Hot Air Balloon | Gentle Reading for Sleep

About this episode

This episode provides a gentle reading about hot air balloons to help listeners drift off to sleep.

Can’t sleep? Yeah, that tracks. Might as well learn how hot air balloons work while you’re here. This episode covers the basics of hot air balloon flight, a little history, and why heating air somehow equals floating. Calm, steady reading, no effort required, just enough real information to keep your brain busy until it finally drifts off. Happy sleeping! Read with permission from Hot air balloon, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_air_balloon), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Benjamin Boster

Topics covered

• hot air balloons
• sleep
• gentle reading
• flight basics
• history of hot air balloons

Keywords

• hot air balloon
• sleep aid
• calm reading
• flight
• history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wikipedia

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