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Hi Dan, I don’t know if you will read this but I am a teenager and I just wanted to say thank you for posting these videos. I have had a chronic anxiety disorder since 2018, and it got to the point where I could feel physical pain in my body and dissociate all the time. I couldn’t sleep. My mum started introducing me to stories like this on apps, but to get the good stories I had to pay for them (which I wasn’t going to do.) After I found your account, I listen to this exact story EVERY night. It’s like a “night light”, except it brings me comfort and something to listen to instead of my thoughts. Finding your account has been a safe haven for me, I don’t really think I can ever express how much these stories legitimately saved my life. Two years ago I wouldn’t have seen myself even seeing junior year, and I am so proud to say that because of your videos (amongst other mindful things), I will be graduating next year. Thank you. (: that being said, goodnight!
I'm 30 years old and I've had nightmares nearly every night since I can remember it has been hell for me over the years and has drained me mentally and physically. I've tried literally everything! About a week ago I stumbled across this and decided to give it a go. First night I was asleep 10 minutes in. Slept a full 8hours. Best sleep ever. I thought it was luck but gave it another go and again another full sleep without the nightmares. It's been a week now and I've listened to your voice every night and not one nightmare. Last night I actually had a pleasant dream and woke up feeling so relaxed and fresh. This truly means the world to me. My family and myself would like to give you a huge hug if we could haha Thank you very much I'm not sure if your stories are meant to help with what I've had to deal with but it has more than you know so once again a huge thanks! Keep the stories coming
Hi James, Thank you for sharing. I'm glad the story works for you. I have about 100 stories on my channel and some compilations of back to back stories. All the best Dan
Have you ever had a sleep study? I had nightmares as well. Turns out they are symptoms of narcolepsy. These stories help me a lot. As does my medication.
Happy, healthy, anxiety free New Year to Dan and all his fans. I'm looking forward to sleeping thru 2020 listening to Dan's bedtime stories for grownups. What an imagination you have Dan. I ordered your book "look me in the eye" Looking forward to reading it .
'Look Me In The Eye' is a book by a different author. I assume you mean my book 'Look Into My Eyes'? Hope you continue to enjoy the sleep meditations through 2021.
I've always wanted to tell or create a tale of my own. More of a video game or cartoon deal. Perhaps even a book. I've an active imagination. I've used it most of my life to help me fall asleep. My brain doesn't shut off at night. I will listen to documentaries. Started looking up bedtime stories. They seem to help
I think this is my favorite one...I don't get too far with this one before my eyes get heavy :) Thanks Dan. Love what you do! I've referred a bunch of family and friends ever since trying your sleep stories. Thank you for your generosity.
I came back after a sleep of 9 hours,thanks a lot. It helped me drift away just after 10th minute and the next thing I knew I woke up at morning fully relaxed and rejuvenated..
I am anxious to go to bed tonight. Sounds interesting. I just found this. Seeing how I rarely get out for an adventure this sounds fun. I think. A treasure hunt full of different surprise's
Thank you so much for sharing this story with us. Such a soothing way to fall asleep and I particularly liked the longer length. Thanks again. Very enjoyable.
All I can say is U GOT ME. Last couple of weeks Iv been going through alot of stress, pressure ..etc and sleeping for me it was like a gift. But u help me to forget about the problems at least when I was trying to sleep. Thanks for the medication
“If you like this story give it a like” how am I supposed to know if I like the story if I fall asleep within like three minutes of hearing your voice lol you’re great thanks for making these videos public and accessible like this they are very helpful
This is probably the only channel I can safely say that I listen to your content and it puts me right to sleep without the creator getting offended. :) Thank you for these wonderful stories, I think I have listened to this one 5 times and I always fall asleep within 15-20 minutes.
I really like your stories, and I like when you talk softly and pause,, I play them all night for insomnia. It really bothers me when one video switches to another, and in the beginning, you speak very loudly and quickly. It startles me, and wakes me up. Could you do your introduction in the same gentle, quiet cadence? Thank you.
I have made compilation videos which are about 8+ hours of uninterrupted sleep meditations with no introductions just back to back stories. I try to make the meditation and introduction volumes about the same volume but generally recommend people don't listen to playlists of my sleep meditations back to back, but instead use the compilation videos or the sleep stories app or streaming or downloading the audio so that you can listen uninterrupted to the selection of tracks you like.
Thanks for posting content like this for adults. Sometimes I have trouble centering myself and sleeping but I don't really benefit from ASMR for sleep. plus something about it seems so creepy and fetishy to me. Stories are where it's at for me LOL
Don't remember anything. I was out quickly. I usually have more trouble falling asleep when I'm going for my second REM round of the night. This guy is boring but gets the job done.. thanks guy!
I find you very attractive. So I guess it's a good thing that you just record your voice while reading the stories. Or I wouldn't be able to fall asleep. Lmao! I am going to lay down soon and I plan to listen to this story tonight. Your voice is so relaxing. It deffently helps me fall asleep. I have terrible trouble falling asleep every night. I would lay in the dark for hrs with my eyes shut but still not get any closer to sleep. My mind is too active and I have way more stress then a person should have. So im very happy to have stumbled on this channel.
This guy is amazing. I have sooooo much trouble sleeping and have apps for meditation and relaxation this guy is better than all that AND ambien and trazodone. I fall right to sleep. Only bad thing is if my phone auto plays to the next thing up and it's too loud then bang I'm wide awake again
SunnyAquamarine2 that happened to me too. There is a setting that stops it. I’m sorry, I can’t remember where. That no longer happens once I changed setting. Good luck!
