Ok, this is one of my faves (one of my others faves is "Drink while urinating" but we'll leave that for now!!);
DREAM OF ALL THE PLACES IN THE WORLD
(they all have durations, prop lists and the effect you should feel afterwards btw)
Duration - 20 to 30 mins
Props - none
Effect - joyous
You're tired of being where you are. The place is limited, repetitive; it holds no more interest for you, let alone surprise. You are seriously fed up with this one place, forever identical with and closed in upon itself. And yet escape is close to hand. Just think of the infinite variety of places that exist, near or far, at this moment....
Famous sites: The Piazza San Marco in Venice, the ramparts of Jerusalem, the entrance to central Park off Fifth Avenue, the Yamoussoukro cathedral, the Pyramids, the Little Mermaid (there are many more places listed but my fingers will die - use your imaginations)...and endless, infinitely extendable list of styles, squares, buildings, cafes, statues, panoramic views of every kind.
There is more. Think also, until dizziness sets in, of the infinite multiplicity of humbler places. Anonymous, unpresuming spaces: backyards, little squares, impasses, narrow streets and alleyways. And even of these humble corners: store-rooms, barns, larders, cellars, cupboards, garages. In the humidity of the tropics, the dryness of the deserts, the damp colds of the misty regions. With palm trees or birches, cacti or ancient pines, white sand, red rocks, mud, permafrost, the pure whiteness of the wave against the deep ocean blue.
And then there is the inexhaustible list of what people are doing, what everybody is doing at this instant, in all the places of the world: making love, crying with pleasure or with pain, eating, dying, sleeping, sweating, toiling, enjoying themselves, amazing themselves, envying each other, travelling, cooking, reading, returning home, singing.
You can bathe in this multiplicity, be carried away by this infinity of alternatives. The place you are in isn't simply one spot within an infinity of others. It contains all the others. And it's all entirely within your head. Permanently available. To one and all.
PHEW!!!!
(you lot are lucky dd is switched on enough to amuse herself eating my handbag while I typed that lot!)