#83 Let me bore you to sleep - Jason Newland (23rd January 2019)

Hello, welcome to jasonnewland.com My name is Jason Newland and this is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Only listen to this recording or watch the video if you're watching on YouTube. Please subscribe when you can safely close your eyes because this boring recording aimed at causing tiredness may cause tiredness.

Yeah. I'm hoping that André will behave during my time here today. But I don't know what's going on with him actually.

You can hear me talking about him. He's in his carrier bag at the moment, the plastic bag. And whenever I get out of my chair and walk into another room, whether it's the kitchen, whether it's the bathroom, whether it's the bedroom, or whether it's into the hallway and going towards the front door, or even if it's just walking over to the other side of the room I'm currently in, he seems to jump out of the bag ready to follow me.

So I'm not really quite sure why. He just came out of his bag just now. As if he wants something, but I don't know what it is that he wants.

All I can do is just watch him and make sure he's okay. He seems to be fine. His new thing at the moment is moving his big bag around.

He keeps dragging it across the floor as if he wants it to be somewhere else. Yep. It was perfectly quiet until I started this recording.

I don't know what it is. Maybe it's... It can't be me talking because he doesn't do that when I'm on the phone. So I think he knows that I'm making a recording.

And he probably hears me mention his name. And his ears prick up and he's just like, ooh, what's daddy talking about now? Is he doing one of those boring recordings? He's always doing those things. He's always talking to himself into that phone thing.

I've been quite pleased with the podcast lately. So I've got lots of podcasts, to be fair. And I use SoundCloud, which is always, not always, but it's been my main podcast provider for quite a few years.

Even though the current podcast is fairly new, because I cancelled the last one. But I've had this one since, I think, October last year, I think. And my Spreaker podcast is doing a lot more.

Technically, is it doing a lot more? It is. So I'm not sure what the time span is upon the SoundCloud one and the Spreaker one. So on the SoundCloud I've had about 48, 49,000 plays on that podcast, on the SoundCloud one.

In the last, I don't know, four or five months, maybe less. But the Spreaker, I've had less than that over that time. But at the moment I'm getting about a thousand plays and downloads a day on my Spreaker podcasts.

And I've got a few podcasts, you know, the Let Me Boy Into Sleep, the Deep Sleep Whisper Hypnosis ones, the various different things I do. So it's growing, and it's, so I'm getting more downloads and plays on Spreaker than I am on SoundCloud. Because last month, December, on Spreaker I had 10,000 downloads and plays.

This month I probably had, yeah, I probably had getting on to 20,000 already, if not more. So yeah, probably at the end of this month I'll have about 30,000 downloads and plays just for the month of January, just on Spreaker. And then a few thousand from SoundCloud for January.

So just thinking about how it's growing, so it might be interesting to see how it grows. Based on that, I might have 40,000-50,000 plays and downloads next month, February. So it'd be interesting, I'd like to, if I can, by the end of the year, have, I'd like to have 100,000 views a month.

Not views, plays and downloads at least. At least 100,000 downloads and plays a month. But ideally I'd prefer to have that daily, then I suppose everyone would, wouldn't they? But monthly would be fine.

So if I just progress the way it's progressing, 100,000 a month and then moving on from that. So how much is that, how many is that a day? Because at the moment I'm doing about 1,000 a day, which is, yeah, 30,000 a month. So I would assume in a month's time, I'll probably have about 1,500 a day.

And in two months' time, perhaps 2,000 a day. So March, I'll have about 60,000 a month. And then, yeah, so April, May, probably about 90,000.

July, 120,000. September, 150,000 a month. So by December, I might have, you know, potentially I could have 200,000 a month.

And that would be, how much a day? 3, 6, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. So that'd be about 7,000 a day. So I'd like to get 100,000 a day.

Just, you know, to see it grow and that would just be a bit of a thrill, really. It's a weird thing, really, because if you, I had this when I used to work in sales. Like I had this target, so I'd start a job.

And let's say the target was, yeah, it had to sell 15 policies, like insurance policies, before, that 15 is the amount you needed to basically keep your job. And that's the minimum that would be expected for the basic wages. And you wouldn't really make any money, bonus-wise, if you got under 15 sales.

So 15 sales, and for people that just first start, getting one sale is like a miracle. It's amazing, it's like, wow. Because you've accomplished something that you hadn't previously done before, you know.

And then you get another one, and it's, wow, it's, I've got two. And every one you get, you're breaking your previous record. And you go, oh, I got four, I got five, I got six.

And yeah, you might not do a different voice every time you get a new sale, but it depends. And maybe the first week, you might get three or four, and you'd be so pleased. And then maybe the second week, you get maybe seven or eight or nine, or ten even.

