The Magical Feline Temple: Cozy Fantasy Bedtime Tale

This is a cozy fantasy slow living bedtime story about you as a writer on a journey on a sleeper train in search of the ruins of a feline temple. You learn in the temple ruins about a ritual. It happened when the moon was in the right position in the sky that it reflected its light through a Lunar Aperture into a chamber, illuminating and giving energy to fungus in that chamber. The fungus would release spores which would temporarily alter the consciousness of bonded cats and people, allowing them to swap consciousness for a period of time. You head back to the hotel, meeting a cat which seems to want to bond with you. You continue writing through the night and the next day, you make your journey home, taking the cat home with you. Once home, you have something to eat, make up a space for the cat, and name the cat Lunar before you head to bed, drifting and floating peacefully asleep into Slumberland.

Transcript

Tonight as you drift asleep you find yourself as a writer relaxing on a sleeper train heading through beautiful countryside towards a town on the edge of woodland said to hide the secrets of a magical feline temple. So just take a relax and as you begin to comfortably drift asleep I don't know whether you'll drift asleep faster to the sound of my voice or whether it'll be to the spaces between my words and as you fall asleep you can take a moment to allow yourself to get comfortable and imagine a healing light softly slowly and gently passing down from the top of your head to the tips of your toes relaxing calming down through you as I count down from 10 to 1 and with each count your mind can quieten and calm as the muscles soften and relax and you can begin the process of drifting peacefully asleep from 10 that healing light relaxing the muscles around the top of the head around the back of your head gently carefully relaxing the muscles around the side of your head around your temple your forehead and with each out breath that relaxation can deepen so peacefully so comfortably as it flows down around the eyes around the ears nine that relaxation moving down around the jaw relaxing the jaw allowing the tongue to relax the lips to relax the nostrils to gently relax with that relaxation moving carefully slowly as that healing light passes down the back of the neck softening and calming those muscles around the sides of the neck the front of the neck down from the head gradually moving that calming healing light out across the shoulders the shoulder blades relaxing those muscles like a deep massage passing through your mind and body eight as that relaxation begins to move down those arms and I don't know which arm the relaxation will move down fastest whether it'll be the right arm or the left arm but you can be aware of that healing light spreading gently down those arms around the biceps the triceps down into the forearms seven moving all the way down to the wrists the palms of the hands down to the fingertips and perhaps as that relaxation continues through those arms with each out breath the arms begin to feel heavier or lighter or some other sensation as relaxation sets in and you know the process for sleep is that the body begins to relax and while the body becomes physically relaxed so the mind begins to drift and dream initially to brief reveries before settling on the first dream of the night six and that healing light can spread down from the shoulders and down around the chest the upper back softening and relaxing those muscles gently calming the breathing helping you drift deeper and deeper into the experience five the healing light moving down towards the stomach the lower back the sides relaxing those muscles as it goes bringing a deep sense of peace and calm to your upper body releasing any tension perhaps occasionally finding yourself shifting just a little to feel more comfortable four with that relaxation spreading down around your buttocks down into the upper parts of your legs three that relaxation passing down towards the lower parts of your legs perhaps those legs feeling heavier and heavier as the body becomes deeply relaxed and your focus drifts inside to what's going on for you in your mind and perhaps you lose some awareness of the body as it becomes incredibly still to the relaxation spreading down to your feet calming softly relaxing all the way down to the tips of your toes and one as the final wave of relaxation pulses gently through you from the top of your head down through your body all the way down to the tips of your toes as your mind begins to drift and dream and wander into tonight's sleep story and you're traveling on a train through wide open countryside meadows surrounding the train the afternoon Sun passing gently across the sky the clickety-clack and the rattling of the train on the tracks the gentle mumble of other voices in the carriage the occasional announcement from the conductor the train rocking and vibrating gently as it travels comfortably along the track and you're sitting at a table on this train curtains hanging in the window bouncing gently around in the chair to the movement of the train the liquid in a cup of tea gently rocking and moving creating circles of waves the travel in and out in that cup occasionally interfering and becoming spikes before calming again gazing out across the scenery watching trees flash by the window looking off to distant woodland and mountains across meadows and on the table you have an old-fashioned typewriter that you're writing your current book with and next to the typewriter is a leather binder where you're placing your completed pages and while your mind is absorbed gazing out the window at the passing scenery so you let your fingers start typing out the experience on the typewriter the sensation of pushing those keys down and the letters springing up at the ink band in front of the paper as the paper slowly moves across as each letter stamps itself onto the page and then the paper moves up a bit slides back across and you carry on with the next line and you enjoy writing with a typewriter because there's something visceral a connection you feel with a typewriter that you just don't get when typing on a keyboard with a computer something about the sounds of typing the smell of the ink the feeling of hitting the keys and the weight of the keys as they move you type about the experience of being on a train