💤 Sleep Story | A Bathhouse Attendant's Nightly Routine | Pompeii AD 72 | Sleep History

Hey Listener,

Tonight's Sleep Story takes us back to Pompeii, autumn AD 72 and a quiet Roman town settling down for the night.

Its raining and there's a gentle rumble from the storm in the background.

We follow a bathhouse attendant through his nightly routine as he closes up his small neighbourhood bathhouse.

The last bathers have gone, a light rain is falling on the basalt streets outside, and the steam in the caldarium is slowly thinning.

We'll move through each room with him, sweeping the changing room, snuffing the oil lamps, banking the furnace beneath the tiled floors, feeding the donkey out the back, and finally climb the ladder to his small room above where a wool blanket and a cup of watered wine are waiting.

No plot. No drama.

Just the slow rhythm of a man closing up his world for the night, with gentle rain sounds, the ticking of cooling stone, and the warmth of the hypocaust drifting up through the floorboards.

There's a few immersive sounds added at certain points too

A calming bedtime history story, human narrated, no AI voices.

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Michael

Chapters

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:19 Wind Down

00:02:57 Story Starts

00:25:31 Ambient Rain & Music

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Apple — https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/heavy-eyes-sleep-stories/id1867777368

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