Threads Of Consciousness: Bedtime Tale

This is a bedtime story about you finding yourself flying on a mushroom towards a turret. Inside the turret you ascend stairs to a room at the top where you discover a crystal ball containing a galaxy. You touch that orb and find your consciousness enters the ball and travels to a planet. On that planet, you talk with a wise llama. You learn about magical portals. You pass through a portal, finding yourself as an albatross flying above a stormy ocean.

The next day, you meet a caterpillar and drink a magical drink and find yourself in a new reality, aware of threads of consciousness and connecting with those threads of consciousness, before drifting back to being in that turret. You head to bed in this turret, drifting and floating peacefully asleep into Slumberland.

Transcript

So just take a moment to allow your eyes to close and allow yourself to begin to relax and as you begin to comfortably fall asleep I'm just gonna tell this bedtime story in the background and while I tell this bedtime story I don't know whether you'll find yourself drifting asleep faster to the sound of my voice or whether it'll be to the spaces between my words and as you comfortably fall asleep I'm just gonna tell a story where you find yourself flying on a mushroom and you're on that mushroom soaring through the sky weaving around wispy clouds diving down through bulbous puffy clouds you can feel the cool air buffeting your cheeks hearing the sound of the wind as it passes across your ears and see that open vast landscape below of rolling hills and meadows of dense woodland deer roaming around the meadow at the edge of a fields a weaving river meandering through the landscape and in the distance a turret perched atop a tall hill and you steer that mushroom flying it towards that turret as you get closer to the turret so you notice the color of the stone the texture of that stone you arrive at the tall turret you land that mushroom in the meadow on this hill beside this turret and as soon as the mushroom lands on that meadow so it branches out into the ground seeking out its mycelial web in search of other similar mushrooms that'll connect to and communicate with while recharging and drawing some energy from the landscape you climb down from that soft body of the mushroom you walk through the meadow to the front of this turret to a solid oak door you wrap three times on that oak door and there's no answer so you use the latch carefully opening the door walking inside feeling the air pressure change as you enter the quality of the environment shift the sound become a little more muted you close that door behind you hearing the silence in here inside this turret you can see large rugs on the floor bookshelves around the walls filled with ancient tomes dust moats hanging delicately in the air and a stone staircase wrapped around the edge of the wall walking to the center of the room standing on that soft rug you look up multiple floors sink all the way up to the top of this turret you begin ascending the stone staircase walking to one corner changing direction ascending to the next corner and each room doesn't quite fill the space there's a hole going straight up the center of this turret and like a fence wrapped around that hole on each floor and against each wall tucked under the stairs and numerous bookcases filled with the wisdom of thousands of books you peer over the side of the fence looking down seeing the floor below before continuing to ascend working your way all the way to the top floor and on the top floor against one wall is an old wooden table surrounded by bookshelves and on that table is a small plinth and resting on that plinth is what looks like a giant marble or crystal ball and there looks to be something within that as you walk over to that giant crystal ball and as you get close you notice within the crystal ball looks like a galaxy gently rotating in space as you get close to that crystal ball your eyes really close to the side watching the intricate detail of that galaxy how it's turning in space within the ball with both hands you touch the crystal ball on both sides of the ball and you feel a slight fizzing tingling at the fingertips a slight warmth pulsing so gently and calmly from that ball into those hands moving from the fingertips to the palms to the wrists gradually moving that warmth into your body and as that warmth brings deep comfort through your body and begins to calm your mind you notice that you start forming a connection of consciousness as if your consciousness through your body touching that ball is connecting with universal consciousness of everything contained within that crystal and with that your eyes begin to close and you hold that same position just with your head nodding very gently forward the eyelids closing softly and you start to have this sense of floating on the wind of consciousness meandering into the crystal ball travelling gently through space towards that galaxy feeling yourself travelling on consciousness at a timeless speed like the tip of a beam of light and you feel a part of yourself deep within you almost following the different threads of consciousness here as if one specific thread catches your attention and you meander through those threads weaving among the different threads following one thread to its source and following that towards a specific star seeing the planets orbiting that star following that thread to one of those planets seeing the water and the land mass on that planet continuing to follow that thread down onto the planet to a specific being on the planet to an anthropomorphic llama standing on its two back legs the friendliest of smiles the softest of fur the gentlest of eyes and you settle as a consciousness alongside this llama and while you rest beside the llama so you start to feel like you want to be able to engage with the llama and as you wonder that and feel that you notice your body taking on a physical form like a projection of yourself here and the llama is a little startled at first to see you appear from nothing but you find that you can talk and communicate perfectly well with this llama but because you're talking on the level of consciousness there is no language or communication barrier your own consciousness interprets and understands the consciousness coming to it and shares that consciousness with you in a way,

