Welcome to bedtime stories for everyone, in which nothing much happens.

You feel good and then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Nicolai.

I create everything you hear on nothing much happens, with audio engineering by Bob Witter

Schein.

People often tell me they wish they could live in the little village I write about and

I agree with them.

I'm always working on creating more ways into it.

Stories here, my book, an audiobook, my website where you can see it illustrated by Leile Pivare,

our merch and our social feeds where we post cozy pictures and host community.

Thank you for being here, for sharing us with others.

We're glad to be your soft landing.

Now, since every episode is someone's first, let me say a bit about how this works.

Your brain can easily slip into its default mode network.

This is sort of what your brain does when it doesn't have a job to do.

It's static and racing and keeps you up.

When we give your brain a job to do, like following along with my voice and the simple shape

of the story, it shifts to the task mode network.

And that allows you to sleep.

I'll tell the story twice and I'll go a little bit slower the second time through.

If you wake in the middle of the night, you can shift back into task mode by listening

again or just thinking your way back through any part of the story you can remember.

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