Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories - The Hypnos Conundrum: Parts 1 & 2 (Premium)

Episode Date: October 12, 2020

This is a preview episode. Get the full episode, and many more, ad free, on our supporter's feed: https://getsleepy.com/support. The Hypnos Conundrum: Parts 1 & 2Tonight, we hear the first two days of the adventure. 😴  Sound design: spaceship cabin.    About Get Sleepy Premium: Help support the podcast, and get: Monday and Wednesday night episodes (with zero ads) The exclusive Thursday night bonus episode Access to the entire back catalog (also ad-free) Premium sleep meditations, extra-long episodes and more! We'll love you forever. ❤️ Get a 7 day free trial, and join the Get Sleepy community here https://getsleepy.com/support. And thank you so, so much.  Tom, and the team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi, Thomas here. You're listening to a preview episode. You can enjoy the entire story tonight by subscribing to our supporters' feed. There you'll get access to the entire back catalogue, bonus episodes, and more, and it's all completely ad-free. Click the link below to learn more. And thank you so so much. Me and the team really appreciate your support. The log of Dalmagaric, captain of the Starship Rim. Mission, the hypnoscanundrum, day one. Just minutes ago, the Starship Rim left Docking Bay 8 for the Rhinoc space station. What a sight it was, watching her sleep-hal glide smoothly between the docking bay doors, ready to begin its first mission.

We're going in search of the fabled hypnost flower. It's thought to be able to send people into a deep sleep. When it's paired with a cryo chamber, it might, finally, allow our crews to venture into deep space without aging. Cryo chambers keep space travelers' physical bodies safe by lowering their body temperatures. This flower should help prevent even the slightest bit of aging. Deep space missions can last for months and even years. It's much less stressful and accrue to be able to sleep through much of the travel. So far we haven't been able to find a way to suspend the normal aging process in order to make such missions possible.

But the hypnosphler might just get us there. Other crews have tried to find it and failed, but this time, with the Starship Rhyme on our side, we're going to do it. Of course we've taken the ram out on test flights but that was nothing compared to this. To sit in the captain's chair on a ship like this and give the order to head out, there's nothing quite like it. I've been a captain for five years now and I spent a good many years as a first officer before there, under the command of then Captain Anders. Now Anders is an admiral. When she was promoted that left the Starship Northway without a captain, which is how I ended up in the seat for the first time.

The Northway was an old ship, but still a science vessel like this one. Everything seemed to go wrong on that ship. The left thrusters went out my first day in command, so we didn't even leave the station. We spent four weeks docked for repairs. When the crew went in to fix the thrusters, they found other related issues, and well, it just went downhill from there. By the time we finally got the north way out of the station, our mission had been reassigned to the crew of the Oceana.

So we flew back to Interstellar Command and waited for a new assignment. It was a disappointing first mission to put it mildly. But over the next five years on the Northway, we did have our fair share of adventures. The Northway was a good ship to learn on, that's for sure. But this ship, the REM, is something else. The REM is a brand new state of the art deep space rated first class science vessel. The hall was built from a ground up all to spare to be the best of its kind in the fleet. All of the equipment is new, the living quarters have never been touched. The galley has never seen a dirty plate. The cryogenics test lap is the best of its kind. You should have seen the faces of the science officers when they first stepped inside. Sick Bay is spotless, the linens are crisp and white, and the doctors have been outfitted

with the finest tools of the trade currently on the market. I'm not a doctor myself, but they sure does seem to be every kind of scanner known to the medical field in there. As the captain, of course, I hope nobody ever has to visit Sick Bay aside from routine checkups and inoculations before any away missions. But if something did happen, it would be a good hand. My engineers couldn't be happier with the insides of the ship. The engines are more powerful than more reliable than those of any other ship active in the fleet. When we powered up to leave the station, they hardly made a sound. And they certainly didn't do any of that humming and vibrating the northway he used to do.

The ship was as quiet as a mouse.