Dream With Jacob

This is a magical, mysterious bedtime story about a boy who follows a rumbling sound beneath his garden at night and finds a little dragon whose fire has gone out, deep inside the mountain.

Rowan loves his family's garden most after dark. One night the ground starts to grumble under his feet, and he follows it through a hidden crack in a mossy boulder, down a stairway of glowworms, to a small grey dragon named Pebble. Together th...

This is the final episode of a sleep-story adaptation of Homer's Odyssey: after twenty years apart, Odysseus and Penelope are reunited through the secret of the olive tree bed, and Odysseus finds his father Laertes in the orchard.

Euryclea climbs the stairs to wake Penelope, who can't let herself believe the news. She comes down and sits across the fire from the stranger, then tests him with the one secret only the two of them sh...

This is a guided sleep meditation for neck tension, jaw clenching, and teeth grinding, using a warm honey visualization that moves from the crown of your head down to your toes.

Warm, heavy honey melts through the scalp, jaw, neck, shoulders, and the rest of the body, one area at a time, with gentle companion talk-down woven between each part. The meditation speaks directly to the muscles that brace and guard us all day, thanks t...

Tonight's episode is the one the whole Odyssey has been walking toward. Penelope brings down her husband's great bow after twenty years, and one suitor after another fails to bend it — until the old beggar by the door asks to hold it for a moment. When Odysseus strings it as easily as a musician strings a lyre, the string sings like a swallow, Zeus thunders from a clear sky, and the long homecoming finally turns. Has somethin...

This is a magical bedtime story for healing and opening your heart again, about a young woman who follows a sea-foam fox to a moonlit cave of glowing pearls and finds the one shell that has been waiting for her.

Follow Iris down a hidden stairway in the cliffs to a cove where jellyfish glow like lanterns in the shallows, and into a sea cave lined with mother-of-pearl. Its pools hold thousands of oysters, one for every person in t...

Tonight's episode holds the moment this whole series has been walking toward since the first episode: Penelope and Odysseus sitting three feet apart, both of them lying to protect the same thing, and neither one able to say so out loud yet. And then, without any warning at all, the truth arrives anyway — not through a confession, but through Euryclea's hands, recognizing a twenty-year-old scar before her mind even catches up ...

This is a cozy autumn bedtime story about a boy who follows a trail of fireflies, gnomes, and fairies through the woods to a witch's cottage, where they brew the last cider of the season together.

Follow August as he wanders from his grandparents' house into a foggy autumn forest full of small magic, and spends the evening helping a witch named Hazel brew her last batch of cider before winter. Rain sounds and deep crimson noise p...

Tonight's episode holds one of the oldest, quietest gut-punches in all of literature — a dog who waits twenty years for someone to come home, and recognizes him instantly, when every human in the house is fooled completely. There's something almost unbearably tender about being truly known by someone who never needed proof, an explanation, or a disguise removed. Has there ever been someone — or something — in your...

There's a sound most of us stopped trusting a long time ago — the faint, steady hum that only shows up when we finally go still: right before sleep, in the pause after a deep breath, in the hush no one else is filling. Tonight's story follows a boy named Marlow down to the edge of the sea to find out where that sound has been leading, and he meets an ancient whale-being who's been singing it since before there were shores. It...

Tonight's episode is the one this whole series has been walking toward since Episode 1 — a father and son finally standing in the same room, and neither one sure at first whether to believe it. There's something in that moment almost everyone recognizes: the fear that comes right alongside relief, the reflex to doubt good news because you've been disappointed so many times before. Has there ever been someone in your own life ...

This is a magical bedtime story for anxiety, about learning to love the part of you that never stops keeping watch.

Elsie follows a moving light into a fog-filled forest and finds the Hollow: a bowl in the earth where thousands of lanterns lie burning low in the moss, set down by guardians who have finally been allowed to rest. There she meets Ilvane, the keeper of the place, and discovers that something small and shaggy has been...

Tonight is the night the two halves of this story start moving toward each other. Odysseus is up in the hills, sitting by a fire in a borrowed cloak, listening to the man who keeps his pigs tell the story of how he was carried off as a small boy and sold. And out on the black water, his son is sailing home through the dark, past men who are waiting to kill him.

0:00 Welcome

3:17 Athena Wakes Telemachus in Sparta

10:03 Farewell ...

Some nights the body's ready for sleep long before the mind is — the mind just keeps circling, picking up the same three or four things and turning them over and over like it's looking for an exit that isn't there. That's the night Poppy's having in this story, right up until the fog rolls in thicker than she's ever seen it and a garden that shouldn't exist is suddenly waiting at the edge of her yard. What does your mind usua...

Odysseus spends this whole episode being cared for in his own house without anyone realizing it's his — fed the best cut of meat at the fire, given a stranger's own cloak against the storm, welcomed by a man who has stayed loyal to a master he's sure is already dead. There's something quietly moving about being looked after by someone who has no idea who you really are, and doing it anyway, simply because that's who they are....

This is a gentle bedtime story about a boy who catches a falling star in a jam jar and carries it home through a town that's lost its light.

Overview: Tonight's video is a departure from Jacob's usual meditations — a simple, magical children's-style bedtime story for anyone who misses the wonder of the tales they fell asleep to as a kid. A boy named Wren finds a star that's fallen from the sky and lost its glow, and carries...

Odysseus finally sails for home in this episode — and then wakes up on his own shore not recognizing a single hill of it. There's something so real about that: the place you've been aching for your whole life not looking the way you built it up in your head, and having to trust it's really yours again before you can even take it in. If you've ever come back to somewhere you love after being away too long and needed a minute t...

Everything Odysseus has survived so far was leading here. Episode 6 covers the whole of Book XII — the Sirens, the strait between Scylla and Charybdis, and the cattle of the sun, the one thing Teiresias warned him never to touch. His men don't all make it out. If you've ever watched someone you love make a choice you knew would cost them everything, and couldn't stop it — this episode is for you. I'd love to hear your t...

Before he can sail home, Odysseus has to sail somewhere no living man is meant to go — down into the house of the dead, to speak with a prophet, his own mother, and the ghosts of every great name from the war he survived. Episode 5 covers the whole of Book XI: a mother who dies of nothing but grief and longing, a prophecy that decides the rest of the whole poem, and Achilles telling Odysseus that he'd rather be alive and poor...

He's handed the one gift that could have carried him home in ten days — and loses it to nothing more than his own men's curiosity. Episode 4 covers the whole of Book X: a king who keeps every wind in the world in a bag, a harbor full of giants who crush eleven ships in minutes, and a witch who turns men into pigs with a single stroke of her wand. Has curiosity, yours or someone else's, ever cost you something you couldn't get...