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Step quietly into the Edwardian world — a society of polished manners, inherited expectations, and relentless restraint.

In this immersive, second-person historical experience, you live a full day as an Edwardian gentleman, moving through breakfast tables, private clubs, offices, drawing rooms, and lamplit streets where every gesture is governed by etiquette. The comforts are real: warm meals, tailored clothes, quiet privilege. But beneath the civility lies something more unsettling — a life shaped so completely by rules that even thought itself becomes regulated.

This is not a story of violence or spectacle. It’s a portrait of quiet suffocation, where identity erodes through routine, politeness becomes self-surveillance, and respectability functions as a beautifully furnished cage.

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Step into the quiet, gas-lit streets of Victorian Britain and open your dental practice for the day.

This immersive historical sleep story places you inside the life of a Victorian dentist, working long hours without anesthesia, surrounded by screaming patients, fainting spells, blood-soaked linens, and the lingering smell of infection. With nothing but steel tools, steady hands, and social etiquette to hold the chaos together, you navigate a profession built on endurance rather than comfort.

Told in a calm, deadpan tone, this episode explores how pain became routine, professionalism masked brutality, and survival—not relief—defined success in 19th-century medicine. There are no miracles here, only repetition, resignation, and the quiet understanding that tomorrow will bring the same work again.

Perfect for sleep, relaxation, or late-night listening, this story blends historically accurate detail with slow, atmospheric narration to guide you gently into the darker corners of everyday history.

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Life under Catherine the Great looked very different depending on where you stood in the empire.

Tonight, you are not a noble, a soldier, or a figure history remembers. You are a Russian peasant—waking before dawn, working frozen fields, eating thin meals, aging while labor never stops, and slowly disappearing inside a system that records grain but not names.

This immersive historical sleep story follows the full life of an ordinary peasant under serfdom in 18th-century Russia. There are no battles, no revolutions, and no dramatic escapes—only cold, fatigue, silence, and endurance. The horror here is quiet and procedural, shaped by landlords, tradition, faith, and an empire that moves on without ever noticing you.

Told in calm, second-person narration, this episode focuses on mundane suffering, sensory realism, and the slow erosion of a human life lived entirely inside obligation.

Put on your headphones, get comfortable, and let history do what it does best: continue without you.

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