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

You feel good and then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Nicolai.

I read and write all the stories you hear on nothing much happens, with audio engineering

by Bob Witterschheim.

In the village of nothing much, subscribe to our bonus and add free episodes, read our

beautifully illustrated book, and find merch all at nothingmuchhappens.com.

Since every episode is someone's first, I always like to take a second to explain how to

use this podcast.

Our brains have a network called the default mode.

It's the one you're likely to experience when your thoughts are wandering and racing.

It's pretty hard to get to sleep when you're in default mode.

So we need to give your brain a job to do to move it into its task-positive network.

And here's the good news.

The job is easy and enjoyable.

It's just to follow along with the sound of my voice and the simple story I'll tell you.

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

If you wake again later and feel that default mode kick back in, you can listen again.

Or just think back through any part of the story that you can remember.

And you'll drop right back off.

Really.

This is brain training, so understand that it will improve with time.

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