Encountering The White Mouse: Long Bedtime Story

So just take a moment to allow your eyes to close and allow yourself to begin to relax and as you begin to comfortably drift to sleep I'm just going to tell this sleep story in the background and this is a story where you find yourself in a location where a carnival is taking place and to avoid the hustle and bustle of the carnival you head down some side roads and you find an arcade and at the back of the arcade you discover a secret that leads you on a journey of deep inner discovery and an encounter with a wise well-dressed mouse who speaks with the most bizarre British accent so you're heading through the carnival to find a quieter location and you turn off of the main street where the carnival is taking place heading away from the crowds working your way down a side alley heading down another road the sounds of the carnival the partying sounds gradually fading into the background and while you continue to walk down this alleyway you notice some neon lights in the distance illuminating the damp ground with their glow and you hear the faint sound of computer games and you head towards that neon glow on the ground finding your way to a back door of an arcade and there are neon signs above the door sharing that this is an arcade you reach forward and very gently carefully open the door and as you do the sounds of the computer games from inside the arcade increase in volume and you hear a tring as the door opens you step onto the carpeted floor you can smell the scents of this arcade hear the sound of the different machines there's something soft and nostalgic about the experience and you step across the threshold letting the door gently close behind you you begin to walk around this arcade with most people down at the carnival the arcade is surprisingly empty and you head over to a machine to get some change you grab a cup from beside the machine the change flows out the bottom of the machine coming out the bottom of the machine with a hand you gather that change up and scoop it up and drop it into the cup the sound of the change hitting the base of the cup rattling around within the cup feeling the weight of that cup increase as it fills with that change those coins before heading to see what games there are here for you to play you had spied a few that you want to try out you find one where you have to place coins in the top they rattle and bounce down to a moving platform that slides out and back out and back and the moving platform has coins on it that are overhanging the platform and a few random toys sitting on top of the coins and beneath that is another moving platform that moves out and back out and back which also has coins overhanging and beneath that is the base of this game with coins overhanging a gap and you find the one that looks like it has the best chance for you to win you place a couple of coins in the top they bounce down the back wall you've timed it just right so that they reach that first level as the level is moving out towards you and then the level pulls back and almost gripping the coin smooths that coin out onto that level and when it pulls back the coin pushes into the other coins some of them fall down onto the next level and as that level pulls back those coins push on the previous level making some of the coins fall off the front of this level onto the base then those coins get pushed all the way into the other coins and a few of the coins fall down the front gap and you see them come out beneath the machine a little hole in the front of the machine you play this machine for a little while knowing that you have to be careful because it's so easy to get carried away and find yourself putting all of your money into the machine and so you take some of that money and you repeat the process again timing when you put the coin into the machine watching it go through its process of merging with the other coins making some coins fall which makes some more coins fall and then eventually some more coins fall out the base and when you decide that you're not likely to be so successful with this machine you look at the others in this area and you play on a few other machines playing the same game and you manage to make a bit of profit and decide not to reinvest it into this game but to take that profit and see what else there is here and so you continue wandering around and you see a shooting game you place some coins into that shooting game and there's a gun attached to a metal wire that goes into the machine it makes the gun handle a bit weird almost like it's always feeling like it's about to be pulled out of your hand and the countdown comes on screen three two one and with one the numbers disappear and the screen begins to move moving you around an environment where zombies suddenly jump out from the left the right pop up from behind things run in from around corners and occasionally there'll be people being chased by the zombies who suddenly pop into frame and run past you have to carefully shoot at those zombies while avoiding shooting at the ordinary people who keep running past and the gun makes a very cheap sounding firing sound as you fire a very low quality voice talks to you from the machine saying things like great job way to go you've almost got them all oh bad luck wow you nearly did it and the better you play the faster the game seems to get the faster the movement on screen seems to happen the faster is as if you're walking faster through this environment and with each shot that you take a flash happens on screen almost like the whole screen just momentarily goes white and you give this game a few goes until you can enter your name at the top of the leaderboard and you scroll through the letters to input your first letter on the name and then press along and scroll through for the second letter and then the third letter and then select end once you're at the top of the