Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories - The Snow Queen (Premium)

Episode Date: December 17, 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 Snow QueenTonight, Elizabeth reads our rendition of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale, "The Snow Queen." 😴  Sound design: soothing snowfall.  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. upon a time in a palace of ice, there lived a queen. She had hair as white as snow and a dress made of moonlight. Her eyelashes were rimmed with frost, and everywhere she went, a flurry of snowflakes swallled about her. Few had ever seen her palace, which was tucked away in the northern lands, at the edge of a frigid glacier. But they had all heard the stories of how to find it.

In hushed voices, they told the tale of the snow queen around campfires late at night. Just follow the northern lights they said. Watch them crackle above your head as they shift from green to purple to blue. The most brilliant blue lights always shimmer in the sky above her palace. That is how you will find it, they would say. But many of the things people said about the snow queen were not true. She did not turn people's hearts to eyes, nor freeze them where they stood. However what they said about the lights was true.

The most wondrous, auroras shone above her castle like sapphire waves crashing against a wintry shore. At night, she liked to walk outside in her courtyard and look into the sky. Great curtains of colour moved and shifted, sending ripples of electric blue across the horizon. They reflected in her icy, nestled in its Arctic landscape. Just as the tropical beaches were warm, the north was cold. Her presence there did not shift the balance, but every year at the end of autumn, just as the leaves were her crystal sleigh.

She flew across the jet-black sky with stars twinkling overhead. head. She glided down winter trails and walked the path of the highest mountains, leaving the ground frozen behind her. Down below, people could see when the snow queen had visited their lands. They knew winter was on its way, when they saw her blanket afrost, laying gently across their highest peaks. There are cold days ahead, they'd say, lighting their campfires and preparing for snow. you