Episodios

  • 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!


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  • You Are Not Your Panic
    Jun 2 2025

    Hi, Sleepy. Today we glide into a fog of unfinished business, unbarked dogs, and AK-free mornings. We talk Ice Cube, yes—but not clinically. We also marvel at billion-year-old granite counters, their immovability, their unapologetic permanence. We spiral through dizziness and its deceit, and hover somewhere between sorrow, friendship, and the myth of eternal romantic unity. There’s song lyrics (sort of), nostalgia, and the final seconds of truth—but oops, we ran out of time.


    Let me be your wandering thoughts tonight, your strange mind at rest. What happens, happens. And right now, there’s nothing we can do about it. Let’s begin.


    Sleep Tight!


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  • Existential Comfort Food
    May 26 2025

    Welcome back, Sleepy. Tonight, it's just you and me again—Henrik, here in my little studio in Stockholm, whispering gently into your ear with my weird dialect and my equally peculiar point of view. It's early, earlier than I'd prefer, and summer has burst upon Stockholm almost overnight, turning everything brilliantly, inexplicably green. How does that always happen?


    We'll wander together through absurd memories of my dishwashing escapades at 25, existential bedtime battles, and those peculiar, intrusive thoughts about stabbing forks and asking strangers for hats. Don’t worry—it's less scary than it sounds. I'm just rambling, unedited and unscripted, quietly exploring the oddly comforting chaos of being human.


    So settle in, drift off to sleep, and let yourself be gently carried away by my aimless but heartfelt musings. After all, none of us are perfect—and isn't that perfectly fine?

    Sleep Tight!


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  • Big Spaces, Small Hearts
    May 19 2025

    Hi Sleepy.

    Tonight we stand together on the edge of something that maybe was never there to begin with. I talk about the third arm that vanished, the cliff that never was, and the Pope I almost licked.


    We float through cathedral ceilings and asphalt plains, childhood fears and ABBA-induced tears, trying not to fall—or at least not fall alone.


    There’s Harriet, singing in the car. There’s my dad, holding a band-aid like a book title. And there’s you, Sleepy, drifting beside me in the strange safety of storytelling. Loss isn’t just absence. It’s surprise.


    Sleep Tight!


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  • Just One of Those Nights, Sleepy
    May 12 2025

    Hi, Sleepy. This is me again. Henrik.

    Floating above the endless void of meaning and language and strangely shaped English sentences.


    In tonight’s episode, I reflect on the tragic beauty of being a Swedish man with a microphone and no filter.

    We talk about parenting, loneliness, oceans, boats, triangles on Venus, the impossibility of controlling anything, and the maddening mystery of what birthdays felt like in 1348.


    I admit my fears. I praise curiosity. I thank my imagination. And I speak, because that’s what I do. Words tumble like socks in a dryer, some pairing off, some lost in the dark.

    This isn’t a lullaby. It’s something else. Something that floats. Welcome to another introspective and imaginative journey to sleep.


    Sleep tight!

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