This is my favorite bedtime story. I have terrible insomnia that keeps me up for days with only a handful of hours of sleep. Thanks to you I’ve slept well for the past 4 days. Thank you for helping so many people with your stories
I usually fall asleep ok, but I wake up in the middle of the night wide awake with my brain not wanting to quiet down. I put on one of your stories, and your voice lulls me back to sleep every time! I love that you make them long so if I do wake up, I hear your voice again and I get right back to sleep. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I have Autism. Listening to your stories help me to relax and not think about everything. Or hear or feel everything. I haven't needed medication since I started using a weighted blanket and listening to bedtime stories. Just wanted you to know I'm here. I remember you saying you have Autism, too. G'night from Texas.
@King Wolf521 autism is a developmental disorder that causes difficulty in social interaction and communication it also causes restricted or repetitive patterns of thoughts and behaviors.
i woke up last night from a nightmare that literally had me shaking uncontrollably in fear and was looking for away to calm down and your story soothed me instantly, so i came back whenever i took a nap earlier today and now here i am again tonight. your stories are amazing and the tone of your voice is exactly what i needed to calm down and relax. thank you
This was one of the videos that got me through my deployment on the USS KEARSARGE back in 2019. No matter how bad a day I had I always had this comforting story to come back to, little things like this really helped with getting me through it, so thank you.
I have much less anxiety about bedtime dreading the long long process of trying to fall asleep because I actually look forward to snuggling in my bed listening to your stories. It does wonders!
Omg this is amazing. I’ve been listening every night all week and have no idea what happens after about 20 or so mins into it because I fall asleep every time. I love this one because of the longer pauses between words and the sleepy sound of your voice. I really needed good sleep this week. Thank you!!!
Severe ADHD, mild autism, always struggled with sleep. Weighted blanket and your stories, and never make it to the end. Just discovered the playlists! Sleeping is miraculous.
It's wonderful that I got to know you. Before, I had a hard time falling asleep, but since listening to your stories, I fell asleep without even realizing it. Thank you and God bless you.
I won't say who I am or what my story is, because I don't think that it necessarily matters in this situation, I just want to say thank you for helping make sleep less daunting for me and so many others💜🌌
Hey dan I’ve always had trouble sleeping because I would worry about my mother (she was diagnosed with cancer twice). This helps me get my much needed sleep thanks!
I’m glad to find the full story. I have used Slumber in the past and really wanted to listen to the other parts without paying for premium. Thank you for posting this!!! :)
This going to be the, I don't know the how many time I'm going to listen to this and I never got very far... wich is good, because I fall asleep so fast. Thank u!!
Thank you dear. I need these stories now to fall asleep or to relax. Your voice is so soothing and calming I am asleep in no time! I particularly like these longer stories including the 8 hour ones. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for putting me to sleep, last week was absolutely horrible, I couldn't sleep more than 3 hours a day and the lack of sleep put me in a suicidal mood, I couldn't go to work and I was about to lose my job and I also neglected my family, last night everytime I wake up I would listen to one of your stories until I got total of 6 hours of sleep which is AMAZING, so, Thank you
Can't believe I am not familiar with these Dragon stories. So happy I will hear your voice for almost 3 hours. Also, REALLY looking forward to you reaching your next goal of subscribers so we get another long bedtime story. Until then I will be listening to the dragons. I heart you......
My body woke me up after a movie quality dream. Of this adventure and I am so surprised I've been asleep for only a short while. It's such a great story im so glad to meet all the characters. Also so glad it gives me such good dreams. Thank you. Just subbed
The funny thing is: I can't sleep when I hear somebody talking. Other noises aren't a problem, I've slept through a pretend raid on summer camp once. I've been battling anxiety and depression for a couple of years now, and I'm usually so keyed up at night I can't even lie down for longer than 30 minutes. Your stories kinda help me through that. They're so soothing they help me reach a point where I can relax enough to fall asleep. (I sadly have to turn them off then because the thing I mentioned earlier, so I never know how your stories end, but since I've discovered this channel I've been able to get more sleep). Thank you for that fam ❤️
Yesssss!! Stoked! I always get so psyched when I check your page and there is a new video! Love the dragon series and can't wait to listen. Thanks Mr. Dan Jones ☆
There are almost 200 healing sleep meditation sleep stories for grownups. I create new ones during livestreams every Monday night (10pm UK time), I post a new sleep meditation sleep story for grownups (an edited and cleaned up version of one created during the livestream two weeks earlier) every Wednesday at 4am (so the next one will be on my channel in under 5 hours from when I'm writing this). I create stories about very different things and so have made many playlists to try to give an idea with an easy glance of the types of things in the different stories. This series (Dragon's Fire) is popular but includes more violence (with slaying dragons etc), whereas normally this is rare, my stories take strange twists and turns but don't often have violence in them. This series is also rare in that it is a series (and there is a story released about a year earlier that preceded this series). My stories are told to try to help with stress, anxiety and worry as well as helping the listener to fall asleep and I have a video on my channel demonstrating how I use metaphors therapeutically where I am doing so with a client (who I had never met before) in front of an audience during a course I was teaching. I also talk a bit about what I am doing in that video. Hope you find something on the channel you like...
You are the best!!!! Your stories help me fall asleep effortlessly! They also help me to STAY asleep without a lot of tossing and turning. I really appreciate you, sir!
Thanks for this. What a great idea. I appreciate this entire idea. It helps me chill out. It helps me sleep. Its entertaining. Its interesting on so many levels, pun intended. Thank you for putting this together and sharing with us.
