Welcome to this guided sleep meditation called OMG,
A dream about grandparents as children.
Let's begin.
Ready for bedtime,
Prepare your pillow,
Please give it a mighty squeeze,
For the best dreams ever.
Please settle into bed now,
Resting your head into the soft pillow,
Closing the right eye as you begin to tense the right side of the body,
All your right muscles tight.
Closing the left eye and tense the left side of the body,
All your left muscles.
And completely relax the whole body now.
Let's think and dream about something wonderful,
Going back in time to the past,
Possibly 80 years ago,
Almost nearly not quite 100 years.
Oh my goodness,
OMG,
How your grandparents lived when they were children too,
Before television,
Before computers,
Before mobile phones and having a family car.
Lots of things were yet to be invented.
Let's unplug from technology and reboot our own system.
Back to the past,
Let's have a good therapeutic look in this dream.
Your grandparents as children.
So first,
Let's watch grandma stop growing odour but starts looking younger as she shrinks to child size.
Looking at her hair,
All long and shining in ponytail.
Her cheeks are covered in freckles and starts giggling like a playful little girl.
Her hands are the right size for fitting in your hand.
In her pocket is a piece of magic string for hand string games.
Reminder later to show you this game that works well passing the string to one another.
Let's watch grandpa stop growing odour too and starts looking younger as he shrinks to child size.
Looking at his thick curly hair,
Freckles on a little nose,
Dainty yet his arms have little muscle.
His hands too are the right size for fitting in your hand.
In his pocket is shiny coloured glass marbles to play and win with.
Also a bit of a anytime anywhere game which he can explain later in your dream.
Now allow yourself to magically become child size too.
Shrinking with little giggles entering the heart of your inner child.
Feeling younger as you lovingly acknowledge the child you once were.
Let's truly enjoy this special dream.
So with everyone holding hands now,
It's time to skip out and head to the path almost not quite nearly a hundred years ago.
Looking at the childhood homes of grandparents,
We know in a sense they both grew in different houses but would be very similar.
So there is a small front garden with a big garden at the back.
There are some chickens laying fresh eggs and a tortoise freely roaming about in this garden.
The tortoise is eating a fresh strawberry.
Take a moment to look a little closer as you follow the tortoise to the back of the garden.
A much loved dog is here with a hand painted kennel where he heads for cover on rainy days.
There's an old ball chewed nicely by this dog and a warm football and a netball.
I wonder what your favourite dog is in the whole world.
Oh my goodness,
OMG.
So many vegetables are growing and growing here.
All in neat rows of different colours.
For vegetables are very colourful.
There is fruit too,
Fresh strawberries and a much loved apple tree for baking pies.
There are quite a few bicycles of different sizes for there is no car.
Some of the large bicycles have a basket on the front for shopping trips.
Yes,
A long time ago some things were yet to be invented.
So no car,
No television,
No computers,
No mobile phones.
How did they balance work with play?
Time to look inside Grandma's and Grandpa's home when they were children too.
Let's open that front door.
As inside the front door there is a row of Wellington boots for lots of walkabouts for all types of weather.
Be it rainy or snowy.
And a kite or two for windy weather fun games.
Have a moment,
Feel the lightness of colourful flying kites.
A pair of old roller skates and a skateboard are hanging up for they were too much trouble laid on the floor.
Anyone could have had an accident.
Hand knitted colourful really long scarves for the seasons of autumn and winter.
What colours would you have liked your own scarf to be knitted in?
Simply imagine now and hang it up in a jiffy.
Follow your noses into the kitchen if you please.
The kitchen is like a busy bakery shop with baking tin,
Glass jars and big pot bowls to make dozens of cheap and cheerful homemade treats.
Like jam tarts and sausage rolls.
Can you smell the warm sweet toffee apples setting in the kitchen window?
Delicious smells and heat fill the kitchen air.
So grab a warm toffee apple and keep walking and exploring about.
Well I really can't find any television but there is a large old style radio with a lot of chairs and a rocking chair around the radio.
The radio has a big button to switch it on and off.
The button if you look closely is worn out a bit so they must have loved listening to it.
Now singing was big in most homes.
Mum,
Dad,
The children all had great singing voices.
Singing in the bath,
Singing in the shower,
Singing whilst doing chores and singing along to the radio of course.
There's a newspaper showing what time the radio programmes are on.
Children's radio starring,
Family starring that are on daily and some weekly.
Sometimes listening is enough but we can still imagine it all in the head.
A long shiny wooden cabinet has many records on its shelves and opens in the middle to reveal a record player.
So you would have to be a bit of a DJ and change the records of different songs yourself.
Most of us like dancing and that includes me.
Explore later what music you would like to hear and dance to.
There are some cinema tickets for the weekend where big films were first seen on a large screen by hundreds of children for the very first time together.
Often an ice cream interval where the film stopped half way.
There are also some theatre tickets but not too many.
Theatre shows with a big one at Christmas and some for public holidays.
There are some small bus tickets when a long journey is too much by foot for the public bus is fun and fast to get about.
Now going upstairs,
Yes upstairs,
Where bunk beds fitted well in small bedrooms.
Each bed has a hot water bottle to keep your toes lovely and warm.
In fact there are no radiators throughout this home but the entire home has a warm glow in autumn and winter from fireplaces.
Making fires was a way of life and deeply relaxing looking into the dancing flame.
Then making is a lot of fun,
So colourful and cosy,
Throwing large blankets over a chair or two.
There are a few old toys that aided and created with other children pantomime stories together.
A few tin soldiers and really interesting teddy bears,
And dressing up clothes that often called for a visit to the parents wardrobe once you asked permission to wear a hat or a different coat or a scarf.
There are many board games and card games for children and parents to join in.
Board games really last well and don't really wear out and no batteries.
A game of Donimos,
Chess,
Maybe you know some more.
Colourful jigsaw puzzles that a patient may build a big colourful picture piece by piece.
There is library members cards in a drawer to keep them tidy so books galore could be borrowed from the local library.
Books are really special,
Full of things you like and libraries keep every book you could possibly imagine.
I'm going to finish now with a lovely long list of the many things for you to continue in this dream and please add some more of your own.
Little boys like frogs and snails.
Little girls like flowers and butterflies.
Cinema tickets,
Wonderful new films.
Radio programmes daily and weekly.
Singing voices fill the house with love.
Pocket money for sweets in a paper cone.
The brownies,
The boy scouts.
Gardens full of colourful vegetables all in a row.
Family pets of dogs,
Cats,
Tortoises roaming about.
Jigsaw puzzles galore.
Board games and card games.
Dancing to records.
Acting pantomime,
Real pantomime.
Roller skating and skateboarding.
Cycling long distances.
Walking about and climbing trees.
Dog shows,
Vegetable competition shows the biggest and the best.
Home baking,
Den making.
Camping and swimming.
Chalk games with a hop and a skip.
Flying kites on the wind.
Skipping ropes and boats to float.
Marbles to play and win.
But no television.
No computer.
No phone,
No car.
No plastic was invented just yet.
Tins,
Glass jars and large pot bowls.
Please keep exploring and adding your very own view of grandparents as children.
It's time for a very big yawn.
Yawn,
Yawn,
Yawn.
Resting into your soft pillow and dream again and again.
Dreaming a sweet dream.
