Dan Jones Sleep Stories

Unravelling The Red Thread (Deeply Relaxing Sleep Story)

This is a bedtime story for grown ups about an elderly lady receiving a postcard from a friend. She reads that postcard as the story unfolds about a woman travelling around the world in search of the strange and mysterious. She is on a train which passes through a mountain tunnel, but exits in a different reality. The woman then goes on a journey through the land to find a solution so that the train can continue on in its own reality again. On her journey she encounters a friendly hippo who gives her some items to help her on her quest. She finds her way to a magical door in ancient ruins of a city in the woodland. The other side of that magical door is a meadow with a parrot and an orange dinosaur. They guide her to the coastline where she gets help from a Humpback whale. She continues on and finds a town, where a cardinal in a purple cloak makes her a warm coat, before she heads to the glass mountains, meets a fairy who tells her how to change the reality around the train, before finding her way back to the train and continuing her journey. After reading the postcard, the elderly lady heads to bed and drifts peacefully asleep into Slumberland.

The World Of Wonder (Long, Calming Bedtime Story)

This is a bedtime story for grown ups about you flying in a spaceship, you begin your descent into the Earth's atmosphere, but when you land on Earth you discover that this Earth is different. You expected to land on a runway, but in its place is just meadow. Shortly after you land it rains purple rain. You head through woodland the next day and encounter animals practicing a performance for a show. You also meet a small kitten named Pickles. Together at the advice of the animals, you visit a silver fox named Tom who lives in a large building in a place which resembles Victorian London. They explain to you about the purple rain and about what happened to you and to the kitten and about portals. They give you a liquid to drink that will let you temporarily see the portals so that you can return to your correct universe. You head back to the woodland, drink some of the liquid, return the kitten home, before piloting your ship through a portal and back to your own reality, landing in the correct place, debriefing and then heading home. Once home you think about your experience, feel tired and head to bed, drifting peacefully asleep into Slumberland.

The Sword In The Stone (Peaceful Bedtime Story)

This is a bedtime story for grown ups about you resting in a hot tub on holiday overlooking a canyon. You watch the sunset before resting in a deckchair and drifting into a reverie where you dream about sitting by a river, having afternoon tea with teddy. You watch ducks swimming in the river and find a necklace which turns you into a dragon, you fly around a new landscape as a dragon, before seeing a castle. You land near the castle and realise you have turned into a mouse. You find your way into the castle and drink some punch. As you drink you fall into the punch bowl and discover you are a turtle in a coral reef. You see an unusual cave, swim into that cave and find you are a white fox in a vast snowy landscape. You explore this landscape where you encounter a snow fairy, who gives you a bar of soap which they say with give you answers. You find a warm spring in the snowy landscape, wash in the spring with the lavender scented soap and transform into a gopher where you encounter a talking sword who tells a tale about a girl gathering pumpkins, encountering a knight, who turns out to be an octopus, and her father, who is a bandit has stolen the sword. The octopus shares about how they are magical. They pass knowledge to the bandit and the story contains knowledge for 'you', being told by the sword. You, as the gopher, pull the sword from the stone and find yourself inside the moon, encountering a magician who says they are an ancient alien and the moon is an alien ship. They share how they transform lives, and you are really sleeping on a chair by the hot tub. They guide you back to the chair, you awaken in that chair and head to bed with changes in mind as you drift asleep into Slumberland. This story contains background music I have created.

The Sleepy Cabin In The Woods (Calming Bedtime Story)

This is a bedtime story for grown ups about you heading into British woodland, finding your way to a cabin in a slight clearing in the woods. settling down to rest in a comfortable chair with a cat purring on your lap, then drifting into a reverie in that chair where you explore a series of dreamscapes, before waking from that reverie and heading to bed and drifting into Slumberland.

The Secret Well Of Chichén Itzá (Long Sleepy Bedtime Story)

This is a bedtime story for grown ups about you in the 1500's on a sailing ship on the ocean. You are an inventor and explorer. You are keeping a diary of your journey and a chest of items from your journey. The journey across the ocean is long and takes months. One night you enter a storm, but your invention with a gyroscope embedded within the keel and gyroscopes within the ship keep the ship level. You head into the Gulf of Mexico and eventually make landfall. The ships crew remain near the shore, exploring and mapping this area, while you set out for a many day hike through forest and over different terrain until eventually you arrive at a bustling Chichén Itza where you have heard about an enchanted, magical well. You are guided into a temple where you undergo a ritual involving consuming a sweet syrup-like substance, before being guided to a main chamber to drink from the well. You are then rested down onto a bed where you have a deep, personal, spiritual experience. You awaken from this experience a changed person, before heading back to the shore and then travelling back to Europe, where you write about your experiences and each night, drift peacefully asleep into Slumberland.