You guys!!! Get the app called “Relax Melodies” by ipnos software (it’s free) and then play the sounds “Toskana” and “Zen” while watching this. You can play those at the same while watching the video and omg. BEST DECISION YOU’LL MAKE. So dreamy and magical! Thank you for the story!
I've got 21 long (over 42 minute) sleep stories in this playlist (or all on my Dan Jones Hypnosis Sleep Stories podcast): ruclips.net/p/PLp0cU22E4NrIjkW79uYRlzxR8juR26BCZ Any stories I now make (I try to make about 2 or 3 times more for my podcast than my RUclips channel) I make at whatever length they end up being to try to keep my stress levels down, so most end up being between about 25-35 minutes long. All the best Dan
try using the transcript to find where you want to restart on a different night. if there were chapter marks added by the producer you could easily restart each night at a different spot using a media player.
Starting from points during the story would stop it doing its job, which is to get the listener to sleep. I don't expect people who are using these for sleep to make it to the end. Ideally they are asleep long before that, perhaps within 10-20 minutes for most people, and with repeated use this gets quicker. How I introduce the story and what I say and do at the beginning is the most important part of the track. Obviously someone could listen at a non-bedtime time and they can then listen to the end and decide not to follow the suggestions to sleep (although because of how I present the stories I would still recommend the listener isn't doing anything else which requires their attention, like driving or operating machinery).
Please make more you are really, really helping a lot of people. I’ve listened to this twice and never gotten passed the horse part. This hypnosis 100% makes me stop thinking about life and has me thinking straight into the story. Nothing is on my mind apart from the story when I’m listening. It’s amazing.
Yo same here, I get to the horse part and I'm out. I've had to start progressively incrementing my start position or else I'll never hear the whole thing.
I struggle to wind the story together as it’s so .....slow...........you .....................know my minds blazing from a busy day. Yeah in one paragraph from this story and I’ve been to Tim buck too n back minds filling in the blanks it’s rough a little more sped up it may capture my mind would be great love the idea of this stuff I’ll keep trying to listen and slow the thoughts down
Can’t wait for you to get to a mil... alllllllllll those stories... awww yeahhhhh -your pretty skilled that was cool. Thanks man. You earned that sub and hopefully another 1k 😃
I've written about 28 books. Two collections of 11 bedtime stories to help children sleep, three autism books, about eight hypnosis books, two self-help books, a hypnotic sales book, a novel, a collection of 35 healing guided meditations, a quit smoking book, a book about big brother, and more... I am currently writing a book of adult bedtime stories (as done on RUclips), a series of 10 hypnotherapy training books, a third collection of 11 bedtime stories for children, a book about well-being for RUclipsr's and digital entrepreneurs and have more ideas for after these are finished...
Brittney Moreno - OMG what an amazing idea! That’s icing on the cake!! I will look that out! Thank you for suggesting this so we can get the answer! 👏👍
Dan Jones Hypnosis - Guided Sleep Meditations - Thank you sooo much for replying and letting us know!! Thank you for this channel. I’m going through a lot medically (physical pain) and emotionally, just a lot.😔 I very recently found this channel and it REALLY REALLY helps at night to be so calming and helps me drift off. I truly cannot thank you enough!! I sincerely have enjoyed your site and I’ve been recommending this to friends & family who LOVE it! Thank you! New happy subscriber! 🇨🇦 🙂 Lisa in Canada 🇨🇦🙂
Knocks me out just like your other stories. I never thought I’d ever fall asleep with earbuds in my ears but I do! It doesn’t work if I don’t use earbuds though. Have to hear it right in my head.
I get the same with stories etc and with self hypnosis, that they only really work when it feels more personal by having headphones. It can work without but takes longer and is less effective for me...
My mum was a riding instructor. I grew up around horses and seemed to always have a connection with them. Mum always said I was a natural (I know many autistic people seem to naturally connect with animals and understand animals and their behaviour better than fellow humans)... I used to ride on horses bareback often, and seemed to be able to calm horses that were still being broken in and ride them, with them being calm for me. My description in my stories of horse-riding are always just me feeling myself riding again while I have my eyes closed reciting the story...
You can get that on the tracks on the Slumber app on iOs. You can select volume of background sounds and select music and/or different natural sounds. I used to make all my tracks here on youtube with background music and/or background sounds that matched what was going on in the track and was specific to each track. Having music and/or natural sounds was something people seemed to strongly love or hate. Due to the amount of personal taste involved it was better to ditch the sounds. Having sounds used to make production of tracks take about ten times longer. I was at one point going to upload two versions of each track, one with sounds and one without but then was approached by the creator of Slumber app and thought people who want those things can use the app rather than it taking me much longer to make the tracks. One person for example commented about why I had annoying sounds of birds in my track walking through woods, they listen to tracks to get away from horrible sounds like that.
shaun bowden - Hello! I know your comment has been posted a long time ago, so I’m not sure if you’ve already found some but I’ve heard there are some newer sites that have soft light rain 🌧 in background! I haven’t made it to check them out because I just literally found this one! The only way I know that suggestion is, I read it in a post in comments from the author. Hope you’ve found it! 🙂 Be well 🙂 🙂🇨🇦 Lisa 🇨🇦🙂
It put's me to sleep , but so does miss Marple audio books. So I am truly curious. Are there people who remember the story , even when they fall asleep. Or sleep differently?
