Thank you for putting so much time & energy into making these videos... You bring peace & sleep to so many people!!💤 Still one of my favourites! Lighthouses are moderately terrifying lol …but I love this!
Thank you, I have all night compilations so my voice just keeps going, also pretty much everything (about 360 tracks) is available on streaming and download services like Spotify, Apple Music etc where you could create playlists of tracks to just continuously have playing...
I’m afraid I have to say, I’m not keen on your new style of narration. It sounds strangely robotic and forced to me. I had to stop the video and find your older material where your narration is so much more natural and soothing - like on the recent sleep story about finding wisdom with the humpback whales, that worked on me really well! Please consider going back to classic Dan Jones style!
I still post the same old style stories every single week on my Dan Jones Slumberland TH-cam channel. These stories and my classic style are the same style of recording, except these have sound effects. My first few Magical stories were slightly different in that I fully scripted them, but this took about 30-40 hours to write the script, which in my opinion made them some of the best stories I've done in terms of wording, because I was able to work more on descriptions etc and on accuracy when talking about real locations (like the outback story), but because it took so long to just write the scripts, I reduced time spent on editing and didn't remove my breath noises, which people commented made the stories sound staccato. Usually I have been removing most breath noises in my stories for years, but this takes hours. When I got the comments about the breathing I decided I would have to edit out breaths again, so had to save time elsewhere and decided to go back to ad-libbing the stories like my classic stories, so this is what I did in this story and in previous stories and subsequent stories, so this is adlibbed like my classic stories. The only difference is I usually adlib from a random list of words, whereas because I have to keep these simple (for SFX reasons and the time it takes if I have to do complex SFX) I write an outline of the bases I want to cover in the story (this is what I read at the beginning of the story when I summerise the story, this is the only bit I read. In my classic stories I don't read anything), then I use this description instead of a random list of words. I absorb myself in the experience of the story and create a story to match the description, working from one beat to the next. The only other thing I have is two bullet points, one saying insert body scan here and stating at what point I want to have the body scan and then I have insert countdown here stating where I want the countdown, then when I reach those points I transition to adlibbing the body scan or countdown. But other than that they are made identically to my classic stories (which post weekly on my other channel and weekly on Patreon (I post two classic stories per week and a magical story per week)). I record them in the same voice and at the same time back to back and then edit them the same, but then the magical stories have sound effects added. These, as they are much simpler and created from a brief outline of story beats are more relaxed and less forced and the vocal recording is far less stressful to do, whereas often my classic ones are created while I'm stressed trying to do them, especially older classic ones like the Finding Wisdom story which was from almost five years ago (because I wasn't doing this full-time, so didn't have a process in place for randomly generating enough words to work with), where I'm trying to come up with an actual story, trying to make sure it is therapeutic to help with at least stress, anxiety and worry and trying to have that story last a minimum of 30 minutes but aiming for 45 and happy if I can hit 60. Whereas the magical stories, I just have to absorb myself in a simple journey and maybe light story beats, like absorbing myself in describing a beach and view to a lighthouse, in the sensory experience of heading to a cabin, the sensory experience of following a tunnel, of being in a lighthouse during a storm etc, and I've mostly just got my eyes shut imagining the experience and talking about the experience I'm imagining. I do this during my classic stories, but I also have to include more plot and possibly characters etc
@@DanJonesHypnosis I couldn't relax into this video. Your voice seemed faster than usual. I discontinued it and went to another. There are so many to choose from. Thank you for everything you do. I really appreciate finding your channel.
I was just testing releasing just before most of my viewers watch the video, rather than in time for UK viewers first (which is about 4 hours before the sharp rise in US views). So far though, this is my worst performing video since I started doing the magical stories. It did get the most views in the first few hours compared to my other videos because they all released 4 hours before most viewers watch and this released when most viewers watch, but as of right now it has the lowest views at 8 hours since going live. Obviously this might even out or change with time, but at least initially this has been my worst performing video. It is also the first of these videos where the net subscriber rate is negative, rather than gaining subscribers. There is a fault in the video, which I fixed with TH-cam's editor, but I'm waiting for TH-cam to show they have implemented the fix. That could be contributing to the lower performance.
@@DanJonesHypnosis personally, I liked this time as it fits better with my bedtime so I do hope it evens out but ultimately you've got to do whats best for your channel, so if it doesn't work it doesn't work. Will sack the later release or try it out a bit more? Like Ellen said, sounds are really nice in this one
It by the next release it hasn't worked for this video then I will go to the normal time. It shouldn't make any difference for US audience as it just means that instead of it going live just before bed, it is already available for when you get to bedtime, but for a UK/EU audience it means they have to essentially wait until Wednesday nighttime before they get to listen to the video, so it makes a lot more sense releasing it at 11pm, because then UK/EU people can listen at bedtime and 4 hours later US/Canada etc people can listen as their bedtimes roll around and they will know the video is there waiting to listen to that night. Most videos I watch seem to be released about 8am UK time, but I don't watch any of them until the end of the day, and like knowing earlier in the day that I've got those videos to look forward to that evening...
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Great story.
The timing was a nice surprise! Actually listening right away for once. The sound effects on this one were especially well done and relaxing.
Dan, you are the best narrator ever. Thank you 🙏🏼.
Thank you...
Ok going to try this one. Hopefully I go to the lighthouse
Don't remember anything just work up super sick
Just like magic!
🙏 always nice to have your warm voice to end my day. 😇
Always nice Dan… forget to leave comments and thank you because it works! Every. Single. Time 😊
Thank you for watching/listening and for taking the time to leave a comment...
I love your channel so much⚘your comforting voice is magical
Thank you, glad that the content is helpful...