And then a couple of weeks in, three weeks in, maybe four, you reach that barrier, you reach that target of 15. That ceiling is there, you're at the top of the ceiling. It's like your hand or your head is touching the ceiling.

It's like, wow, I'm like a giant in a doll's house. And then the following week, you've done maybe 14 in the first two days, and you've still got three days left. And the next day, you do 15 and 16.

And every time you do one, that ceiling grows, and it's touchable. It's not, it doesn't feel untouchable anymore, it doesn't feel out of reach. It's there.

17, 18, it's like, wow, I've started earning a bonus. 19, 20, 23. And you end the week maybe on 23, 24, you've earned a bonus, and you start the following week, the next week.

And your target is no longer 15. Your target is 24 or more than 24. And you hit 15 in the first two days, and you get past that, and it's no longer a big deal.

It's just done, because that ceiling has risen. And I think that seems to be what's happening a little bit with the podcast. I'm always pleased to get any plays and any downloads.

I think it's brilliant, you know, it's just kind of makes it worthwhile. Although it would make it more worthwhile for me if I got a little bit of feedback, or a little bit more. I do get some feedback.

It would be nice if I just got some people saying, yeah, well, I like this, because... So, you know, so I can kind of feel that what I'm doing is useful in some way. Even though from an outside perspective, if you was to listen to this recording, and just because you have something to do, you just listen to it, you might think, what the heck is going on? Why is he talking about that? What is the point? That's not... What is that relevant to? Well, that's the point, that it's not relevant to anything. It's just me talking.

Just me talking for an hour. And some people might be listening, thinking, this is just boring. And I would answer, yeah.

Can you imagine someone saying, this Let Me Bore You To Sleep recording was really boring. It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's kind of supposed to be.

It's, you know, someone said... Not someone I was thinking earlier. Someone was thinking about the, you know, the whole, the old saying of, it's like, well, I'd rather watch paint dry, than watch that or then listen to that. And you know, I sometimes think, I mean, I have watched paint dry.

It's not so bad. Sometimes you need, well, you don't need to watch it, but you have to wait after, you know, if it's the undercoat, you know, if you want to do another layer, another coat, you have to wait till it's dried before you can do another one. Or maybe you're just keeping an eye on the area, so that people don't brush up against it and get paint on their clothes.

Because years ago when I was, I had a job, and one of my little jobs was to do some painting. But another part of my job was to make sure that the general public didn't walk against the paint and get paint onto their person. You know, their clothes or their hands or, I guess their forearms, they could get it on there.

Fingers. Elbows. Possibly shoulders if they were wearing like a really small top.

You know, with the shoulders showing. Then they'd have to be scraping against the wall. Unless, because there was a road there, and there wasn't really much of a pavement.

So I suppose if someone moved backwards, so to let cars go past or bicycles, they could have actually walked and pushed their entire back against the wall. Or the side against the wall. Therefore resulting in paint not just on their skin, but also maybe on some of their clothing as well.

Which is not ideal. So I've been in that position where I've painted the wall, but also as well as putting signs out saying wet paint, which I might as well have just written down, please ignore this sign. So I try to keep a little eye out and just let people know.

Just like say wet paint. Wet paint. Anybody? Wet paint.

Please watch out for the paint. The wall is wet. We paint.

The wall has been painted. Therefore the wall is wet. Because the paint upon the wall has not dried yet.

There's a little poem there. So is watching paint dry a boring activity? I don't know. It's kind of like a bit of nature occurring, isn't it? I know it doesn't involve penguins or seagulls or icebergs or, you know, rainforests.

There's no sounds of crickets, unless of course there was. But watching paint dry, it's still nature, isn't it? It's still the oxygen, the atmosphere, the process of time occurring. I quite like the idea, the reality really, is that we are all time travellers.

Just by sitting here in my big black squeaky chair that needs replacing, I'm travelling through time. And instead of watching paint dry, I could look in the mirror and just watch myself age. Which is not something that I choose to do.

Now the boilers just come on in the kitchen. It's so loud sometimes. Sometimes it's so loud that about 3% of me is concerned.

Only 3% though, so it doesn't really bother me. Well, at least 3% of my body is probably part of my ankle, probably. There's not even a whole kneecap that's at 3%.

Well, it might be. No, it might be. One, two, three.

I wonder. One, two, three, four. It'd be hard to work it out, I suppose.

Because if you were going to do 3% of your body, you'd have to work out the whole of the 100% first, wouldn't you? And how do you work that out? By weight? By length? Because different parts of the body weigh a different amount, don't they? Yeah, I wonder how it'd work out. I don't know. That's something I really, really, really need to know.

So by getting to the thousand mark in the podcast, it's a ceiling that... You know, on a day, I mean, daily. It's a ceiling that I don't think... I might have reached it before, but not like on a regular basis. And I remember with the YouTube channel, when I had... I've had lots of YouTube channels, and the one I've got now is relatively new.