I put on "blue gold" read by Stephen Fry, I woke up there and was really surprised at the time because I slept for 6 hours without waking up which is unbelievable for me, looked at my phone and this had played for almost 3 hours while I slept and I wasn't aware at all. I am genuinely surprised I didn't expect these to help but I will definitely be putting this on again tonight. Hopefully I'll hear some of it at least 🙂 thank you.
Hi Annie, There is a playlist on my channel of this complete story, and also a single video of this story so you get one introduction at the beginning and then just the stories back to back uninterrupted (no ads, no further introductions). There is also a playlist of all of my stories and a video of over 11 hours of my stories back to back uninterrupted (no ads etc)
I always fall asleep shortly after the wizard dies, but I sometimes have dreams about this story, and I dont know if what I'm dreaming is stuff that happens in the story or if my mind is just making it up, but I'm really intrigued to see if I can stay awake long enough to find out!
I recently wrote an outline of all six episodes of the Dragon's Fire series here: facebook.com/notes/daniel-jones/dragons-fire-guided-sleep-meditations-series/10157834362414036/ The full series is now on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and other download and streaming services. The wizard was injured but doesn't die. The wizard features in the prequel to this series that I made the year before where they take on the ice dragon. The plan is that this year I will record more meditations set in the Dragon's Fire world.
The best way to calm down and sleep after half-accidentally chugging a liter of latte before bed. (Yeah, some finnish people are that stupid) But serioysly, love your work. Your bedtime stories have accompanied me to sleep on so many near-sleepless nights. (That are not caused by my love of latte, I suffer from insomnia even without the help of caffeine) As a somewhat anxious insomniac, the bedtime stories on your channel truly have been a great help in focusing, relaxing and falling asleep. Thank you.
I've got about 100 stories on my channel. Most are 30 minutes or more long and about a quarter of them are over 45 minutes long. I also have a video of over 11 hours of my stories back to back.
I enjoyed this one and actually got to comment as I drifted off just before the end but a small piece of nut came up into my throat. I had a late night snack and shouldn't have eaten so late. Well Dan, a drink of water and I'm going to listen to the next one. Night night and thank you.
Omg Dan I fell asleep to the uderwater pyramid story and I guess it linked into "part six dragon fire complete " i woke only hearing. """" 54321 wake up""" I was in quite a state breathing hard but had the most fantastic dream . I remember a little but now nothing but it was so real ... Was I hypnotized??? That's never happened before ...omg bizarre but fantastically amazing but is that normal? My dream was so intense .
There is no '5,4,3,2,1 wake up' in the story. It is all six parts of my Dragon's Fire bedtime stories back to back, so no cues to wake up as I want the listeners to sleep. Even in non-sleep tracks I never count someone out of hypnosis because I want people to know they are in control of their experience and that they decide themselves non-consciously to awaken when they have completed their inner work rather than being told to exit hypnosis when they may not have yet completed their inner work...
It was probably someone else's video which counted out. As mentioned none of mine do that. It sounds like you had a deep experience. Obviously, I would say you were hypnotised, but then it doesn't take much. Just to read this you are lightly hypnotised, if you listen to me talking in a video you are lightly hypnotised, if you close your eyes you are a little deeper hypnotised, the more absorbed you become the more hypnotised you become - just like when watching a film or reading a book or listening to a talk or being in an engaging conversation. All of these can deeply hypnotise you.
Hi, Dan! I have very much enjoyed your story, but I wanted to point out there is a rather substantial gap in part two from roughly 55 minutes 51 seconds to one hour two minutes and… And… I forgot how many seconds. LOL! Just give that section a listen.
This was about the sixth attempt at uploading this. All other attempts youtube were cutting off the last hour or so of my video, sometimes it would be listed as much shorter, other times it was listed at full length but had silence for the last part (there are no problems with any of the raw files). Eventually this uploaded at the right length. I did wonder whether there would be issues within the video and just felt if there were I wouldn't be trying to upload it again, if people found it a problem I would just delete the video. I've had this issue with youtube a few times but only when uploading videos in HD and longer tab about two hours. As long as it isn't at an important part of the story so people can all follow the story and people don't mind the slight gap then I won't delete the video.
Dan Jones Hypnosis no. It doesn’t depreciate from the story. I could still follow it. I also like the description of your elf’s armor emerging from his skin like that. Just curious. Do you write these stories before hand, or do you just speak them as they come to you?
I just speak them. With this series I wrote down names for the characters, wrote down a list of dragons, decided on six areas to be covered then just spoke back to back through the stories.
Don't know why that glitch has happened, hopefully it is temporary. Obviously if you want to know what happens through the whole story (and in those sections) you can listen to the separate videos. The colour of the dragons at these times lets you know which section of the stories are missing here. 55mins looks like Red Dragon, 1h03m is into the beginning of the Green Dragon story, 1h33m to 1h40m seems to be in the Blue Dragon story. So if you listen to these stories you will know what happens in those missing sections...
@@DanJonesHypnosis awesome thanks Dan! I also wanted to make sure you were aware of it, darn glitches! You have some terrific talent Brother, thanks again for this!
I thought that was deliberate! You say it was a glitch, but I think it could be a good idea for future stories to leave some very long pauses like that, they can give us a chance to fall deeply asleep in the quiet parts.
