Deeply Unimportant: Sleep well with a boring sleep aid for insomnia
Deeply Unimportant: Sleep well with a boring sleep aid for insomnia

Deeply Unimportant: Sleep well with a boring sleep aid for insomnia

ASMR sleep artist & former newscaster Dallas Kachan

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Can't sleep? Deeply Unimportant is a boring sleep aid podcast for insomnia, OCD, ADHD, and anxiety — a boring voice ASMR experience for the brain that won't quit at night. Host Dallas Kachan, a former national news anchor, reads technical standards, procurement reports and government annexes in a deep, calm, flat, authoritative voice calibrated to help you fall asleep and sleep well. Not a sleep story. Not music. Not white noise. Something more effective than standard sleep hygiene. Healthcare providers recommend Deeply Unimportant to patients struggling with insomnia, OCD, and executive dysfunction. The technique is based on cognitive shuffling, developed by Dr. Luc Beaudoin at Simon Fraser University — a research-based, non-pharmacological sleep protocol that quiets mental looping and racing thoughts. Free episodes are ad-supported. Subscribers get ad-free, loopable, and eight-hour editions that work offline — so you never wake up to a silent room. And bonus content. If other sleep aids, sleep stories, or ASMR for sleep haven't worked for you, try this. It's boring. That's the point. Search terms that bring people here: boring podcast to fall asleep, can't sleep podcast, boring voice ASMR, ASMR sleep, deep voice ASMR, sleep well podcast, sleep aid podcast, help me sleep, insomnia podcast, ADHD sleep, OCD sleep, anxiety sleep, cognitive shuffle.

