Falling Asleep - How To
Be like a poet, prepared for spontaneous inspiration. You may see a wisp of smoke blowing from someone's cigarette - follow its flight into space above you, until it fades somewhere between the ceiling and the smoker's head. Some more wisps of smoke will float aimlessly to join other wisps but these don't grow heavy like clouds scudding the sky on a spring day. Imagine them wrapping around each other in some invisible limbo of their own. You could get hypnotized to sleepiness in no time trying to pierce this hazy veil of smoke.
Don't count sheep, be a shuttlecock in the wind, its feathered flights across the court a rhythmic to and fro soothing sound. As the wind blows around it, feel the leaves rustle like tattered pages, the forest whispering a lullaby, rocking you to sleep.
Have a vision of you dripping wet under the rain, scrubbing you clean. Ride with the tendrils curling downwards until they evaporate on the ground. As you and the rain melt and become one, your essence evaporates into a dream pulling you into deep sleep.
When sleep is elusive, let your mind just wander into the deep end of the sea Touch the undulating weeds moved by the waves above it. Search for a sea.nymph, and when you find her, hold her hand or her fins or her tail or whatever part of her you can latch yourself into. The very act of trying to catch her maybe so exhausting you could fall asleep into oblivion.
Now, was that so hard, falling asleep?
@jjote 0828/2015
Copyright © Josefina Costales | Year Posted 2015
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