Hi Sam, I used to have long pauses because from experience I know that silence deepens absorption in the experience. My meditations from before about 2010 all have longer pauses in them, including in some cases pauses up to about 15 minutes. Back then people never complained about the long pauses and would often comment similar to you that is helps you to fall deeply asleep. But then things changed and my opinion is that it is because people were listening to my sleep meditations thinking that they are just stories being read and so they don't want any kind of pause. Every day I get comments complaining about the pauses and for years I responded explaining that the pauses give you time to do what is being suggested (like if I suggest touching grass, then I give time for your mind to build up that experience so that you are more absorbed in the experience, etc) I explain that in all meditations I've listened to they have frequent pauses of perhaps 30 seconds to a minute to allow the listener to become deeper absorbed etc. I only reduced the pauses significantly in what I have posted in 2019 and 2020 to try to find that balance where people still find the meditations work for them (because I know reducing the pauses reduces the effectiveness of the meditations) but hopefully it reduces the complaints about the pauses which is the biggest complaint my meditations get (and as mentioned, it used to be the opposite, it used to be the think which got the most praise, that the pauses and relaxed pace helped, which is what my professional experience is when working with clients and when teaching). I edited all of my meditations from 2017 and earlier during 2019 and so the edits of these, including the Dragon's Fire series have all had the pauses reduced to about 4 seconds per long pause. I am currently editing all of my meditations from 2018 (I am putting everything on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music etc and have already added 99 meditations to these services including the full Dragon's Fire series) and plan on not changing the pauses. When initially recording these meditations the pauses were much shorter than I used to do, but it was common for pauses to be perhaps 10 seconds long and in some cases maybe a bit longer, rather than minutes long for earlier meditations. For example, my initial Adventure of a Prince meditation was recorded in about 2004 and was an hour long, it had pauses that were a minute or two at a time, then I edited it and re-uploaded it in something like 2015 because suddenly lots of people were finding my content, saying they wanted to listen to the meditations but couldn't stand the pauses, and I reduced the pauses which I think reduced the meditation to about 51 minutes, then I re-recorded the meditation in 2016 as the audio had a buzz on it from being so old and not having decent equipment back then, this re-recorded version I think was a couple of minutes shorter again and then in my editing during 2019 to create a version for Spotify etc I edited the pauses down further and the final version is 44 minutes, so in that meditation alone I have cut out 16 minutes of silence, I prefer the version with all of the silence, but I get such a large number of complaints and thumbs down etc based on having too much silence and then spending every day replying on different videos explaining to people that I'm not 'reading a story' as if reading from a book, that these are guided meditations, they are to be engaged with so that the listener has an experience while listening, not just listened to completely passively and that the silences are an important part of the process. So despite my training and my years of experience and the fact that all training you attend when learning meditation or hypnosis has silence as a key feature that is taught as a way of deepening experience etc and I demonstrate this with clients in front of groups and teach this etc, here on RUclips the backlash which suddenly started arising over the last few years has led me to reduce the silences despite knowing that it reduces the effectiveness of the meditations and in about December 2019 I settled on making no silence longer than 4 seconds, which seems the length that gets no complaints, even having a few 5 second pauses gets lots of complaints. My plan for tracks I've been making in 2020 (which has only been 1 track so far - the last released meditation, and I have recorded one for next week, but not edited it yet) is to leave my pauses as normal and put up with the complaints as I had one comment saying that they haven't liked my recent meditations because I seem to rush through them, and it isn't that I rush through them, it is that I have made sure no pause is longer than 4 seconds. I plan on making content as I want it to be made and hope that those who like it, find it, watch and subscribe, rather than make it how those who seem to be watching it over the last few years (where I think they just think these are stories being read rather than meditations) want it to be to try to please them, but then put off those who subscribed over the years because of my older work where I didn't mess with the pauses. The unedited versions are recorded entirely as usual (as people who watched the livestreams where I was recording the meditations live on air would have experienced, whereas the edited versions of the meditations recorded live that I posted on the Saturday's had the silences reduced. No-one during the livestreams ever complained about the silences being too long, but in the few where I didn't reduce the silences down, once they went live on the Saturday they would get lots of complaints about the silences and I would get comments saying things like I need to 'tell the stories like Stephen Fry does on the Calm App' and I would reply that the difference is that he is telling a story like reading from a book, I am doing a meditation and these are two very different things).
Thank you. Your voice I perfect, soothing, relaxing. Just what I need to relax, doze, separate myself from my to do list that is always present day and night. THANK YOU! 👍😊😴
I make stories of differing lengths, so I imagine some hardened insomniacs have made it to the end of my 20-30 minute stories, but hopefully not too many make it to the end of my 45-60 minute stories, and even fewer to the end of stories which go on for hours... I had flu once and couldn't sleep (high body temperature shuts off the part of the brain to do with sleep), so I listened to my Prince Adventure story on repeat and didn't sleep, but remained in a relaxed state for the whole night and felt refreshed the next morning despite having not slept at all...
55:50 -1:03:28 is completely silent and then it goes to a completely new part starting in the middle of the sentence. 😥 I only noticed it because each of these stories are too short on their own but together I can understand and remember the first while falling asleep but the second one knocks me out. I started on the second one tonight since I remember the first and was probably three or so minutes into the silence before I realized that my brain turned back on and there was no talking. Very sad as I was really starting to get into it and the dreams were threatening to take over. Very first time I have ever found any type of issue with dan jones' stories.
I explain about this at the beginning of the description that at some point over the years a fault has developed on this video but that each of these meditation is still available and working fine on my channel if you want to listen to the six parts in their individual videos (there is a Dragon's Fire playlist on my channel). I've replied to a number of people about this issue and the fact that despite the error developing, this is still one of my most viewed videos each month so I haven't deleted the video from RUclips but have instead made people are of this issue in the description and people have the option of listen to the individual meditations rather than the compilation of they want to.
