The Watch and the Garden (Premium)
Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories
Slumber Studios
4.6 • 10.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Thomas here. You're listening to a preview episode. You can enjoy the entire story |
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| 1:00.7 | The delicious smells of the bakery just around the corner and the flowers that always bloomed |
| 1:08.7 | this time of year. The old-fashioned wristwatch ticks loudly in your ears. |
| 1:18.0 | You've been able to ignore it for the past few days, but now it seems to be getting bolder |
| 1:25.9 | and bolder. Tick, tick, tick, tick, it thunders in your mind. It's becoming a song, |
| 1:42.1 | a melody that calls to you and only you reminding you of its presence, |
| 1:49.7 | tempting you to go back in time again. Hidden within the rhythm of the watch is the memory of Ada, |
| 2:03.4 | the sweet elderly woman, and friend you once met. |
| 2:08.3 | As you walk to the ticking of the clock, your mind takes you back to the first time you saw her, |
| 2:20.5 | and your heart fills with the calming joy. How nice it would be to see her once more, you think. |
| 2:29.5 | You look at your surroundings again, the familiar street, the houses with their stone walls, |
| 2:40.8 | and finds creeping along the windows. Oms that remind you of a time long, long ago, |
| 2:50.0 | a time you visited once before. You close your eyes and inhale the scent of spring, |
| 3:00.8 | a freshly baked bread being warmed in a large oven, and the subtle aroma of someone lighting their fireplace. |
| 3:11.7 | Slowly, your fingers itch toward your watch. They creep nearer to the dial. You feel the tiny metal |
| 3:26.3 | knob against your skin, cold and inviting. Just like the first time it happened, your fingers move |
| 3:37.6 | as they have willpower of their own. As your fingers rest there on your wrist, the desire |
| 3:48.8 | begins to build until you can no longer deny it. And like you've done a hundred times before, |
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