Rest and Rise, a Calming Journey 4 hour

A calming 4-hour video for sleep. A bedtime story, read softly, then rain over a quiet cove through the night, and gentle music as morning comes. It begins on the porch of a mountain cabin, rain falling over the lake, with "The Three Questions" by Leo Tolstoy read in a soft British voice. The scene fades to black, and the rain begins over an indigo cove, then warms slowly to amber, with the rain quieting as the night goes on. In the last ten minutes the cove brightens a little and gentle music plays, and the video ends back on the porch at sunrise, with a few encouraging words to start the day. Chapters: 0:00 Story 0:10:24 Indigo Cove 2:10:24 Indigo to Amber 2:20:24 Amber Cove 3:47:30 Morning Music 3:57:30 Sunrise Affirmations Story: "The Three Questions" by Leo Tolstoy (1885, public domain, Maude translation). Rain: "Cooperstown Log Cabin in Rain" by greysound, Freesound (CC0). Morning music: Erik Satie, Gymnopedie No. 1 (CC0 recording); Edvard Grieg, Morning Mood and In the Hall of the Mountain King (public-domain recordings). Closing words: Rudyard Kipling, "If—" (1910) and William Ernest Henley, "Invictus" (1875), both public domain.