the movement of the train what your feelings you travel describing the peaceful scenery outside the window the sensation of watching it flash by and you're in search of a legendary lost feline temple a temple that was situated in the heart of an ancient cat worshipping civilization where it's rumored rituals used to be performed that allowed people to temporarily swap consciousness with cats that they were bonded to allowing the cats to temporarily exist in human form and the humans to temporarily exist as cats deepening their bond and transferring knowledge between the two species and as night falls you set up your bed in the sleeper train you settle down for the night letting the movement of the train rock you gently to sleep and the next day you sit down enjoy some breakfast the view out the window is largely the same it's such a vast open landscape the journey continues on through lunch not arriving at your stop until mid-afternoon you set off on foot from the train heading towards a nearby town on the edge of woodland just a single bag on your back and your typewriter carried in your hand inside a wooden box and you walk through the landscape the sounds of songbirds wrapped around you feeling the warmth of the Sun overhead hearing the rustling of the leaves as the wind blows a gentle breeze and after some time you eventually arrive at the town find your way to the hotel you check in to the hotel and head back downstairs after putting all your belongings in your room you eat dinner in the before heading back up to bed and the next morning you decide to get an early start you head down for breakfast and then head out towards the woodland in search of the temple ruins you walk into the woodland noticing the way the sounds change some sounds seem more muted other sounds seem to almost echo through the woodland then you search within the woodland for those temple ruins and you have to walk for most of the day before you find them and you find the ruins in a slight clearing within this woodland and some areas of the ruins are intact other areas have entirely collapsed you head in to the intact part of the ruins discovering carvings on the walls which seem to depict the stages of the ritual and this ritual that allows bonded cats and humans to swap consciousness it says in the depiction was only possible roughly every 80 years when the moon was at a specific location and brightness in the sky the ancient civilization used complicated calculations to work out when this would happen sometimes it could be as soon as 19 years since the previous occurrence other times it may not occur for 111 years the moonshine would only illuminate the temple chamber with enough light for about 15 minutes if there are any clouds then the ritual couldn't be performed until the next time the moon was in just the right position and size in the sky the focused moonshine illuminated and stimulated the fungus growing all over the stone within this chamber usually in the darkness the fungus was dormant but something about the concentrated moonshine triggered it to release spores which when breathed in led to short-lived changes in consciousness swapping the cats and humans consciousness where they were already synchronized due to their bonding and although much of the temple was ruined the ritual chamber still stood and you could see the lunar aperture which casts the beam of silver light into the chamber when the moon is at just the right point in the sky after exploring the temple ruins and taking a sample of the fungus you head back to the town you meet with a local elder who tells you the stories of the ancient civilization and how as the town became modernized and people left and gave other things their priority they stopped bonding with their cats and with the practice being so rare it drifted from their lives people stopped heading to the temple and maintaining it and any belief drifted into legend you purchase some old books of the legends before heading back to the hotel and at the hotel you examine the fungus and you read through the books while typing up your findings you find yourself so engrossed in writing that you end up typing all night long but during the night a cat wanders in it comes up to your room you hear it purring at your door gently meowing so you let it in it snuggles up next to you while you continue writing and purrs beside you you look over towards the cat and you make the vow to tell its story you work out from the texts when the next date would occur according to the legends when the moon will shine just in the right way into the temple you discover that it'll be in 12 years time so you note this down as the sun rises you head downstairs for breakfast and you'll be catching the train home today in just a few hours and the whole time you're eating breakfast the cat doesn't leave your side when you head back to your room to pack away the cat continues to be beside you when you leave the hotel the cat follows and so you decide to take the cat home with you thinking perhaps you'll return here in 12 years time maybe you could have a go at the ritual and you wait for a while at the stop for the train to arrive you board that train and you make the journey on that train all the way home and it takes a number of days journeying through the countryside then having to change transport using a few different forms of transport on your way home until you finally arrive at home having a cat with you now you set up a dedicated space at home for the cat you name them Luna and they nuzzle you and purr as if to acknowledge that they approve of the name you've given them you look through all of the papers that you've typed you find it interesting some of the information you've recorded you have something to eat and then rest down at home the cat climbing on your lap you stroke the cat while you rest enjoying relaxing in a chair in front of a cozy fireplace feeling so comfortable being back at home knowing you enjoyed your time away but you definitely missed being at home in your own space and as you begin to feel tired you set up a space specifically for Luna to rest and they relax down in that space and you head to bed and as you rest down in bed you review the experience you've had what you've learned what you may learn in the future in just over a decade's time and you find yourself drifting and floating so peacefully so comfortably relaxed to sleep into slumber land