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Fall asleep with Henrik
Sleep better with Swedish storyteller Henrik Ståhl. Experience calming conversations, imaginative stories, and gentle humor designed to help you unwind and drift off. Each episode features Henrik’s soothing voice guiding you through introspective reflections and relaxing narratives, offering a unique alternative to traditional meditation apps. Perfect for insomniacs, overthinkers, or anyone seeking a peaceful end to their day. New episodes weekly.Sit back, relax, and let Henrik take you on an…
Episodes
Fall asleep with HenrikTranquil Tête-à-Tête
Hi Sleepy.This time I wander through childhood memories, my old teenage barbershop quartet, an old friend, and some thoughts about how strange it is to simply…
Fall asleep with HenrikMy Summer
First day back after the summer. I sit down and I start with gravel.Not the interesting kind. There isn't an interesting kind. But where I grew up almost…
Fall asleep with HenrikMe being me
It is summer, with all that comes with it, so this is a rerun. A fallback to a more innocent time, when I was still quite new at this whole…
Fall asleep with HenrikThe Temple of Not Knowing
Hi, Sleepy.Tonight I try to stand on the floor of not knowing. Not as a clever sentence, not as a podcast slogan, but as an actual place to put your feet in…
Fall asleep with HenrikBluish Mountains
Hi Sleepy. Tonight the talking puts on its shoes and wanders off again. A cold Stockholm morning becomes bluish mountains in Dalarna, which becomes old theater…
Fall asleep with HenrikMy Hiding Place
Hi, Sleepy.Tonight we walk back to the old hiding place. The imaginary cabin in the deep Scandinavian forest, where the asphalt gives up, the gravel road gives…
Fall asleep with HenrikClose Your Eyes and Let Go
Hi, Sleepy.Tonight we begin in the benigning, which is not a word, but it might be a place. A small Swedish-English place where I stand with my pockets full of…
Fall asleep with HenrikRust, Moss and the End of the List
In this episode, Sleepy, I try to list everything in the universe before the hour is over. It starts well, with light, the moon, spoons and dust, but then…
Fall asleep with HenrikWords That Wander Home
Tonight I fall into the strange little trapdoor between Swedish and English, Sleepy, where one word is perfectly innocent on one side of the sea and slightly…
Fall asleep with HenrikThe Birch Trees Remembered First
Hi Sleepy. Tonight we wander into that strange little gap before a feeling has a name. A sound moves the air in your ear, a smell opens a basement door inside…
Fall asleep with HenrikIt Is What It Is, Said the Moon
Tonight I circle around the small surrender of it is what it is, Sleepy. Weather, gravity, cold tea, ancient rocks, dogs, cats, seeds cracking open in the…
Fall asleep with HenrikHow Do You Know If You Love Someone?
In this episode I sit on a slightly uncomfortable bar stool in my Stockholm apartment and begin, somehow, with posture. Then we drift, Sleepy, into figure…
Fall asleep with HenrikThe Fox Has All the Time in the World
In this episode, Sleepy, I speak from my apartment instead of my little studio in the backyard, surrounded by a portable recording booth, a stiff bar stool…
Fall asleep with HenrikThe Butterfly Orchestra Was Too Loud
In this episode, Sleepy, we wander into the strange workshop of theatre itself. The table readings, the shoes, the frightened directors, the actors holding…
Fall asleep with HenrikPurring Through the Apocalypse
Hi Sleepy. Tonight we begin in the usual humble abode, that small studio in the backyard where the past still keeps some furniture, and we drift from sticky…
Fall asleep with HenrikBackseat Childhood Boy
Tonight, Sleepy, we begin with seagulls, of course. The old fish-gulls of Stockholm, one of them swallowing a whole pizza with the quiet dignity of a fallen…
Fall asleep with HenrikThe Forest in the Blue
Tonight, Sleepy, we begin in the blue, get dropped into a forest of the mind, and somehow end up discussing mist, Apple Watch pressure, Swedish community…
Fall asleep with HenrikWorlds Deepen, and We Cry
Tonight, Sleepy, we begin with a telephone meeting, pass through the strange social weather of voices without faces, and somehow end up inside Seinfeld…
Fall asleep with HenrikKeeping Your Head Up, Sometimes