Love your work but can’t always access those on your site or utube. Could you please add a few new ones to the Slumber App as although there are so many, I’ve listened to them all so many times I know them by heart. Many thanks
I don't choose the tracks of mine that Slumber decide to use, they approach me from time to time to licence a track or two and many of my tracks they've got access to they have decided not to licence for their app. I don't decide what they choose to licence. All of my tracks are available here on RUclips and on my Dan Jones Hypnosis Sleep Stories podcast where you can subscribe for access to all of the tracks. My podcast is what I use instead of Patreon to give people a way of supporting my channel and the creation of new stories by offering access to my stories without ads or introductions.
voice is class, few videos trying to find a narrative, if was sped up remotely maybe i could figure out whats going on other wise i feel like early onset alzheimer's . best of luck tho more power to ya
I listened to this accidentally as I fell asleep to a previous ASMR video, so I thought I was just dreaming it. Your voice is very good and your hypnotic style of talking is very good too but I'm afraid I didn't like the content. I like science fiction and listen to audiobooks every night in order to get to sleep but I don't absorb the stories, I just hear the voice. Whereas, your story became the source of my disturbed sleep, until I realised what I was listening to and turned it off. So I'll investigate your other videos and see if I can find something that suits me better. So it's not a criticism but an observation. :)
No criticism taken, I have about 100 stories on my channel all very different, this is one of only a few I've made like this for those who like this type of fantasy story. I have created playlists of my stories so people can easily see what types of things my stories cover and select what types of stories they like...
I couldn't imagine falling asleep to giant spiders... and now I'm wide awake, afraid a teething giant spider with is going to break thru my window and devour me... Leave the spiders out next time😂😐 PLEASE
Andrew; same"ish", I woke up, feeling like I was pinned to my bed & a force that just wouldn't allow me to even move my head, when I opened my eyes & realised I was in bed, begging this force to disperse, when I turned towards my phone & saw that "so called dragon" like picture...it scared the bejesus out of me!
Sounds like you experienced sleep paralysis. When you enter dreaming sleep your body becomes paralysed (so that you don't act out your dreams). Sometimes when people awaken during dreaming sleep their body is still paralysed for a short period of time where you haven't left that dreaming state fully yet. It is common for people to have experiences during this time because they are now in a dreaming state and so paralysed but also conscious and so able to think and aware of what is going on (not like a lucid dream where you are aware of what is going on inside the dream but not aware of the world outside of the dream, but aware of yourself in bed etc). People report thinking they see shadowy figures which pin them down, or figures of beings (ranging from aliens to demons and ghosts) standing in their room with them unable to move, or a force pinning them down, or something sitting on their chest etc. Throughout history this used to lead to many myths about spirits and evil creatures, when in fact it is just that the dreaming brain is active while you are consciously aware of being awake etc and the sleep paralysis that occurs during dreaming is happening.
For those interested, here is the full novel version: ruclips.net/video/UZ-WtVQPyQA/видео.html
This is my favorite bedtime story. I have terrible insomnia that keeps me up for days with only a handful of hours of sleep. Thanks to you I’ve slept well for the past 4 days. Thank you for helping so many people with your stories
I usually fall asleep ok, but I wake up in the middle of the night wide awake with my brain not wanting to quiet down. I put on one of your stories, and your voice lulls me back to sleep every time! I love that you make them long so if I do wake up, I hear your voice again and I get right back to sleep. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I have Autism. Listening to your stories help me to relax and not think about everything. Or hear or feel everything. I haven't needed medication since I started using a weighted blanket and listening to bedtime stories. Just wanted you to know I'm here. I remember you saying you have Autism, too. G'night from Texas.
I have a weighted blanket and it really helps me to calm down and drift off to sleep...💤
Autism or not your cute
(I might be in the spectrum too)
thats awesome I should try a weighted blanket
@King Wolf521 autism is a developmental disorder that causes difficulty in social interaction and communication it also causes restricted or repetitive patterns of thoughts and behaviors.
@King Wolf521 In my book there are no stupid questions. Curiosity is us at our best!
i woke up last night from a nightmare that literally had me shaking uncontrollably in fear and was looking for away to calm down and your story soothed me instantly, so i came back whenever i took a nap earlier today and now here i am again tonight. your stories are amazing and the tone of your voice is exactly what i needed to calm down and relax. thank you
Thank you so much for taking the time to record these bedtime stories for those of us who cannot fall asleep
This was one of the videos that got me through my deployment on the USS KEARSARGE back in 2019. No matter how bad a day I had I always had this comforting story to come back to, little things like this really helped with getting me through it, so thank you.
My fave also
Have it on ALOT
Thank you for your services to our country !! Were all indebted to you and those who answer the call! Thnx.....
God Bless you thank you for your sacrifice & service ♡
I have much less anxiety about bedtime dreading the long long process of trying to fall asleep because I actually look forward to snuggling in my bed listening to your stories. It does wonders!
Omg this is amazing. I’ve been listening every night all week and have no idea what happens after about 20 or so mins into it because I fall asleep every time. I love this one because of the longer pauses between words and the sleepy sound of your voice. I really needed good sleep this week. Thank you!!!
Severe ADHD, mild autism, always struggled with sleep. Weighted blanket and your stories, and never make it to the end. Just discovered the playlists! Sleeping is miraculous.
Yesssssssss I love the replay ability of your content. Thanks Dan!