scoreboard you then decide to move on to the next game and you look around to see what next to play you see a motorbike game so you sit on the motorbike and it naturally flops left and right seems very loose you insert the coins you watch the countdown three two one and then the game starts you lean that motorbike left and right as you follow the track racing against the other racers and again you play this game a few times just to get yourself onto the leaderboard inputting your name before continuing to look around in this arcade you find a snowboarding game that has a giant screen a square pad in front of the screen and a fake snowboard in the middle of that pad alongside the screen there seems to be fans and surrounding the screen are speakers and the speakers seem to also surround the pad that you're stood on and so you insert some money stand on the snowboard you get that countdown three two one on the countdown of one the game starts you keep your balance on that snowboard snowboarding down a mountain weaving left and right bending and flexing your knees to take jumps on the game with the sounds moving around you through the speakers as if you're really there the fans on blasting air at you to give you that sense that you're snowboarding rapidly down a mountain and the air genuinely feels cold from those fans enhancing the effect further and you have a number of goes on this game to get yourself onto the leaderboard and you look around for a bit longer to see what other games there are and you see that there's a section which seems to be shut off by a giant velvet curtain almost like a curtain you would find on a stage in a theater and as it's so quiet here there's the member of staff in the booth where you can get some change and they look particularly bored as most people who come in here get their change from the machines and there are very very few people in this arcade and so you look around briefly you run your fingers along the velvety curtain you feel the weight of that velvety curtain you keep running your fingers along searching for the parting to see because it looks like there's got to be two curtains hanging here so you search for that parting and you find the parting running your fingers along you take one last glance around you curious what's going to be the other side of the curtains letting the curtains close behind you as you swiftly step through and the other side of the curtains it's surprising how much those velvet curtains numb the sound you can barely hear the arcade machines the other side of those curtains and this side is just lit by a soft glow you can't quite see where the glow is coming from and each footstep you take on the carpet this side has the dullest of dull thuds there seems to be no reverberation of sound making it seem especially quiet and so you walk exploring this area and it largely seems to be empty but it's a reasonably large space this side of the velvet curtain and you notice one area seems particularly dark and you walk towards that dark area and you find that there seems to be an underground tunnel that seems carpeted and well maintained at least at the entrance that seems to almost blend from the room to the tunnel so you begin to follow this tunnel walking into the darkness no sound reverberating off the walls the floor carpeted absorbing each footstep and you shine a torch and the torch lights up your way but the light just seems to be absorbed by the material around the sides by the carpet and so even with the torch you can't discern much about where you are and where you're going and eventually after some time following this tunnel feeling like you're going deeper and deeper underground you encounter a wall and in that wall is a single door you open that door easily and effortlessly just by turning the handle and there's a slight creak from opening the door but not a sound that would travel very far with the lack of reverberation in this tunnel you walk into the room and as you do a soft glow lights up this room and in the middle of the room you see a table and a chair and the chair has the most comfortable looking back and seat and this room has soft carpet as well so you walk over sit down sit down at that table noticing in front of you is a pack of coloring pencils and a coloring book and you open that coloring book to look at what the pictures are inside here you see the first picture looks like it's a toad and you carefully color that toad in gently taking your time to color the toad in a slightly different shade of green for its belly under its chin darker green for its back its legs blue sky some green leaves a little bit of blue on the underside of the leaves coloring in the rest of the foliage and turning the page curious what this image is looks like sand dunes and so you color in the sand dunes the sky and a little creature in those sand dunes and you turn the page and color in a picture picture of a dairy cow wearing a large cowbell standing in a field on a beautiful summer's day find yourself absorbed in coloring in these pictures in this coloring book feeling a deep sense of peace and tranquility and when you color in the next picture it's a picture of a robot holding a music box turning the handle of the music box and an orchid rising out of the music box and you think it's the most unusual picture to be coloring in and as you finish coloring in the orchid you hear a slight rumble sound and then notice the back walls of this room slowly sliding apart you close the coloring book you leave the chair you walk towards those sliding doors you notice that there seems to be another passageway the other side of those sliding doors you walk down that passageway only this passageway you can hear some sounds in the distance what sounds like nature sounds almost like the sounds of a forest and as you approach the end of this passageway there's light working its way in you notice vines hanging