Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories - A Guest in a Strange City (Premium)

Episode Date: June 16, 2021

This is a preview episode. Get the full episode, and many more, ad free, on our supporter's feed: https://getsleepy.com/support. A Guest in a Strange City This evening, we’ll be arriving by train to visit old friends in a fantastical city, filled with magical creatures, shifting streets, and surprising forms of transportation. But for all its strangeness, we’ll find it’s as warm and welcoming as a second home. 😴  Sound design: train ride. 🚞 Narrator: Elizabeth Grace About Get Sleepy Premium: Help support the podcast, and get: Monday and Wednesday night episodes (with zero ads) The exclusive Thursday night bonus episode Access to the entire back catalog (also ad-free) Premium sleep meditations, extra-long episodes and more! We'll love you forever. ❤️ Get a 7 day free trial, and join the Get Sleepy community here https://getsleepy.com/support. And thank you so, so much.  Tom, and the team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi, Thomas here. You're listening to a preview episode. You can enjoy the entire story tonight by subscribing to our supporters' feed. There you'll get access to the entire back catalogue, bonus episodes, and more, and it's all completely ad-free. Click the link below to learn more. And thank you so so much. Me and the team really appreciate your support. Looking out the train window, you can finally see the mythical city of Calyxenus, Joule of the coast. Because the locomotive is making a wide, looping approach, you have a clear view of this strange and wondrous place.

Not known to many, this is a city where things don't quite work the way you're used to. Everything's a little bit upside down. Walking around this town, you might find schools of fish in the sky, or magicians doing spells on the street corner. Some call it magical. Others would say it is strangely scientific, but either way you can't wait to explore the mysteries and surprises in store for you. You've never been here before, but some old friends of yours moved to the area a number of years ago. This is the first time you've made the journey out to see them and you're excited to spend a week at their home.

They're kind, generous and funny people. From the postcards they've sent, you know that they live in a beautiful apartment apartment, underneath the weeping Willow Bows of Kizya Street, which backs on to one of the city's most famous canals. You imagine that you'll spend long evenings in that small shady backyard of theirs, resting on cozy chairs beneath strings of little paper lanterns. You'll sit together in comfortable silence, watching her coise- mantarace fly slowly across the evening sky, and you'll enjoy the cool night breeze that moves the willow fronds over the surface of the canal like calligraphy brushes. The city is famous for a type of crisp golden cider, flavoured ever so faintly with blackberries. After a long, dusty train ride across the open desert, you cannot imagine anything more

refreshing. But you have some distance to travel yet before you reach their home. The train begins to slow and its horn sends a booming echo rolling across the farmland that spreads outside the city. It's a confident, joyful sound, like that of a great creature returning to its home. The other passengers begin to rustle as the train pulls into McKenzie station. Some are wizards who rearrange their bags and scrolls and magic familiar like owls and toads. Others are everyday folk gathering up their children and bustling toward the doors. But you feel no need to rush, so you stretch your legs out under the seat across from you, and glance out through the glass at the pandemonium of Menzie Station in the mid-afternoon.