But I had a YouTube channel which was... It was my most successful one. And I had half a million views. And... I don't know, 3,000 subscribers or something like that.

But I remember just hitting those targets. You know, breaking previous records of my own. And I don't mean literally breaking LPs and vinyl records.

That would be a separate thing. But by records, as in my previous attempts or my previous statistics. And... I think with the YouTube channel, the most I'd ever had before, that was about 200,000 views on my channel.

And that was another channel. And I'd had other channels that were about 100,000, 50,000, 150,000, you know, different amounts. So this one, this one that had half a million views, was quite just astonishing for me to watch how it grew.

And how each video that I produced would get lots of views really quickly. And how I would be getting... I don't know how many, not like loads and loads, but I would get 10, 15 subscribers a day. And before I closed the YouTube channel down, I was getting 45,000 plays a month.

So that was... Because I think I'd had the channel for about two years to get to the 500,000. But it was working out that I was getting half a million, yeah, more than half a million a year as it was growing. But it was growing, it was like, went from 30,000 a month to 45,000 a month in about two months, three months.

So who knows what it would be like now. I'd probably be getting maybe a million a month. If I was stuck with that channel, I might have had hundreds of thousands of subscribers, you know.

So it's quite interesting because now that the... I got rid of that YouTube channel and I've had a few YouTube channels since. And I've experimented a bit with various different formats. And the YouTube channel I've got now, I've got, I think, 197 or 198 subscribers.

And it's like, wow, I'm really pleased with the growth. Even though I've had much more successful YouTube channels. It's just, it's nice just to see that, I think I've had about 43 subscribers this month or in the last 30 days or 28 days.

It's nice to see new people and also old people, you know, people that used to follow me. Some people that have followed me for over 10 years, finally finding me again on YouTube. Because I'm kind of hidden a bit on there.

I don't really know why. You know, I've got over 400, no, over 500 videos. Yeah, got over 500 videos on my channel.

And I think if you put hypnosis in YouTube, if you search for it, I don't think I even come up. So I'm not really sure. It's, I don't, I think the... Once they do start showing me, then I'll be getting a lot more views and a lot more subscribers, I suppose.

But people are finding me somehow, so I guess I must be, you know, I know I do promote everything I do. On YouTube, on Facebook and Twitter. So when I do a new video on YouTube, which I'm actually uploading the Deep Sleep Whisper Hypnosis number 26.

That's actually being uploaded to YouTube as we speak. So I did that this morning. I recorded that.

And I've spent all, well, not all day, but I spent a few hours. But the editing process doesn't take long for my end. But the, once I've done what I need to do, to actually save it and render the video takes a couple of hours.

And then it's quite a large file. So it takes quite a while to upload to YouTube as well. Which is fine.

I've already uploaded the Deep Sleep Hypnosis, Whisper Hypnosis number 26 to Spreaker and to SoundCloud. So that the, yeah, the podcast has got it. And before I do that, when I, when I first record it, and I'll do the same with this as well.

Depending, because I haven't put the sign on my door, which I normally do, to say don't disturb because I'm making a recording. I didn't do that today because I'm waiting for somebody to give me a knock. So I just left it as it is and hoped that they won't be here yet.

They're not supposed to be here till later. But I hope, you know, so I thought it's still fairly early. It's, I think when I began recording this, it was about half seven, twenty to eight in the evening.

And it should be okay. If I do get a knock at the door, I'm probably going to have to go and answer it. So it will be a case of just editing the video or editing the audio first.

And to, you know, delete that, that chunk of time out. Now I don't like editing. I mean, from any angle, I don't particularly enjoy the process of editing within the recording.

So I don't, I always now, I take the beginning off and the end off. So, you know, whatever weird sounds I make, I delete that and I fade in to the beginning of the recording. And I do the same with the end part.

Delete the last bit and just fade out. Because I usually, usually count to about twenty from when I stop the recording to when I stop it. I stop talking to when I stop the recording.

And I kind of count my way in as well. But when it comes to editing what I've said, I don't change things and put things in different orders. Because I suppose I could, you know, I could edit loads of recordings and turn it into something completely different.

But I'm not that interested in doing something like that. But the, if there's a sound, it's a little bit, it doesn't really fit in with what I'm doing. So let's say someone pulls up outside and starts bibbing their horn.

Because they're too lazy to get out of the car to actually knock on someone's door. Or too lazy to phone them, you know. So they're bibbing the horn.

I might delete that, so I might go back and delete that out of the recording. But I don't like doing that because then it's no longer authentic to me. For me it's not just me talking.

It's also all the background sounds. It's the reality, it's the moment. Whether it's the boiler in the kitchen, you know, making a weird funny noise, which worries 3% of me.

