting until it began with references to worms and holes and lice 🤮
These were some of what was requested by viewers of the last livestream where this was recorded. I give details of what is in the meditations and what happens in the video description so that people can check to see whether the meditation sounds like something they would like, for example I think it was the previous story that has rats in which I imagine some people won't like and the story before that I think had a gerbil in which I think some people didn't like, and some stories involve flying, swimming, going in caves, diving etc, so because there will be people who don't like all sorts of things I like to make people aware so they can make an informed choice of whether a meditation is for them or not.