Dan Jones Sleep Stories

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is a bedtime story for grown ups about you exploring woodland in autumn before heading out into a meadow and a ravine, you walk a rope across to the middle of the ravine before base-jumping down into the ravine and camping on the cliff beside a thunderous river. You drift asleep and dream of an adventure where you find an hourglass. You wake-up with that hourglass in your pocket, climb the cliff and continue your journey. You find an unusual stone and a space on the stone for the hourglass. You place the hourglass on the stone and drift into a meditation where the seasons pass around you. After the seasons arrive back at autumn a slender person in leather trousers and a long leather jacket appears out of a haze. They introduce themselves as being a vampire and the one who entered your mind to give you the experience to find that hourglass, so that you could have this experience. They have lived thousands of years, which alters your perception of time and they wanted to share this so that you could share their story of how they experience reality. They hand you a blank book to write in and give you instructions. You camp the night, knowing you will head home in the morning, and you drift peacefully asleep into Slumberland.

This is a bedtime story for grown ups about a teddy bear swimming in the ocean to an underwater cave. They enter the cave, exit the water in the cave, pass through a portal and exit that portal in our reality where they find Nikola Tesla working on a machine to generate unlimited free energy for all, except that this experiment has gone wrong and ripped through the multiverse into this teddy bear's reality. Tesla adapts the machine to create a focused beam, opening a portal but realises that there are multiple realities all slight frequencies apart from each other. The teddy bear explores a reality where they meet with a meditating gorilla monk called Albert Ross who teaches them how to travel through the multiverse as consciousness using a meditation technique. They practice this and visit an unusual reality, before heading back with this new skill, then travelling back to their reality where they write up their experience and head to bed, drifting peacefully asleep into Slumberland.

This is a bedtime story for grown ups about a pixie who is walking through British countryside towards Bath. On her journey, she encounters an injured dragon. She helps the dragon by removing a sword from its side. The dragon then gives her a tattoo which imbues her with the heart of a dragon. She then continues her journey, heads along a river where she meets an otter who needs her help. She helps the otter to get a box from the bottom of the river. It is a mysterious box with the letters TNT written on it in red writing. She takes that box to a canary in a coal mine. The canary opens the box and finds that it contains what looks like a dream catcher. They explain that it catches negative thoughts, processes these and emits positive thoughts back which the person absorbs and has these thoughts. The pixie wants one of these dream catchers, and is told how to get one. She heads on towards Bath, camps the night by a river. The next day she ends up in Bath, she enjoys a bath in Bath in a soup-like bath. She then heads to a windmill where she helps to create her own dream catcher, before heading back to her room and settles in bed, drifting peacefully asleep into Slumberland.

This is a bedtime story for grown ups about you wandering through a cold and misty wood. You hear a curious bird song and begin to journey towards that song. As you do, so your body disperses into the ether with the mist, leaving you travelling through the woods as a consciousness. You find a yellow bird who creates a portal to another realm using the power of dance and music. In that new realm as a consciousness, you fly over a meadow before descending into the depths of an ocean, where you encounter a psychedelic octopus, who turns out to be called Max Headroom. You see what looks like a ghost town, you swim into that ghost town, only to discover it is Victorian London. Max Headroom turns into a person wearing a tuxedo and tells you to see one of the market sellers. You visit a potato selling alien, who concocts a liquid which allows your consciousness to settle into a mole-rat so that you can eat a blue cupcake with black rose petals, which expands your consciousness, as you drift back from the mole-rat and connect with the cosmic web. You then head back to the octopus, back to the ocean, back to the meadow and back through the portal to the yellow bird. You settle by a tree and experience you mind and body reconnecting before leaving the woodland, following a stream to its source where you find a spring. You drink from the spring and settle down by the stream, drifting into a reverie. As nighttime sets in, you set up a hammock in the trees, settle down in the hammock and drift peacefully asleep into Slumberland.

Enter a magical woodland and go on a beautiful journey into nature and set up a tent and campfire beside a stream. You relax by the campfire and listen to the sounds of the woodland and the stream. Later, after the sun has set, you explore, and discover fireflies in the woodland, and head out into a clearing. You rest in a meadow and drift into a reverie, until you notice rain is approaching, so you head back to your tent to relax and sleep... At the end, you can relax in your cozy tent while listening to the rain pattering on the fabric of the tent.This sleep story contains a full body scan process and a countdown process integrated into the story.