Recent Episodes

ADHD Sleep Protocol: The ISBN-13 Book Classification Standard (Technical Readings)
MAY 24, 2026
ADHD Sleep Protocol: The ISBN-13 Book Classification Standard (Technical Readings)
Fall asleep to a deep, soothing voice reading the most inconsequential material imaginable. This is the ultimate sleep aid for racing minds, utilizing boring technical readings to help you achieve natural sleep and quiet insomnia. Tonight, join us as we audit the silent, numerical grid that catalogs human thought. We examine the International Standard Book Numbering system under the 13-digit ISO 2108 framework. This is a technical survey of the Global Trade Item Number architecture, moving systematically through EAN prefixes, country-specific registration groups, and the rigid mathematical weights used to calculate the final check digit. There are no narratives here, no characters, and no plot lines—only the structural boredom of the international publishing standard. We find rest in the predictable repetition of the "one-or-three" alternating multiplier and the stable, bureaucratic certainty of the mathematical index. Deeply Unimportant is a sleep podcast designed for those who need structure to drift off. By focusing on meticulous, non-narrative detail, we provide a form of cognitive shuffle for ADHD and anxiety—anchoring the mind with the professional broadcast gravitas of a former newscaster so you can stop racing thoughts at night. No whispers or fairy tales; just ordered, structured, monotone voice sleep support. This version of the show is ad-supported: ads play at the beginning of the episode, but nowhere else as you drift off. Access a full archive of ad-free sleep episodes (including long versions that run all night, and infinite loops) for a few dollars a month. Visit http://deeplyunimportant.com to subscribe or gift a membership to a fellow over-thinker. This episode is partly brought to you by 12 Hour Sound Machines for Sleep (no loops or fades). Listen free wherever you get podcasts. To unlock intro-free, ad-free versions of all the 12 Hour Sound Machines, subscribe to the podcast at ⁠⁠⁠dwellspring.io/podcast⁠⁠⁠.
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49 MIN
Natural Sleep Aid: Maritime Navigational Aids & Channel Markers (Cognitive Shuffle)
MAY 17, 2026
Natural Sleep Aid: Maritime Navigational Aids & Channel Markers (Cognitive Shuffle)
Fall asleep to a deep, soothing voice reading the most inconsequential material imaginable. This is the ultimate natural sleep aid for racing minds, utilizing boring technical readings to help you achieve natural sleep and quiet insomnia. Tonight, we audit the floating architecture of the high seas. We examine the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) System A—the rigid, geometric language of navigational aids that guide the world's shipping fleets across most of the planet. This is a technical survey of lateral pillars, cardinal spars, and the precise mathematical rhythms of light that define safe water. We move beyond the shore to document the specific color coordinates of maritime signage and the exact durations of isophase and occulting flashes. There is no destination here, only the structural boredom of an international maritime standard. Find rest in the predictable repetition of the "two-plus-one" flash and the silent, upright geometry of the channel marker. Deeply Unimportant is a sleep podcast designed for those who need structure to drift off. By focusing on meticulous, non-narrative detail, we provide a form of cognitive shuffle for ADHD and anxiety—anchoring the mind with the professional broadcast gravitas of a former newscaster so you can stop racing thoughts at night. No whispers or fairy tales; just ordered, structured, monotone voice sleep support. This version of the show is ad-supported: ads play at the beginning of the episode, but nowhere else as you drift off. Access a full archive of ad-free sleep episodes (including long versions that run all night, and infinite loops) for a few dollars a month. Visit http://deeplyunimportant.com to subscribe or gift a membership to a fellow over-thinker.
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45 MIN
Cognitive Shuffling: ISO 261 Universal Metric Threads (Technical Sleep Aid)
MAY 10, 2026
Cognitive Shuffling: ISO 261 Universal Metric Threads (Technical Sleep Aid)
Fall asleep to a deep, soothing voice reading the most inconsequential material imaginable. This is the ultimate sleep aid for racing minds, utilizing boring technical readings to help you achieve natural sleep and quiet insomnia. Tonight, step away from the regional chaos of imperial measurements to find solace in the global uniformity of ISO 261. This is the International Organization for Standardization's definitive blueprint for the metric screw threads that hold the modern world together. From the microscopic screws in a Swiss timepiece to the massive bolts securing a bridge in Vancouver, we explore a world governed by pitch, lead, and tolerance. We are auditing the "M series"—a sequence of numerical constants where the diameter of a fastener is never a matter of opinion, but a mathematical certainty. It is a study in friction, torque, and the quiet, industrial harmony of the SI system—a landscape where every millimeter is accounted for and every rotation serves a singular, unyielding purpose. Deeply Unimportant is a sleep podcast designed for those who need structure to drift off. By focusing on meticulous, non-narrative detail, we provide a form of cognitive shuffle for ADHD and anxiety—anchoring the mind with the professional broadcast gravitas of a former newscaster so you can stop racing thoughts at night. No whispers or fairy tales; just ordered, structured, monotone voice sleep support. This version of the show is ad-supported: ads play at the beginning of the episode, but nowhere else as you drift off. Access a full archive of ad-free sleep episodes (including long versions that run all night, and infinite loops) for a few dollars a month. Visit http://deeplyunimportant.com to subscribe or gift a membership to a fellow over-thinker.
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61 MIN
Sleep Story for Overthinking: OIML R111-1 Mass Standards
MAY 4, 2026
Sleep Story for Overthinking: OIML R111-1 Mass Standards
Fall asleep to a deep, soothing voice reading the most inconsequential material imaginable. This is the ultimate sleep aid as a sleep story for overthinking, utilizing boring technical readings to help you achieve natural sleep and quiet insomnia. Tonight, we stabilize. We move away from the ephemeral nature of digital data and into the absolute, physical reality of the standard kilogram. We are not determining how much things weigh in a practical sense, but reviewing the administrative hierarchy of the weights used to check the weights. We are entering the world of the International Organization of Legal Metrology, specifically Recommendation R111-1 (2004). This is a study of the Maximum Permissible Error, the specific gravity of non-magnetic stainless steel, and the lint-free protocols of the calibration laboratory. It is a world of polished cylinders and atmospheric buoyancy corrections. Deeply Unimportant is a sleep podcast designed for those who need structure to drift off. By focusing on meticulous, non-narrative detail, we provide a form of cognitive shuffle for ADHD and anxiety—anchoring the mind with the professional broadcast gravitas of a former newscaster so you can stop racing thoughts at night. No whispers or fairy tales; just ordered, structured, monotone voice sleep support. This version of the show is ad-supported: ads play at the beginning of the episode, but nowhere else as you drift off. Access a full archive of ad-free sleep episodes (including long versions that run all night, and infinite loops) for a few dollars a month. Visit http://deeplyunimportant.com to subscribe or gift a membership to a fellow over-thinker.
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50 MIN
Insomnia Podcast: The NTFS Master File Table (Mental White Noise)
APR 26, 2026
Insomnia Podcast: The NTFS Master File Table (Mental White Noise)
Fall asleep to a deep, soothing voice reading the most inconsequential material imaginable. This is the ultimate sleep aid for racing minds, reciting boring technical readings as an insomnia podcast: mental white noise to help you achieve natural sleep and quiet insomnia. Tonight, we descend into the invisible architecture of the Windows computing environment. We explore the New Technology File System, or NTFS—the rigid, proprietary framework that governs the storage and retrieval of every byte of data on a modern Microsoft computer. While the rest of the world operates on its own separate logic, we are here to audit the specific, journaling resilience of the Windows file system. It is a world of B-trees and attribute headers—a landscape where every file is reduced to a one-thousand-twenty-four-byte block of immutable administrative data. It is a study in the persistence of metadata and the quiet, background labor of a system that never sleeps. Deeply Unimportant is a sleep podcast designed for those who need structure to drift off. By focusing on meticulous, non-narrative detail, we provide a form of cognitive shuffle for ADHD and anxiety—anchoring the mind with the professional broadcast gravitas of a former newscaster so you can stop racing thoughts at night. No whispers or fairy tales; just ordered, structured, monotone voice sleep support. This version of the show is ad-supported: ads play at the beginning of the episode, but nowhere else as you drift off. Access a full archive of ad-free sleep episodes (including long versions that run all night, and infinite loops) for a few dollars a month. Visit http://deeplyunimportant.com to subscribe or gift a membership to a fellow over-thinker.
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47 MIN