Hi Sleepy.Tonight I sit in a tin container in the backyard, talking about monkeys. Not real monkeys. Pieces of monkey. You and me. Worried, wandering, trying…
Fall asleep with HenrikDon’t Try to Fall Asleep
Hi Sleepy.I start somewhere near a phone. Or maybe in the absence of one. I circle around how we look at screens to escape a world that doesn’t quite fit its…
Fall asleep with HenrikA God with Edges
Sleepy… tonight I find myself somewhere between a waiting room and a memory of falling down the stairs with a sandwich in mind.I talk about time that…
Fall asleep with HenrikConstance and the Echo of Last Year
Hi Sleepy.Tonight I start a story and immediately question it, which feels right. There’s a woman named Constance Mallory. She has green shutters she once…
Fall asleep with HenrikRain on the Car Roof
Sleepy… tonight I’m sitting with the strange feeling that I might still be me. I checked earlier. The mirror confirmed it. Henrik is still Henrik, at least for…
Fall asleep with HenrikA Small Peace in a Stone Room
Sleepy.Tonight begins, as it often does, with nothing in particular. A welcome to new listeners. A quiet confession that this whole thing might be “content…
Fall asleep with HenrikWarm Hands, Cold Night
Hi Sleepy!I start with my hands.Not in a dramatic way. Just soap bubbles and warm water and suddenly the realization that these hands have been with me my…
Fall asleep with HenrikConfusion Is a Friend
Hi Sleepy. Tonight we float around in the sticky, beautiful weirdness of time. Physics time, dad-time, VHS-time, London-time. The kind of time where a star is…
Fall asleep with HenrikWanna Fall Asleep with Henrik? Start here.
Welcome. This is a short introduction for those of you who just found the show. A lot of new Sleepys have arrived lately. I'm so glad you did, and if you have…
Fall asleep with HenrikA Violin in the Tall Grass
Hi Sleepy.Tonight I welcome the new UK listeners with slightly nervous hands (if your'e a new listener from the UK, please reach out and say hello), and a very…
Fall asleep with HenrikBefore Morning Decides
Hi Sleepy.Tonight I sit in Adventure Wolf, listening to a hum that might be a machine, or maybe just the world breathing. I talk about jars on kitchen…
Fall asleep with HenrikLayers of Blue
Hi Sleepy.This is one of those episodes where the talking just keeps walking. From a cold Stockholm morning to bluish mountains in Dalarna (The Valleys). From…
Fall asleep with HenrikExistence Customer Service
Sleepy, it’s snowing in Stockholm and I’m tired of the snow. I sit in Adventure Wolf with a phone in my hand and a vague, familiar heaviness in my body. So I…
Fall asleep with HenrikSaying Yes to What Is
Sleepy, tonight I wander without a map.I talk about speaking broken English into a microphone and not fixing it. About shame, karaoke bars, Stockholm nights…
Fall asleep with HenrikWhat is Fall Asleep with Henrik?
Hi, I’m Henrik.And this is Fall Asleep with Henrik.This is a podcast where I talk for about an hour in each episode. I don’t use a script, and I don’t edit…
Fall asleep with HenrikA Studio Under Snow
Hi Sleepy.Tonight I’m talking from a room that’s almost been swallowed by snow. Somewhere outside, Stockholm is doing what it does when it remembers winter…
Fall asleep with HenrikShelters in Hostile Worlds
Hi Sleepy.Tonight I sit in my living room while Stockholm freezes quietly outside. The moon keeps doing what it’s always done, showing us the same face it…
Fall asleep with HenrikIt’s Okay Because It’s Fine
Hi Sleepy.This episode begins in a living room with a plastic Christmas tree that has done its job and is now just standing there. From there, I wander through…
Fall asleep with HenrikClose Your Eyes, Press Play, Trust Me
Hi, Sleepy.Tonight we start in “the benigning” with my Swedish-English tongue and the fear of not having enough words, and somehow end up in a forest with an…
Fall asleep with HenrikThe Night We Walked Through The Snow To Grandma
Christmas is around the corner of time, Sleepy, and we are standing in the doorway not really knowing if we want to go in or not. In this episode we drift off…
Fall asleep with HenrikWalking Through Castle Forest at Night
Hi Sleepy. Tonight we drift between a rainy city and old memories of Gothenburg. A frozen Jack staring from the Atlantic, a young acting student walking…
Fall asleep with HenrikThese Are The Good Days, Sleepy
