Moby-Dick, The First Lowering
Boats over the side for the first time, spray, silence, and the long pull across open water.
Retold for sleep from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, first published in 1851 and long out of copyright. The story is Melville's; every sentence here is our own.
Low, slow and spacious, a gentle cadence with long pauses, tuned for the dark and made to be drifted off to.
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About this session
Moby-Dick, The First Lowering is a sleep story from Salūs, a long bedtime story for adults, read slowly at a bedtime pace by Charles Holt.
Salūs is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS and Android, hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.