In a form that you understand in the same way that a computer on some level may just be zeros and ones on an even deeper level it may just be combinations of electrical impulses but the computer reinterprets that into a form you can understand with writing on screen pictures or diagrams maybe speech from the computer and so you both have different languages and you can type things or communicate back and the computer understands you and yet in reality the computer doesn't understand your language any more than you understand its and so it is here that you understand the llama the llama understands you when in reality neither of you would understand the other your universal consciousness connection does all the translating for you and you ask this llama where they are and they tell you about this planet about the star system they talk about being in a galaxy and to them they have no awareness of this galaxy being contained within a crystal on a plinth in a tower full of books and they invite you for tea and you accept and you follow them back to their home high up in a canopy of a wide and vast ancient tree and while you sit in this canopy drinking tea,

Gazing out across the landscape below they talk about magical portals and they stand up and they head to an ancient box they open that old box with a slight old musty scent wafting from the open box they take out what looks like a head scarf that seems to be wrapped around an object they head back to the most comfortable chair and rest on that chair they place that object carefully down on a coffee table between you they lift up the head scarf unfolding that head scarf to reveal what looks like a pocket watch they tell you this is their grandma's pocket watch they twist the knob on the side of the pocket watch the mechanism begins ticking the hands begin moving and a blue fuzzy patch starts to form above the watch and a portal opens up and you can see through that portal is a rough ocean and a ship bobbing up and down on the water as the waves undulate the white horses galloping along the tips of those waves some of that salty spray splashing through the portal tasting that salty sea air the lama says you can visit this place through this portal as you stand up you lean towards the portal and feel yourself half intentionally moving yourself through and half almost dragged through feeling a deep sense of peace and calm and wonder as you totally pass through the portal and find yourself as an albatross with your giant wings stretched out weathering this storm watching that ship below and you circle up higher and higher heading above the storm to the clear sky and a calm atmosphere seeing those storm clouds below feeling the warmth of the sun on your wings and your back curious where this is the ship looked very normal and this planet,

Wherever this is seems very familiar and yet you have this feeling from a billion points of consciousness letting you know this is somewhere you've never been before it's somewhere new to explore you see the storm gradually dissipating the water calming that ship sailing out of the storm you see seagulls and other birds in the sky and as the storm continues to clear you notice buried deep under the clouds the ship was approaching land the captain of the ship and the crew direct that ship to the land moor the ship up a little way from shore and as you continue to fly overhead you watch as the captain and the crew get into small boats,

Travel to the land and they seem a little wobbly at first on land as if their sea legs are still left out to sea they light a fire on the beach and you can smell the scent of cooked food wafting gently up in the air currents to your nose you watch as they mix and mingle and drink and have a party on the shore that storm disappearing off into the horizon the sun setting that crew settling down and drifting asleep the fire burning down to embers hearing the whispering voices of the crew mixed with the sounds of all the other consciousness you can hear from those billions of points of consciousness and as you fly around the landscape admiring the land and the ocean you see a mother and calf whale poking their heads above the water letting out their breath,

Taking in a breath before diving down the tails rising above the water just before they disappear beneath the surface sometime later watching as they appear back at the surface again noticing the stars twinkling in the sky the occasional shooting star fizzing across that inky blue night the sight of the centre of this galaxy looking different to the sight of the Milky Way arched overhead the sun far over the horizon and as you fly so you feel a sense of time moving and as morning approaches so you see the way the sun here rises delicately over the ocean the sparkling of the light wrapped across those undulating waves fluffy clouds drifting lazily through the sky you watch as that crew gathers up some wood has something to eat has prepared some fresh water takes all this back to their boat and then sets off in their ship once more towards the horizon and you see that blue patch in the sky that's the entrance and exit of the portal you pass through that blue patch in the sky and as you do you find yourself coming out the portal as you were landing in this room talking with this lama and as it's now getting late the lama invites you to stay the night and perhaps you can explore some more and understand deeper about the impact of connecting with universal consciousness and they guide you to a bedroom with the most comfortable bed and you settle down in that bed and as you drift asleep so you dream of sitting in a garden at twilight hearing a sound coming from somewhere of someone playing a harp an ethereal sound that just seems to dance on the wind and you don't know where the sound's coming from it just seems to be all around you as if it's a cozy comfortable blanket wrapping you up in peace and harmony for the night and you pass through a stage of deep comfortable sleep,

You dream for a while you enter recuperative sleep your body heals itself cleans itself up and looks after itself before drifting into dreamless deep sleep allowing the body to continue to do its work in the most profound way as you relax and sleep deeper and deeper and in the morning you find yourself awoken by the gentle glow of light through the window the pleasant sound of songbirds the sound of the lama moving around in the kitchen,