Sleepy, tonight we walk that strange hallway that is not really there yet. I talk about not knowing, about the rooms we were never in, about my parents in a…
Fall asleep with HenrikHarmony, Please
You fall into this one right in the middle of a life passage, Sleepy. We start in the big white room with no walls, where there is no blueprint for how to…
Fall asleep with HenrikMeet Me There Tonight
Rain on the roof of Adventure Wolf, and inside: me, you, and a slow blue longing that refuses to have a name. We follow it anyway, through foggy moorland, over…
Fall asleep with HenrikRain on Adventure Wolf
Rain drums on Adventure Wolf and I ramble happily, Sleepy, about clacky buttons in a galaxy far, far away, why moose trigger automatic doors, a speed-camera…
Fall asleep with HenrikNothing Is Dangerous (For a Moment)
Hi, Sleepy. Tonight we try a small and slightly ridiculous experiment: you say “hi” back, and somehow I hear you anyway. We wander through painted reality…
Fall asleep with HenrikVacuum Rituals & Other Soft Noises
Hi, Sleepy. Tonight we tumble straight into the soft chaos: gratitude letters from everywhere, the strange art of being personal-not-private, and why “content…
Fall asleep with HenrikCome and Get Me, Sleep
Hi, Sleepy. Tonight I begin with a black t-shirt and a forest that insists it’s a ballroom. We wade into the dark pond of starting—awkward at first, then…
Fall asleep with HenrikKoko, the Guide, and the Lavender Shawl
A sun-splashed motorway, The Killers on repeat, one hand on the wheel and one small tear of relief—then we tumble, softly, into an alternate city where poems…
Fall asleep with HenrikStockholm at 11:35
Hi, Sleepy. Tonight I record with a camera staring back and a desk lamp pretending to be the sun. We wander from “ugly days” and nameless feelings to a…
Fall asleep with HenrikA Small Pause Where Nothing Must Happen
Hi, Sleepy. Tonight we practice the tender art of doing nothing without giving up. We float between two kinds of inaction — the gentle pause that lets you…
Fall asleep with HenrikTown Called Rest at the Edge of Dust
Hi, Sleepy. Tonight I’m the hat that won’t come off and the sigh that finally settles. We wander from my daughter’s Friday-breath of relief to a prairie of 900…
Fall asleep with HenrikGilded Core, Quiet River
Hi, Sleepy. Tonight we dig where we stand—heels in the soil, head in the constellations. From a quantum shiver under our feet to a secret cave in the mind, we…
Fall asleep with HenrikA Star Pulls the Night Forward
Hi, Sleepy. Tonight we drift through memory like a midnight train—rattling carriages of rain on the Adventure Wolf roof, a not-quite-Luke hero tugging us…
Fall asleep with HenrikThe Binder, the Band, and the Butterfly
Hi Sleepy. This one drifts like an unnecessary car ride into town that turns into coffee left unfinished. From there we tumble back to 2006—binders full of…
Fall asleep with HenrikThe Beautiful Boy in Autumn
Hi, Sleepy. Tonight I drift through mirrors—my own face in the TV screen, the cold studio air, the autumn leaves scratching outside, and the eyes of my…
Fall asleep with HenrikMaya and the Glass Forest
Hello, Sleepy. Tonight we wander into snow and silence, into a lonely cabin where a map maker hides from the world, and a girl named Maya knocks on his door…
Fall asleep with HenrikThe Dog on My Chest
Hi, Sleepy. Tonight, I stumble into a story about watery vegetable soup, forbidden teenage love, and a dog named M who pinned me to a leather sofa with his…
Fall asleep with HenrikFive Ways to Drift
Hi Sleepy. Imagine a quilt made out of clouds, moth wings, and half-forgotten conversations. This is that quilt. Only instead of keeping you warm, it might…
Fall asleep with HenrikThe Beetle and the Melancholic Ape
Hi, Sleepy.It’s vacation. That ambiguous soup of time where everything’s supposed to soften, slow down, sparkle. But what if it doesn’t? What if your inner…
Fall asleep with HenrikThe Darkness Is Not Afraid of You
Hi Sleepy. Tonight we investigate the duties of a dude, explore the dangers of barfing in Bermuda, and invent book titles together in a kind of dreamy…
Fall asleep with HenrikA Tower, a Dragon, and My Mother
Hi Sleepy. This episode starts somewhere between a weather forecast and an unknown song, and then tumbles headfirst into illusions, windmills, and the…