Welcome to this all-night meditation.
I'm so glad to invite you to this experience that is designed to create the optimal conditions for dreaming and for remembering your dreams.
Tonight I will guide you to meet your inner dreamer,
The part of your psyche that speaks in symbols and images,
The wisdom keeper of your unconscious.
This practice draws on Jungian principles of active imagination and the integration of the conscious and unconscious mind.
Through the night,
You'll receive gentle prompts at natural points in your sleep cycle,
Inviting your dreaming mind to bring forward the messages and symbols that are seeking your attention.
There's nothing you need to do,
No effort required.
Simply allow yourself to be guided,
To rest,
To dream and to remember.
When you wake,
You may find that your dreams come with you more clearly,
Carrying insights from your depths.
So find a comfortable position and when you're ready,
We'll begin.
Find yourself in a comfortable position,
Allowing your body to be fully supported by the surface beneath you.
As you settle in,
Know that you are creating sacred space,
Space for rest,
Space for dreaming,
Space for the unconscious to speak.
There is nothing you need to do,
Nowhere you need to go.
This is your time to descend into the realm of dreams.
With each breath,
You're beginning to release the day,
Letting it fall away like leaves from a tree,
Simply falling,
Drifting down.
Now bringing your awareness to your breath,
Noticing the natural rhythm,
The rise and fall,
Like gentle waves on a shore.
And as you breathe,
You might notice your eyelids becoming heavier and heavier.
That pleasant heaviness that comes when the body knows it's time to rest.
Letting your jaw soften,
Your tongue resting gently,
All the tiny muscles around your eyes releasing,
Melting.
Your shoulders dropping down,
Away from your ears,
As if a gentle hand is smoothing away all tension.
And this wave of relaxation moves down through your arms,
Into your hands,
Your fingers.
Each breath carrying you deeper and deeper,
Into comfort,
Into ease.
Your chest and belly softening,
Breathing all the way down into your belly.
The breath of deep sleep.
The breath you breathed as a child,
Natural,
Effortless.
And this relaxation flows down through your hips,
Your legs,
All the way to your feet,
Your toes,
Your whole body becoming heavy,
Pleasantly heavy.
Sinking down,
Down into the bed.
Into safety,
Into rest.
And now,
In your mind's eye,
You find yourself at the top of a gentle staircase.
This staircase leads down,
Down into a beautiful garden.
A garden at twilight,
Where day meets night,
Where the conscious meets the unconscious.
And with each step down,
You become twice as relaxed,
Twice as peaceful,
Twice as ready to dream.
Ten,
Taking the first step down.
Seven,
Feeling even more relaxed.
Nine,
Another step.
Going deeper.
Your body knows exactly what to do.
Eight,
Stepping down.
Down into that peaceful garden,
Where dreams are born.
Seven,
More and more relaxed.
The thinking mind growing quiet.
Six,
Halfway there,
Drifting deeper,
Like a leaf floating down through water.
Five,
Almost there.
So peaceful,
So safe.
Four,
Deeper still.
The garden coming into view.
Three,
Nearly at the bottom.
Ready to meet what awaits.
Two,
One more step.
Feeling perfectly relaxed,
Perfectly ready.
One,
And you arrive in the garden at twilight.
You find yourself in a beautiful garden.
The air is soft and gentle.
The light is that magical quality between day and night,
Neither one nor the other.
The liminal time,
The threshold.
In this garden,
There is a place to sit,
Perhaps a bench or a soft patch of grass beneath a tree.
And you make your way there,
Settling in.
And you sense a presence,
A familiar presence,
Though you may not have consciously met them before.
This is your dreamer.
The part of you that knows the language of symbols.
The part of you that speaks in images and metaphors.
The ancient wisdom keeper of your psyche.
Your dreamer may appear as a figure,
Or simply as a presence,
A feeling,
A knowing.
There is no need to force anything.
Simply allow,
And notice what emerges from the twilight.
And as you rest in this garden,
You communicate with your dreamer,
Not in words,
But in feeling,
In intention.
You let your dreamer know,
I am ready to receive.
I am ready to listen.
I am ready to see what needs to be seen.
I trust you.
I trust the wisdom of my unconscious.
I trust the messages that will come through the night.
Your dreamer acknowledges you.
There is a sense of recognition,
Of partnership.
You and your dreamer are making an agreement.
Tonight,
You will dream.
And you will remember.
And what needs to surface will surface,
In the perfect way,
At the perfect time.
And now,
Your dreamer offers you a gift.
It might be an object,
Or an image,
Or simply a feeling.
Whatever it is,
Receive it.
Knowing it holds meaning for your journey through the night.
And you offer something in return.
You offer your openness.
Your willingness to listen.
Your trust in the wisdom of your depths.
As you prepare to let go into sleep,
You know that your dreamer will be with you.
Guiding you through the landscapes of the night.
Bringing you the images you need.
The symbols that speak to your soul.
The messages from your unconscious.
You are safe.
You are held.
You are accompanied.
And now,
You lie down in this garden.
On the soft earth.
Under the canopy of stars beginning to appear.
And you allow yourself to drift.
To float.
To descend into sleep.
Into the realm of dreams.
Knowing that your dreamer is here.
Your unconscious is here.
Your deep wisdom is here.
Letting go.
Letting go completely.
Into sleep.
Into dreams.
Into the night.
You are dreaming.
The images come easily.
Flowing like water.
You are safe in your dreams.
Your dreamer is with you.
Showing you what you need to see.
The symbols speak.
You understand.
Your unconscious is revealing its wisdom.
You are integrating.
Descending into the deepest chamber.
Where the self resides.
The centre of your being.
The diamond in the depths.
You are meeting yourself.
You are becoming whole.
Rising gently through the layers.
Bringing the treasures with you.
You remember.
The dreams are gifts.
Messages from your depths.
You are ready to integrate.
As morning approaches.
You rest in the space between sleep and waking.
The hypnopompic realm.
Where dreams still linger.
Take your time.
There is no rush.
Let the images settle.
Let the memories form.
Your dreamer has brought you gifts through the night.
You carry them with you.
They are part of you now.
When you are ready.
In your own time.
You can begin to return.
Bringing the wisdom of the night with you.
Into a new day.
