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Welcome to Bed 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 Wittersheim.

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Thanks to your support, we donate to a new charity every week, and this week we are sending some help

to World Central Kitchen at wcK.org. World Central Kitchen provides meals in response to humanitarian,

climate, and community crises. They build resilient food systems with locally led solutions.

Find their link in our show notes. Now, your brain is like a truck with a brick on the gas pedal.

It goes even when no one is there to steer it.

And you can probably relate to that feeling the most when you're trying to go to sleep or when

you're trying to return to sleep in the middle of the night. That constantly spinning, wandering,

feeling. Well, here's what doesn't work. Trying to stop the truck. Trying to stop thinking. It doesn't work. It'll probably

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