So just take a moment to allow your eyes to close and allow yourself to begin to relax.
And as you begin to comfortably drift asleep,
I'm just going to count down from 10.
And while I count down from 10,
You can imagine a healing light passing slowly through your body,
Healing and softening the muscles and calming the mind.
From 10,
Relaxing the muscles around the top of the head,
Around the face,
Around the jaw,
Relaxing the muscles around your temple and your forehead,
Smoothing those muscles out,
So calmly,
So peacefully.
9.
As that relaxation begins to work its way around the back of your head,
Slowly and gently,
Relaxing down the back of your neck,
Perhaps almost tingling with peace and deep relaxation.
And with each out breath that you take,
You can find yourself relaxing deeper and deeper asleep.
And as you continue to relax deeper and deeper asleep,
I don't know whether it's the sound of my voice that helps you drift deeper and deeper,
More relaxed,
Or whether it's the spaces between my words.
As that relaxation moves with the next out breath,
Slowly,
Softly down your neck,
Around your neck and deep within you,
Drifting,
Floating deeper and more peacefully relaxed.
7.
With that relaxation moving down those arms and around those shoulders and around the shoulder blades,
Softening and relaxing the muscles,
Perhaps you notice the arms beginning to feel heavier and heavier,
In the same way that the eyelids can feel heavier and more relaxed as you drift peacefully asleep.
6.
With that relaxation moving down those arms,
It can begin to reach the fingertips,
Bringing comfort and peace to those fingers.
5.
Relaxing down around the chest,
The upper back and deep within you,
And the relaxation can move to your stomach,
To your lower sides and your lower back,
Softening,
Relaxing,
So calmly as a mind and a body.
6.
With the relaxation moving down around your bottom and around your legs,
Carefully moving down towards your feet,
3,
Moving all the way down those legs,
Deeper and deeper,
Bringing a deep sense of peace and calm,
Taking you to a place in your mind where you drift deeper and deeper asleep,
So easily and effortlessly,
Where your mind is so calm and peaceful,
Where sleep just seems to draw you in,
Where the mind slows right.
7.
As the relaxation spreads around the lower legs,
Down around the ankles and all the way down to the feet,
One feeling that relaxation flowing through your whole body,
Like a wave of peace and comfort,
And you know the process of sleep,
Involves the body relaxing fully as the mind begins to drift and dream,
Almost into its own reverie,
Before passing into deep and restful sleep,
And as you continue to listen to this and we move gently into the story,
So you can sleep deeply and sleep well all night long,
And as you comfortably sleep,
I'm just going to tell this story in the background,
And Pebbles is a young teddy bear,
With freckles across her nose and fluff growing out of her ears,
And one day,
Pebbles is out walking through a rainforest,
With droplets of moisture hanging on the tips of her fur,
Her padded feet,
Softly pushing through the undergrowth,
Sounds of the raindrops,
Leaping from one leaf to another,
As they find their way to the forest floor,
And sometimes,
Pebbles manages to pay all of her attention to a single raindrop and follow its course,
Bouncing on one leaf,
Sliding along the leaf,
Dropping to another leaf,
The leaf waving a bit,
Sometimes the leaf springing the water droplet up into the air,
As it somersaults off the leaf and sploshes down onto another leaf,
Eventually finding its way to the forest floor,
Other times,
There's a breeze high up in the tops of the trees,
And so many raindrops fall down through the trees,
That there's a cacophony of noise,
Of that pitter patter of the raindrops,
As they all leap and dance,
Bounding their way down to the forest floor,
And within the forest,
There's a lot of moisture in the air,
Which is gathering on her fur,
But she feels incredibly comfortable,
And so peaceful in this environment,
Enjoying the feeling of being out in nature,
And while wandering through this forest,
The light quite dark,
Has so little sunlight,
Can make it through the canopy overhead,
She sees some friendly bats,
Hanging and sleeping in the trees,
The branches gently swaying,
Causing the bats to gently rock back and forth,
She sees some brightly colored mushrooms on the ground,
Poking themselves up through the undergrowth,
And while walking past,
Disturbing the air above those mushrooms,
She can smell how sweet those mushrooms smell,
Their sweet scent dancing within her nostrils,
And Pebbles continues on,
Through this rainforest,
Until she finds what it is that she's seeking,
A tree containing a door,
And she walks up to that door,
She knocks three times,
Each knock echoes through the tree,
As if the tree is hollow,
And after the third knock,
She waits,
And she can hear some movement within the tree,
And after a few moments,
The door latch seems to release,
And the door hangs slightly open,
And she reaches for the door,
Pulls the door open,
Feeling the weight of the door as she does,
Steps inside and pulls that door closed,
And there's a slight coolness in here,
