Discovering The Genie: Long Bedtime Sleep Story

So,

Just take a moment to allow your eyes to close and allow yourself to begin to relax.

And with your eyes closed,

I don't know whether you'll drift asleep faster to the sound of my voice or whether it'll be to the spaces between my words.

And as you begin to comfortably drift asleep,

I'm just going to tell this sleep story in the background.

And as you drift peacefully asleep,

I'm just going to tell this story about a woman who goes out on her morning walk like she does every day.

Only this time,

She finds a bottle in a stream that leads her on a journey to discover a secret temple and she enjoys a peaceful life.

Every day she wakes up,

She goes for a morning walk,

Enjoying the fresh air,

Breathing in that cool air,

Feeling the cool air pass in through her nostrils,

Pulling that air down into her chest,

Then exhaling the warmer air as she feels a deep sense of peace and inner relaxation,

Walking along,

Listening to the sounds around her,

Listening to the sounds of birdsong coming from the trees and the hedgerows,

The scampering sounds of squirrels.

And as she walks through this quaint,

Quiet village and out into the countryside,

She can see the rabbits across the fields,

She can see pheasants in the fields,

The colourful male pheasants and the harder to spot mottled brown female pheasants,

Hearing the occasional pheasant call,

Seeing the wispy clouds gently passing overhead and occasionally a bird of prey just slowly circling,

Then moving on to a different area and circling that area,

Barely flapping its wings.

And as she walks,

She can notice the way the sound changes with each footstep,

Depending on what she's walking on,

Walking along the path into the countryside,

How that sound of the walking changes as she walks on to hardened mud and continues on to grass and then passes into the woodland,

Feeling the change of the air temperature as she walks through the trees out from the sunlight and that there's also a change in the quality of the sound around her,

That she starts to notice slightly different sounds,

The way certain bird sounds echo through the woodland and spying a stag among the trees,

Just catching the slightest glimpse of that stag stood stationary,

Trying to blend in,

Avoid detection and stopping still herself to watch and get a better look without disturbing or scaring that stag off and then as the stag just gently walks deeper into the woodland,

Woman continues to follow her path,

A slight crunching sound underfoot,

Seeing the shards of light dancing in front of her as those areas of sunlight just penetrate through the canopy overhead and every day she goes on this morning walk,

Those shards of light passing through the canopy overhead,

Dancing in front of her,

Catch the dust in the air,

Almost looking like dancing diamonds and while walking through those shards of light,

She can feel the slight temperature change,

Especially on her face as the light passes across her cheeks,

She enjoys the silence of this walk,

The peace and harmony of this walk,

Deeper and deeper into the woodland and after some time she begins to hear the gentle sound of a flowing stream,

She continues to walk through this woodland,

Softly relaxing,

Occasionally drifting into her own mind,

Pondering different thoughts and ideas as the woodland begins to slant downhill slightly,

She follows this woodland down that hill to where she comes to a point where the gently trickling stream comes alongside where she's walking and she can see the water flowing down over stones,

Around stones,

Bubbling and splashing its way down,

Occasional twigs and leaves flowing down on the water's surface,

Racing down that stream and she follows that stream all the way down to the edge of this woodland and as the stream reaches the edge of the woodland,

So it begins to get wider and begins to get softer and calmer and she follows that stream out into a clearing,

In this clearing there's a meadow of wildflowers where she can see bees and butterflies working away in the meadow,

Tootling along from plant to plant,

Holding on to plants as they sway in the breeze and she heads out into this meadow,

Continuing to follow this gentle stream and heads to a tree trunk alongside the stream,

Takes a moment to sit on that tree trunk,

Closes her eyes and just listens to the sound of that water as it bubbles past her,

Smelling the fresh water smell,

Feeling the warmth of the Sun on her face,

Noticing the light and dark passing across her eyes as wispy clouds pass across the Sun,

Feeling the warmth of that morning Sun and she opens her eyes and crouches down to get a sense of what that water feels like,

What temperature the water is,

She touches the surface of the water with her fingertips,

Just passing them gently through the surface of the water and she can feel that water as it rushes around her fingers,

Rushes through her fingers,

Almost a tickle touch feeling through and around her fingers and then while her hand is in the water,

Something that's bobbing its way down the stream suddenly knocks into her hand,

She pays attention to what that was,

Knocks her out of her reverie for a moment and she sees that it appears to be an opaque bottle and it looks curious,

So she stands up and she follows that bottle,

Walking fast along the edge of the stream to catch up with where the bottle is,

Comes alongside that bottle and watches for a while as she walks alongside it and it continues bobbing its way down the stream and she gets slightly ahead and then reaches in,

Grabs that bottle,

She goes back to that trunk,

Sits down on the trunk,

While sitting on the trunk she looks at this bottle and the bottle is broad enough that her thumb and fingers don't meet while she holds it and she twists that bottle around and looks at the base of the bottle and she can't see into the bottle,