Perhaps preparing some food once up you walk through to the kitchen to the most pleasantly smelling breakfast the gesture for you to sit and eat some with them and you sit and really enjoy that breakfast you feel that during your sleep you've gained some insight you previously didn't have but that insight is on a deep level and you feel you know that insight without knowing you know it you just know that you know it and the lama has to go about their day so you say your goodbyes you continue to explore this landscape you're curious whether there are any other portals or devices which can connect you with other places in the galaxy like the grandmas pocket watch and you can't shake that feeling like there's this delicate sound of harps playing so pleasantly just on the edge of hearing as if somehow a deep connecting part of you helping you feel relaxed as you explore as if saying we're always with you wherever you go and you can gain comfort in that knowledge and you walk through the landscape you head into woodland you crunch through the undergrowth you smell the sweet woodland scent hear the rustling of leaves around you as the wind blows a breeze across the treetops the air inside the woodland is so much stiller calmer and more relaxed and you find yourself noticing a clearing in the distance you walk through and out into that clearing where you find a cottage with the most beautiful garden you open the latch to the gate at the front of the cottage walk through,

Close that behind you walk up the path to the front door of the cottage you see on the front door a note saying I'll be back in ten minutes in the meantime you sit down on a bench beside the cottage looking out over the garden enjoying the scent of the flowers the sight of bees and butterflies flitting from plant to plant the delicate rustling of leaves of the bushes and the trees the sound of some birds chatting within the bushes almost feeling this garden so relaxing your eyes get heavier and want to close as you just listen to how calming this space is with your ears and after some time you hear the latch on the gate you look up you see the owner of this cottage approaching a really friendly looking caterpillar managing its legs so well almost hypnotically and this caterpillar has the largest smile and with every word they say they seem to almost be laughing as if they're always bordering on the edge of extreme pleasure and enjoyment of life and they show you through the garden round to the rose garden they say everyone should sometimes wake up and smell the roses you take a whiff of those roses and agree they really do smell nice and calming that kind of scent that takes your mind back to somewhere pleasant in the past they show you to other areas of the garden before inviting you in to the cottage itself and the layout of the cottage is an interesting layout because the caterpillar has to be able to walk around and so there needs to be room for it to turn to move rooms need to be longer and slightly wider and it's really interesting you think how the layout of a property can be based on who lives there and this caterpillar tells you they've got a magical potion for you if you're comfortable exploring your consciousness and they get that liquid from a cupboard they pour some into a cup you carefully raise the cup to your lips smelling the scent of the potion how sweet that potion smells before taking a sip and feeling the potion as it drifts its way down through your body you feel your mind begin to clear your head begin to relax your ears relaxing your neck,

Your jaw the relaxation moving and spreading so calmly and gently down through your body around your shoulders your chest,

Your upper back down into your arms ever so slowly moving down to the tips of your toes you feel your eyes getting heavier and closing and then opening in a whole new reality and as you open your eyes you become hyper aware of all the threads of consciousness of life and yourself being at the heart of it but at the same time knowing although you feel like you're in the center at the heart of life around you every bit of life will have the experience like they're the one in the center in any direction they look there's almost uniform streams of life and consciousness and as you look around and you feel yourself exploring this web of interconnected consciousness you see a dolphin swimming through the sky swimming just above all the threads of consciousness it seems to be balancing a crystal ball on its nose while it swims as it gets near to you it flicks the crystal ball off its nose very slowly and gently that crystal ball flies through the air and lands in your lap you hold the crystal ball and you feel like this is a crystal ball at the heart of the galaxy at the heart of space at the heart of the crystal ball on that plinth surrounded by bookshelves in that tower surrounded by meadow and woodland and while holding the crystal ball you have a sense of threads of consciousness combining within the ball to a bright point of light as if all the consciousness from everywhere is contained in that one point and everything in that one point is contained everywhere and you get a deep revelation and understanding of the world like your own profound aha moment that at first you perhaps don't even realise consciously but it brings a comforting comfortable smile to your face and a feeling of drifting and floating asleep and after a while of experiencing this you feel yourself merging into the crystal ball becoming one with that point of universal consciousness that's one with all the macro universal consciousness and then you feel yourself opening your eyes seeing your hands resting on the crystal ball feeling the dissipating feelings and experience surrounded by those shelves of books you notice as your hands almost automatically decide to remove themselves from the crystal ball that night has begun to set in outside you head down one level where there was a bed here you rest back on that bed noticing through the small windows the fading light outside sounds of birds settling down and the sensation of beginning to drift so peacefully,

So comfortably asleep drifting soundly asleep relaxed into slumberland

Reviews

Ver soothing and relaxing sadly or not I didn’t hear all of it was soon asleep until the early hours when I woke up time for another tale. Thank you x