Welcome to bedtime stories for grown-ups.

In which nothing much happens.

You feel good and then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Nikolai. I write and read all the stories you hear on nothing much happens.

With audio engineering by Bob Widdersheim.

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Since every episode is someone's first

I like to say a little about how this works.

When we struggle to fall asleep or return to sleep,

it's usually because the mind is too active.

When your brain is active in its default mode network,

sleep can feel pretty impossible.

We need to shift your brain activity to the task positive network,

where drifting off is fast and easy.

And to do that, we need to give your brain a job to do,

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