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Drift into Sleep with Enchanting Stories: The Artfully Crafted Sleep Podcast. Experience a new realm of tranquility with our podcast dedicated to bringing you unique, artistically driven sleep stories. Each episode is a soothing journey, blending imaginative narratives with calming soundscapes designed to lull you into a peaceful slumber. Whether you're struggling with insomnia, seeking stress relief, or simply wishing to enhance your bedtime routine, our tales provide the perfect escape. Jo ...
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Welcome to our new series called "The Rambling Traveler"! My name is Sam, and I've spent a good portion of the past year traveling around on my own. In this series, you will hear my ramble on about all the places I've visited. Suited perfectly for sleep, these stories will keep you interested enough that you will listen, but my constant tangents, r…
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In the realm of speculative science fiction, the needle is always moving. As scientific discovery has barreled into the future since the industrial revolution, science fiction burst into the modern with novels like Frankenstein and The War of the Worlds. In the mid 1980s, the same drastic leap forward would usher the genre into the contemporary wit…
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The Andean Mountain Range: a lush tapestry of cultures, home to some of the oldest and most successful civilizations on the planet. Due to the sheer devastation at the hands of Spanish conquistadors, the rich history of the people groups along the western coast of South America have been forever obscured. This includes many of the artefacts of the …
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Sleep Stories: Anecdotes from times well before our years; Prophetic animals, a Midnight Dance, Horse Senators, and many more short stories that go from the benign to the foolhardy. This is a reading through the first half of "Mispogon" - A satirical analysis of the people on Antioch as seen through Emperor Julian. --- When In Rome: Cobbled roads u…
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The western plateaus of Tibet and Xinjiang have long held an air of legend and exoticism throughout the history of China; however, despite how emblematic the western regions have become, there has been one western figure that has been obscured in the many years she’s walked its plains. The queen of immortals Xiwangmu has been dated back to Shang dy…
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Sleep Stories: Quaint Anecdotes from times well before our years; Prophetic animals, a Midnight Dance, Horse Senators, and many more short stories that go from the benign to the foolhardy. This is the second volume of Roman Sleep Stories. --- When In Rome: Cobbled roads under a relaxed stride, the sharp scent of braziers burning, marble columns spe…
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This chapter of Hypnopaedia: LIT 101 listeners look into the collection of famed Sci-fi author Octavia Butler. Lauded as the creator of some of the most predictive science fiction series, this chapter reveals the life experiences that gained Butler her cutting edge perspective while surrounding listeners with the sounds of a quiet dorm room after d…
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Sleep Stories: A light debrief on the origin of Rome covering the tale of Romulus and Remus. This is the first volume of Roman Sleep Stories. --- When In Rome: Cobbled roads under a relaxed stride, the sharp scent of braziers burning, marble columns spearing into the brisk, twilight sky. These monuments stand unassuming to its citizens, unknowing t…
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“It is better for each man that he avenge his friend than to mourn him much” a line oft repeated from this seminal work of English language literature. The epic of Beowulf is one of the most translated works of fiction and the king himself is an icon of Germanic legend, but there was a time before he was stitched into the fabric of Saxon history. P…
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Episode: In the opening chapter of Hypnopaedia: LIT 101, listeners follow the life of poet, activist, and thought leader Amiri Baraka through his most influential works. While being enveloped by the calming drone of a university library, listeners will be able to track the events that motivated Baraka’s mastery over verse and impassioned social cri…
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The Dread Persephone: The goddess of spring and kidnapped Queen of the Underworld, Persephone is often depicted as a girl powerless to the whims of her far more powerful husband and mother; a paragon of innocent maidenhood taken and preserved for eternity. There was a point in time, however, where her name was never to be spoken aloud, Grecians str…
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Pilot Episode Gladiators: How does a revered funerary rite evolve into the roar of a crowd of thousands? How much of what we know is fact or myth? In this first volume of When in Rome, enter the Colosseum to learn the origins of the bloodsport held in the iconic arena, and how those who attended navigated the gore soaked revery. --- When In Rome: C…
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