Into the Library of Dreams

In this creative visualization that can help listeners relax into a deep sleep, they can imagine their way into a library of dreams to write their own ending to beloved stories, press their worries into books like flowers, and be the author of their own dreams.

Transcript

Hello, This is A. Le Fay of Sylvanosity coming to you with a meditation to help you slip into sleep by visiting the library of your dreams. So let's begin. How do you imagine the library? Is it sleek and modern, With glimmering glass windows and crisp, Wide, Railinged cement steps? Or do you imagine Greco-Roman pillars? Bricks, Railings that are a little loose at the bottom and sway as you walk your way up to the doors with the brass fixtures and the old, Old glass that has the look of hand working. When you step inside, Do you hear the sigh of the door as it opens? Hear the creak of your feet pressing into hardwood floors? Do you hear the whispering of people down long aisles of books? The books themselves, Can you run your fingers along the spine and hear the thup, Thup, Thup as your finger passes from book to book? Creative visualization like this can be very helpful in relaxing you. One of the things I'd like you to consider is how drawing on these details should have no effort. Don't take time to imagine or force yourself. Just relax your mind, Free your thoughts, And let them drift down the long aisles full of books. Are there particular books you remember from your own childhood that when you held them they empowered you? Did you like the crinkle, Crinkle of those cellophane covers that protect the books? Or maybe it was a slightly grainy texture of the thick paper in hardcover books you like the most? Did you remember illustrated books that made you feel as if you could look into those pictures and imagine what is happening behind a certain door or through a certain window or into the maze of a certain garden? The wonderful thing about the library of your dreams is you can take any book you like off the shelf. It could be a book you so loved in childhood and you could imagine yourself reading it in an alcove or maybe a window seat or maybe a particularly comfortable chair. Maybe this would be a good time to recall the person who used to read books to you when you were young. How did their voice sound when they read their favorite parts? Are there parts of the book you wish you could read again and again? What were the smells, The sounds, The texture of your bedding as you listened to these stories? Take deep breaths. Let them out slowly. Allow your body to relax. Maybe if you need to, Take a bit of a stretch. Reach out to the outer limits of your limbs and settle back in. Maybe it's time to try a new aisle, A new section. Maybe you could take down a volume of poetry that speaks of clouds, Imagery, Water, Wandering to new places or maybe to places you know so well you can wander through them with your eyes closed. Whatever the case may be, Keep traveling. Allow your eyes to wander over the lines of the book. Allow your mind to remember the sensation of listening to the beautiful words of a poet or a poem you will always remember. Or perhaps it's a story you never got to finish, One you remember for its beginning, For its middle. But then, The ending? You can't recall it. Well, Now is your chance to rewrite it. Or perhaps it was an ending you didn't like. If so, Why not change it? Maybe you'd like to go to the back corner of that library where you can sit down and slip an extremely comfortable set of earphones over your ears and listen to your favorite speaker. Maybe it's a writer or an actor or someone else whose voice soothes you in ways only they can. Allow them to read to you. It could be a long, Soothing, Comforting tale that draws you into a world you'd like to travel through, For its long, Green paths. With trees that reach over to create a tunnel of leaves, Perhaps you can hear a smoothly running brook in the distance. Far off you can hear an owl. In the trees, Perhaps now, Darkness is falling and the stars begin to become visible in the sky above. So you step out of that leafy tunnel, You lie back in the cool grass, And you stare up into the stars. Can you draw a map for yourself by connecting one after the other? Where does that map lead you? What other things might you see or hear or do that draw you deeper into dream state, Where you feel as if you're beginning to float? Maybe among the clouds that cover the stars and float on. You can feel the stress of the day leaving your muscles and floating off to be nothing more than a little bit of darkness in the darkness of the night sky. Maybe you can feel your limbs growing a little bit heavier and your mind letting go of all you did today. It's recorded somewhere in this library, Tucked away in a book on a shelf. You may pick it up tomorrow, But for tonight you are just going to enjoy that which gives you comfort, Which allows you to relax, Which allows you to know that worrying is no more. You're going to set your stress, Your niggly little thoughts onto a page and press the book closed as if they were nothing more than a flower to be pressed and pulled out later. But they've been flattened to nothing but a mere memory of what they once were. Here in this library of dreams, You can write the next story. What will you dream about? Where will you travel? Take a deep breath. Let it out slowly. Follow that breath where it may lead you. And write the next volume you may find the next time you journey to the library of dreams. This has been Ada Vey of Sylvanosity. Thank you for joining me on this journey. Let's close our book and go to sleep. Good night.

Reviews

Interesting- very different from the sleep meditations I’ve done before.
It didn’t put me to sleep, but it was nice to listen to!
Thank you!