And a faint glow,
And the air is incredibly still,
And she begins to descend a spiral staircase,
Descending deeper and deeper beneath this tree,
And within the tree,
The atmosphere is so calm and comfortable,
And at the base of the spiral staircase,
The area opens out into a vast cavernous space,
And somehow this entire cavernous area is glowing with light,
And Pebbles looks around and can't see any lights,
And yet,
The whole space is illuminated,
And she can see some people working at desks,
And everyone going about their tasks,
And she walks past a room full of people working,
Heads to a door at the back of the room,
Opens the door,
And walks into another room,
And this room appears to be made of metal,
And she walks across the metal floor,
Her teddy bear feet padding their way across that metal,
And this room has windows around three of the sides,
And out of the window as she walks into the room,
She can see the darkness of space,
She can see the grey lunar landscape,
And the view of the earth,
Rising over the horizon,
And in this room,
People are working at computer consoles,
And she walks over to a desk and sits down,
She puts on a headset,
Turns on a computer,
Punches in some details,
Logging into the computer,
And sees a notification on the screen,
She clicks the notification,
Reads the message on screen,
And the message informs her,
That what they've been looking for has possibly been found,
And attached to the message,
Is a map and the location,
And so Pebbles takes note of that location,
Heads to what looks almost like a large cupboard against one wall,
Walks into that space,
And places on a space suit,
On her arm she punches in the details,
For the location,
And an image of that location,
She does a final check of her suit,
And presses a button,
And a door behind her closes,
There's a gentle hissing sound,
Before another door opens to the lunar surface,
She walks out onto the lunar surface,
Presses a button on the outside,
The door closes behind her,
And she feels almost like she's walking in slow motion,
As she gently bounds her way across the lunar surface,
Heading over towards a rope,
And she reaches that rover,
She boards the rover and straps herself in,
Starts up the vehicle,
Punches in the coordinates,
And then accelerates away from the moon base,
And she feels she's traveling for quite some time,
And while traveling,
The sun begins to poke its head around the edge of the earth,
Illuminating the moon,
She pulls a visor down,
And continues on as the sun rises above the earth,
And rises above the moon,
And while that sun continues to rise,
The part of her attention is on admiring this sunrise,
Although she finds it does make seeing the earth more tricky,
In the glare of the sun,
And she continues on,
Heading to those coordinates,
And on arriving at the coordinates,
She leaves the rover,
She can see what looks like a cave,
And it's the entrance to an old lava tube,
And there are some people working at the outside of the cave,
And they greet her as she arrives,
And she walks past them,
Descending into the cave,
And there are strip lights lining this cave,
And they're gently pulsing,
In the direction deeper and deeper into the cave,
And so she walks deeper into the cave,
Until she finds a chamber,
And within that chamber,
Is what looks like a spacecraft,
Only nothing she's familiar with,
And she walks over to the spacecraft,
And is told that they've gained entry,
And it's an enormous spacecraft,
Seemingly embedded within the rocks here,
And they head up a ramp and into the spacecraft,
And a short way into the spacecraft,
Is what appears to be a makeshift tent,
And it's actually a makeshift chamber,
Where people can walk in,
Seal the chamber,
Match the atmosphere of the craft,
Open the other side of the chamber,
Closing it behind them,
And then there's another chamber,
And they walk across that chamber,
Opening another entrance,
Finding themselves in the craft,
And so Pebbles heads through and into the craft,
Removes her helmet in the craft,
Removes her gloves,
Places them into the helmet,
Holds on to the helmet and gloves,
While looking around at the inside of this craft,
And nothing about the craft seems familiar,
The craft both seems highly futuristic,
And ancient at the same time,
And so she finds her way around the craft,
To the person she's due to meet,
And she meets that person,
And they direct her to the person,
To a tablet,
And on that tablet seems to be unusual writing,
And the tablet is made from a metal,
That almost feels soft to the touch,
A little bit like handling clay,
And she tries to gently scratch just one tiny corner of the tablet,
But finds that although it feels soft like clay,
And it looks like the unusual writing was scratched into the tablet,
She's unable to mark it,
Herself,
Pebbles asks if anyone's been able to understand the writing,
And they say that they'd scanned it into their computers,
And the computer is just processing for patterns right now,
And it takes a while for the computer to process and give a result,
But eventually on the computer screen,
Up pops the tablet,
And where the text is on the tablet,
Is a translation,
And this translation demonstrates one thing they already know,