It's wonderful that I got to know you. Before, I had a hard time falling asleep, but since listening to your stories, I fell asleep without even realizing it. Thank you and God bless you.
I won't say who I am or what my story is, because I don't think that it necessarily matters in this situation, I just want to say thank you for helping make sleep less daunting for me and so many others💜🌌
Hey dan I’ve always had trouble sleeping because I would worry about my mother (she was diagnosed with cancer twice). This helps me get my much needed sleep thanks!
I’m glad to find the full story. I have used Slumber in the past and really wanted to listen to the other parts without paying for premium. Thank you for posting this!!! :)
This going to be the, I don't know the how many time I'm going to listen to this and I never got very far... wich is good, because I fall asleep so fast. Thank u!!
You really help Dan thank you and thank you for a wonderful RUclips channel
Thank you dear. I need these stories now to fall asleep or to relax. Your voice is so soothing and calming I am asleep in no time! I particularly like these longer stories including the 8 hour ones. Keep up the great work!
This is gold, thank you so much! Always a favourite!
Glad you enjoy it!
Thank you for putting me to sleep, last week was absolutely horrible, I couldn't sleep more than 3 hours a day and the lack of sleep put me in a suicidal mood, I couldn't go to work and I was about to lose my job and I also neglected my family, last night everytime I wake up I would listen to one of your stories until I got total of 6 hours of sleep which is AMAZING, so, Thank you
Can't believe I am not familiar with these Dragon stories. So happy I will hear your voice for almost 3 hours. Also, REALLY looking forward to you reaching your next goal of subscribers so we get another long bedtime story. Until then I will be listening to the dragons. I heart you......
Beautiful voice. Very comforting.
Thank you for your time with the stories for sleeping 😴
Glad you like them!
My body woke me up after a movie quality dream. Of this adventure and I am so surprised I've been asleep for only a short while. It's such a great story im so glad to meet all the characters. Also so glad it gives me such good dreams. Thank you.
Just subbed
The funny thing is: I can't sleep when I hear somebody talking. Other noises aren't a problem, I've slept through a pretend raid on summer camp once. I've been battling anxiety and depression for a couple of years now, and I'm usually so keyed up at night I can't even lie down for longer than 30 minutes. Your stories kinda help me through that. They're so soothing they help me reach a point where I can relax enough to fall asleep. (I sadly have to turn them off then because the thing I mentioned earlier, so I never know how your stories end, but since I've discovered this channel I've been able to get more sleep). Thank you for that fam ❤️
Thankyou so much your stories are truly amazing x
Thanks Dan. I love dragons fire. Hope you make another like this one. I’ve listened to this one Dozens and Dozens lol
I love listening when restless. Your videos are so kind and helpful. Thank you
I am addicted to your stories... cant sleep without it
Yesssss!! Stoked! I always get so psyched when I check your page and there is a new video! Love the dragon series and can't wait to listen. Thanks Mr. Dan Jones ☆
Thank you for helping me get some sleep 😴. My night will never be the same and I have you to thank!🌙💤🛌
Very good video. I keep on revisiting your videos. Keep up the good work!
This one has inspired me to write a story. Keep up the good work helping us get to sleep.
AMEN😎
I have never watched this channel but I am excited to see what's in store for me
There are almost 200 healing sleep meditation sleep stories for grownups. I create new ones during livestreams every Monday night (10pm UK time), I post a new sleep meditation sleep story for grownups (an edited and cleaned up version of one created during the livestream two weeks earlier) every Wednesday at 4am (so the next one will be on my channel in under 5 hours from when I'm writing this).
I create stories about very different things and so have made many playlists to try to give an idea with an easy glance of the types of things in the different stories. This series (Dragon's Fire) is popular but includes more violence (with slaying dragons etc), whereas normally this is rare, my stories take strange twists and turns but don't often have violence in them. This series is also rare in that it is a series (and there is a story released about a year earlier that preceded this series).
My stories are told to try to help with stress, anxiety and worry as well as helping the listener to fall asleep and I have a video on my channel demonstrating how I use metaphors therapeutically where I am doing so with a client (who I had never met before) in front of an audience during a course I was teaching. I also talk a bit about what I am doing in that video.
Hope you find something on the channel you like...
Perfect nighttime story!!! Starting it now so excited
Thank you for all you work
You are the best!!!! Your stories help me fall asleep effortlessly! They also help me to STAY asleep without a lot of tossing and turning. I really appreciate you, sir!
Thanks for this. What a great idea. I appreciate this entire idea. It helps me chill out. It helps me sleep. Its entertaining. Its interesting on so many levels, pun intended. Thank you for putting this together and sharing with us.
I put on "blue gold" read by Stephen Fry, I woke up there and was really surprised at the time because I slept for 6 hours without waking up which is unbelievable for me, looked at my phone and this had played for almost 3 hours while I slept and I wasn't aware at all. I am genuinely surprised I didn't expect these to help but I will definitely be putting this on again tonight. Hopefully I'll hear some of it at least 🙂 thank you.
I really love this book so far! So, I think it would be helpful if you made a playlist of each section, order.
Hi Annie, There is a playlist on my channel of this complete story, and also a single video of this story so you get one introduction at the beginning and then just the stories back to back uninterrupted (no ads, no further introductions). There is also a playlist of all of my stories and a video of over 11 hours of my stories back to back uninterrupted (no ads etc)
Thanks for helping me ho sleep almost daily.. sorry I don't know what happens in most of the stories as I am off to sleep midway
Thank you for your work.
You are Dan,the Shaman of hypnosis,I’m so happy to have found you ♥️
You’re a gift!