Thank you for putting so much time & energy into making these videos... You bring peace & sleep to so many people!!💤
Still one of my favourites! Lighthouses are moderately terrifying lol …but I love this!
Thank you...
Excellent! These are such great comfort to fall asleep to🤗
Yes! Sound affects more effects! You’re good at that! ✈️
We reunite again on a sleepless early morning 🥂🙂
So beautiful, may i friendly say that i'm always 😢when your voice-telling, stops, oh so miss it, blessings from Belgium
Thank you, I have all night compilations so my voice just keeps going, also pretty much everything (about 360 tracks) is available on streaming and download services like Spotify, Apple Music etc where you could create playlists of tracks to just continuously have playing...
@@DanJonesHypnosis Wonderful! thank you so dearly (just new sub, so discovering your work), much appreciation!
I love this one! Thank you! ❤️
Very nice
Yay thank you my friend I'll be sleeping like a baby tonight 🥰💤💤
On board
I’m afraid I have to say, I’m not keen on your new style of narration. It sounds strangely robotic and forced to me. I had to stop the video and find your older material where your narration is so much more natural and soothing - like on the recent sleep story about finding wisdom with the humpback whales, that worked on me really well! Please consider going back to classic Dan Jones style!
I still post the same old style stories every single week on my Dan Jones Slumberland TH-cam channel. These stories and my classic style are the same style of recording, except these have sound effects. My first few Magical stories were slightly different in that I fully scripted them, but this took about 30-40 hours to write the script, which in my opinion made them some of the best stories I've done in terms of wording, because I was able to work more on descriptions etc and on accuracy when talking about real locations (like the outback story), but because it took so long to just write the scripts, I reduced time spent on editing and didn't remove my breath noises, which people commented made the stories sound staccato.
Usually I have been removing most breath noises in my stories for years, but this takes hours. When I got the comments about the breathing I decided I would have to edit out breaths again, so had to save time elsewhere and decided to go back to ad-libbing the stories like my classic stories, so this is what I did in this story and in previous stories and subsequent stories, so this is adlibbed like my classic stories. The only difference is I usually adlib from a random list of words, whereas because I have to keep these simple (for SFX reasons and the time it takes if I have to do complex SFX) I write an outline of the bases I want to cover in the story (this is what I read at the beginning of the story when I summerise the story, this is the only bit I read. In my classic stories I don't read anything), then I use this description instead of a random list of words. I absorb myself in the experience of the story and create a story to match the description, working from one beat to the next. The only other thing I have is two bullet points, one saying insert body scan here and stating at what point I want to have the body scan and then I have insert countdown here stating where I want the countdown, then when I reach those points I transition to adlibbing the body scan or countdown. But other than that they are made identically to my classic stories (which post weekly on my other channel and weekly on Patreon (I post two classic stories per week and a magical story per week)).
I record them in the same voice and at the same time back to back and then edit them the same, but then the magical stories have sound effects added.
These, as they are much simpler and created from a brief outline of story beats are more relaxed and less forced and the vocal recording is far less stressful to do, whereas often my classic ones are created while I'm stressed trying to do them, especially older classic ones like the Finding Wisdom story which was from almost five years ago (because I wasn't doing this full-time, so didn't have a process in place for randomly generating enough words to work with), where I'm trying to come up with an actual story, trying to make sure it is therapeutic to help with at least stress, anxiety and worry and trying to have that story last a minimum of 30 minutes but aiming for 45 and happy if I can hit 60.
Whereas the magical stories, I just have to absorb myself in a simple journey and maybe light story beats, like absorbing myself in describing a beach and view to a lighthouse, in the sensory experience of heading to a cabin, the sensory experience of following a tunnel, of being in a lighthouse during a storm etc, and I've mostly just got my eyes shut imagining the experience and talking about the experience I'm imagining. I do this during my classic stories, but I also have to include more plot and possibly characters etc
@@DanJonesHypnosis I couldn't relax into this video. Your voice seemed faster than usual. I discontinued it and went to another. There are so many to choose from. Thank you for everything you do. I really appreciate finding your channel.
I was wondering where you were 😆
I was just testing releasing just before most of my viewers watch the video, rather than in time for UK viewers first (which is about 4 hours before the sharp rise in US views). So far though, this is my worst performing video since I started doing the magical stories.
It did get the most views in the first few hours compared to my other videos because they all released 4 hours before most viewers watch and this released when most viewers watch, but as of right now it has the lowest views at 8 hours since going live.
Obviously this might even out or change with time, but at least initially this has been my worst performing video. It is also the first of these videos where the net subscriber rate is negative, rather than gaining subscribers.
There is a fault in the video, which I fixed with TH-cam's editor, but I'm waiting for TH-cam to show they have implemented the fix. That could be contributing to the lower performance.
@@DanJonesHypnosis personally, I liked this time as it fits better with my bedtime so I do hope it evens out but ultimately you've got to do whats best for your channel, so if it doesn't work it doesn't work. Will sack the later release or try it out a bit more? Like Ellen said, sounds are really nice in this one
It by the next release it hasn't worked for this video then I will go to the normal time. It shouldn't make any difference for US audience as it just means that instead of it going live just before bed, it is already available for when you get to bedtime, but for a UK/EU audience it means they have to essentially wait until Wednesday nighttime before they get to listen to the video, so it makes a lot more sense releasing it at 11pm, because then UK/EU people can listen at bedtime and 4 hours later US/Canada etc people can listen as their bedtimes roll around and they will know the video is there waiting to listen to that night.
Most videos I watch seem to be released about 8am UK time, but I don't watch any of them until the end of the day, and like knowing earlier in the day that I've got those videos to look forward to that evening...