(Originally Aired: December 31st, 2023 Original: Season 13, Episode 1) Our story tonight is called The Sleeper Car, and it’s a story about a trip where the mode of travel is more important than the destination. It’s also about crisp ironed linens, a little notebook that fits perfectly into your pocket, the mystery of strangers across the dining car, and waking up to a snowy sunrise. Visit bioptimizers.com/nothingmuch and use code NOTHINGMUCH for 10% off any order. For 20% OFF any AquaTru water purifier when you go to AquaTru.com and use promo code NOTHINGMUCH Order your own NMH weighted pillow now! shop.nothingmuchhappens.com/products/weighted-pillows Subscribe for ad-free, bonus and extra long episodes now, as well as ad-free and early episodes of Stories from the Village of Nothing Much! Search for NMH Premium channel on Apple podcast or follow the link below nothingmuchhappens.com/premium-subscription Listen to our new show Stories from the Village of Nothing Much on your favorite podcast app. nothingmuchhappens.com/stories-from-the-village Join us tomorrow morning for a meditation at nothingmuchhappens.com/first-this Save over $100 on Kathryn’s hand-selected wind-down favorites with the Nothing Much Happens Wind-Down Box. A collection of products from our amazing partners: • Eversio Wellness: Chill Now • Vellabox: Lavender Silk Candle • Alice Mushrooms Nightcap • Nutrachamps Tart Cherry Gummies • A Brighter Year Mini Coloring Book • NuStrips Sleep Strips • Woolzies Lavender Roll-On
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Welcome to Bedtime Stories for Everyone, in which nothing much happens. You feel good, and then you fall asleep. I'm Katherine Nicolai. I write and read all the stories you hear on Nothing Much Happens. Audio engineering is by Bob Wittersheim. We are bringing you an encore episode tonight, meaning that this story originally aired at some point in the past.
It could have been recorded with different equipment in a different location. And since I'm a person... and not a computer. I sometimes sound just slightly different, but the stories are always soothing and family-friendly, and our wishes for you are always deep rest and sweet dreams. Now, I have a story to tell you.
It's a soft place to rest your mind, and just by listening, you'll be training your brain to settle and to sleep. I'll tell the story twice, a little slower the second time through. If you wake again in the night, you can turn a story right back on, or sometimes it's enough just to think through any part of it that you can remember.
This sleep training will improve with time, so give yourself a few weeks of regular use to really get the hang of it. Our story tonight is called The Sleeper Car, and it's a story about a trip where the mode of travel is more important than the destination.
It's also about crisp, ironed linens, a little notebook that fits perfectly into your pocket, the mystery of strangers across the dining car, and waking up to a snowy sunrise. Now, get as comfortable as you can. Lights out. Maybe a sleep mask or a teddy bear. Or just the right pillow in the right spot. And then let your whole body relax. Whatever today was like is what today was like.
And now we're here. And it's okay to let go. Take a slow, deep breath in through your nose. And sigh from your mouth. One more time. Breathe in. Out with sound.
Good. the sleeper car. From the window, a broad, white landscape stretched out under the afternoon sun.
We'd just cut through a small city, and I could still make out a few buildings in the distance. I loved passing through towns. watching cars waiting at the crossings, catching a glimpse of people walking on the city streets with bags slung over their arms, caught up in their own routines.
Seeing people in this way, a single frame of their life, while my own blazed past
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