This morning a dream ended and I stretched and came back into the awareness of my bedroom, this reality. Still quite sleepy I rolled over and began to drift back into a variation of the previous dream reality when someone at the far end of my bedroom clearly, matter of factly spoke my name, "Mark?" This brought me fully awake and I turned on the direction the voice came from. It was a very familiar, female voice, but I couldn't quite remember where I'd heard it before.
Apparently my cats heard it, too, as I could hear them on the opposite side of my bed and the room waking and, in the darkness, one of them, Des I could tell by his weight, jumped with a heavy thud down from their treehouse onto my bed, brushed past my outstretched hand and jumped up onto a chest of drawers near the point in the room where I'd heard the voice coming from.
I reached out and turned on the bedside lamp to see if there was someone standing in my room. By this time Des' sister, Elphie, had also gone from their treehouse to bed and onto the chest of drawers where she and here brother were scanning that side of the room, apparently also trying to find the source of the voice.
I opened the protctive case on my smartphone to look at the time; 6:30ish. I also noticed that the Insight Timer meditation app icon was showing and opened the app to find out why. A few people had thanked me for meditating with them as I had done a restful sleep meditation when I went to bed last night.
Now the cats, satisfied, that who ever had spoken my name was no longer here, were coming back to the bed.
In the insight time app I scrolled through the newly posted morning meditation recommendations... I felt VERY drawn to Evelyn Foreman's "Tapping Into Vision: This soothing meditation will help you remember the energy behind your calling, tap into your vision."
Turning on the audio, closing my eyes and taking a deep breath, the recorded voice instructed "Close your eyes if you haven't already and take a deep breath..." the voice of Evelyn Foreman? It was unmistakably the same voice I had heard moments before in the darknees of my room (when the app was still vlosed and my smartphone in sleep mode)!
Needless to say, the meditation was precisely what I need just now.
Thank you, Evelyn!