She notices the base is indented and there are symbols on the bottom,

Around the edge of the bottom that she can't understand and she thinks to herself she'll try and do a bit of a Sherlock Holmes,

Tries to see if there's any way of working any information out about this bottle,

She couldn't see any markings on the base that would reveal the location,

Only the symbols that she didn't understand,

There was no labels on the bottle,

There was no markings around the side of the bottle,

The top of the bottle had a cork in it and all she could think was that the style of the bottle made her think of some Roman pottery and Roman bottles that she had seen,

That had a similar style but she wasn't sure if it could possibly be that old because that would make it at least 1,

600 years old and she wondered how it got into the stream,

If it was that old it would have somehow had to be dislodged or somehow made it into the flowing stream,

She thinks to herself it makes more sense that perhaps someone was just littering and just threw the bottle away and she shook the bottle next to her ear and couldn't hear anything in the bottle,

No movement at all,

She tipped the bottle upside down and up the right way and upside down and up the right way,

Didn't feel like there was anything in it moving,

No liquid,

No objects because if there was the weight would have displaced and moved as she moved the bottle and she wondered if it was an empty bottle how was it corked,

Did someone manage to just squeeze this cork into the bottle,

What would be the purpose of someone doing that to an empty bottle and she decided that she would pull that cork out of the bottle,

Out of curiosity she thought it's not like there's anyone here who wants this bottle,

It doesn't seem like it belongs to anybody and so tentatively and carefully she pulled on that cork and at first didn't seem to be making any difference,

