Sleep Radio

Sleep Radio Having trouble sleeping or relaxing? Then Sleep Radio is for you. The only station in the world that actually WANTS you to go to sleep while listening!

Sleep Radio was founded by John Watson in Auckland, New Zealand in July 2014 and now broadcasts from Te Aroha. After being diagnosed with clinical depression in 2012 and sleeping difficulty, he found that specific ambient and new age music helped him to sleep. In 2014 he decided to combine his computer and sound engineering skills to start his own internet-based radio station to help others throug

hout the world who suffer from sleeplessness. Check out our website at www.sleepradio.co.nz It'll all be completely FREE !!! We also love hearing from ambient and new age music artists who'd like us to feature their work.

A really interesting story .....https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17qSz3DDqH/
17/11/2025

A really interesting story .....

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17qSz3DDqH/

Once, men and women did not sleep as we do now. The notion of “eight hours straight” was foreign. In the Middle Ages, the night unfolded in two distinct breaths: the first sleep and the second sleep.

As the sun dipped below the horizon and the sky turned to dark velvet, people would retire early, surrendering to the hush of night. After four or five hours, their eyes would open—not from anxiety or disruption, but from rhythm. This pause in the night was a quiet, secret world.

By candlelight, they prayed, leafed through worn books, or sipped spiced wine. Some crossed the street to knock on a neighbor’s door, while others lingered in the kitchen, telling stories to their children, hands wrapped around warm cups. It was the heart of the night, and yet life moved gently—intimate, unhurried, profound.

When the invisible clock of darkness signaled, they returned to bed. The second sleep carried them to dawn, when the rooster’s crow marked the beginning of the day.

For centuries, this was the rhythm of rest—recorded in diaries, stories, even medical manuals. But the 19th century arrived with streetlamps, factories, and the clamor of urban life. The middle hours of the night lost their enchantment, and people began to sleep “all in one go.”

By the 20th century, the memory of segmented sleep had faded. What was once a natural rhythm became misunderstood. Today, we might call it insomnia.

Then… it was simply the most human way to live in harmony with the night.

Nimanty has sent us through his latest album and selected tracks are already on our playlists. Do yourself a favour and ...
14/11/2025

Nimanty has sent us through his latest album and selected tracks are already on our playlists. Do yourself a favour and buy the album. In doing so, you support the wonderful artists who help you in your battle with insomnia.

10 track album

Big shout out to our newest top fans! 💎 Charly Sulzberger, Dirk MittendorfWe trust we're helping you sleep.
25/10/2025

Big shout out to our newest top fans! 💎 Charly Sulzberger, Dirk Mittendorf

We trust we're helping you sleep.

Some listeners may have experienced our server stopping a couple of times in the last hour. We apologise for this. The s...
18/10/2025

Some listeners may have experienced our server stopping a couple of times in the last hour. We apologise for this. The server did an update.

We've been told by some listeners who listen in to us via the TuneIn app that the app's owners are now inserting unwante...
12/10/2025

We've been told by some listeners who listen in to us via the TuneIn app that the app's owners are now inserting unwanted loud advertisements into our audio stream and it's jolting listeners awake. We've asked TuneIn if it's possible to stop this. If it's not, we'll be removing our audio feed from their app's platform.

Yet another radio station directory has listed us and is relaying our live audio stream. Check us out on Reymod -
01/10/2025

Yet another radio station directory has listed us and is relaying our live audio stream. Check us out on Reymod -

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30/09/2025

A lovely email just received from a happy listener:

Subject: My heart with yours
Message: Hello from Grand Rapids Michigan USA
Your voice is meditative and it spoke to my soul. It is my desire to thank you and your wife for the effort, time, and sacrifices you have made to make sleep radio a success. I discovered it through: https://www.radio.net/s/sleepradio. Yet now i listen directly from your website. With that said, thank you from the depths of my soul for sharing the music that parts the shadows from our thoughts, enabling us to unwind and to finally let go... into that beautiful surrender of entering into sleep. As a Concert Pianist and Professional musician and music composer, one would think I could simply play myself to sleep. Yet it never works out that way. I just end up more awake desiring to capture and record those ever soft fleeting notes that whisper to me in the silence of my contemplations. So discovering your station has been like an ever flowing field of beautiful memories shaped like flowers swaying to the soft breeze of eternal light sharing with us all its kiss of peace and tranquility.

Big shout out to our newest top fans! 💎 Charly Sulzberger, Dirk MittendorfDrop a comment to welcome them to our communit...
27/09/2025

Big shout out to our newest top fans! 💎 Charly Sulzberger, Dirk Mittendorf

Drop a comment to welcome them to our community,

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12 Spencer St
Te Aroha
3320

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