Which is that aliens definitely exist,
But another thing,
That aliens had visited the earth,
And it says that this ship,
Had run into some difficulties,
And had crashed onto the moon,
And it had embedded itself into the surface of the moon,
But the being that was on this craft,
Which is already quite a small ship apparently,
Had left in an emergency escape pod,
And headed to the planet earth,
And the computer analyzing that tablet,
Was able to understand the language,
And so was able to create an augmented reality projection,
Of any written areas within this craft,
And so pebbles put her helmet back on,
And projected on the inside of the helmet,
Is an overlay of any text,
And so she looks around and can see buttons,
Writing in different places,
And screens with writing,
And she heads over to a console,
And types in on the console,
Unlocking it,
And sees that there are some records,
About the mission that these aliens were on,
They're observing the planet earth,
And the evolving life forms on the planet,
They were curious about how some of the life forms had begun to use tools,
They'd begun to cover their bodies in furs and leaves,
Helping to protect them from the elements on the planet,
Allowing them to begin to spend more time in locations where conditions weren't so ideal,
And although often those conditions were harsh,
They were hardy creatures who continued to push forward,
And they explored different areas,
And so the aliens had set up bases,
They were confident that the beings on the planet wouldn't understand,
Who they were,
Or any of their technology,
Or even that their technology is technology,
And would perhaps just think that,
Their bases were just rocks,
Not understanding,
What metal is,
And so they didn't do much at the time to hide their bases,
They just made sure that they could keep separate from the life forms here,
So as not to be seen as other life forms,
And potentially cause any alarm,
And these aliens come from a planet with very different gravity,
And they exist around a planet,
Around a star,
That whips itself around a black hole,
And the gravity where they came from is so intense,
That it took them an enormous amount of time to become advanced enough,
To be able to leave the planet's surface,
The gravity was so intense,
No chemical rocket would be able to leave the surface,
And they suspected there are other civilizations out there,
And wondered whether those other civilizations are also bound to their planets,
By the gravity of the planet,
And whether it's at all possible for civilizations ever to make it into space,
And they became increasingly advanced,
Until eventually they learned how to manipulate space-time,
To be able to warp space-time,
And essentially to generate gravity,
Or the absence of gravity,
But they found that even a small change in the level of gravity was detrimental to their structure as beings,
So they created suits,
And those suits on the inside are like having their own gravitational field,
Making it as if they're in an incredibly high pressure environment within the suits,
And a side effect of these suits is that relative to beings and existence outside of the suit,
Time runs at a different speed,
The heavy gravity on the inside of the suit means that they feel perfectly normal,
But looking out of the suit at the passing worlds,
It's as if everything is moving incredibly quick,
And so when they visited earth,
To them it was as if everything on earth was flashing by rapidly,
And to everything on earth,
It was as if these beings lived almost an eternity,
And for tens of thousands of years,
The aliens managed to not make any mistakes to keep themselves hidden,
And it was only when this alien crashed onto the moon,
Having left a large ship that was in orbit of the earth,
And their ship malfunctioned,
And they had to take it down,
And the nearest and safest location from where they were,
Was to the moon,
And so they crashed onto the moon,
And left the moon in an escape pod towards the earth,
But then they had to get from the escape pod to the nearest settlement of the aliens,
And humans had seen the glowing orb in the sky that crashed to earth,
And the being that left that orb,
And the crate of the orb left behind,
And the scorched earth,
And the orb emitted so much heat,
They could feel the heat while at some distance from the orb,
And the alien had to try and travel as fast as they could from their escape pod to the nearest community,
And they were seen,
And to the humans,
It was like the alien was running in slow motion,
And to the alien,
It was like the humans and the wildlife was flashing by at high speed,
And the alien found their way to the nearest community,
But in earth time,
That meant that that alien was seen for an extended period of time,
Out in the open,
Traveling to what looked just like an unusual rock,
And pebbles decided that their next course of action was to go and visit that location,
And there's no records on the ship beyond the alien explaining that they were heading down to the planet,
And sharing their journey back to the ship to the point of arriving at the settlement,
And after that,
They'd stopped sending messages to the ship,