I enjoy listening to the stories. Only thing i wonder about is a half hr into this story you're talking about gong back to sleep again. By the fire in the cave. Is that a calming thing? I woke up at that part. Was going you'd get on with the story but i feel back to sleep. Lol so maybe it works.
These meditations are just like any other meditation, the idea is to focus on absorbing the listeners mind in the sensory experience and on being in the moment in the meditation, these aren't 'stories' like you might read in a book or listen to as an audio book. They are metaphorical healing tales. In the description of my more recent meditations is a link to a RUclips video where I demonstrate doing this with a client in front of a live audience on a training course. I have also done a number of live streams where I get the viewers to give me ideas they want me to create a therapeutic meditation with and then I ask them to close their eyes and create a therapeutic sleep meditation with their ideas. Movement, transitions and silence are great ways to deepen the experience and to progress the experience to a new level, so meditations will often involve walking or movement in some way, they will involve transitions, it could be drifting asleep, drifting into a day dream, changing scene, like walking from a meadow into woods, or through a door or gate etc and will have periods of silence to give the listener time to become absorbed in the mental imagery. Relaxing by a campfire and having the dancing light on cave walls is something many find relaxing and absorbing, but obviously not everyone. I have my meditations in playlists so that you can easily find out which meditations have things in you don't like and which have things in you do like. So you might not like relaxing by a fire in a cave, but might like drifting asleep on a boat on the ocean, or sleeping in a tent in the Arctic, or relaxing on a beach etc.
Ideas? When I would use my own imagination to help fall asleep. Often I'd imagine being in a space ship type deal traveling thru the stars. On some kind off reconnaissance mission. Or a patrol of some sort. From a home planet, or more often from a larger mother ship. A mission that would have me out for long periods of time. Hrs, days or even longer. Communicating with a mission control or a base of sorts or just other members of the same unit. Science or military based. Another favorite i would use is being a space pirate worth a crew that would intercept enemy vessels n take their cargo. It helps when I'd imagine myself alone in the vastness of space n focusing on a certain goal or something similar. I'm describing it in detail bc maybe it will give you an idea for another story. Lmk if you do. Sure you get requests frequently.
It's not that i disliked it. Id rather just hear the story than hear explanation about imagining going to sleep by the fire. I understand y u did it after your explanation.
I have done a number of space based meditations, from ones about astronauts to aliens and advanced civilisations, to strange civilisations, to living and surviving on other planets and visiting strange planets etc. When I do the live streams and ask for ideas, the type of ideas are things I could build a meditation around. If an idea is too specific or too much like 'make the story this' then it doesn't give me the freedom to make the meditation as beyond what the person suggests I've normally not got any content to work with, so people will suggest single words or short phrases, so I might get a list of ideas in the chat section like: elephant, rat, penguin, forest, storm, portal, ocean, cave, fork, mud, worms, teddy bear, lamp, fairy, piano, etc... And then I would take this list, tell the viewers to close their eyes and then ad-lib a meditation to the viewers in real-time using the words on the list, finding ways to create therapeutic metaphors etc to address stress, worry and anxiety and told in a way to promote absorption and sleep. So I might talk about someone at a zoo seeing some of the animals, then then head into a forest as a storm sets in and as the storm gets closer and the wind picks up they notice a cave, they go into the cave to get out of the storm where they hear a pulsating hum, they investigate and find a portal, with curiosity, they step through the portal and find themselves on a cliff overlooking the ocean and behind them is a forest, they head into that forest, find a fork in the road where they have to make a choice over which direction to take, they perhaps see a boy playing in the mud, picking up worms and holding a teddy bear, next to the boy could be a lamp and they notice that it looks like something is moving inside the lamp, they realise it is a fairy, they open the lamp and see the fairy which blows fairy dust in their face, as the dust settles they hear a piano playing and find that they are in a loft room in Paris over 100 years ago, they look out of the window to see the Moulin Rouge...etc... and at some point I would likely end with them getting home, settling down in bed and drifting off asleep...
I'd be interested in hearing a file from you in which you use a hypno-spiral (or at least the visualisation of one) to help lull the viewer/listener to sleep :)
One of the most important things about the story is the transitions? These help the listener to transition from wakefulness to sleep. Transitions and movement deepen the experience, so I use plenty of these. The use of linking words like 'and'' and 'so' is deliberate. Again, this is a hypnotic technique which helps deepen the experience by essentially linking what came before which what comes next, so you have a 'because x so y' set up, where even though in reality things aren't necessarily linked they get linked in a gentle way without sounding forceful. It makes the whole experience almost like one continuous flow from start to finish/wakefulness to sleep, rather than abrupt changes which then don't take the person on the journey. In hypnosis these are called linking suggestions. I use a lot of them. They are words like 'before, during, after, as, while, when, and, so, because' and pauses. I use these to introduce new things into the inner experience in advance of them appearing so that I don't mismatch the listeners experience as well as connecting everything as a single journey. I often describe hypnosis as a long continuous sentence from start to finish. There are silences to allow time for people to become absorbed in the experience and linking suggestions to compound the previous part onto the next part or to make the next part contingent on the previous part so that there is an inevitable flow of movement. When I make these stories I have to think about how the story is told to ensure sleep, rather than just telling a story.
@@DanJonesHypnosis Well said! That makes perfect sense and fits with my knowledge of psychology and linguistics. It also works well for me. I usually get several nights out of each story because they put me right to sleep by being interesting enough to focus my mind, but not so intense that they keep me up.
