Review of “Sleep With Me” podcast

** I usually don’t have trouble getting to sleep. The problem is that I tend to wake up three or four hours later and have trouble getting back to sleep. I talked to a sleep doctor about this and he immediately reached for his Rx pad 
and wrote one for Silenor. I asked my pharmacy how much it would cost, with insurance coverage. $65/month. You have to take a pill every night whether you need it or not, and that would cost me $780/year. 

Compare that to the “Sleep With Me” podcast (iTunes, Overcast, etc), 
which is not only FREE, but 100% effective with NO side effects (though it may become delightfully habit-forming) I don’t know how “Dearest Scooter” makes a living doing this day after day, but I know adding advertising would severely limit the effectiveness of his work. Besides, as an advertiser, would I really want to make my pitch in an environment that completely flushes all memory of my message? Sleep usually comes within the first ten to fifteen minutes of the podcast. I sometimes awake at the end, when he’s reading comments from users, and thanking them. (Today he closed by reading from the building codes for Gwinnett county.)

At first, the beginning of the podcast didn’t seem promising for getting the job done because I found myself laughing heartily several times. But that’s about all I can recall. 

As one of the reviewers (moshverhavikk) put it, it’s a form of guided meditation “irreverently executed in a Coach McGuirk-like way.”  He also calls them “disorienting like the second act of a movie that never figured out its ending…It follows the logical rules of syntax and conversation but completely disregards meaningful content. Because of the natural pacing and topical words you are tricked into thinking you are listening to a real story.” Sounds like a plausible explanation.

In my Christian Science days, I'd have Joan read aloud from "Science and Health," and that usually put me out quickly. But you don't have to put someone else through that ordeal when Dearest Scooter does it all for you. Save yourself hundreds of $$$ per year and subscribe to this extremely useful podcast.