across the entrance you can see the slightest hint of blue sky through the mottled effect of the leaves of the trees and you find yourself coming out into a forest smelling the fresh forest air you turn and look at where you came from and it appears to just be a large cliff with this entrance in the cliff in the cliff this doesn't seem like the kind of location you left in as you look back the way you came you don't imagine that this forest is just a handful of hundred meters from that arcade because you know the city with the arcade you know the size of the city and that there is no forest in or next to the city and yet here you are standing in a forest sounds of forest birds around you the feeling of a slight breeze on your cheeks the sense of the forest sounds of the rustling leaves as the wind blows a breeze and as you walk deeper into the forest you start to get a whiff of gingerbread the most pleasant scent of gingerbread you begin to follow your nose through the forest following that scent of gingerbread until you encounter what looks like a lost city in this forest of gingerbread houses the most incredible sight and out of one of the gingerbread houses walks a white mouse wearing jeans and a t-shirt and this mouse comes over to you and in the most unusual British accent the mouse explains that this is their home that this city has been lost from civilization but they've been able to evolve here their ancestors themselves they've been able to evolve here and really enjoy the peace and the harmony here and this mouse invites you into their home they offer you a cup of tea they go to one of their gingerbread bricks of the house they chip off a bit of the gingerbread brick they place some of that brick on a plate and they offer you those gingerbread slithers with your tea and they say it's okay they'll replace that brick later and so you drink the tea dunking those gingerbread slithers slithers having that sensation of eating the soggy gingerbread from the warm tea the gingerbread taste hitting your tongue the scent of the gingerbread as you work your way through those gingerbread slithers and the cup of tea and the mouse continues to talk to you and they tell you about an old tradition a tradition of heightened awareness of being able to access higher consciousness they say that they're happy to guide you through that experience once you finish the tea and gingerbread slithers they walk you over to a chair a chair they sit you down in that chair in the most comfortable chair you've ever sat in that you sink into so deeply and comfortably you're almost not aware of your body held in that position it just feels so comfortable and they pull up a chair near to you and their chair doesn't look as comfortable as yours they begin to talk to you saying they're going to guide you into that altered state of consciousness that heightened state of consciousness and awareness they tell you to help this work most effectively they're just going to mix up a gingerbread biscuit they'll just give a moment for that biscuit to set it's a gingerbread biscuit with some fluorescent glowing mushrooms ground up into a fluorescent powder sprinkled in with the gingerbread brick dust a little dash of water stirred up made into a paste placed on a baking tray and in the oven and in just a minute or so it's dried out to the point that it looks just like a biscuit with fluorescent flecks within it and they offer you that biscuit and so you snap the biscuit in half you consume the first half tasting that gingerbread you consume the second half and then they say okay now take a moment to follow along to me and as you follow along to me and to what i say here the biscuit will begin to take effect and so while i'm talking to you and the biscuit takes effect you can take a moment to close your eyes and with your eyes closed you can listen to my voice in the background as you begin to journey to a higher level of consciousness and i'm curious about the experience that you'll have as you enter that higher level of consciousness and so with your eyes closed resting there in that chair be aware of a warm light as it spreads out from your stomach up to your chest and as you breathe in that warm light spreads from your chest out around your body to the tips of your fingers up into your head down to your feet the warm light tickles and warms your cheeks your nose your forehead down the back of your neck down to your bottom down through your body your stomach down through your legs to the tips of your toes then as you breathe out you breathe out any doubt any worries any negativity any problems breathing in health well-being peace serenity breathing out any worries any negativity any problems any problems breathing in health serenity and well-being perhaps noticing the shoulders becoming heavier maybe the hands or the arms becoming heavier perhaps you're beginning to become more stationary as you relax deeper and deeper into the experience breathing in peace and love and harmony a deep sense of serenity breathing out any worries or negativity and as your body continues to drift and relax that mushroom can begin to work its magic as you begin to travel to a higher plane psychologically as a mind drifting floating through space and time through the multiverses of reality and you begin to settle into the most pleasant meadow i don't know how you will notice that meadow its undulating hills the sense of the flowers the insects buzzing around from flower to flower rustling of the odd tree of those leaves in the breeze experiencing a deep sense of peace and as you find yourself in that meadow perhaps you lean down to touch to explore its reality to feel what the grass feels like the flowing grass tickling the underside of your hand tickling between your fingers as you run your fingers through the grass like running your fingers through long hair and sitting down in this meadow just observing absorbed