Welcome to bedtime stories for everyone, in which nothing much happens. You feel good and

then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Nikolai.

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

With audio engineering by Bob Widdersheim.

We give to a different charity each week,

and this week we are giving to Sheldrick Wildlife Chost,

which exists to protect Africa's wildlife and to preserve habitats for the future of all wild species.

We have a link to them in our show notes.

Bob has created spooked up versions of our Halloween stories from every year of the show.

They're a lot of fun, full of sound effects and available for free at nothing much happens.com.

While you're there you can buy merch, sign up for our ad free and bonus episodes, and just enjoy some of the lovely illustrations of our village.

Now, this podcast works by giving your mind a place to rest, something soothing and simple to focus on, so that the background static goes quiet and you can relax and sleep.

I'll tell the story twice and I'll go a little slower on the second read-through.

If you wake in the middle of the night, take your mind right back to any of the details you can remember,

and you'll drop right back off, or just restart the story.

This is brain training, so be patient as we plant these seeds. Now, it's time to turn

off the light and put away anything you were looking at.

Prioritize your own comfort right now.

Get into your favorite sleeping position and settle the pillows and blankets around in just the way you like. You are about to fall asleep, and you will sleep all night.

Take a slow breath in through your nose.

Let it out with a sigh.

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