Or if it's Andre just deciding to play around and stuff. Or if it's my squeaky chair. I quite like to just leave stuff in, unless it's like a jolting sound and I try not, you know, I don't want that.

But because I do so many of these recordings, I like the idea, I like just for it to be real. And there's the other side to it as well, is I like the pacing to be correct. I like the space between my words, between my sentences to stay, you know, to be real.

Because this is how I talk and this is the correct spacing for me, for this recording. But if I go and, you know, edit some of it, then that spacing can change. And even though nobody else in the world will ever know that I've done that edit, I know and I can hear that the spacing isn't how it was.

And I do even just that little space then, that gap, or that gap just there again. I like, it's there for a reason. It feels right to have left that amount of space between what I said and what I decided to say.

And it might seem like I'm thinking what to say next when I leave a gap, but most of the time it's not that reason. I just like gaps. It's just, I like spaces.

I like the quietness and the calmness of a space. It's like a little restful space in time that's there, that's kind of indented by my lack of talking during that period of time, whether it lasts for a second or three seconds. It's noticeable, but at the same time, I kind of feel that in a strange way, it's a way to connect, because we can share that space of no talking, me and you.

When I'm talking, you're possibly listening, so we're doing different things. But with that space, we can both just be listening. It somehow feels like it could be a portal where you could just share healing energy, share the ability to just let go and fall asleep.

Even the sound of the plane, I don't know if you can hear it. No matter how many times in the past or in the future that I make a recording and a plane goes past, it will never be this recording. It will never be exactly the same.

And even that sound then was of my television. That doesn't happen very often, the television just clicking. It's turned off.

Or there's a background sound, I can hear the laptop as it's doing its work, uploading the video to YouTube for the number 26 deep sleep whisper hypnosis video. I quite like just the calmness of just being here. You know, that calmness of not needing to do anything, not expecting to do anything, but just feeling relaxed, letting go and allowing yourself to just listen to my boring voice and drift off into a boring sleep.

And if nothing else, you can enjoy the sense of relaxing and letting go. Relaxing and letting go. I like to relax.

I can't remember the first time I ever relaxed, but I do know that there have been times when I used to like to just lie down on my bed. Just lie there. Even as a child, I'd like to just lie down on my bed, flat on my back and just relax my body and my mind.

Now, when I was a child, I didn't really know much about relaxing, if I'm honest. You know, it wasn't something I learnt at school. It wasn't something that was really taught.

It wasn't a thing that was really talked about. But even as I got older, I used to love just lying down on my bed, flat on my back and just relax. I even remember back in 90s, yeah, late 90s, when I first started learning about hypnosis.

And I'd already learnt about meditation. And what I used to do is lie down on my bed, but not... And sometimes I do a bit of self-hypnosis, but quite often it would just be an awareness process. It would just be me allowing my mind to open up and to absorb and learn what was necessary.

Just to be open and allow my mind to process thoughts and feelings and emotions. Just allow all that stuff to happen naturally as I lie there. And it felt like a really kind of therapeutic experience.

And it was nice to just lie there, undisturbed, feeling relaxed, naturally. And I kept that process going for quite a few years. There was periods when I didn't, periods when I would have really benefited from doing that, which is useful.

Now, I try and do it quite regularly, every day. More than often I'll do it sitting back in my chair, my big black squeaky worn out chair. Perhaps I could go back to just doing it on my bed, lying down on my bed.

The thing is, when I do lie down on my bed, it's kind of a trigger for me to want to go to sleep. Just let go and sleep. And once my eyelids have closed, it seems like the rest of my body and my mind just follows.

It's as if by closing my eyes, I've given the rest of my body and brain permission to drift off to sleep. Now, which is okay, if that's what is needed. I do like the idea of being able to just completely relax and allow the creative part of my brain to just do its thing.

You know, just allow that wonderful space in our head to relax, to really, really relax your brain. And when your brain is relaxed deeply, the rest of your body naturally follows your brain's lead into deep relaxation. It's a nice feeling.

It just feels nice just to, I find anyway, I find it's nice to not think about anything. Not because you can't, but because you choose not to. You choose to just let those thoughts disappear for a while.

And everything that you need will still be there when you open your eyes. Just in the same way that everything that you need is available to you at all times. You can feel calm and loose.

Letting go completely. Calm and loose. And bored.

Bored of hearing the same words. Bored of hearing the same sentences. Enjoying this sense of comfort.

Loose. Calm. Comfort.

Loose. Calm. Comfort.

And the good thing about this opportunity to enjoy the full boredom of listening to my voice each and every day, causing you to feel more relaxed and tired whenever you hear my voice. During these boring sessions all you need and want to do is to close your eyes and go to sleep. And that brings us to the end of another Let Me Bore You To Sleep.

Please share this recording and let me know what you think. See you next time. Bye.