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Welcome to the brutal reality of medieval Ireland.
In this immersive, darkly funny sleep-history video, we take you through the slow, rain-soaked misery of daily life as an ordinary peasant — from the moment you’re born screaming into a mud hut, to the moment you die forgotten beneath the gray sky. You’ll live through hunger, cold, disease, religious guilt, clan feuds, English invasions, and the general indignity of surviving one of the least romanticized eras in Irish history.

Told in second-person and narrated in a calm, sarcastic tone, this descent is part historical education, part existential dread, and part bedtime story — if your bedtime stories came with moldy bread and blood prices paid in livestock.