Sleepiest: Bedtime Story, Sleep Story, Sleep Podcast
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Welcome to Night Falls 🌕🦌 a sleep podcast of calming bedtime stories for adults. If your thoughts won’t settle and the night feels endless, this is where rest begins. Night Falls is a sleep podcast created to help you drift into peace through the gentle power of storytelling. With each soothing bedtime story, you’re invited to close your eyes, quiet your mind, and relax into a space where sleep comes easily. Your guide is Geoffrey Newland, whose warm and calming voice welcomes you twice a week into the tranquil realm of Night Falls. It’s a place touched by starlight an...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Geoffrey gives adult bedtime listening a storybook imagination, carrying restless minds toward sleep through gentle fiction and patient sensory detail.
Night Falls gives a busy mind somewhere gentle to wander. Geoffrey introduces each story with a brief personal reflection, touching on anxiety, poor sleep, reduced phone use, or the restorative pleasure of boredom, before moving into leisurely fiction shaped for the end of the…
A dragonfire quest pauses for childcare, giving your racing thoughts a chance to slow down too.
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A calm hometown story built from small pleasures and bedtime comfort.
The episode tracks a woman through a slow day away from routine after a call from her business partner gently loosens the day’s shape. Its strength is in the small things it notices: tomatoes, mozzarella, basil, pebbled paths, and a greenhouse full of herbs.
A snowbound Christmas tale where the quiet feels as comforting as the story.
The story settles into snow and silence, letting that hush carry much of its effect. Geoffrey's mountain clearing, the frost on the pines, and the slow turn toward Christmas make it feel like a place to linger rather than a plot to hurry through, with winter held as calm instead…
A soft hill-country fantasy that keeps its focus on comfort, learning, and coming home.
Carrie Bramblebur's morning starts with ordinary care: the burrow is tidied, a lamp is lit, the floors are polished, and the old diaries are set in order.
A deliberate rainforest bedtime story that trades plot for atmosphere, rain, and a soft sense of being watched over.
Night Falls moves from a frost-bound winter campfire into a Madagascan rainforest, and its strength is the way it settles into atmosphere. Rain drips through the canopy, humid air hangs close, and Otto drifts along the path as the forest falls quiet around him.
A fjord-cruise romance with warmth, scenery, and a soft, bedtime-friendly pace.
This episode follows Helena and Lisa on a river cruise through the Norwegian fjords, where a long-awaited holiday opens up when Helena meets Lars on the top deck.
A gentle mountain story about a bear who raises the sun and friends who let him rest.
A small bear lives high in the mountains and raises the sun each day, which gives the story its simple, sturdy frame. When he sleeps in for the first time, Badger, Mouse, Rabbit, and Pig climb to his cottage, find him dreaming of the biggest scone in the world with strawberry…
A gentle quest story that settles into home, firelight, and a calmer kind of adventure.
A quiet dwarf's knock sends Fern and Carrie on a small, cozy errand: they are asked to leave their burrow, help the dwarves of Moonstone Caverns, and choose between adventure and a home full of small children. The episode works best as mood, not momentum.
A soft, cloth-rich bedtime tale that folds travel, craft, and magic into a lullaby.
A young woman settles into a new home, and a slightly crooked cottage near her doorstep quietly steals the scene. The opening has an easy hush to it.
Boredom, carefully lowered into sleep.
Soft rambles for drifting off.
Old books, softly, for sleep.
Classic stories in a sleep-softened voice.
Geoffrey returns to Night Falls with thanks for subscribers and a story shaped by calm.
A young woman settles into a new home and notices a slightly crooked cottage nearby.
A sleep story following Tara, a retired wildlife photographer who leaves her snowy Maine cabin for an adventure in Kenya.
A bedtime story set on the Caribbean island of Nevis where Catherine experiences her first tropical Christmas.
A woman receives an unexpected day off and spends it mindfully exploring her hometown, savoring sensory delights like pastries, garden herbs, and floral scents.
A cozy bedtime story set at Nightfalls, a magical mountain clearing, where narrator Geoffrey and his friends experience the 12 Days of Christmas through enchanted events - from creating a crystal dome to keep out winter cold, to turtle doves nesting, five gold bangles appearing magically for Devani, and Wanda's chaotic bagpipe performance.
Sarah and Luke return to their lone cabins in the Swiss Alps, this time staying together.
Geoffrey returns to the show with a story that carries the listener from winter into the warmth of the Greek islands.
It is the tail end of autumn in Pennyworth Cove, where the Cat Cafe and the wet sea air sit beneath a grey sky.
A sleep story set in the fictional Cornish village of Pennyworth Cove during its annual Festival of Flowers.
Carrie Bramblebur wakes to a spring morning in Green County.
A magical tale about a bear raising the sun daily who finally rests, learning that friendship means reciprocal support.
Night Falls starts in a Scottish winter and then drifts into a softer dream of the Madagascan rainforest.
Helena and Lisa finally reach Norway.
A guided mini-meditation to help listeners relax and prepare for sleep by focusing on breath and letting go of racing thoughts.
A sleep podcast host introduces a story about time traveling to the ancient Silk Road.
A sleep podcast featuring calming bedtime stories for adults to help them relax and fall asleep.
A guided mini-meditation to help listeners relax and prepare for sleep through breathing and visualization.
A promotional announcement for a free trial of a sleep podcast bundle, followed by a calming bedtime story.
A sleep podcast featuring calming bedtime stories for adults, with a warm host guiding listeners to relaxation and sleep.
A sleep podcast host introduces a fictional story about a woman meeting her pen pal after 60 years, framed as a calming bedtime tale.
A calming bedtime story podcast that uses gentle storytelling and meditation to help listeners fall asleep.
A sleep podcast host shares a personal anecdote about spring cleaning and introduces a story about a fae muse who visits the falls.