What Is WikiSleep?
Falling asleep shouldn’t feel like work—yet most sleep advice is filled with complex routines, endless rules and untold pressures to get it just right. WikiSleep takes a different approach—one that is effortless, enjoyable and actually works.
Built on the simple idea of diversion, WikiSleep gives your busy brain something calm to focus on—helping you drift into sleep more easily. With over 200 episodes and counting, our collection includes interesting biographies, historical events, folklore, mythology, classic tales and more—including traditional sleep tools like guided breathwork and meditations.
Each story is narrated in a calm, soothing voice, perfectly paced to gently steer your thoughts away from daily stress and ease you into sleep. No overthinking. No effort. Just press play, listen and let yourself fall into the story until sleep takes over naturally.
Who is Adrien?
WikiSleep was created by award-winning writer and producer, Adrien Sala. For years, Adrien struggled with sleep—his busy brain running wild at night with all the usual stressors like financial worry, work stress, relationships—that weird thing he said to a stranger in 2016. All totally common barriers to sleep, but no less annoying and difficult.
One of the tools he used to tackle his sleep challenges was podcasts. The interesting stories would help pull him away from his active brain to place where his body could take over and do what came naturally (sleep!). But podcast ads and volume bursts became too much, rendering them counterproductive for sleep
So, Adrien decided to create a sleep tool that solved for that: sleep content that is interesting enough to capture your focus and divert anxious thinking, but soothing enough that you can easily fall asleep while listening.
A writer and content producer by trade, Adrien does pretty much everything for WikiSleep, except when he has help from some great developers and narrators.
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Sure does. You can set it to play as long as you like and when it’s time to turn off, it will fade out rather than stopping abruptly. Timer can be found on each episode card or in settings.
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Almost every week!
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There are! Wikisleep has a growing list of contributors and I am working hard to create more content in different voices and languages.
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That would be Adrien (me). It’s one of my favourite things about making WikiSleep.
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The quick answer is that WikiSleep is a one-person operation, created and run by me (Adrien). I’m doing my best to boot-strap the company in order to avoid making it more costly for users.
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Most people are surprised at how effective the diversion principle is, believing at first that the stories will keep them awake. But soon, they discover how quickly they doze off lost in story. Remember: our bodies want us to sleep. It’s our brains that often keep us awake.
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Honestly, I needed something to help myself sleep and had been listening to podcasts—but then podcasts got infiltrated with ads. As a content producer, it was easy for me to create something I need and so voila… Wikisleep.
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Absolutely! While I can’t guarantee that I’ll be able to produce an episode of your suggestion, I am certainly open to ideas. Feel free to contact me anytime.