This was meant to be a short video, believe it or not. It seems to always take me a lot longer to do things than estimated - I'm sorry about that, unless you're already used to it, in which case thank you for putting up with my late delivery of promised things. I'm just so relieved I was finally able to execute a video, and a really nice one at that. That's what Jack said. I worked quite hard on the audio on Whitsunday, all while getting interrupted by stupid noisy people because it was a national holiday, another one of those random ones that no one in the whole world except Germany gives a flying fuck about, and all the Russians in this house had drunken parties and refused to go to bed until 4AM. It should have occurred to me, while whispering 28 essential oil descriptions, that it would take forever to get through them all - but I, who has no perception of time for whatever reason, insisted that, indeed, I needed this many in my video. Oh well, that's what the timestamps in the pinned comments are for. If at any point a segment is taking too long for your liking, you can use those to skip ahead.
It took me a long time to find fitting background music for this one. I like to think of it as my ambience creation skill becoming more refined - I went through so many spa, meditation and relaxing musical pieces to find the only two that work. Many were too light - clashing with the dark background. Many were too dark - making the atmosphere depressing. These, I feel, are just close enough to neutral that between the slow, soothing music and my soft whispering, you can't not relax into a puddle of tingly madness.
::Redux version::
I'm sorry about the mouth sounds. They came out louder than anticipated - I had dry mouth and I didn't want to drink water because eating or drinking anything for a few hours before a video would have made my tummy really noisy. I can't win. I guess let me know which is the lesser evil.
All in all, inspired by some really lovely videos I recall watching a while ago, I'm happy to present to you a calming video that I'm sure will help you slow down, wind down, and fall asleep. Let me know how you like it!
//Ally