Welcome sleep travelers.
Welcome to this journey into sleep.
It's easy.
Just listen to my voice or the spaces between my words.
So safe and relaxing.
So if you're ready now,
Make sure you are really settled and comfortable.
Snug between your covers.
Your head soft and heavy.
Your shoulders and body sinking into the surface supporting you.
Your arms and legs relaxed and light.
Just breathing naturally.
That gentle rise and fall of your chest and abdomen.
Feel the muscles around those eyes.
Those eyelids just wanting to close as you make your final preparation for the journey into sleep.
One last thing before we go.
Those thoughts.
Those thoughts and worries of today or yesterday.
Those thoughts,
Concerns and plans for tomorrow.
Let's leave them behind.
If you look now above you,
There in your mind's eye is a shelf.
On it are several empty glass jars.
Allow all of those thoughts to drift from you into those jars.
Watch them go.
They'll be safe.
If they're important,
They'll be there when you wake.
Excellent.
It's time to take the transporter.
The transporter is a magical way of journeying into sleep.
It is the safest way of traveling anywhere in the universe.
It gently transports you there.
Leaves you safe and warm until it's time to bring you back.
Its form always surprises me.
Sometimes it's a horse-drawn carriage.
Sometimes it's a limousine or a gondola or a tuk-tuk or a sleigh with reindeer or a flying pegasus or even a magic carpet.
Anything that you can imagine.
All you have to do is be ready to take the journey into sleep.
Are you ready?
Wait now and focus on the screen of your mind.
There it is.
Watch it come closer and closer.
You may see it clearly or just get a sense of it.
Its shape,
Its color,
Its size.
Your transporter is arriving.
Now.
It smoothly stops beside you,
Welcomes you as you climb aboard and settle back into the comfort of it.
The safety of it and relax as the journey begins.
It's a very gentle shift as your transporter starts to move.
Almost drifting,
Slowly drifting towards sleep.
Feel the day fade behind you.
Further and further back.
All sounds become softer and softer.
Just my voice and the spaces between the words.
The movement of your transporter so soothing.
Lulling you into a gentle state of calmness.
A state of peace.
Safe and comfortable.
Lifting you now into the air.
Into soft silence.
Drifting.
Dreaming sweet dreams.
Drifting in space.
Towards the sleeping stars.
They are waiting for you to light them.
To touch them.
Each star a guide and a protector.
A gentle healing light.
Closer and closer now.
Drifting in your transporter.
Touch each star.
Count each one as you light it with your touch.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
Six.
Seven.
Eight.
Nine.
Ten.
So many stars.
Sixty.
Seventeen.
Eighteen.
Nineteen.
Twinkling.
Twenty-seven.
Twenty-eight.
Twenty-nine.
Thirty.
Thirty-one.
Thirty-two.
Touching.
Drifting.
Dreaming sweet dreams.
Counting.
Forty-nine.
Fifty.
Fifty-one.
Fifty-two.
Fifty-three.
Fifty-four.
Each star you touch relaxes you deeper and deeper.
Drifting deeper and deeper towards sleep.
Your body so relaxed.
So at ease.
So peaceful.
Sweet dreams.
Drifting.
Dreaming.
Touching a star.
Counting.
Deeper and deeper towards sleep.
Softly drifting.
Lighting all the stars.
Counting.
Drifting.
Sweet dreams.
Drifting through tendrils of mist.
Dreaming.
Slowly drifting tendrils of mist.
The mists of sleep.
Drifting.
Dreaming.
Ever more slowly through the mist.
Now down.
Down.
Down towards the softest,
Lightest,
Fluffiest cloud you've ever slept on.
Lying on the softest,
Lightest,
Fluffiest cloud you've ever slept on.
So soft.
So safe.
So relaxing.
So comfortable.
Drifting in time and space.
Dreaming.
I am sleeping.
I am sleeping.
I am sleeping.
I am asleep.
