Boring Bedtime Stories for Overthinkers

50 Mundane Stories to Gently Distract Your Mind from Your Daily Worries and Help You Fall Asleep

For perfectionists who can’t ‘relax’ on command... For the ‘my brain won’t shut off’ crowd...
Stories so uneventful your mind finally gives up!

If you’re an overthinker, you already know the routine:
You should sleep… but your mind is wide awake.
Replaying conversations. Forecasting worst-case scenarios. Mentally reorganizing tomorrow. Solving problems that do not need solving right now.

What you need isn’t a story that hooks you.
You need a story just interesting enough to distract your mind from racing thoughts, but not engaging enough to keep you awake wanting to know what happens next.

Boring Bedtime Stories for Overthinkers is a collection of 50 intentionally mundane, uneventful tales designed to gently occupy the part of your brain that won’t stop talking—so the rest of you can finally power down.

No big plot.
No cliffhangers.
No emotional damage.
No “just meditate” pressure.

Just calm, low-stakes narration that goes absolutely nowhere… which is exactly where an overthinking mind can finally let go.

Inside, you’ll find stories about things like:
A man carefully organizing his toolbox…
A woman sorting pens by color…
Someone counting ceiling tiles in a waiting room…
A quiet walk with nothing interesting happening at all…

You’ll start following along. Your thoughts will stop interrupting. Your attention will soften. And somewhere mid-sentence—before anything “happens”—sleep will take over. Because that’s the point: you’re not supposed to finish the stories.
You’re supposed to drift.

So if nights feel like a never-ending mental spreadsheet…
If your brain turns silence into spirals…
If you’re exhausted but still stuck on “thinking”…

Stop trying to knock yourself out.
Stop fighting your own mind.

Try something different. Let boredom do the work!