Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories - Afloat on a Peaceful Lake (Premium)

Episode Date: November 10, 2021

This is a preview episode. Get the full episode, and many more, ad free, on our supporter's feed: https://getsleepy.com/support. Afloat on a Peaceful Lake Tonight, we have another of our simple, soothing stories where we don't do much but enjoy the imaginative world around us. We'll spend the day floating on a pristine lake, before relaxing by a crackling fire under the moonlight. 😴  Sound design: lapping lake water, crickets. 💧🌾 Narrator: Marcellus Shepard 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. Standing at the edge of a tea-colored lake, you take a deep breath. The fresh air fills your lungs. Green maple trees surround the lake and are reflected, leaving soft repose on the water. Other than the chirping of birds and the humming of insects, there are no sounds.

You have the place completely to yourself. In front of you, your red canoe bobs in the water, waiting for you to begin your adventure. Picking up your smooth wooden paddle, you lay it across the width of the canoe and step in one foot at a time, feeling the boat rocking gently under your weight. When you find your seat, the boat steadies. You nudge it further into the water, freeing its stern from shore. Dipping your paddle in the water, you take a long stroke, guiding the canoe forward across the smooth lake. You watch the way the brown water ripples around your paddle as it changes its natural flow. The small splashes of your boat mingle with the singing birds, hummings the cadence,

and rustling leaves. With each drop of water that runs off your paddle and falls back into the lake, you feel more a part of this place. You're so lucky to visit. The warm sun glows above, drying the water that lands in your boat, and shimmering on the tiny waves, the lap at the sides of the canoe. In the center of the lake, where the water is the calmest,

you can see reflections of these sp parts, fluffy white clouds. You become in tune with the rhythmic movement of the battle. Reach, pull, glide, reach, pull, glide. Pull, glide. When you get to the middle of the lake, you decide to take a break from paddling. Instead letting your canoe float on the water, making slow circles guide in by the breeze. Closing your eyes, you allow the sound of nature to engulf you. For a moment, you feel as though you're floating weightless in the air, like a leaf drifting on the wind. A small splash tells you to open your eyes again.

In front of you, a lone float's on the water. It has black, white, and gray feathers, and deep black eyes which gaze in your direction. Without making a sound, you watch the bird as it watches you. Its sleek feathers are slightly damp. They glisten in the sunlight, but remain still, even as the light wind moves around them. Soon, the bird dives back into the water, looking for fish,

and leaving you to continue your journey. You dip the paddle in and out of the water, finding your rhythm again, as the bone rocks from side to side. We've just a slight twist of the wrist and flip of the paddle. You can move the boat this way, or that, to explore the different features of the lake.

Brown water and green trees spread out in all directions before you. But as you round a bend, the monotony of lake and foliage is broken by a tall wall of grey rock. You battle to the rock face, wanting to investigate this new part of your surroundings. The rock gets even bigger as you get closer. You don't speed up your battling though. You're in no rush to get there, having all day to explore this beautiful landscape.