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Fall asleep to the complete story of Sleeping Beauty, a classic fairy tale told slowly, in a quiet voice, for deep rest and gentle dreaming. This is a bedtime story for adults, a long and unhurried sleep story for grown ups, a faithful and soothing retelling of the old tale of the sleeping princess, narrated for relaxation and insomnia relief.
Tonight we begin, as always, beside a single low fire, and settle the breath, and step softly out of the warm room into a green and gentle kingdom of the west. There a king and queen long for a child at last granted; a hall of candlelight where the good fairies bend over the cradle to give their soft gifts of beauty and grace and song; an old and forgotten fairy whose sorrowful word is turned, by the last and kindest of them, from a hard ending into a long and peaceful sleep of a hundred years. We follow the spindles carried away and put safe, the blessed and quiet years, a little winding stair never climbed before, and a small sunlit room where a kind old woman sits spinning. We watch the gentle prick, and the warm drowsiness rising like slow water, and a whole castle drifting down into sleep together, wrapped in a great hedge of roses. The long still years pass; a young prince hears the old story and is drawn to the wood; the roses part and close softly behind him; and at the far end there is only the tenderest of wakings, and a happy morning, and the whole warm house stirring back to life as though only a single quiet night had passed.
It is a story, above all others, made of sleep, and it moves gently through the meanings gathered around it: rest as a gift rather than a loss, patience and time bringing the waking round in their own good hour, love that will not let a sleeper wake alone, and the deep kindness that the darkest-seeming thing may yet be a mercy in disguise. Sleeping Beauty. The King and Queen. The Good Fairies. The Forgotten Fairy. The Spindle. The Hundred-Year Sleep. The Hedge of Roses. The Prince. A bedtime story for adults drawn from the deep well of European folklore, and a long, still night's passage through fairy-tale storytelling for sleep.
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