The HORRIFYING Life of a Polio Patient in an Iron Lung
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWhat happens when your lungs stop working — but your mind never does?In this immersive second-person story, you become a child in 1950s America, struck by polio and confined for life to an iron lung. Through slow, vivid, emotionally restrained narration, this Drowsy Historian episode explores the psychological and physical toll of being one of the forgotten survivors. From your first fever to your final breath, you’re surrounded by machines, mirrors, and silence. You live, you grow up, and you fade — all without ever taking a breath on your own again.This is not a story of inspiration. It is one of survival, stillness, and slow erasure.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend:• Sleep Earbuds for Enhanced Immersion → https://amzn.to/4mAiyVr• Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#SleepHistory #IronLung #PolioSurvivor #HistoricalStorytelling #DrowsyHistorian #MedicalHistory #1950sAmerica #ForgottenLives #PolioEpidemic #HistoricalSleepStory #NarratedHistory
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Why You'd Regret Being a Wild West Outlaw
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou’re twenty-seven, sunburnt, hungry, and out of options. The ranch fired you. The saloon cut your credit. One bad decision later, you’ve joined a gang of starving men chasing a dream that never existed. What follows is not glory — but frostbite, betrayal, and quiet erasure in a canyon no one remembers.This is not the story of the Wild West you were promised. This is the one that ends in a frozen mine, talking to soot sketches and forgetting your own name.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend:• Sleep Earbuds for Enhanced Immersion → https://amzn.to/4mAiyVr• Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#SleepStory #WildWest #HistoricalFiction #DrowsyHistorian #OldWest #HistoryASMR #WesternOutlaw #SleepNarration #SecondPersonStory #DarkHistory
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Laudanum Addict in Georgian London
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn Georgian London, pain is private, propriety is public, and relief comes in a brown glass bottle.Tonight, you are the respectable wife of a solicitor — twenty-seven, recently bereaved, and handed a tincture to help you sleep. Just a few drops, they say. A temporary solution. But laudanum is patient. It waits quietly as you drift. As your appetite fades. As your reputation dims. As you sell what can’t be replaced for one more bottle. And by the time you realize it’s no longer helping, it’s already too late to stop.This is not a tale of scandal or sin. It’s not a warning, either. It’s just what happened. Again and again and again.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend: • Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#laudanum #georgianlondon #historypodcast #historicalfiction #addictionhistory #drowsyhistorian #sleepvideo #truehistory #opiumcrisis #historicalstorytelling
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Plague Doctor in Renaissance Prague
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the mask and mind of a forgotten plague doctor in Renaissance Prague. In this immersive, second-person journey, you’ll live the slow unraveling of duty, doubt, and death as one man tries — and fails — to hold the line against a city crumbling under the Black Death. No heroics. No salvation. Just vinegar-soaked leather, the weight of a ledger, and the quiet horror of being useful only until you’re not.Told in the calm, emotionally restrained style of the Drowsy Historian, this historical sleep story explores the bleak realities behind the beaked mask — from makeshift treatments and mounting fear, to isolation, blame, and the slow realization that no one is coming to help.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend: • Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#drowsyhistorian #plaguedoctor #renaissancehistory #blackdeath #historicalsleepstory #medievaleurope #calmhistory #secondpersonstorytelling #darkhistory #sleepaid
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Why Being a Medieval Monster Hunter Was a Death Sentence
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianSo you’ve been mistaken for a monster hunter. Unlucky.Welcome to medieval Europe — a place where superstition bleeds into justice, rot masquerades as folklore, and anything that looks vaguely human but slightly off must be killed before it spreads its sin. In this slow, immersive descent, you’re a limping vagabond dragged into the role of reluctant exorcist, amateur tracker, and disposable scapegoat. You’ll fight beasts that might be wolves, men, myths, or nothing at all. And worse than the monsters are the villagers who sent you.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend: • Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#MedievalHistory #MonsterHunter #DrowsyHistorian #HistoricalHorror #Folklore #SleepStory #HistoricalFiction #SecondPersonNarration #DarkHistory #MedievalEurope #Scapegoat #YouWouldntSurvive #SleepWithHistory
History For Sleep delivers slow, calm, and slightly unsettling historical storytelling that makes dozing off educationally depressing.
Brought to you by the Drowsy Historian, each episode is 1–2 hours of immersive bedtime history with just enough absurd detail to keep you listening — until you aren’t.
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