The Elves and the Shoemaker | Sleep Story for Adults | Grimm Fairy Tale + Brown Noise | 8 Hours

A slow, calm retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale: a poor, honest shoemaker cuts out his last piece of leather, goes to bed — and in the morning the shoes are finished. The story lasts about 16 minutes. Then it fades into deep brown noise for the rest of the night, and the screen goes dark. You don't need to follow every word. If your mind drifts, let it — the story carries on quietly, and the noise stays with you until morning. Chapters 0:00 Settling in 0:54 The Elves and the Shoemaker 14:07 Letting the story go 15:48 Brown noise until morning About the tale Collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in Germany in the early 1800s, from people who had told it for much longer. A small story about help that comes at night, and a kindness answered by a kindness. Why brown noise afterwards What wakes you isn't how loud a sound is, but how sharply it rises above the background. In a sleep-lab study, adding steady noise brought arousals from recorded hospital noise back close to a quiet night (Stanchina et al., Sleep Medicine, 2005). Keep it at the lowest volume that covers the noise around you. Narrated with a synthetic voice; the story text is our own adult retelling. More Sleep Stories: the Sleep Stories playlist on The Honest Hum. #sleepstory #fairytales #brownnoise