We live in an age where everything we could ever want is a click of a mouse away, except the one thing it seems we all need the most, a decent night’s sleep. That is the case no more, now that Napflix – a Netflix inspired streaming service with the soul purpose of helping you nod off – has arrived.
Using the tried and true method of “monotony and repetition”, Napflix offers a cornucopia of content which will proudly bore you into a deep, deep slumber. For example, those currently struggling to catch some Zs can check out footage of fruit being harvested, or perhaps watching someone get a score of 999,999 on Tetris.
For something a bit more homely, you can even watch koalas just hanging out, which is as tedious as it sounds. Of course, should all that fail, there’s no way you can get through an endless loop of a pig from Mine Craft pretty much just standing around.
Victor Gutierrez de Tena, one half of Napflix’s founding team, explains to AFP, “The idea is to make entertainment boring.”
“It could be the kind of things that remind us of our childhood, like post-lunch classes and TV serials we watched after meals which just went on and on, ones where you wouldn’t lose the plot if you fell asleep.”
The service is completely free, and is the latest entry into in the ever-growing annuls of sleep-focused apps and services aimed at freeing our overactive minds. Norwegian public broadcaster NRK has been offering slow-pace programming, while writer and performer Drew Ackerman’s Sleep With Me podcast lulls you to sleep using his often illogical anecdotes.
We strongly recommend you head over to the Napflix site and give it a once over, warning though – this is a very different kind of NSFW.
