Skip to content

Let the sun come up slowly, twenty seconds by the sea

Twenty seconds of sunrise over the water before the day gets busy. Soft fingerpicked guitar from our 18-minute wake-up by the sea, no vocals and no rush.

YouTube Short20 secondsPublished November 5, 2026By the SleepBetter.ai team

Watch on YouTube · SleepBetter channel · Wake-Up & Morning

Made with AI. Parts of this video are AI-generated (see “How this was made” below).

What it is

A vertical clip from our 18-minute wake-up by the sea, taken from 5:00–5:20, where the sun sits on the horizon and the track is still soft fingerpicked guitar. The picture is that coastal sunrise scene, centre-cropped for a phone.

How to use it

Watch it once, sitting on the edge of the bed or while the kettle boils. Breathe in as the light grows, and let the breath out a little more slowly than it came in. Then open the curtains. If you want more than twenty seconds, the full sea track keeps building for eighteen minutes and works well on a TV while you get ready. For a different morning landscape, try desert sunrise.

Best for

Groggy mornings, the first minute after the alarm, and anyone trying to start the day with something gentler than scrolling. Other morning Shorts from our wake-up tracks include breathe in at dawn, misty hills at sunrise and a sunrise reset on the coast. If mornings are hard because nights are short, our sleep calculator suggests bedtimes for the time you need to be up.

Sound design note

This cut sits in the quiet middle of the sea track: soft guitar and pads with no beat yet. Even when YouTube loops it, the clip stays calm. It plays fine on a phone speaker; on headphones the guitar opens out a little wider. Prefer a desert morning next? Desert sunrise opens under the last stars with handpan.

How this was made

This Short is made with AI. The music is an AI-generated instrumental (ElevenLabs Music), cut from our 18-minute wake-up by the sea, and the coastal sunrise is an AI-generated image, gently animated. Edited by SleepBetter. No voice.

Sleep videos and guided relaxation are for general wellness, not medical advice. If poor sleep is affecting your days, talk to a doctor or a sleep specialist.