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Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianHistory For Sleep delivers slow, calm, and slightly unsettling historical storytelling that makes dozing off educationally depressing.Brought to you by the Drowsy Historian, each episode is 1–2…
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Fall Asleep as a Victorian Cocaine Patent Medicine Salesman in the 1890s (opens the original)
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Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian Step into the 1890s and travel from town to town as a patent medicine salesman, carrying a leather case filled with bottles promising relief from headaches, exhaustion, nervousness, pain, and nearly everything else troubling the modern citizen. In an age fascinated by chemistry and scientific progress, ingredients like cocaine could be advertised not as warnings, but as signs that a medicine was modern, powerful,
Fall Asleep as a Sailor Hunting Whales in the Arctic During the 1800s (opens the original)
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Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian Sail into the frozen Arctic aboard a nineteenth-century whaling ship, where creaking timber, drifting sea ice, thick fog, and relentless cold define everyday life. In this sleep history story, you experience the long journey north as an ordinary sailor, spending endless hours watching empty water for the first sign of a whale. When that moment finally comes, quiet waiting turns into exhausting labor as whaleboats
Fall Asleep as a Court Gardener at the Palace of Versailles (opens the original)
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Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian Fall asleep as a gardener at Versailles, where royal beauty depends on muddy boots, sharp shears, endless patience, and a remarkable determination to prevent nature from behaving naturally. In this relaxing sleep history, you spend a day maintaining the magnificent gardens of Versailles during the age of Louis XIV. Trim carefully shaped hedges, tend elaborate flowerbeds, care for orange trees, walk beneath shaded
Fall Asleep as a Medieval Pilgrim Crossing the Alps in Winter (opens the original)
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Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian With a worn staff in your hand and tired boots beneath you, you follow lonely mountain roads through frozen forests, remote villages, monasteries, and dangerous high passes. Along the way, simple acts of hospitality become precious: a bowl of hot food, a place beside the fire, bread for the road, and shelter when winter weather closes in. This quiet journey explores what medieval pilgrimage might have felt like wh
Fall Asleep as an Ancient Chinese Potter Firing Ceramics in Ancient China (opens the original)
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Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian Step into an ancient Chinese pottery yard, where clay, water, smoke, and fire shape the rhythm of everyday life. Tonight, you become a potter, preparing raw clay, working patiently at the wheel, decorating simple vessels, and tending a wood-fired kiln through the night. These bowls, jars, and cups may eventually find their way into kitchens, markets, storerooms, and ceremonies, but first they must survive drying,
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