People often prefer to fall asleep while watching TV, but that doesn’t always work out as planned. Sometimes the shows you end up watching turn out to be genuinely interesting and instead of slowly dozing off, you end up spending hours with your eyeballs glued to the screen. But there’s no risk of that happening when using Napflix, a video streaming service designed to be boring enough to put you to sleep.

The Napflix website describes the service as a “video platform where you can find the most silent and sleepy content selection to relax your brain and easily fall asleep.” Regardless of what specific type of programs you find least interesting, you’re bound to find them on Napflix.

While browsing the selection of boring video material, you’ll find everything from long lectures and documentaries, senseless game simulations and chess matches to static landscapes and religious rituals.

“The idea is to make entertainment boring,” said Victor Gutierrez de Tena, one of Napflix’s two co-founders. “It could be the kind of things that remind us of our childhood, like post-lunch classes and TV series 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 free to use, at least for now.

Apart from the aforementioned YouTube-sourced content, Napflix, like the infinitely more popular Netflix, features some original content of its own. Only instead of catching your interest, it’s designed to make you fall asleep.

Its first original video is titled “Subway” and consisting of a rail journey between Canal Street and Coney Island in New York.

With Napflix, you don’t have to worry about leaving the TV on all night long. After choosing the boring video you want to watch, you can set the platform’s timer to automatically shut down the footage after a period of time or turn off once the video is over.

    人们通常喜欢看着电视慢慢进入梦乡，但这个方法并非百试百灵。有时我们想看电视催眠，却发现节目太有趣，最后目不转睛地看了几个小时！但如果你试一下Napflix就无此后顾之忧了。Napflix是一个专门为用户提供乏味内容，帮助用户睡眠的流媒体服务商。

    Napflix网站将其服务定位为“一个安神助眠的视频平台。用户可以在此找到最安静、最催眠的内容，以放松大脑、轻松入

    眠”。不管你认为哪种节目最无聊，你都能在Napflix上找到。

    随便看看那些无聊的视频选材，你就会发现，从长篇演讲到纪录片，从毫无意义的模拟游戏到枯燥的象棋对弈，从静态风景到宗教仪式，无一不是视频的来源，应有尽有。

    Napflix的两位联合发起人之一维克特•古铁雷斯•德•特纳说：“我们就是要让网站的娱乐内容枯燥无比。网站的内容是一些能让我们回忆起童年的东西，比如午后课程，又或者是饭后时段的连续剧，它们播啊播，你就算是睡过去也不会错过任何情节。”

    至少目前来讲，网站是完全免费的。

    除去上述那些来自YouTube的内容，就像更受欢迎的Netflix一样，Napflix也有一些优秀的原创内容。唯一的不同之处在于，这些内容设计出来就是为了让你困倦，而非引起兴趣。

    他们的第一个原创视频叫“地铁”，内容就是纽约市内从坚尼街到康尼岛的一段铁路旅程。

    有了Napflix，你再也不用担心睡着后电视彻夜开着了。在你选择了要看的枯燥视频后，你可以通过平台的定时功能，来设置“定时停播”或者“结束后关机”。

    (Chinadaily.com.cn)

Words to Learn 相关词汇

【一定会】yīdìng huì bound to be certain or destined to

【纪录片】jìlù piān documentary movies or TV shows based on or re-creating an actual event, era, life story, etc. that purports to be factually accurate and contains no fictional elements