And had likely decided to leave the ship where it is,
But pebbles knew where they were situated back then,
And wondered whether there's any evidence of that now,
When the ship that was orbiting the planet has clearly left now,
And she wondered when that happened,
And so she found her way back through the ship,
And back through the airlock,
Back out into the tunnel heading back to the surface of the moon,
Before traveling back to the moon base,
Back at the moon base,
She changed from her space suit,
Went to her console,
Typed on the console about what she'd found,
What her next plan was,
And then left the moon base,
Found her way back to that rainforest,
And she headed back through the rainforest,
Back to her home here in the rainforest,
And while in her home,
She did a little more research and made her plans,
For getting to the location of that community that she'd been searching for,
Of aliens,
And she didn't expect the community to be there now,
And also didn't expect to find any evidence that it was ever there,
But she thought it worth having a look around,
And once she was ready,
She went into a portal room,
Opened a portal,
To the nearest portal stop to where she was heading,
Left the portal at that portal stop,
And began her journey to a location that's now a vast savannah,
And she had a device with her with the records she'd seen,
Showing where the ship had crash landed,
She headed to that location,
And in the location here in the savannah,
There was an indentation,
Totally overgrown now,
But an indentation,
She explored the indentation,
And found signs that the ground had been compacted,
And that now,
A lot of earth had grown up over the top of the compacted ground,
But the evidence was still there,
She followed the route the being would have taken,
And found her way to what looks like a cliff,
And a short way in front of the cliff,
As she scanned the ground,
She discovered signs,
Like foundations,
And realized that this here,
Was where the building was,
Right in front of the natural cliff,
Probably backing onto the cliff,
Maybe even digging into the cliff a bit,
And trying to blend their observation community,
With the natural cliff,
She sketched out while looking at it,
What she thought it probably looked like,
Before scanning the area,
To try to get other information,
And from the depth,
Of the indentation,
And the depth of the foundations,
She worked out,
That this structure,
Was here,
Probably all the way through,
To just a few hundred years ago,
And the indentation,
Had probably happened,
About 10,
000 years ago,
And as she explored the cliff,
Looking to see if there's signs of how,
The structure was built,
Either up to the cliff,
Or into the cliff,
She found an artificial looking rock,
Embedded in the cliff,
Something that would easily have been overlooked,
Unless you got really close and analyzed it,
And she handled that artificial looking rock,
And heard a deep rumble,
And the side of the cliff,
Gently shook,
And some rubble fell to the ground,
And so she stepped back,
And an entrance opened into the cliff,
And she saw as an entrance,
Into a grand structure,
And this grand structure,
Seemed to contain observation points,
And screens looking in lots of different locations around the planet,
And she saw,
That it looked like aliens perhaps were still here,
And she heard a noise and saw an alien approaching,
Curious about the door opening,
And the alien was in a suit,
Appearing to move incredibly slowly,
And so she walked up to the alien,
And she tried to talk to the alien,
But the alien was out of time compared to her,
They were both running in different times,
So to the alien she spoke incredibly quickly,
And appeared out of nowhere,
And to pebbles,
The alien was moving incredibly slowly,
And so she wrote down,
What she understood about the situation,
And placed it before the alien,
And it took a while but the alien looked,
This encounter with her,
Will be but a blip for the alien,
And so she learns what she can,
Studies what she can,
Before leaving this place and sealing it back up,
And heading away,
And she finds her way home,
Writes up her report of what she found,
And that the aliens not only visited earth,
But they're still here,
And hours later as evening setting in,
She receives a work email,
And attached to the work email is a video,
And it says that it's private and confidential,
And top secret,
And she watches the video and learns in an instant,
That a long time ago,
Humans had actually already encountered these aliens,
But that's where they got their teleportation technology,
That's how they advanced so quickly,
But there's always been the barrier,
So the aliens have been trying to carefully,
Help humans to advance a little quicker,
To try to help them to get to the point,
Where they'll understand the technology,
Required to alter space and time,
And to be able to communicate on the same level,
And Pebbles sits back for a while,
Relaxing in front of the fire,
Pondering what she knows,
The implications of this on the planet,
And what she's allowed to say and not say,
Before heading to bed,
And drifting and floating,
So peacefully,
So comfortably asleep,
Into slumberland,
