“There seemed to be nobody else with my sort of deep, authoritative sound and inclination for structure and order,” [doing sleep programming] said Kachan. “There is a segment of the audience — specifically those with ADHD or high-stress careers — who find traditional ‘bedtime stories’ or ‘relaxing rain sounds’ either too juvenile or too repetitive.”
Gulf Islands Driftwood, a regional newspaper, found sleep story alternative Deeply Unimportant and host Dallas Kachan, a resident of Canada’s Gulf Islands in British Columbia, interesting enough for a feature story.
The paper wrote of Kachan’s “flat, professional delivery” and “repurposing the veteran broadcaster’s gravitas-laden voice into a force to help listeners nod off.”
Kachan said the deliberately unengaging content functions as a “cognitive anchor,” perfect for that portion of listeners who find their own racing thoughts keep right on racing through other sorts of seemingly relaxing material. “They don’t need a fairy tale,” said Kachan. “They need a structural metronome for their brain. They need to know that someone is in control so they don’t have to be.”
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