If you have insomnia, you've probably been told to "just relax" more times than you can count. The problem is that trying to relax is itself a form of effort, and effort is the enemy of sleep. Bedtime stories work for insomnia precisely because they don't ask you to try. You just listen. The story does the work of occupying your mind while your body does what it already knows how to do.
One of the most frustrating aspects of insomnia is the negative association with your bed. After enough sleepless nights, your brain starts treating the bed as a place of frustration rather than rest. A nightly story ritual can help rebuild that association. Over time, pressing play becomes a signal to your brain: this is when we stop thinking and start listening. This is when sleep begins.
Our stories range from 20 minutes to over 2 hours. If you regularly take a long time to fall asleep, start with a longer story — the extended runway means there's no pressure to fall asleep "before it ends." Set the ending to "Continue Sounds" so ambient rain, fire, or ocean waves keep playing seamlessly after the narration finishes.
