It's bedtime now.
Time to snuggle into bed and let your eyes softly close.
Let's take three deep breaths together.
Ready?
Good.
Notice how warm and safe and comfortable you feel.
Keeping your eyes closed,
Allow your mind to travel with the sound of my voice.
Beneath you,
Your bed has transformed and you feel weightless,
Wrapped in silky warm water.
You are in a state of unihemispheric sleep.
Your left eye is open,
Allowing your right brain to keep you swimming and breathing safely and comfortably while your right eye is closed and your left brain sleeps.
Your gray blue body is gliding effortlessly in the warm water.
Though you don't have ears,
You sense your name being called as sound bounces off of your melon,
An organ on the front of your head you use for echolocation.
You awake to find yourself safely in your pod surrounded by your friends.
They are bringing your attention to a game of bubble rings.
You click your approval and blow a series of bubbles from your blowhole.
You are having the best time with your friends,
Swimming through the bubbles,
Sometimes biting them or moving them through the water with waves of your fluke.
As you watch the beautiful bubbles rise to the surface of the water,
They catch the light that cuts through the water and beams and the gleam is mesmerizing.
You start with small bubbles and then you make one great big bubble.
You watch as they race to the surface.
Your game of bubble rings has brought you close to the shoreline and you work with your pod to surround some fish for dinner.
You create a mud ring and wait patiently for the fish to escape right into your open mouth.
With a full belly,
You notice that the surface up and you and your friends dive into the waves.
You feel the water pulling against the dorsal fin atop your body.
You use your pectoral fins to position you perfectly into the wave and you kick with your fluke until the momentum of the wave takes over and you feel the exhilaration that only surfing can provide.
The sun is glistening on your back and the surface of the water.
A nice breeze cools the top of your body.
You start to feel a deep sense of relaxation come over you from the tip of your smiling bottle nose down the length of your head,
Your melon,
Your eyes over your blowhole into your body,
Dorsal and pectoral fins down your peduncle and all the way down into your fluke.
Your left eyelid becomes heavy and you gently let it close.
Your breathing becomes soft and deep and effortless.
You are completely comfortable gliding serenely in the warm water.
You breathe in filling your lungs with fresh sea air.
The muscles in your body release and you feel fully supported by the water surrounding you.
You are completely relaxed and you let yourself drift off to sleep.
Goodnight little dolphin.
