Here’s a problem you’ve probably experienced: you fall asleep listening to something—a sleep story, a podcast, ambient sounds—and then you wake up when it ends. The sudden silence jolts you awake, and now you’re lying there at 3am trying to fall back asleep.
It’s frustrating. You finally got relaxed. You drifted off. And then… nothing. Your brain notices the change and pulls you right back to consciousness.
We built InTheMoment’s sleep stories specifically to solve this.
The Problem With Most Sleep Apps
Most sleep apps work like this: you pick a sleep story or meditation, press play, and it runs for 20-40 minutes. The assumption is you’ll be asleep by the time it ends.
But what if you’re not? What if you’re a light sleeper? What if you wake up naturally during the night and the silence makes it harder to fall back asleep?
Podcast listeners know this pain. Fall asleep to a podcast, wake up when the episode ends. Or worse—wake up to a completely different episode that’s loud and jarring.
The audio ending becomes its own sleep disruption.
How InTheMoment Solves This
Endless Loop Mode
InTheMoment’s sleep stories can play one after another in an endless loop. When one story ends, another begins—seamlessly, gently, without jarring transitions.
You can set your phone down and drift off knowing that if you wake up at any point during the night, there’s still something playing. No silence to jolt you awake. No need to fumble for your phone to restart something.
Continuous Ambient Music
Every session in InTheMoment includes customisable ambient background music. For sleep, you can choose from calming soundscapes—rain, ocean waves, soft atmospheric sounds—that continue playing underneath and beyond the stories.
The ambient layer doesn’t stop when a story ends. It keeps going, providing a consistent audio blanket all night long.
Curated Sleep Content
Our sleep stories are professionally crafted for relaxation—paced slowly, designed to help your mind wind down, and structured to ease you gently toward sleep. Combined with the all-night looping and ambient music, they create a consistent sleep environment.
Why This Matters
Sleep is when your brain consolidates memories, processes emotions, and repairs your body. Disrupted sleep—even brief awakenings—undermines all of that.
Studies show that consistent audio can help maintain sleep by:
- Masking sudden environmental noises (traffic, house sounds)
- Providing a familiar cue that signals “still sleep time”
- Reducing the cognitive load of deciding what to do when you wake
The goal isn’t to listen to content all night. It’s to never have the absence of content wake you up.
How to Use All-Night Sleep Stories
- Open InTheMoment and go to sleep stories
- Pick a story from the library
- Choose your ambient sound - something you find calming
- Enable loop mode so stories play continuously
- Turn off your screen and let it run
The stories will cycle gently. The ambient will continue. And if you wake up at 4am, you can let the current story carry you back to sleep without touching your phone.
The Bigger Picture
While InTheMoment’s meditation and hypnosis sessions are AI-generated and personalised to your specific situation, sleep stories work differently—they’re designed to be consistent and predictable, which is exactly what your brain needs when falling asleep.
The AI-generated content is for when you’re awake and want something tailored to your moment. Sleep stories are for when you want reliable, soothing content that doesn’t change unexpectedly.
Both have their place. The all-night loop feature works for any audio in the app—combining the best of both worlds.
Having trouble with sleep? InTheMoment offers meditation, hypnosis, and sleep stories with all-night playback. Start free.
Last updated: December 2025