....You guys know how Aloe is good at making people relax?
Well... for me it's... Coiling.
Yeah... I know it's a little... juvenile but... I actually wrote Aloe to do a little more than just sit with you. Realistically she would do things like take your mind off what's bothering you by telling a story of some kind, or she might provide idle chitchat about how things in the Oasis are; my telehealth therapist is always adding things to our hypnotherapy inductions (she's placed a BIG emphasis on creative detail as my coping skills), today she decided to place me in a twilight/nighttime setting of it (read: usually I'm there during the "day", as in she'll say "the sun is high in the sky making everything bright and radiant" etc.), and while I don't always get taken underwater with Aloe, when she does it's BEAUTIFUL (read 2: I get **REALLY** immersed in headspacey stuff), and this time I was taken to a "lower" but just as equally relaxing area -- a darker yet glowingly-radiant, almost meadow-like ocean floor where I was guided to a strange seashell hiding underneath a shipwreck. I've been having a full three weeks on pure Hardcore mode and I'm losing the battle very badly so I guess my therapist somehow picked up on it.
Other times when I'm just hanging out with Aloe myself, and she's in sea dragon form, she'll be wrapped over me and most times I'll hear her singing or humming, many times I'll see flickers of her tail fin glowing (did you know she can do the same with her eyes?), maybe she'll show a projection of something from her little home, you get the idea. I always keep it to myself because *some people* prefer me to have a more "hardened" image, but my philosophy is, there's a time to be hardened and a time to keep yourself sane, and those two are either one or the other.
I don't know how Aloe became real like everyone here is saying (and yes I know what the actual meaning of that is), but I won't ever question it. As much as I want to be at peace, I think Aloe knows that dying is a MUCH more difficult way to be at peace than pausing for a minute or two.
Besides, I think little Huxley might enjoy feeling the sand between his toes some time