Welcome to bedtime stories for grown-ups.

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.

Audioengineering is by Bob Witterschheim.

You can follow us on Instagram and Facebook and Twitter for a bit of extra coziness.

A beautiful book of our bedtime stories is coming out all over the world in a few months.

It will have many of your favorite stories.

Along with 16 new stories that will only ever appear in the book.

It also has really charming illustrations, recipes, meditations and lots more.

To learn more or to pre-order your copy, go to nothingmuchappens.com.

Sometimes, even when you are very tired and ready for sleep, it doesn't come.

You know this, I'm sure.

But the reason it doesn't come is usually because your mind is too busy, overstimulated,

planning, or just generally swinging like a monkey from branch to branch.

The story I'm about to tell you is a place to rest your mind.

A way to put it into a sort of holding pattern.

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

As you listen, imagine yourself in the story.

Occupy your mind with the details.

And before you know it, you'll be out like a light.

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