BLACK SCREEN, NO ADS, NO AI - This is your sanctuary for deep sleep & gentle escapism. www.youtube.com/channel/UCefaYdZhuun4oSz4C2jkbVg (This was previously released on my 'The Storyteller' channel, but I am testing whether it will perform better and be of interest to viewers of this channel) The story begins in a Michigan saloon when a woman with an incurable brain "abscess" calls on the help of a hypnotist. He hypnotises and cures her. She states a wish to use hypnosis to psychically visit Mars and begins to write down the story of what she experiences, which then becomes this novel. This is a rare novel. Apparently only about 100 copies were produced (the copy I am reading is a signed first edition). I've not been able to find out much information about this rare novel or its author, although from reading the preface, the hypnosis is very accurate in how it is described and portrayed and it feels like this could be what it says it is, which is a hypnotist visiting a woman, who then in hypnosis writes the story. The names at this point in the novel are anonymised, just using the surname initial, and the hypnotist is just Mr B. Which could be Burbank? I don't know for sure, maybe Leone Clark Burbank did a lot of research on hypnosis, or watched a hypnotist work and recorded what they said and how they behaved, or had a hypnotist help him, but it does read like he could be the hypnotist who worked with a woman, perhaps helped her, but at least then had the woman write the fantasy story (which she might have thought was an actual experience of projecting her consciousness elsewhere - the same way people feel that they are actually experiencing past lives etc.). This might also explain why the preface and the main story feel like they could be written largely by two different people, at least what it feels to me reading it... In Google searches, the closest name I can find is Myrta Leone Clark, who married a Burbank and so became Myrta Leone Clark Burbank. She also lived in Michigan and lived in the UK. The beginning of the story is set in Michigan, the book is published in the UK and a lot of the story is set in Germany. This Myrta Leone Clark Burbank passed away in 1937, the book was published in 1932. This is the closest I can find to a possible identity of the author. The idea of these stories is that they are often me reading from an actual book and so have sounds and pacing associated with that, like pausing for page turns, the sounds of page turns, and they are minimally edited, so not so perfect as my sleep stories where I try to edit out all imperfections. These are more like I am just reading you a story as you would hear it if we were sat in the same room. This was recorded for Patreon early in 2024 and was recorded in 10 parts. Chapters 0:00:00 Part 1 0:37:43 Part 2 1:25:52 Part 3 2:26:01 Part 4 3:27:11 Part 5 4:35:09 Part 6 5:48:54 Part 7 6:44:51 Part 8 7:26:29 Part 9 8:22:06 Part 10 #forsleep #sleepstories #bedtimestories #cozyfantasyaudiobooks If you haven’t already, please consider subscribing, it really helps the channel, enabling me to be able to continue to make more of this content! Improve your sleep and wellbeing or learn to lucid dream with the Slumberland Dream Journal: https://amzn.to/3IfNZCL Support the channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/slumberlanddan Make a one-time donation: https://www.paypal.me/hypnodan Sleep Stories Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp0cU22E4NrJ4QBV63AsKmTEX3w8PT6ZJ Sleep Story Creation Sessions Podcast (Watch The Sleep Stories Be Created Live): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp0cU22E4NrIL7u_jNYCS90QWWq8m3zX- On my Bedtime Stories YouTube channel I bring you creative, original calming sleep stories videos – all with the goal to help you fall asleep, improving the quality of your sleep and helping to reduce stress, anxiety and worry. British Male Voice Narrator and Original Sleep Stories Creator: Dan Jones - Author, Therapist, Trainer & Digital Content Creator (Creating Bedtime Stories since 2000 and YouTube Sleep Stories since 2007) All Hypnosis, Sleep Stories, and Meditations on my Sleep Stories YouTube channel - Dan Jones Hypnosis, Meditation and Stories, are developed and created by Dan Jones, including all music, words and narration and many of the sound effects... Occasionally I will read classic literature, fables, fairy tales and other works. You will find hundreds of hypnotic, meditative Slumberland sleep stories on my channel and new videos every week. Thank you for Watching