All sleep stories on my channel prior to RUclips's ad changes in November last year when they turned on all ads after videos and took away the creators ability to turn the ads off, don't have any ads after the videos. So this story from 2018 doesn't have ads at the end of the video. If an ad plays at the end it is most likely to be an ad at the beginning of the next video if listened to in a playlist or if autoplay is turned on... Since RUclips's ad changes creators can't stop ads playing at the end of our videos, so we try to do things like having music of SFX run on for a couple of hours so that hopefully you will be deep enough asleep for the ad to not be too intrusive. We try to have the video volume as loud as we can so that the difference between the story and the ad is reduced and we put our content on other platforms like apps and streaming and downloads services and Patreon. And RUclips are obviously trying to make it so that people subscribe to RUclips Premium, which would remove the ads...
Same here with the swallowing. Very distracting in this video. I'm sorry. I haven't noticed this in any of your other videos I've seen though. Just this one. I couldn't even finish this one. I just went to one of your orders I have saved.
Did you have anything you were worrying about or angry about during the day that you didn't act on? If you have emotional worries or anger which goes unexpressed (like if you wanted to have a go at someone because you were angry with them, but then didn't, then you will dream an extreme version of this at night, so the emotion will be heightened in the dream while your brain processes it. For example, being annoyed with someone during the day can lead to feeling anger during the night, being a bit nervous about something during the day (and that thing not happening or going unresolved for some reason) can lead to feeling terrified in a dream, etc) Usually, unless someone worries or has emotional thinking a lot, we don't notice this as it happens during dreams which we usually forget, but if you have had interrupted sleep for some reason (going to bed at a different time to usual or drinking alcohol or consuming caffeine, or had a noise interrupt you, like an unexpected noise or child etc) then you may be aware in the dream and this could be unpleasant. The reason I asked is that the stories themselves are obviously unlikely to give nightmares as they are not scary and don't have anything scary in them, but if there was something in the ones you had listened to which for you were things you find scary I would see if there was something different you could listen to. For example, if you had said that walking in the woods was something you found scary and perhaps all of the stories of mine which you had listened to involved walking in the woods, then I would obviously suggest not listening to stories with woodland and would suggest stories which don't have woods in them. If you had listened to stories involving going underground and yet it turns out that you are nervous about being underground, then again I would suggest stories which don't involve going underground. All the best Dan
No the story bore nothing that would cause fears, no links to any dreams either, unrelated. My only phobias are of bird claws and reptilian skin. Reptiles and girls with long nails, especially claw like ones. It's their skin. I can't remember what the story that put me off was about but it was an unrelated dream of loss following attainment and peace of mind. Not afraid of spiders, bats etc.
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Hi Dan, I don’t know if you will read this but I am a teenager and I just wanted to say thank you for posting these videos. I have had a chronic anxiety disorder since 2018, and it got to the point where I could feel physical pain in my body and dissociate all the time. I couldn’t sleep. My mum started introducing me to stories like this on apps, but to get the good stories I had to pay for them (which I wasn’t going to do.) After I found your account, I listen to this exact story EVERY night. It’s like a “night light”, except it brings me comfort and something to listen to instead of my thoughts. Finding your account has been a safe haven for me, I don’t really think I can ever express how much these stories legitimately saved my life. Two years ago I wouldn’t have seen myself even seeing junior year, and I am so proud to say that because of your videos (amongst other mindful things), I will be graduating next year. Thank you. (: that being said, goodnight!
I suffer chronic sleeping problems with fibromyalgua but find these atories really help. Thank you so much. Please never stop these stories 😊
I love all of your stories!
It takes sometimes 50 minutes to fall asleep so yes I need the long stories. Thank you for doing them. They are a great help for so many of us.
I'm 30 years old and I've had nightmares nearly every night since I can remember it has been hell for me over the years and has drained me mentally and physically. I've tried literally everything! About a week ago I stumbled across this and decided to give it a go. First night I was asleep 10 minutes in. Slept a full 8hours. Best sleep ever. I thought it was luck but gave it another go and again another full sleep without the nightmares. It's been a week now and I've listened to your voice every night and not one nightmare. Last night I actually had a pleasant dream and woke up feeling so relaxed and fresh. This truly means the world to me. My family and myself would like to give you a huge hug if we could haha Thank you very much I'm not sure if your stories are meant to help with what I've had to deal with but it has more than you know so once again a huge thanks! Keep the stories coming
Hi James,
Thank you for sharing. I'm glad the story works for you. I have about 100 stories on my channel and some compilations of back to back stories.
All the best
Dan
Have you ever had a sleep study? I had nightmares as well. Turns out they are symptoms of narcolepsy. These stories help me a lot. As does my medication.
Happy, healthy, anxiety free New Year to Dan and all his fans. I'm looking forward to sleeping thru 2020 listening to Dan's bedtime stories for grownups. What an imagination you have Dan. I ordered your book "look me in the eye" Looking forward to reading it .
'Look Me In The Eye' is a book by a different author. I assume you mean my book 'Look Into My Eyes'?
Hope you continue to enjoy the sleep meditations through 2021.
I've listened to this story every night for the last two weeks and I can't tell you what it's about! Best sleeping aid ever. Love it!
I've always wanted to tell or create a tale of my own. More of a video game or cartoon deal. Perhaps even a book. I've an active imagination. I've used it most of my life to help me fall asleep. My brain doesn't shut off at night. I will listen to documentaries. Started looking up bedtime stories. They seem to help
I have had terrible insomnia for the past few months. It was killing me. Your channel has helped me so much. Thank you!
