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

You feel good, and then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Nicolai.

I write and read all the stories you hear on nothing much happens.

Our audio engineer is Bob Witterschheim.

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How's this ever happened to you?

You're in bed, reading your book, and maybe even scrunched up in a not so comfortable position.

But you can't keep your eyes open.

Then you turn off the light, get as snug as possible, and suddenly you can't sleep.

What happened in those few seconds is that the narrative of the story was replaced by your thinking mind.

So that's how this works.

I'll provide a story, simple, relaxing, and told twice with the second reading a little slower than the first.

Let your mind just follow along as your eyes would have moved across the page.

And before you know it, you'll be in deep, restful sleep.

If you wake in the middle of the night, rather than letting your brain take over,

think back through any of the story that you remember, and you'll drop right back off.

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