Falling into a deep slumber is a journey in and of itself. Sometimes the journey is in your dreams, while other times, the journey is a frustrating one because you can’t quite get to sleep. If you’re in the latter camp, look no further than BetterSleep’s stories! Listening to them—even as an adult—can help relax and calm your mind, while preventing racing, intrusive thoughts from consuming you and keeping you awake at the most important time of the evening.
At BetterSleep, we offer a variety of stories (both adapted works and stories written in-house) to help you fall asleep faster and easier. And what better theme for those kinds of stories than going on an adventure? Here are seven bedtime stories about journeys, what they’re about, and why BetterSleep’s adaptation of these tales can help improve your sleep routine.
Sinbad the Sailor’s First Voyage
Imagine you’re on a boat in the middle of the ocean, suddenly finding an island—only to find out that the island is actually a whale? For Sinbad the Sailor, this is exactly how his first voyage at sea began. At only 21 minutes, BetterSleep’s retelling of this classic tale from the One Thousand and One Nights series is ideal for those who nod off easily!
Not only is this 32-minute story available on the BetterSleep app with a premium subscription, you can also view it for free on our YouTube channel. Here, we see a young woman named Jade on a quest to find an amulet that can magically cure her teacher—a wizard—of insomnia. Along the way, she travels across lakes and forests while encountering on the hunt for the pendant that gives its wearer the most peaceful of sleeps.
Let’s be real here, who doesn’t love penguins? In this story, we follow Adera, a Gentoo Penguin who goes on a journey across the waters off of Australia. What this curious young sea creature experiences during her travels involves making new friends and discovering new things about herself and her underwater environment.
Ever wondered what it would be like to explore the world from the comfort—if you aren’t afraid of heights—of a hot air balloon? With this story, we go on a ride in one of these airships to explore our planet in the span of a single evening.
If you want a relaxing, scenic journey to ride off to dreamland, this might just be your ticket (okay, okay, we’ll stop with the train puns now). This tale documents the adventures of three friends travelling on a train, the Indigo Express, through India’s mountainous, picturesque Kashmir region.
Mythical creatures know a thing or two about adventure, and this story about a flying unicorn is definitely a wild ride. Our heroine, Talia, traverses the skies while carrying a bag full of moonlight. So what happens when gusts of wind threaten to ruin her plans along the way? Unlock this story to find out.
Over the course of 34 minutes, get yourself lost in the world of a former pirate who’s decided to become a Robin Hood-type figure while voyaging around the world on his ship. Though Captain Oliver used to be the scariest pirate to have ever set sail, this story shows him going on a different kind of high sea adventure.