So she pulled harder and harder and felt like she was putting a lot of effort into pulling that cork from the bottle and then all of a sudden in an instant the cork popped out of the bottle in her hand and she heard a gentle ssss as if there was a release of gas and then there was silence from the bottle and then suddenly an explosion of gas straight up vertically from the bottle and this gas had a green hue and she watched as that green hue gas rose up into the air narrow and vertical at first and then spread out and almost seemed to be heavier than the air because it started to seem to fall down not straight down back towards the bottle but it was falling down almost as if it was reaching a certain height and then just falling down alongside the bottle and she could see it settling onto the tree trunk beside her and there was a lot of this gas and as this green gas was touching the tree trunk so it was like green dust or green dusty paint touching the trunk it was looking like it was starting to stain that trunk but the gas seemed to be falling thicker and faster and faster and thicker and still spraying up out of the bottle and she was just holding the bottle almost mesmerized surprised at what she was seeing curious how so much gas can fit into such a small space and that green gas was thickening alongside her and seemed to be growing almost as if it was creating a stain on the tree trunk and that stain was getting thicker and thicker like building up dust over time and after some time she noticed that it wasn't just dusty gas from this bottle settling randomly beside her it seemed to be settling with some kind of order and this dust continued to settle getting thicker and thicker and as this dust settled thicker and thicker beside her she thought it resembled 3d printers printing something like it was building something from the ground up but she had no idea what and it seemed to be taking a very long time and after what seemed like an age she noticed that this green dust had been building on the grass in front of the trunk as well and that that was catching up with the height of the trunk in two neat piles and then the dust accelerated in how fast it was spraying up into the air and landing beside her and it started to get more chaotic to see exactly what was going on but after a while the dust started to slow and she started to notice it becoming clearer about side her so that she could see what was there and she saw this person in green with unusual green skin sitting beside her looking at her as the dust finished settling and stopped spraying from the bottle and they reached over and they took the bottle from her hand while she was in a bit of a dazed state at what she was seeing and they took the cork from her other hand they smiled at her and thanked her for the bottle and the cork and for opening the bottle and they placed that cork effortlessly into the top of the bottle and placed the bottle into their pocket and they explained that they're a genie and they had been trapped in that bottle for centuries and that all the time they've been trapped in that bottle they've been waiting for somebody to find the bottle and release them that they have a problem that they need help with an evil wizard centuries earlier had removed their power to grant wishes and so they're now a genie with no ability to grant any wishes and they've required help to be able to do so and that she's the first person in all those centuries to open this bottle who may be able to help and this genie explains that they need the woman to go in search of a secret temple and the woman explains that there are no temples here there's a village just nearby there's a church in the village if that's what the genie's talking about but she doesn't know of any secret temples and the woman asks why they can't do it themselves and the genie explains that they'll come along with the woman but they can't access this secret temple that the spell that the wizard had cast placed their ability to grant wishes within that temple and placed a spell on the outside of the temple that prevented any magical beings from being able to cross the threshold into the temple and then the wizard banished them back into the bottle sealed the bottle and buried the bottle and they have no way of escaping the bottle themselves they always rely on someone else to come along and do that for them and so the woman agrees to help but she says she doesn't know where she can start helping and finding this temple and the genie says they can help with that they just can't access the temple themselves and out of their pocket the genie takes what looks like a compass hands it to the woman and says here you can use this to direct us to the temple explaining that this compass works by detecting quantum displacement and the woman asks what that even means the genie says that the wizard is a multi-dimensional being and as a multi-dimensional being it travels from place to place but as it does as it appears in one dimension or leaves a dimension it creates a quantum displacement trail and that even while the being is moving through dimensions it doesn't move through dimensions in the same way that non-magical beings move it doesn't walk through three-dimensional space it passes through multi-dimensional space and so there is a path that can be followed and the woman says but if this wizard did this hundreds of years ago what are the chances of that being here in this location and this secret temple being anywhere nearby and the genie explains that the residual traces of the quantum displacement will last for thousands of years even just the subtle traces are enough for this compass to detect and illuminate and that the only way their bottle could have been found here is if it somehow had dislodged fallen into the water or passed into the water to then be found so the bottle must have been buried somewhere near this water and the woman turned on the compass by pressing a button on the side and as she turned on the compass so she saw a pulse of blue light emanate in all directions from the compass and as the blue light dissipated so it left trails that she could see like the faint lines of dissipating contrails from aeroplanes and then as the trails were fading there was another pulse of blue light from the device that dissipated but left the hint of those trails and at regular intervals this device kept pulsing and the genie explained that these trails are the trails of magical beings and that there aren't that many magical beings in this plane and so one of these trails must be the wizard and at first they follow back along the stream head back into that woodland but this time instead of the woman following the path she had followed before she follows the stream taking her off the path and deeper into the woodland and she finds her way all the way to the source of this stream and can see that it starts with a pool of water gently bubbling up from under the ground and the genie observes that it looks like this water has perhaps eroded away some of the ground beneath it where it's bubbling up from and that a bottle being buoyant means that once it was eroded into the water it would eventually find its way to the hole that leads to the surface and pop up through that hole and then just flow down with the water the two of them look around curious where the water might be coming from that then rises up from underground there are some nearby hills and so they assume that somewhere just beneath their feet is probably a hollow area an area that this water is slowly eroding maybe a cave full of water and the tracking device pulses and there's just a single trail a little way away and the genie says i bet that that is the wizard's trail it's the only trail here and it's near where the bottle found its way to the surface so perhaps the bottle was buried somewhere over there and the trail looked very muddy at that one point and the genie said that that would make sense because the wizard would have been on that spot for quite some time moving around and the woman asked does the genie not leave a trail and they said that although they are a magical being they're a different class of magical being they disappear and reappear in a very different way they don't have to walk through time and dimensions and they explained about how they operate as genies that they're like time travelers and their bottles are like time traveling devices that a bottle may seem small but a whole world is contained within a genie's bottle but the world is a very isolating one inside a genie's bottle lives animals plants but only one genie only one of their life form per bottle and so it can be very lonely inside the bottle but time inside the bottle is very different from time outside the bottle moments can pass inside the bottle when years have passed outside of it and when genies are out of a bottle they can get themselves back into the bottle and when they're out of the bottle they have to move around and operate in the same way that any other being in that world has to operate they're not multi-dimensional like the other beings and they explain that