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Podfic for Insomniacs
It's past 1AM. You have to be up in less than five hours. With the lights off and the house quiet, there's nothing to disturb or distract, but you can't even hear the clock tick because thoughts are flying round in your head like race cars. It's no real surprise, it's played out the same way every night for the past ten days. There's not much for it but to toss and turn, try to at least get comfortable, hope the night passes quickly and that maybe tonight, sheer physical exhaustion will finally catch up with you (please, please).
Thus ran the nights of one chronic insomniac, until she happened to stumble upon the miraculous concept of podfic.
Sleep has always been an elusive beast for me, and looking back, I don't know why it never occurred to me to try and find it in audio stories. But now I am a devoted listener, whenever insomnia strikes, the Walkman is the first thing I reach for. With a lilting smooth voice recounting stories about my favourite characters, the anxious fidgeting and inability to relax all but disappear within the first ten minutes, and the whirlwind thoughts calm as the story gradually takes over. This may seem an odd thing to be reccing podfics for - their ability to lull and soothe - but the readings listed below are permanent residents on my Walkman, and their readers have my endless and eternal gratitude, for this very reason. Listening to them, steady, warm and familiar, I can close my eyes and rest.
( 7 podfics to drift away on )
Podfic for Waking
And then there's the flipside of a night of no-sleep. With dawn crawling up across your windows and the alarm shrieking in your ear, very few things seem worth the supreme effort of getting out of bed. Below are listed podfics that always manage to make me smile (if not laugh out loud like a loon), and brighten the day enough to make it worth facing.
( 7 podfics to wander back with )
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