I think this is my favorite one...I don't get too far with this one before my eyes get heavy :) Thanks Dan. Love what you do! I've referred a bunch of family and friends ever since trying your sleep stories. Thank you for your generosity.
Live for the 1hr+ stories!! Insomnia is frustrating, but you help.
literally have never heard the ending of any of these
I think this is my favorite one, even though I've fallen asleep around meeting the horse. Keep up the good work!
I came back after a sleep of 9 hours,thanks a lot.
It helped me drift away just after 10th minute and the next thing I knew I woke up at morning fully relaxed and rejuvenated..
I have pressed play on this video every day for a week and I still don't know what the story is about LOL can't get past the first 5-7 mins!!
I am anxious to go to bed tonight. Sounds interesting. I just found this. Seeing how I rarely get out for an adventure this sounds fun. I think. A treasure hunt full of different surprise's
Thank you so much for sharing this story with us. Such a soothing way to fall asleep and I particularly liked the longer length. Thanks again. Very enjoyable.
Lol I realized the next morning I didn’t know the resolution of this story even though I was “sure” it hadn’t worked so thank you and good job😂
After a month, still my favorite
All I can say is U GOT ME. Last couple of weeks Iv been going through alot of stress, pressure ..etc and sleeping for me it was like a gift. But u help me to forget about the problems at least when I was trying to sleep. Thanks for the medication
Loving it!
I love these bedtime stories and they help me sleep
I would love this with music.
Thank you these are fun.
Thanks.i fell asleep sometime during your story as still attuned to you in the a.m. when I woke.
Thank you, glad the stories are helpful...
“If you like this story give it a like” how am I supposed to know if I like the story if I fall asleep within like three minutes of hearing your voice lol you’re great thanks for making these videos public and accessible like this they are very helpful
This is probably the only channel I can safely say that I listen to your content and it puts me right to sleep without the creator getting offended. :)
Thank you for these wonderful stories, I think I have listened to this one 5 times and I always fall asleep within 15-20 minutes.
I really like your stories, and I like when you talk softly and pause,, I play them all night for insomnia. It really bothers me when one video switches to another, and in the beginning, you speak very loudly and quickly. It startles me, and wakes me up. Could you do your introduction in the same gentle, quiet cadence? Thank you.
I have made compilation videos which are about 8+ hours of uninterrupted sleep meditations with no introductions just back to back stories. I try to make the meditation and introduction volumes about the same volume but generally recommend people don't listen to playlists of my sleep meditations back to back, but instead use the compilation videos or the sleep stories app or streaming or downloading the audio so that you can listen uninterrupted to the selection of tracks you like.
Thanks for posting content like this for adults. Sometimes I have trouble centering myself and sleeping but I don't really benefit from ASMR for sleep. plus something about it seems so creepy and fetishy to me. Stories are where it's at for me LOL
Don't remember anything. I was out quickly. I usually have more trouble falling asleep when I'm going for my second REM round of the night. This guy is boring but gets the job done.. thanks guy!
These are awesome...definitely subscribed !! This insomniac loves it !!
Thank you...
Thank you so much!! I really appreciate your work
I find you very attractive. So I guess it's a good thing that you just record your voice while reading the stories. Or I wouldn't be able to fall asleep. Lmao!
I am going to lay down soon and I plan to listen to this story tonight. Your voice is so relaxing. It deffently helps me fall asleep. I have terrible trouble falling asleep every night. I would lay in the dark for hrs with my eyes shut but still not get any closer to sleep. My mind is too active and I have way more stress then a person should have. So im very happy to have stumbled on this channel.
Thank you 😊
This guy is amazing. I have sooooo much trouble sleeping and have apps for meditation and relaxation this guy is better than all that AND ambien and trazodone. I fall right to sleep. Only bad thing is if my phone auto plays to the next thing up and it's too loud then bang I'm wide awake again
SunnyAquamarine2 that happened to me too. There is a setting that stops it. I’m sorry, I can’t remember where. That no longer happens once I changed setting. Good luck!
You guys!!! Get the app called “Relax Melodies” by ipnos software (it’s free) and then play the sounds “Toskana” and “Zen” while watching this. You can play those at the same while watching the video and omg. BEST DECISION YOU’LL MAKE. So dreamy and magical! Thank you for the story!
yes, more long sleep stories, please
I've got 21 long (over 42 minute) sleep stories in this playlist (or all on my Dan Jones Hypnosis Sleep Stories podcast): ruclips.net/p/PLp0cU22E4NrIjkW79uYRlzxR8juR26BCZ
Any stories I now make (I try to make about 2 or 3 times more for my podcast than my RUclips channel) I make at whatever length they end up being to try to keep my stress levels down, so most end up being between about 25-35 minutes long.
All the best
Dan
The "funny" thing about listening to your story is that I've never heard even five minutes of the story. I always fall asleep. Which is good???
Thank you for everything you share!
I love your bed time stories. I need a voice to help me sleep. You are amazing. Thanks xxx
Excellent - thank you!!!!
I’m already sleepy but I wanna hear a story 🤷🏻♂️
I just found you, I love your bedtime stories so so much! Thank you ❤
Thank you. I have about 100 on my channel...
I always love these! Thank you :)
Knocked my overly talkative girlfriend right tf out. Love you babe lol. Thanks Dan!
Stories are sooo interesting
Thank you...
Another miracle worker! if only I could stay awake to hear the ending!
try using the transcript to find where you want to restart on a different night. if there were chapter marks added by the producer you could easily restart each night at a different spot using a media player.
