Welcome to Bedtime Stories for Everyone, in which nothing much happens.

You feel good, and then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Nikolai, and I create everything you hear on Nothing Much Happens, with audio engineering by Bob Wittersheim.

If you like to fall asleep with my voice, you might also enjoy waking up with it.

My meditation podcast, First This,

offers simple 10-minute guided practices.

You can find it for free on any podcast app.

Just search First This

and find more cozy goodness at Nothing Much Happens.com.

Now, just like when you were a child, being tucked in for bed,

you're about to hear a story to send you off to Dreamland.

The story is meant to be a soft landing place for your mind,

so that, instead of circling through the same thoughts you've been stuck in all day,

you can rest in a sweet, peaceful place. I'll tell our story twice, and I'll go a bit

slower the second time through. If you find yourself awake again later in the night,

don't hesitate to turn the show right back on, or just take your mind

back to the beginning of the story and walk yourself through any part that you can remember,

especially anything that felt particularly cozy.

You're training your brain and body to wind that felt particularly cozy.

You're training your brain and body to wind down, and the more often you do it, the faster you will fall asleep.

So have a bit of patience at the beginning.

Now, it's time to turn off the light and put away anything you've been playing

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