Sleeping Draft

I have written a little visual induction for a little bit of auto-hypnosis.

Hypnosis, of course, means sleep which is what I want you to do so why not try this tonight to get you off to sleep.

• Get yourself comfortable in a position where you can doze off and close your eyes.
• In the extremes of your peripheral vision of your closed right eye, you notice a white dove.
• The dove is taking off and at the same time you notice a mirror image on the left-hand side of another dove taking off.
• The two doves are in the extremes of your vision but they rise up like the final third of a circle as you look straight down the middle.
• Take a deep breath as you look up as far as possible while they arch gracefully and then swoop down.
• You are staring straight ahead.
• Relax as they get closer enjoying their steady flight in the grey sky.
• You see them in the distance almost at midline and they turn toward you, tiny little specks that are going to come down gently towards you.
• They won't get much bigger than specks but they will land on your nose.
• When they do you will be asleep.
• Focus on them.
• Concentrate on their gentle progress.
• Allow your focus to drift. Gaze at them but start looking through them.
• At them then through them.
• Notice their slow steady progress further down deeper
• Getting closer but never growing much in size.
• Allow your eyes to lose focus.
• Realise that by the time they're close enough to reach you will be asleep.
• Repeat, slower.