This video is personal. Please use it to help you sleep tonight. Since I was a child, it’s been like a post-hypnotic suggestion: move to the UK and live in a country cottage. I could visualize it, clear as day: an American who returned home to northwestern Europe, finding peace at last in a cottage in the Scottish Highlands. Today, over half the world’s population is urbanized. In 25 years, that number will climb to over two-thirds. This is abhorrent to me. If you feel as I do – that cities are a cancer upon the face of the Earth – then the idea of living in one is not just disgusting: it’s damaging. We move to cities in pursuit of money, partners, status, a better life, and so on. But the price tag is your soul. I lived in huge, massive cities for years, far longer than I ever intended, in the hope that I’d emerge on the far side with the ability to realize that childhood dream of what a better life looked like to me. It took a long time – a really long time – and along the way I lost pieces of me that I’ll never get back. But, last month, in my mid-forties, I finally made it happen: I bought a cottage in the Scottish Highlands. Imagine a place over 2,000 square miles with no dual carriageways, no roundabouts, only 12,000 people, and just one stoplight. That’s where I live now. No city lights. No city NOISE. Just nature. Peaceful, quiet nature. I feel so damn old. So much of me has been lost. But there is still time to live the dream I fought so hard to achieve. There is time to enjoy the second half of life. This video was created last year. I was living in the city, listening to the constant bombardment of noise – sirens, car horns, people people people – and I wanted to see if I could visualize the image that’s been in my head since childhood: the image of where I wanted to exist. In a case of truth being stranger than fiction, what you see in this image is eerily similar to where I’ve ended up, and where I’m writing this from now. According to YouTube Studio, the majority of Yellow Brick Cinema’s audience are Millennials. Writing to you as a Gen X who went into the city to “make it” and managed to escape the city: it CAN be done. Stay the course. It’s a very hard uphill climb – harder than you’ll ever expect – but it can be done, and you CAN wake up in your own country cottage one day. Until then, maybe this video will help you sleep tonight. Written with love from the Scottish Highlands, -Jason SEO: Can’t sleep? Yellow Brick Cinema’s deep sleeping music is composed as music to help you sleep and achieve Zen, thereby aiding you to beat insomnia and sleep regression, acting as calming music during meditation for sleep and encouraging lucid dreams. Incorporating new age breakthroughs with binaural beats and isochronic tones, our deep sleep music will help you to fall asleep. Moreover, the 432hz healing frequency and 528hz benefits of our music for sleep will lead you to healing sleep. Let our sleep music help you reach a state of deep sleep relaxation. Visit the Yellow Brick Cinema homepage to find out more about our selection of Sleep Music, Meditation Music, Yoga music, Spa music and Relaxing Music. Our popular Study Music provides music that will help you focus and study. This study music will help you to work, study or read. Use our study music to prepare for exams and our stress relief music to reduce exam anxiety. Our relaxing massage music and meditation music has a variety of genres, including Zen and Tibetan meditation and this calm music includes binaural beats. Many people use our relaxing meditation music or peaceful music to find inner peace or use our relaxing music as yoga music for yoga, massage music or as Zen music if stress relief music is what you want. So, whether it’s yoga music for yoga practice, Zen music, soothing music for sleep hypnosis or meditation, soft music, calm music, massage music for spa, study music for study, or music for sleep that you want, our peaceful music is ideal relaxing music. #sleepmusic #musicforsleep #sleepingmusic #relaxingmusic #sleep