Wax in the ears, a rope round the mast, a narrow strait taken at speed, and a sleeping man carried home in the dark.
Retold for sleep from The Odyssey by Homer, from a public-domain English translation long out of copyright. The story is Homer's; every sentence here is our own.
The Odyssey — Past the Sirens is a sleep story from Salūs — a long bedtime story for adults, read slowly at a bedtime pace.
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. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.