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Bedtime Stories
- The Audible Sleep Collection
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- Categories: Health & Wellness, Physical Illness & Disease
Publisher's Summary
Bedtime stories are narrated by the world’s most celebrated voices and written with no beginning, middle, or end so you don’t stay up to hear what happens next. They're interesting enough to give your mind something to focus on, but delivered in a way that encourages sleep.
This is an Audible Original Podcast. Free for members. When you add Bedtime Stories from Audible Sleep to your library, you'll receive all previous episodes and will continue to receive new ones as they're released.
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- Nidhi Singh
- 25-09-20
it's so boring, I couldn't even sleep
I can understand that it may be a good idea to make a bed time story book boring, to help you sleep. This book passes that, it's so boring that you can't even sleep. hearing someone describe triangles and the baseball scores in a dull monotonous voice is kind of like being back in the most boring class at high school, except somehow more annoying.
at best, you can use it as white noise in the background on a speaker turned down low, if you listen to it on headphones (as I usually do) it's difficult to sleep. the voices are quite soothing, and depending upon your tolerance for baseball and math, it might just be enough to bore you to sleep, quite literally.
5 people found this helpful
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- Shivu
- 07-07-20
Interesting listen.
Nice mix of celebrity narrators. Also found the storyline kind of apt for some casual listening when going to sleep.
note - keep the volume low
4 people found this helpful
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- Heather
- 18-06-20
Not what I was expecting
The Audible blurb describes these as stories with no beginning, middle or end. I couldn’t understand this concept so downloaded them out of curiosity. In fact they are not stories so much as short lectures or chats, on topics ranging from the mundane (quilt-collecting, cooking and baseball) to the esoteric (philosophy and mathematics).
The blurb also says that these ‘stories’ are ‘narrated by the world’s most celebrated voices’, so I was expecting to hear from familiar actors, presenters or voice artists. This can be really helpful as a familiar voice is more soothing when you’re trying to get to sleep. However, so far the only reader familiar to me has been Tony Shalhoub. He does have a great voice and I was asleep before he got halfway through his talk on the history of maths!
So although these stories are not what I was expecting, I think most listeners will find something here to interest them and to help them sleep. And they’re free, so what have you got to lose?
219 people found this helpful
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- pattyb
- 09-07-20
Amazing!
I have struggled with sleep for many, many months, and have tried all manner of things both medical and physical.
I was a bit sceptical but I am very pleased to say this works. Not only do I fall asleep but I sleep for much longer, only waking once during the night.
Is this hypnosis?
74 people found this helpful
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- Jojoshopper
- 22-06-20
Just as I'd hoped
Exactly the right mix, distracts the mind just enough to relax without getting caught up
50 people found this helpful
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- Amazon Customer
- 23-07-20
Wouldn’t have believed it
Wouldn’t have believed it, had I not tried it... can’t say they are the most riveting stories but then that is the point, they are not meant to be...voices and tone perfect, must have been so difficult, to maintain but all the story tellers managed to...they may not work for everyone but worth a try.....
Great idea, definitely recommend.
38 people found this helpful
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-07-20
Fantastic
The pumpkin stew is my absolute favourite! I wish their was a whole collection like pumpkin stew.. dedicated to cookery.. Talking you through recipes, the smells, the preparation, even the little splashes of sauce! Genuis
36 people found this helpful
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- #earlylearning🤓📚
- 06-08-20
it works.
The idea is to drone you to sleep with boredom-
whilst maybe learning some small useless facts
25 people found this helpful
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- Mrs. J. R. Neeld
- 12-08-20
kept awake
I should have known better unfortunatelygive me a crime thriller I really want to hear, I relax and sleep within minutes. these boring stories however keep me wide awake. dont know why that would be maybe boring does not relax me
24 people found this helpful
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- Claire New
- 27-07-20
The best sleep.
This is the best sleep story I've found. Relaxing voice tone, not a topic I'm into, interesting but not too interesting which is what you want when trying to sleep. I slept so well. I woke once and even though the story had ended o could here the voice in my head and I dropped off again.
22 people found this helpful
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- Boxiana
- 16-08-20
Soothing and perfect
These stories are a brilliant way of beating insomnia.
I would fully recommend this to anyone who wants to get to sleep
❤️😴
17 people found this helpful
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- Sabilus
- 14-08-20
Simply awesome
I especially like the mathematics and the Escoffier ones, I nodd off almost at once. My only problem is that the sleep mode function doesn't seem to be working properly for me - especially if I set the timer. I fell asleep to the Escoffier one (I think I might be able to make proper broth now) and a friend told me that despite the timer it had continued to the Pumpkin stew one. Apperantly it made her even more hungry after a night out...
12 people found this helpful
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- Marilyn Evans
- 23-04-21
Curtis Stone
Curtis Stone .. for goodness sake don't give up your day job ..
Have you heard of a book called a dictionary ?
Do you even know what help a dictionary can provide ?
You haven't even bothered to:
- look up the pronounciation of words .. particularly thr French ones ..
Asparagus au Gratin .. you read this as "Asparagus are grattarn" with the emphasis in the wrong place too !
Sauté .. as sortay
Seive .. as seev
Gratin .. as grutaan
Flan .. as both florn and flaarn
process .. as prőcess
Intersticese .. well you completely mangled that one as .. inter tis is .. took me 30 secs to comprehend that one
Aubergine fritte .. as orbagine fritz ...... and so many many more
.. Oh .. P L E A S E ! Show some respect .. do your homemork & prepare.
- rehearse by pre-reading .. you're not even familiar with some of the words and english phrases eg 'the while'
- have someone else comment upon your reading & give feedback before recording
Why do you drop consonants at the end of words ? particularly those ending in G and T .. eg whiting, clarifying, seasoning, cooking .. they have Gs at the end .. its not COOCKEEN .. WHITE-EEN - .. etc.
Punctuation is provided to enable the correct, meaningful reading of a sentence .. clearly you haven't discovered this .. too often your pauses cause the sentence to be meaningless.
All of these disturb the listener .. BADLY
I certainly didn't fall asleep .. I was made angry by the dissonance you created & having to stay alert to make sense of what you were saying .. poor Escoffier must be turning in his grave with embarassment.
7 people found this helpful
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- John Sturmey
- 22-09-20
wonderful
I loved ❤️ it so much. it relaxed 😌 me so fast it wasn't long before I drifted off to sleep 🌙
5 people found this helpful
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- Debra
- 19-11-20
loved this
I loved this story, it was very relaxing and helped me clear my mind. the story tellers voice is very soothing.
3 people found this helpful
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- Deborah Phillips
- 08-01-21
Best sleep story ever.....well if you like baseball anyway!
Nick reads this so well. I actually was hoping he had done other books but he hasn’t.
Read so well and actually really interesting but puts me and my son to sleep every night!
2 people found this helpful
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- Susan Broad
- 15-06-21
Great
Easy listening to fall asleep. Good voice to listen to not aggregating. Fell asleep easily so can’t tell you about the story but that’s the purpose of these books - happy sleeping
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- Michael Jones
- 03-05-21
When Boredom is the Goal
I’d like to say that I listened intently to two stories so far, but despite being interested in the topics, I have no idea how they finished..
Excellent !
Given that the sleep stories are about 30 minutes long give or take a few minutes, they must be as effective as meditation in quietening the mind.
This is high praise indeed.