Thank you...
Your awesome man Dragons Fire is a great story I’d like to hear the gang getting back together on another quest !!!
Excellent Kindle book Bedtime Stories for Grown Ups, good to listen to as well read.. Thanks Dan
One of these times I will finally get to hear how it ends
Yay! The whole thing at once Sleep is taken care of for weeks! Thanks Dan
Hey thanks for the 💗 Dan!
You have helped me so much! Thank you, I’ll continue to like all your postings!
Love what you're doing love the stories and your voice Very helpful Thankyou Blessings and gratitude
No swallowing sounds! Yay! I love this one.
I woke up again during the spider part and got scared and I couldn’t go back to sleep 😭
This is so good keep it up!😀
I always fall asleep shortly after the wizard dies, but I sometimes have dreams about this story, and I dont know if what I'm dreaming is stuff that happens in the story or if my mind is just making it up, but I'm really intrigued to see if I can stay awake long enough to find out!
I recently wrote an outline of all six episodes of the Dragon's Fire series here: facebook.com/notes/daniel-jones/dragons-fire-guided-sleep-meditations-series/10157834362414036/
The full series is now on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and other download and streaming services.
The wizard was injured but doesn't die. The wizard features in the prequel to this series that I made the year before where they take on the ice dragon. The plan is that this year I will record more meditations set in the Dragon's Fire world.
Very much appreciate your great work Dan ❤️
Thank you for helping me overcome insomnia! 💖
Thank you for sharing your wonderful gift of bringing peace ❣️
I love your bedtime story videos. You have a nice voice and accent in my opinion.
Nice, but your pauses are waaaay to long.
I love all your work!
Thank you...
I fell asleep during the first story - such a wonderful script and voice. Thanks Dan you're a legend!
Such a great great story. 💕
I woke up to this coming on autoplay after the story I fell asleep to and all I heard was "snake.....snake....snake...." lmaoo
I love your channel thanks for doing it.
All I get to is when they find the elf and then I fall asleep I doubt I will ever get to hear the end haha!
So grateful.
I love this videos thank you
Thank you for this, Dan
Thank you
Been looking for vids like these for ages!
You are the best 👌😊😊
Looking forward to this tonight. Thank you.
I listen to this every night and still don’t know the full story. Thanks
Amazing ❤️🙏
The best way to calm down and sleep after half-accidentally chugging a liter of latte before bed. (Yeah, some finnish people are that stupid)
But serioysly, love your work. Your bedtime stories have accompanied me to sleep on so many near-sleepless nights. (That are not caused by my love of latte, I suffer from insomnia even without the help of caffeine) As a somewhat anxious insomniac, the bedtime stories on your channel truly have been a great help in focusing, relaxing and falling asleep.
Thank you.
I hope you do more extended stories.
I've got about 100 stories on my channel. Most are 30 minutes or more long and about a quarter of them are over 45 minutes long. I also have a video of over 11 hours of my stories back to back.
@@DanJonesHypnosis thanks so much! i'm thrilled to have found you!
I enjoyed this one and actually got to comment as I drifted off just before the end but a small piece of nut came up into my throat. I had a late night snack and shouldn't have eaten so late. Well Dan, a drink of water and I'm going to listen to the next one. Night night and thank you.
Thank You 🙏 ur stories are amazing 😊
Good listening! I am going to try tonight!
Thank you for helping us all.
Omg Dan I fell asleep to the uderwater pyramid story and I guess it linked into "part six dragon fire complete " i woke only hearing. """" 54321 wake up""" I was in quite a state breathing hard but had the most fantastic dream . I remember a little but now nothing but it was so real ... Was I hypnotized??? That's never happened before ...omg bizarre but fantastically
amazing but is that normal? My dream was so intense .
Just relisened to this it doesn't end with 54321does it ... it must of linked to another one of yours wow amazing .
There is no '5,4,3,2,1 wake up' in the story. It is all six parts of my Dragon's Fire bedtime stories back to back, so no cues to wake up as I want the listeners to sleep. Even in non-sleep tracks I never count someone out of hypnosis because I want people to know they are in control of their experience and that they decide themselves non-consciously to awaken when they have completed their inner work rather than being told to exit hypnosis when they may not have yet completed their inner work...
It was probably someone else's video which counted out. As mentioned none of mine do that. It sounds like you had a deep experience. Obviously, I would say you were hypnotised, but then it doesn't take much. Just to read this you are lightly hypnotised, if you listen to me talking in a video you are lightly hypnotised, if you close your eyes you are a little deeper hypnotised, the more absorbed you become the more hypnotised you become - just like when watching a film or reading a book or listening to a talk or being in an engaging conversation. All of these can deeply hypnotise you.
Oh, this is good stuff!
Exciting about the dragon story
This would give me nightmares
Hi, Dan! I have very much enjoyed your story, but I wanted to point out there is a rather substantial gap in part two from roughly 55 minutes 51 seconds to one hour two minutes and… And… I forgot how many seconds. LOL! Just give that section a listen.
This was about the sixth attempt at uploading this. All other attempts youtube were cutting off the last hour or so of my video, sometimes it would be listed as much shorter, other times it was listed at full length but had silence for the last part (there are no problems with any of the raw files). Eventually this uploaded at the right length. I did wonder whether there would be issues within the video and just felt if there were I wouldn't be trying to upload it again, if people found it a problem I would just delete the video. I've had this issue with youtube a few times but only when uploading videos in HD and longer tab about two hours. As long as it isn't at an important part of the story so people can all follow the story and people don't mind the slight gap then I won't delete the video.