they can't get themselves out of the bottle so once they're in the bottle they're trapped in the bottle until someone frees them and the woman talks to the genie about that sounding like a very lonely life why on earth would they ever put themselves in the bottle and as they were having this conversation they're walking out of the woodland across the meadow following that faint blue path likely left by the wizard which is revealed with every pulse of the device and the genie explains that the role of a genie is that you're born into existence through magic you just find yourself aware one day there's no knowledge of where you came from you're just suddenly there and aware and you're in this world that's so incredibly beautiful and you don't feel hunger or thirst you just exist you don't feel tired you just are and in your mind you just have certain instinctive innate knowledge so no knowledge of where you came from how you sprung into being but you're aware with instinctive knowledge that you're in a world created and designed for you and you're aware that you're in a world with a purpose with destiny and that your destiny is to grant three wishes to an individual that brings them happiness and passes something positive on to their life that that individual will then pass on to others and your role is kind of as a guide that every time someone calls upon you you let them know that you can grant them three wishes and that they're to use those wishes wisely and to give thought to those wishes and you grant those wishes honestly exactly as they were asked that you don't have the power to grant them something different to what they asked so if they ask for something and you know that they mean something slightly different you can't say that you know they mean something different you can just ask if they're sure that that is what they really want and you warn them against the risks of making a wrong wish and of having to really think through the wish before you say yes i'm certain that is the wish i want and then when you click your fingers as a genie the exact wish they asked for is what is granted and with practice as a genie you get better at helping to guide those who ask for wishes but it is once you manage to grant three wishes for somebody where they're content and happy with the wishes they received and those wishes have a positive impact on the lives of them and others and you know you've done your piece for the world it is only at that point that you stop disappearing back into the bottle and instead get to ascend to a higher land to a higher dimension every time you grant wishes where the wishes don't work out positively and they make the person's life worse in some way there's nothing you can do about that but at the end of granting the three wishes you instantly disappear back into the bottle and it doesn't matter how much that person tries to open the lid of the bottle tries to pull that cork out even if they succeeded in pulling the cork out nothing happens the genie can't come out of the bottle because they can't come back to grant any more wishes for that person and if the wish turned out negatively for them then they had consequences from that and it can take a very long time to find that person clicks their fingers and wishes for the right things freeing the genie permanently and the genie explained that they don't know what happens beyond that yet they're just guided instinctively by the behaviors they have to do the role they have to play and they wonder whether somehow this evil wizard that took away their powers perhaps had done so to other genies and maybe was trying to prevent something in some way from happening and the woman and the genie walked all day camped on the edge of the most serene river at night before continuing on walking the next day the device constantly pulsing revealing the path they needed to follow until eventually they came to a hill an unassuming hill in the middle of the countryside and it wasn't a hill the woman was wholly unfamiliar with but to the woman this was just a regular hill perhaps 30 miles from the town that she lived in it wasn't particularly spectacular and if she knew she was going to this hill she could have got here a lot quicker rather than walking all this way but it appeared that the path was leading straight into the side of this hill and so the genie said there must be a tunnel somewhere just in the side of the hill here where that path is going maybe something has collapsed maybe it's all hidden here and so the woman started looking around the hill see if there's any way into this hill she had never heard of any temple being here but she had never questioned why this hill was here and so the woman said that now we know where this is why don't i go to the nearby town and i'll get a spade and we can try and access and dig into this hill so she went away and came back with a spade and with that spade she began to dig into the location where she could see that this being had walked and as she dug into this hill she eventually reached a point where she hit some stone and realized it was stone of an entrance like maybe there is something here and she cleared that away and as she cleared that away she saw that this was an entrance and that it looked like someone had covered over this temple buried this temple in this location and in the center of this entrance stones were just packed in and so she pulled those stones out one at a time and after she'd pulled a mound of stones out the entrance was clear and she could see that the faint blue path was heading into this passageway and so the two of them headed in to the passageway the woman holding a torch slight echoing coming from the footsteps and the passageway opened out into a vast chamber the genie said this is definitely the secret temple and in the middle of the vast chamber was an orb of electric blue energy floating in the middle of the chamber and the genie said that that orb of energy is what was stolen from me and the woman was curious where the wizard now was they'd gone to this effort of doing this perhaps hundreds and hundreds of years ago but would they really have just disappeared and the genie said maybe with hundreds of years of me being buried and not returning they thought they'd rid the genies from the land stopped us being able to grant wishes maybe there are other genies this had happened to who were buried and that they've just never been uncovered and it just is fortuitous that that spring had eroded the dirt enough to release the bottle and that that bottle happened to be released at a time that you could find it and the genie walked over to the glowing blue orb of energy they reached their hand out touching the orb and the orb seemed to suddenly come to life and be absorbed into them the genie said they can feel their energy coming back it can feel that magic returning within them and as the magic returned so the genie appeared to glow and pulse illuminating the chamber just with their own glow and presence and they left this secret temple and the two of them recovered up the entrance and the woman said what now and the genie said well now you have three wishes and the woman said but i don't want to make a mistake and say the wrong thing the woman said well i wish that you knew whether there were more genies and where those genies are and the genie said that's two wishes it needs to just be one wish and so the woman said i wish you knew whether there were more genies and the genie clicked their fingers granting the wish and said i'm the only one and the woman said i wish you knew your purpose and the genie clicked their fingers and said my purpose is to achieve ascension and the woman said i wish you knew what happens after granting three wishes and the genie clicked their fingers and turned into a being of light and as just a voice coming from this being of light the genie thanked the woman and said i now know what happens after granting three wishes the genie explains that they now know everything they pass through multiple planes of existence and one of those planes of existence is on the physical realm and when they pass the physical realm they move on to the spiritual realm and that this is the highest realm to achieve and with every genie that reaches the spiritual realm another genie passes into the physical realm with no memory or knowledge of how they got there just finding themselves in a bottle in a world of their own creation with innate knowledge and drives waiting for the right person to help them while they learn how to help others so that they too can ascend from the physical realm and the genie as a being of light dissipated and the device the woman was holding seemed to just disintegrate in her hand and she could no longer see the blue trails and she almost wondered whether the experience that had just happened was real or not it seemed so unreal and she headed home having had a couple of days of curious experiences that all started just with a morning walk like usual and once home she settled down in bed and drifted and floated so peacefully so comfortably and calmly asleep into slumberland