Episodios

  • A Tower, a Dragon, and My Mother
    Jul 21 2025

    Hi Sleepy. This episode starts somewhere between a weather forecast and an unknown song, and then tumbles headfirst into illusions, windmills, and the inexplicable human need to throw raw eggs into fans. I talk about nutcases (actual nuts may be involved), being a self-observing street rat, and my unwavering defence of my mother when I was seventeen and vibrating with teenage fury.


    We ponder the pedestal of purpose, the ghost of Don Quixote, and the mysterious romance of telepathy across time. There’s also a forest. And a stove. And a scandal involving a man who snored through an entire audiobook.


    Somewhere in all this, Sleepy, we might discover the meaning of life. Or not. But either way — this is your cue to loosen your grip, tilt your mind slightly to the left, and begin your peculiar little journey to sleep.


    Sleep tight!


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    1 h y 1 m
  • Fall Asleep with Henrik Trailer
    Jul 14 2025

    Welcome to Fall Asleep with Henrik! This isn’t meditation. And it’s not a bedtime story. It’s me — Henrik — talking softly, strangely, truthfully, until your brain gives up. Fall Asleep with Henrik. A podcast like nothing else. Every week.

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  • Who's Holding the Camera?
    Jul 14 2025

    Hi Sleepy.


    I’m not inspired today. Which is perfect, really. Because what better place to begin than from absolutely nowhere?


    We start with a cheerful dead mouse – not a real one – but a rollercoaster. We imagine its wild, happy face as we plunge into the Stockholm archipelago, which I pronounce about seven times too many. Somewhere along the way I try to explain the meaning of “Stockholm” while forgetting what “Holme” means. I get interrupted by an imaginary mouse who wants to discuss existentialism. Fair enough.


    This is not your average journey to sleep. We tumble through carnival metaphors, church summer camps, ancient Greek statues, teenage identity loss, and the unbearable tightness of fitting rooms. Also: why cats are secretly our enemies, the mystery of polar beers, and how to house anxiety like a loud but lovable guest.


    I don’t know anything, and that’s sort of the point.


    Sleep Tight!


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    1 h y 2 m
  • The Fingertip of Bliss
    Jul 7 2025

    Hi Sleepy. Do you ever feel like you’ve swapped yourself out, part by part, until you’re a totally different person, yet somehow still…you? Tonight, we set sail on the ship of Theseus, only to lose the rudder and find a violin instead. We spiral through liquid glass interfaces from the ’90s, winter mornings at minus 30°C, the dizzy terror of spinning taxis, and an oak tree that may or may not live inside me.


    This is a swirling, windy episode. An introspective drift through memories of childhood fires, self-doubt, violin camps, and the inexplicable beauty of being the very fingertip of bliss in a clam-indifferent universe.


    You’re welcome to join the Facebook group, by the way. You’ll find some friendly Swedes and maybe even a giggling god or two.


    It is what it is. What happens, happens. And right now, there’s nothing we can do about it. Let’s begin.


    Sleep Tight!


    More about Henrik, click here: https://linktr.ee/Henrikstahl

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  • Descend Into Decency
    Jun 30 2025

    Welcome, Sleepy. Tonight we travel nowhere and everywhere. From rain-soaked Stockholm afternoons to marble statues of sorrow in the dark, from sugar-longings and beard-brushed foreheads in a monk’s TV room to the simple bewilderment of carrying too many plastic bags—this episode drifts through it all.


    There will be illusions, instant gratification, loneliness, monks with “French nerves,” disappointing first kisses, and the strange normalcy of dreams after staring grief straight in the face. And all the while, I just want to be a decent person. Not perfect. Just decent.


    It’s okay to feel lost. It’s okay to not know what to do with your arms. It’s okay to want to be held.


    Let’s just sit here a while, in our quiet little room of sound.

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  • We’re Alone, Together
    Jun 23 2025

    Hi, Sleepy. Tonight, I’m laying on my sofa—yes, laying, not lying, although I’m probably also lying a bit—and speaking into the soft Stockholm summer night.

    The world outside my window is holding its breath, and I guess I’m doing something similar inside.


    We talk about minds touching across time and space, about Harold the hamster who won’t stop running, and the child who asked her father, “Why do I have to exist?”

    This episode is a quiet meander through all those big, unanswerable questions that keep popping up when the lights go out—questions about forever, about being, about the strangeness of not knowing. But don’t worry, I’m not here to solve anything. I’m here to wander with you. And together, we remember: we are all riddles wrapped in meat costumes, alone but not lonely, wondering but not lost.


    Sleep tight!


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  • Higher, Deeper, Crumblier
    Jun 16 2025

    Hi Sleepy. I’m not in my studio tonight. I’m in my living room, and you’re welcome to wander around—mentally, I mean.

    This is one of those episodes where I try to record two in a row and end up walking straight into my own metaphors.


    Tonight, I tell you about my gingerbread pig. No, really. A real one, from childhood. It flew through the air and shattered, and maybe something inside me did too. But I’m okay. I’m in a good pit, a “PP,” if you will.


    We also talk about running in Narnia, how ferrets might process grief, and what it means to be a chaotic human with a Swedish mouth that doesn’t like the word “chaos.” There’s nothing to fix here, nothing to climb out of. Sometimes we just sit together. And tonight, that’s enough.


    Sleep tight!


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  • This Is Not a Dream, Sleepy
    Jun 9 2025

    Hi Sleepy. Welcome back to my humble abode!


    Tonight, we tumble headfirst into memory. A snowy road, a sausage in the oven, a father who cries over forgotten ice cream.

    We visit a small trauma in 1980s Sweden, a forgotten needle, a hardened ball of modeling clay, a retreating mother in a silent convent. And somehow it all connects to sleep. Or doesn’t.


    There are no morals here. No advice. Just the truth of what happened and how it still lives in a voice, in a thumb, in a podcast. This is a journey through numbness, rules, rebellion, parenting, and the beautiful, unsolvable mystery of being alive—and trying to fall asleep with it all.


    Sleepy, this episode is for you, if you’ve ever needed a reason to forgive yourself for feeling everything at once, or nothing at all.


    Sleep tight!


    More about Henrik, click here: https://linktr.ee/Henrikstahl

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