Starting from points during the story would stop it doing its job, which is to get the listener to sleep. I don't expect people who are using these for sleep to make it to the end. Ideally they are asleep long before that, perhaps within 10-20 minutes for most people, and with repeated use this gets quicker. How I introduce the story and what I say and do at the beginning is the most important part of the track. Obviously someone could listen at a non-bedtime time and they can then listen to the end and decide not to follow the suggestions to sleep (although because of how I present the stories I would still recommend the listener isn't doing anything else which requires their attention, like driving or operating machinery).
I think this is my most favourite one so far!
Please make more you are really, really helping a lot of people. I’ve listened to this twice and never gotten passed the horse part. This hypnosis 100% makes me stop thinking about life and has me thinking straight into the story. Nothing is on my mind apart from the story when I’m listening. It’s amazing.
Thank you, there are almost 100 of these stories on my channel...
Yo same here, I get to the horse part and I'm out. I've had to start progressively incrementing my start position or else I'll never hear the whole thing.
I struggle to wind the story together as it’s so .....slow...........you .....................know my minds blazing from a busy day. Yeah in one paragraph from this story and I’ve been to Tim buck too n back minds filling in the blanks it’s rough a little more sped up it may capture my mind would be great love the idea of this stuff I’ll keep trying to listen and slow the thoughts down
This so nice, I've listened to this one twice now and havent made it past the galloping horse part before I fall asleep 😴 thank you!!
Can’t wait for you to get to a mil... alllllllllll those stories... awww yeahhhhh -your pretty skilled that was cool. Thanks man. You earned that sub and hopefully another 1k 😃
Ps you should write a book
I've written about 28 books. Two collections of 11 bedtime stories to help children sleep, three autism books, about eight hypnosis books, two self-help books, a hypnotic sales book, a novel, a collection of 35 healing guided meditations, a quit smoking book, a book about big brother, and more...
I am currently writing a book of adult bedtime stories (as done on RUclips), a series of 10 hypnotherapy training books, a third collection of 11 bedtime stories for children, a book about well-being for RUclipsr's and digital entrepreneurs and have more ideas for after these are finished...
can you do one of these with light rain sounds in the background??
On the Slumber app (which has many of my tracks on and is available for iOs) you can have different background sounds. I think one of them is rain...
Brittney Moreno - OMG what an amazing idea! That’s icing on the cake!! I will look that out! Thank you for suggesting this so we can get the answer! 👏👍
Dan Jones Hypnosis - Guided Sleep Meditations - Thank you sooo much for replying and letting us know!! Thank you for this channel. I’m going through a lot medically (physical pain) and emotionally, just a lot.😔 I very recently found this channel and it REALLY REALLY helps at night to be so calming and helps me drift off. I truly cannot thank you enough!! I sincerely have enjoyed your site and I’ve been recommending this to friends & family who LOVE it! Thank you!
New happy subscriber!
🇨🇦 🙂 Lisa in Canada 🇨🇦🙂
Just open up another RUclips tab and select rain sounds and have both playing same time. Thats what i do.
You woke me up more
Wow, another thousand already? The last one of these was just two months ago, we're doing great guys! :D
Knocks me out just like your other stories. I never thought I’d ever fall asleep with earbuds in my ears but I do! It doesn’t work if I don’t use earbuds though. Have to hear it right in my head.
I get the same with stories etc and with self hypnosis, that they only really work when it feels more personal by having headphones. It can work without but takes longer and is less effective for me...
Ty
I do like them.
Its awesome
Good clip!
Well done again good man
Put my annoying cousin right to sleep thanks dan
So damn funny 😂
Lol
Lmao 🤣
More please.
There are about 100 stories on my channel to choose from currently...
Thank u Dan
More, more, more! Love your bedtime stories. ☮️💟🙏🏻
Q
Hi im a new subscriber and was wondering if u had a playlist for ur bedtime stories i realy enjoy them
On my channel is a playlist of all 100+ stories
Thanks Dan listened last night. Don't know how much I heard great sleep though
Hi dan! Thanks! Thats awesome!
Loved this story, however found it hilarious, especially the part about about the horse. Cause that exactly how I do ride in reality xx
Dan here is the truth xx ruclips.net/video/9DS-JUPhGvA/видео.html
My mum was a riding instructor. I grew up around horses and seemed to always have a connection with them. Mum always said I was a natural (I know many autistic people seem to naturally connect with animals and understand animals and their behaviour better than fellow humans)...
I used to ride on horses bareback often, and seemed to be able to calm horses that were still being broken in and ride them, with them being calm for me.
My description in my stories of horse-riding are always just me feeling myself riding again while I have my eyes closed reciting the story...
Ahhh, been waiting for this.... nite, nite.....
Ohhhh! Thanks for the highlighted comment! 😚
Wow i feel deep asleeo
Loved it, suggestion?; some background ambient music to help set various scenes would be amazing!
You can get that on the tracks on the Slumber app on iOs. You can select volume of background sounds and select music and/or different natural sounds.
I used to make all my tracks here on youtube with background music and/or background sounds that matched what was going on in the track and was specific to each track. Having music and/or natural sounds was something people seemed to strongly love or hate. Due to the amount of personal taste involved it was better to ditch the sounds. Having sounds used to make production of tracks take about ten times longer. I was at one point going to upload two versions of each track, one with sounds and one without but then was approached by the creator of Slumber app and thought people who want those things can use the app rather than it taking me much longer to make the tracks.