in the moment when a llama wearing a smart suit and a long tie approaches and this llama tells you follow me as we go to a nearby spring and so you stand up and follow that llama as they walk through the meadow and you begin to hear the distant sound of gently flowing water and you follow this llama as they head along towards the stream and then eventually find the stream and they follow the stream to its source and at its source in the most beautiful countryside you see that spring they tell you to pick up one of the glass bottles next to the spring to fill that glass bottle with water and to taste that water and feel the sensation of the cool water flowing down your throat through your body healing comforting relaxing you deeper and deeper into the experience filling you with a sense of peace and positivity and you can notice a glow around your body as you drink that water and the llama explains that this is like a magical well it's a magical spring here at the source of this river and it's at the spring it's at the source where the magic is most concentrated its magical healing powers fill the water but as the water flows downstream into the river it dilutes and spreads out and its potency is reduced but here it's at maximum potency and they explain to you that this experience can help you to find some inner learning by being able to connect on a deep and fundamental level across the multiverses to explore them and hold the ideas of the multiverse in mind all at once and while you rest here and drift into a reverie next to the stream your mind drifts and explores the multiverse of possibilities you have a sense of the unusual journey that you've been on to get to this point in your mind's eye you see a unicorn coming to greet you and riding on that unicorn to the most incredible and complex looking maze and then following your way through that maze encountering a centaur in this maze outsmarting that centaur with a tune on a marimba which triggers a magic spell and a change in the layout of the maze opening a path for the player while closing paths for the centaur and being able to memorize the changes to the maze before finding the center of the maze and seeing floating above a plinth what looks like a real planet and realizing it's a representation of a real planet and reaching out with two hands touching that representation of a real planet and then the maze disappears and you find yourself in an instant floating in a spacecraft above that real planet and then you fly down to the planet's surface and on the planet's surface you see some unusual beings seeming to be having a snowball fight but you get told by the unicorn that they're not having a snowball fight they're balls of ideas thoughts concepts and they're sharing those with each other and you explore this planet for a while before being guided by the unicorn to what looks like a sheer cliff and the unicorn rubs the cliff with its horn scratching at the cliff and then a door in the cliff opens you enter this cave and inside the cave you see that mouse and the mouse greets you and says this is deep inside your unconscious now and this is the heart of your unconscious and this whole planet contains the wisdom and understanding of your unconscious and everything to hear has been a metaphor of the journey it takes and the steps you need to make to reach the heart of your unconscious and now we're here you're going to touch this orb and the mouse holds out an orb places the orb down on a little stand and the mouse says you're going to touch this orb and when you do you're going to connect with the deep unconscious part of yourself to bring a deep sense of peace and understanding and wisdom to make deep and meaningful changes that will empower you they'll have a lasting impact on your everyday life and so with a moment's with a moment's trepidation you reach out you touch that orb and you feel a sense of blue energy passing from the orb up your arm into you passing through you and back down into the ground and transforming you circling around and beginning to transform you from the inside out making deep and powerful changes to you and your perception of the world and reality and you feel yourself becoming the person you want to be easily and effortlessly and the experience is so overwhelming you just feel such a deep sense of peace and tranquility it's almost as if you drift deeper and deeper with the experience and then after a while of drifting deeper and deeper with the experience just allowing the experience to happen to you once it's complete the experience gently fades and as it fades so everything around you begins to fade the reality here begins to fade and you gently find yourself opening your eyes sitting in that incredibly comfortable chair the mouse sitting across from you the most gentle and calming smile on their face as they say welcome back i hope you enjoyed your trip and they guide you gently back gently back they help to comfort you keep you arousing softly gently peacefully not jumping to wakeful awareness too fast just at the right rate and speed for you they then make you another drink while chatting with you about the experience about the deep and profound meaning of the experience before they say it's time now for you to go and they guide you back to the edge of the lost city as you follow the rest of the path back to that tunnel you follow your way through the tunnel finding your way back to the arcade you head through that velvet curtain the arcade is as quiet and empty as it was when you were last here you leave the arcade and avoiding the carnival you head home you rest down for the night and you begin to drift and float so peacefully so calmly relaxed asleep knowing that changes are occurring each time you sleep and dream that you had a profound experience that's going to have a lasting impact on you as you drift and float so peacefully and comfortably into slumberland