Dan Jones Hypnosis no. It doesn’t depreciate from the story. I could still follow it. I also like the description of your elf’s armor emerging from his skin like that. Just curious. Do you write these stories before hand, or do you just speak them as they come to you?
I just speak them. With this series I wrote down names for the characters, wrote down a list of dragons, decided on six areas to be covered then just spoke back to back through the stories.
Thank you so much.
No sound from 55:50 to 1:03:26, and again from 1:33:16 to 1:40:57. Love this other than that, hope to hear what's missing in those 16 minutes!
Don't know why that glitch has happened, hopefully it is temporary. Obviously if you want to know what happens through the whole story (and in those sections) you can listen to the separate videos. The colour of the dragons at these times lets you know which section of the stories are missing here. 55mins looks like Red Dragon, 1h03m is into the beginning of the Green Dragon story, 1h33m to 1h40m seems to be in the Blue Dragon story. So if you listen to these stories you will know what happens in those missing sections...
@@DanJonesHypnosis awesome thanks Dan! I also wanted to make sure you were aware of it, darn glitches! You have some terrific talent Brother, thanks again for this!
I thought that was deliberate! You say it was a glitch, but I think it could be a good idea for future stories to leave some very long pauses like that, they can give us a chance to fall deeply asleep in the quiet parts.
Hi Sam, I used to have long pauses because from experience I know that silence deepens absorption in the experience. My meditations from before about 2010 all have longer pauses in them, including in some cases pauses up to about 15 minutes. Back then people never complained about the long pauses and would often comment similar to you that is helps you to fall deeply asleep. But then things changed and my opinion is that it is because people were listening to my sleep meditations thinking that they are just stories being read and so they don't want any kind of pause.
Every day I get comments complaining about the pauses and for years I responded explaining that the pauses give you time to do what is being suggested (like if I suggest touching grass, then I give time for your mind to build up that experience so that you are more absorbed in the experience, etc) I explain that in all meditations I've listened to they have frequent pauses of perhaps 30 seconds to a minute to allow the listener to become deeper absorbed etc.
I only reduced the pauses significantly in what I have posted in 2019 and 2020 to try to find that balance where people still find the meditations work for them (because I know reducing the pauses reduces the effectiveness of the meditations) but hopefully it reduces the complaints about the pauses which is the biggest complaint my meditations get (and as mentioned, it used to be the opposite, it used to be the think which got the most praise, that the pauses and relaxed pace helped, which is what my professional experience is when working with clients and when teaching).
I edited all of my meditations from 2017 and earlier during 2019 and so the edits of these, including the Dragon's Fire series have all had the pauses reduced to about 4 seconds per long pause. I am currently editing all of my meditations from 2018 (I am putting everything on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music etc and have already added 99 meditations to these services including the full Dragon's Fire series) and plan on not changing the pauses. When initially recording these meditations the pauses were much shorter than I used to do, but it was common for pauses to be perhaps 10 seconds long and in some cases maybe a bit longer, rather than minutes long for earlier meditations. For example, my initial Adventure of a Prince meditation was recorded in about 2004 and was an hour long, it had pauses that were a minute or two at a time, then I edited it and re-uploaded it in something like 2015 because suddenly lots of people were finding my content, saying they wanted to listen to the meditations but couldn't stand the pauses, and I reduced the pauses which I think reduced the meditation to about 51 minutes, then I re-recorded the meditation in 2016 as the audio had a buzz on it from being so old and not having decent equipment back then, this re-recorded version I think was a couple of minutes shorter again and then in my editing during 2019 to create a version for Spotify etc I edited the pauses down further and the final version is 44 minutes, so in that meditation alone I have cut out 16 minutes of silence, I prefer the version with all of the silence, but I get such a large number of complaints and thumbs down etc based on having too much silence and then spending every day replying on different videos explaining to people that I'm not 'reading a story' as if reading from a book, that these are guided meditations, they are to be engaged with so that the listener has an experience while listening, not just listened to completely passively and that the silences are an important part of the process. So despite my training and my years of experience and the fact that all training you attend when learning meditation or hypnosis has silence as a key feature that is taught as a way of deepening experience etc and I demonstrate this with clients in front of groups and teach this etc, here on RUclips the backlash which suddenly started arising over the last few years has led me to reduce the silences despite knowing that it reduces the effectiveness of the meditations and in about December 2019 I settled on making no silence longer than 4 seconds, which seems the length that gets no complaints, even having a few 5 second pauses gets lots of complaints. My plan for tracks I've been making in 2020 (which has only been 1 track so far - the last released meditation, and I have recorded one for next week, but not edited it yet) is to leave my pauses as normal and put up with the complaints as I had one comment saying that they haven't liked my recent meditations because I seem to rush through them, and it isn't that I rush through them, it is that I have made sure no pause is longer than 4 seconds. I plan on making content as I want it to be made and hope that those who like it, find it, watch and subscribe, rather than make it how those who seem to be watching it over the last few years (where I think they just think these are stories being read rather than meditations) want it to be to try to please them, but then put off those who subscribed over the years because of my older work where I didn't mess with the pauses. The unedited versions are recorded entirely as usual (as people who watched the livestreams where I was recording the meditations live on air would have experienced, whereas the edited versions of the meditations recorded live that I posted on the Saturday's had the silences reduced. No-one during the livestreams ever complained about the silences being too long, but in the few where I didn't reduce the silences down, once they went live on the Saturday they would get lots of complaints about the silences and I would get comments saying things like I need to 'tell the stories like Stephen Fry does on the Calm App' and I would reply that the difference is that he is telling a story like reading from a book, I am doing a meditation and these are two very different things).
