History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian

• Why You Wouldn't Survive the Silk Road | History For Sleep

  Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWelcome to the Silk Road — not the romanticized highway of cultural exchange you learned about in school, but the gritty, exhausting, lice-ridden reality of life as a 13th-century merchant. In this darkly immersive bedtime story, you’ll navigate deserts that want to kill you, camels that hate you, cities that rob you politely, and trade deals negotiated with one eye on the nearest latrine.This journey takes you step by blistered step through the Mongol Empire’s dusty arteries, where bandits, bribes, dysentery, and fermented mare’s milk are just part of the experience. You’ll pack for the apocalypse, haggle in chaotic bazaars, get lost in the snow, and maybe — just maybe — survive long enough to regret everything.Whether you're here to fall asleep or just need someone to whisper about ancient bureaucracy and parasitic infestations until you pass out, this is your stop. Dim the lights, ignore your camel, and prepare to walk the Silk Road — slowly, painfully, and with far more gastrointestinal distress than expected.

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• Why Medieval Sieges Were a Living Nightmare | History For Sleep

  Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWelcome to Drowsy Historian, where history is slow, grim, and weirdly relaxing. In this episode, we take you inside a medieval siege — not the heroic, armor-clashing nonsense you see in movies, but the slow-motion disaster of real life behind crumbling walls. You’ll live it: the rumors, the lockdown, the rot, the rats, and the final, brutal breach.It’s a second-person descent into paranoia, despair, and the quiet horror of waiting to die behind a gate that won’t open. There are no grand victories here. Just mud, soup, and a siege economy where furniture becomes a weapon.Dim the lights. Settle into your sheets. And prepare to be calmly traumatized by the real reason castles had moats and peasants had nightmares.

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• The BRUTAL Life of a Medieval Bastard | History For Sleep

  Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianBeing born a bastard in medieval Europe wasn’t just a social inconvenience — it was a lifelong sentence of exclusion, humiliation, and legal invisibility. In this quietly brutal bedtime tale, we walk the mud-caked path of someone born into the wrong family, at the wrong time, under the wrong circumstances. From cradle to grave, discover how illegitimacy shaped every aspect of life: childhood, love, work, religion, and even death.This isn’t the story of the lucky few who rose to fame. This is the forgotten truth of the many who didn’t — the ones who served, suffered, and vanished.So dim the lights. Settle in. And let the Drowsy Historian guide you through a story that was never supposed to be told — the weary, thankless life of a medieval bastard.

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• Why Medieval Childbirth Was a Death Sentence | History For Sleep

  Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the shadows of medieval Europe and experience one of history’s most dangerous and overlooked realities: childbirth. In this immersive, second-person narrative, you’ll live through the fear, superstition, agony, and silence that surrounded pregnancy and labor in the Middle Ages. There are no doctors. No pain relief. Just old cloth, whispered prayers, and a steady march toward an uncertain end.Told from your perspective as an expectant mother, this slow-paced, emotionally raw story is part historical education, part nightmare, and all too real. Whether you live or die isn’t guaranteed — because in medieval Europe, giving birth was often the final chapter.This isn’t a story about miracles. It’s about survival. Maybe.

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• The BRUTAL Life of a Harem Slave in the Mughal Court | History For Sleep

  Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep inside the forbidden walls of the Mughal harem — where beauty was currency, silence was survival, and freedom was an illusion.In this immersive, darkly poetic journey, you are not a princess or a courtesan. You are property. Trained, adorned, observed, and forgotten — all within the velvet-draped cage of one of history’s most secretive and oppressive institutions.From the moment you're sold to the palace, to the slow erosion of your identity behind carved screens and scented corridors, this video traces the brutal, intimate realities of life inside the zenana. Based on real historical structures and court customs, this second-person narrative pulls you deep into the silk-lined claustrophobia of a world built to contain, control, and erase.

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