You walk Istanbul by lantern light and fall asleep in a merchant's han | 3 Hour Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

Fall asleep inside history. Tonight you are a traveler lodged in a stone han near the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul, almost four hundred years ago, on a clear cold evening in the greatest city in the world. You watch the covered bazaar close gate by gate at dusk, then walk out into a city where, by law, every person abroad after dark carries their own lantern, so the night streets become a field of slow moving stars. A seller of boza calls in the lane and you drink a gently warmed cup with cold hands. You spend an hour in a coffeehouse in its first great century, with a storyteller and the quiet click of backgammon, then walk home along the Golden Horn past the tethered caiques of the ferrymen while the muezzins' last call is answered from hill to hill across the water. The han gate is barred behind you, the courtyard fountain runs, and a brazier of coals and a thick quilt are waiting in your room.

You will hear the stone hush of the han courtyard, a small fountain running at its center, coals settling in the brazier, a plane tree whispering over the roofs, and the far slow footsteps of the watchman with his swinging lantern.

This is a three hour sleep story. The narration ends softly in the third hour, and then the quiet courtyard continues to the end. Black screen friendly.

Chapters:
0:00 Welcome
7:14 The City At Dusk
11:36 The Bazaar Gates Close
16:43 The Lantern Law
21:41 The Night Watch
25:38 The Boza Seller
30:08 The Coffeehouse
37:10 The Storyteller
42:08 The Quiet Hour
46:59 Down To The Water
51:00 The Caiques At Rest
55:50 The Field Of Moving Stars
1:00:10 The Last Call
1:05:40 The Han Gate
1:09:52 The Fountain And The Cat
1:14:33 The Brazier And The Quilt
1:19:45 The City Settles
1:22:32 Drifting

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Sources: Evliya Celebi, the Seyahatname; Robert Mantran, Istanbul in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century; Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet, A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul; Ralph Hattox, Coffee and Coffeehouses; Suraiya Faroqhi, Subjects of the Sultan.

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