Thank you. Your voice I perfect, soothing, relaxing. Just what I need to relax, doze, separate myself from my to do list that is always present day and night. THANK YOU! 👍😊😴
Has anyone ever made the end of one of his stories?
I make stories of differing lengths, so I imagine some hardened insomniacs have made it to the end of my 20-30 minute stories, but hopefully not too many make it to the end of my 45-60 minute stories, and even fewer to the end of stories which go on for hours...
I had flu once and couldn't sleep (high body temperature shuts off the part of the brain to do with sleep), so I listened to my Prince Adventure story on repeat and didn't sleep, but remained in a relaxed state for the whole night and felt refreshed the next morning despite having not slept at all...
@@DanJonesHypnosis you listen to your own podcast to sleep?
55:50 -1:03:28 is completely silent and then it goes to a completely new part starting in the middle of the sentence. 😥 I only noticed it because each of these stories are too short on their own but together I can understand and remember the first while falling asleep but the second one knocks me out. I started on the second one tonight since I remember the first and was probably three or so minutes into the silence before I realized that my brain turned back on and there was no talking. Very sad as I was really starting to get into it and the dreams were threatening to take over. Very first time I have ever found any type of issue with dan jones' stories.
I explain about this at the beginning of the description that at some point over the years a fault has developed on this video but that each of these meditation is still available and working fine on my channel if you want to listen to the six parts in their individual videos (there is a Dragon's Fire playlist on my channel). I've replied to a number of people about this issue and the fact that despite the error developing, this is still one of my most viewed videos each month so I haven't deleted the video from RUclips but have instead made people are of this issue in the description and people have the option of listen to the individual meditations rather than the compilation of they want to.
Love your work but can’t always access those on your site or utube. Could you please add a few new ones to the Slumber App as although there are so many, I’ve listened to them all so many times I know them by heart. Many thanks
I don't choose the tracks of mine that Slumber decide to use, they approach me from time to time to licence a track or two and many of my tracks they've got access to they have decided not to licence for their app. I don't decide what they choose to licence. All of my tracks are available here on RUclips and on my Dan Jones Hypnosis Sleep Stories podcast where you can subscribe for access to all of the tracks. My podcast is what I use instead of Patreon to give people a way of supporting my channel and the creation of new stories by offering access to my stories without ads or introductions.
voice is class, few videos trying to find a narrative, if was sped up remotely maybe i could figure out whats going on other wise i feel like early onset alzheimer's . best of luck tho more power to ya
he reads slow for a reason, the slowness of his reading is meant to soothe calm and relax ultimately making it easier to go to sleep
bless you
Soothing, escapism, so real and yet so dreamlike. Thank-you from monkey brain. 🦋
I give up what actually happens after 35 mins. jk, great story an relaxing voice. Thanks
Tbh I couldn't get sleep because I always get I to the stories I listen to.
I'm loving the edge sounds bedtime stories. Amazing
I listened to this accidentally as I fell asleep to a previous ASMR video, so I thought I was just dreaming it. Your voice is very good and your hypnotic style of talking is very good too but I'm afraid I didn't like the content. I like science fiction and listen to audiobooks every night in order to get to sleep but I don't absorb the stories, I just hear the voice. Whereas, your story became the source of my disturbed sleep, until I realised what I was listening to and turned it off. So I'll investigate your other videos and see if I can find something that suits me better. So it's not a criticism but an observation. :)
No criticism taken, I have about 100 stories on my channel all very different, this is one of only a few I've made like this for those who like this type of fantasy story. I have created playlists of my stories so people can easily see what types of things my stories cover and select what types of stories they like...
@@DanJonesHypnosis Thanks Dan :) I've found the cat one.....just about to try it :)
Ahhhh dragons are science fiction....?????
My fave
I couldn't imagine falling asleep to giant spiders... and now I'm wide awake, afraid a teething giant spider with is going to break thru my window and devour me... Leave the spiders out next time😂😐 PLEASE
I listened to this and had a terrible and vivid nightmare about ghosts and then woke up around 1:42 hearing the word ghost. Strange...
It could be that unconsciously you were still following along to the story and so absorbed in the story it was playing out in your mind like a dream?
Andrew; same"ish", I woke up, feeling like I was pinned to my bed & a force that just wouldn't allow me to even move my head, when I opened my eyes & realised I was in bed, begging this force to disperse, when I turned towards my phone & saw that "so called dragon" like picture...it scared the bejesus out of me!
Sounds like you experienced sleep paralysis. When you enter dreaming sleep your body becomes paralysed (so that you don't act out your dreams). Sometimes when people awaken during dreaming sleep their body is still paralysed for a short period of time where you haven't left that dreaming state fully yet. It is common for people to have experiences during this time because they are now in a dreaming state and so paralysed but also conscious and so able to think and aware of what is going on (not like a lucid dream where you are aware of what is going on inside the dream but not aware of the world outside of the dream, but aware of yourself in bed etc). People report thinking they see shadowy figures which pin them down, or figures of beings (ranging from aliens to demons and ghosts) standing in their room with them unable to move, or a force pinning them down, or something sitting on their chest etc. Throughout history this used to lead to many myths about spirits and evil creatures, when in fact it is just that the dreaming brain is active while you are consciously aware of being awake etc and the sleep paralysis that occurs during dreaming is happening.
Speak a little bit, PAUSE, speak a little bit, PAUSE, speak a little bit, BIG PAUSE.