One person for example commented about why I had annoying sounds of birds in my track walking through woods, they listen to tracks to get away from horrible sounds like that.
shaun bowden - Hello! I know your comment has been posted a long time ago, so I’m not sure if you’ve already found some but I’ve heard there are some newer sites that have soft light rain 🌧 in background! I haven’t made it to check them out because I just literally found this one! The only way I know that suggestion is, I read it in a post in comments from the author. Hope you’ve found it! 🙂 Be well 🙂
🙂🇨🇦 Lisa 🇨🇦🙂
It put's me to sleep , but so does miss Marple audio books. So I am truly curious. Are there people who remember the story , even when they fall asleep. Or sleep differently?
I can't listen to stories because I have know the ending, but your voice is comforting.
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Oh God I love your voice n love this bedtime story ❤💙💚💛💜
I ended up sleeping!!!
I never make it through this ... 🌸
I enjoy listening to the stories. Only thing i wonder about is a half hr into this story you're talking about gong back to sleep again. By the fire in the cave. Is that a calming thing? I woke up at that part. Was going you'd get on with the story but i feel back to sleep. Lol so maybe it works.
These meditations are just like any other meditation, the idea is to focus on absorbing the listeners mind in the sensory experience and on being in the moment in the meditation, these aren't 'stories' like you might read in a book or listen to as an audio book. They are metaphorical healing tales. In the description of my more recent meditations is a link to a RUclips video where I demonstrate doing this with a client in front of a live audience on a training course. I have also done a number of live streams where I get the viewers to give me ideas they want me to create a therapeutic meditation with and then I ask them to close their eyes and create a therapeutic sleep meditation with their ideas.
Movement, transitions and silence are great ways to deepen the experience and to progress the experience to a new level, so meditations will often involve walking or movement in some way, they will involve transitions, it could be drifting asleep, drifting into a day dream, changing scene, like walking from a meadow into woods, or through a door or gate etc and will have periods of silence to give the listener time to become absorbed in the mental imagery. Relaxing by a campfire and having the dancing light on cave walls is something many find relaxing and absorbing, but obviously not everyone. I have my meditations in playlists so that you can easily find out which meditations have things in you don't like and which have things in you do like. So you might not like relaxing by a fire in a cave, but might like drifting asleep on a boat on the ocean, or sleeping in a tent in the Arctic, or relaxing on a beach etc.
Ideas? When I would use my own imagination to help fall asleep. Often I'd imagine being in a space ship type deal traveling thru the stars. On some kind off reconnaissance mission. Or a patrol of some sort. From a home planet, or more often from a larger mother ship. A mission that would have me out for long periods of time. Hrs, days or even longer. Communicating with a mission control or a base of sorts or just other members of the same unit. Science or military based. Another favorite i would use is being a space pirate worth a crew that would intercept enemy vessels n take their cargo. It helps when I'd imagine myself alone in the vastness of space n focusing on a certain goal or something similar. I'm describing it in detail bc maybe it will give you an idea for another story. Lmk if you do. Sure you get requests frequently.
It's not that i disliked it. Id rather just hear the story than hear explanation about imagining going to sleep by the fire. I understand y u did it after your explanation.
I have done a number of space based meditations, from ones about astronauts to aliens and advanced civilisations, to strange civilisations, to living and surviving on other planets and visiting strange planets etc.
When I do the live streams and ask for ideas, the type of ideas are things I could build a meditation around. If an idea is too specific or too much like 'make the story this' then it doesn't give me the freedom to make the meditation as beyond what the person suggests I've normally not got any content to work with, so people will suggest single words or short phrases, so I might get a list of ideas in the chat section like: elephant, rat, penguin, forest, storm, portal, ocean, cave, fork, mud, worms, teddy bear, lamp, fairy, piano, etc...
And then I would take this list, tell the viewers to close their eyes and then ad-lib a meditation to the viewers in real-time using the words on the list, finding ways to create therapeutic metaphors etc to address stress, worry and anxiety and told in a way to promote absorption and sleep. So I might talk about someone at a zoo seeing some of the animals, then then head into a forest as a storm sets in and as the storm gets closer and the wind picks up they notice a cave, they go into the cave to get out of the storm where they hear a pulsating hum, they investigate and find a portal, with curiosity, they step through the portal and find themselves on a cliff overlooking the ocean and behind them is a forest, they head into that forest, find a fork in the road where they have to make a choice over which direction to take, they perhaps see a boy playing in the mud, picking up worms and holding a teddy bear, next to the boy could be a lamp and they notice that it looks like something is moving inside the lamp, they realise it is a fairy, they open the lamp and see the fairy which blows fairy dust in their face, as the dust settles they hear a piano playing and find that they are in a loft room in Paris over 100 years ago, they look out of the window to see the Moulin Rouge...etc... and at some point I would likely end with them getting home, settling down in bed and drifting off asleep...
Can you do one that is meant to calm asap. Lower heartbeat. Panic attack. Etc. Please. Ty!
I have videos on my channel for things like that. Including the quickest way to calm panic attacks etc.
If you don't want to hear the intro it's at 0:38
Played this for my co-workers and got laughed at
Embarrassing
You reached your goal? Sweet!
13,002...
Hi Dan :) Love your voice and induction style - by any chance do you take requests or suggestions?
Always happy to hear ideas
I'd be interested in hearing a file from you in which you use a hypno-spiral (or at least the visualisation of one) to help lull the viewer/listener to sleep :)
I am unfamiliar with the "hypno-spiral" but it sounds like something my brain would respond well to; I second this request.
