I created a place within my mind I use to escape pain, or (more frequently) go to sleep.
I took an endless grassy plain with nothing man-made in it and populated it with a Tennessee Walker mare I bonded to a long time ago. I fade out my perceptions of where I am and just sort of mentally slide sideways into that place.
If you try it, build it one element at a time, and keep it simple. No other people or technology, no more than one animal. Start with what you're standing on in this place and expand outward.
I wrote this poem awhile back about it:
Air
Eyes closed
I ride white noise
To my midnight key.
Amidst low, lush green
She waits, munching geraniums;
A solo patch of other color
Marking the severed and buried.
Black-trimmed chestnut
Solidifies, chased by
Equine scent and whuffed greeting.
Muse of lucidity,
She keeps Daedalus silent
As I twist flows,
Ascending to sleep.
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