Can you elaborate about what is therapeutic, Dan ?
Hi Dan, would you consider making a hypnotic story focusing on healing love addictions?
Brilliant channel irena 👍
It lacks transitions, there's alot of "and" or "so" which takes me out of it, it's good aside from that.
One of the most important things about the story is the transitions? These help the listener to transition from wakefulness to sleep. Transitions and movement deepen the experience, so I use plenty of these. The use of linking words like 'and'' and 'so' is deliberate. Again, this is a hypnotic technique which helps deepen the experience by essentially linking what came before which what comes next, so you have a 'because x so y' set up, where even though in reality things aren't necessarily linked they get linked in a gentle way without sounding forceful. It makes the whole experience almost like one continuous flow from start to finish/wakefulness to sleep, rather than abrupt changes which then don't take the person on the journey. In hypnosis these are called linking suggestions. I use a lot of them. They are words like 'before, during, after, as, while, when, and, so, because' and pauses.
I use these to introduce new things into the inner experience in advance of them appearing so that I don't mismatch the listeners experience as well as connecting everything as a single journey.
I often describe hypnosis as a long continuous sentence from start to finish. There are silences to allow time for people to become absorbed in the experience and linking suggestions to compound the previous part onto the next part or to make the next part contingent on the previous part so that there is an inevitable flow of movement.
When I make these stories I have to think about how the story is told to ensure sleep, rather than just telling a story.
@@DanJonesHypnosis Well said! That makes perfect sense and fits with my knowledge of psychology and linguistics. It also works well for me. I usually get several nights out of each story because they put me right to sleep by being interesting enough to focus my mind, but not so intense that they keep me up.
I enjoy your stories but when finished, the ads are so loud, they wake me up which defeats the reason for listening.
All sleep stories on my channel prior to RUclips's ad changes in November last year when they turned on all ads after videos and took away the creators ability to turn the ads off, don't have any ads after the videos. So this story from 2018 doesn't have ads at the end of the video. If an ad plays at the end it is most likely to be an ad at the beginning of the next video if listened to in a playlist or if autoplay is turned on...
Since RUclips's ad changes creators can't stop ads playing at the end of our videos, so we try to do things like having music of SFX run on for a couple of hours so that hopefully you will be deep enough asleep for the ad to not be too intrusive. We try to have the video volume as loud as we can so that the difference between the story and the ad is reduced and we put our content on other platforms like apps and streaming and downloads services and Patreon. And RUclips are obviously trying to make it so that people subscribe to RUclips Premium, which would remove the ads...
Do one about koromos dragon story@
So speaking slowly and empty pauses is relaxing?
Same here with the swallowing. Very distracting in this video. I'm sorry. I haven't noticed this in any of your other videos I've seen though. Just this one. I couldn't even finish this one. I just went to one of your orders I have saved.
Let me just say this, I only ever know about 3 minutes of this story at a time.
Can you do a scary one for lucid nightmares?
A lucid nightmare sounds like hell but okay
Unrested Just snort flakka
Well unrested, You've just diagnosed the reason for your restlessness...
Wth...I wouldn’t want to have nightmares
Why would you want a lucid nightmare?
Is this the Mindful guy?
8.47 no wonder the horse broke into a canter
At that rate, PewDiePie would need to do a whole Wikipedia of
Shut up please. Boring
Your voice is so abrasive!
First time I've ever been told that in over 25 years of hypnotising people...
Yeah do you know what abrasive means Miss K?
These downloads give me nightmares when I listen to them. I can't sleep now if I listen as I am afraid to.
What is it about the stories that you think leads to you having nightmares?
@@DanJonesHypnosis I used them to help me sleep but I had quite lucid and reasoned dreams I found disturbing.
Did you have anything you were worrying about or angry about during the day that you didn't act on? If you have emotional worries or anger which goes unexpressed (like if you wanted to have a go at someone because you were angry with them, but then didn't, then you will dream an extreme version of this at night, so the emotion will be heightened in the dream while your brain processes it. For example, being annoyed with someone during the day can lead to feeling anger during the night, being a bit nervous about something during the day (and that thing not happening or going unresolved for some reason) can lead to feeling terrified in a dream, etc)
Usually, unless someone worries or has emotional thinking a lot, we don't notice this as it happens during dreams which we usually forget, but if you have had interrupted sleep for some reason (going to bed at a different time to usual or drinking alcohol or consuming caffeine, or had a noise interrupt you, like an unexpected noise or child etc) then you may be aware in the dream and this could be unpleasant.
The reason I asked is that the stories themselves are obviously unlikely to give nightmares as they are not scary and don't have anything scary in them, but if there was something in the ones you had listened to which for you were things you find scary I would see if there was something different you could listen to. For example, if you had said that walking in the woods was something you found scary and perhaps all of the stories of mine which you had listened to involved walking in the woods, then I would obviously suggest not listening to stories with woodland and would suggest stories which don't have woods in them. If you had listened to stories involving going underground and yet it turns out that you are nervous about being underground, then again I would suggest stories which don't involve going underground.
All the best
Dan
No the story bore nothing that would cause fears, no links to any dreams either, unrelated. My only phobias are of bird claws and reptilian skin. Reptiles and girls with long nails, especially claw like ones. It's their skin. I can't remember what the story that put me off was about but it was an unrelated dream of loss following attainment and peace of mind.
Not afraid of spiders, bats etc.
Nah ill pass. I like the rainy joints. No words. Just rain and thunder.