"It would be helpful to practice a few very simple exercises, as for instance, to sit in a relaxed position (neither slouching, nor rigid), to close one's eyes, and to try to see a white screen in front of one's eyes, and to try to remove all interfering pictures and thoughts." Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

Once upon a time there was a man named Aulden Schlief who fell down. He fell into a chasm, so deep that he landed inside his own head. When he landed inside his own head, he couldn't find his way out again.

The fall would have killed most people, but Aulden stood right back up. He found himself surrounded by white light. He walked, seeking an end to this light, but wherever he went he could see nothing else: no horizon, nothing above or below other than the light.

Aulden decided to stop walking, because he felt that each step took him nowhere. He wasn't sure that this place of light was genuinely real, so he gave it a name. He called it "the non-place."

When he stopped walking, he found that a chair was in the non-place. He sat in the chair, and when he did he was surprised to find that standing a few yards away was a man wearing a dark suit. Aulden felt as though he knew this man, so he said, "Well, come over here. I don't like it when you wander off."

The man in the dark suit said, "I'm not the one who wanders off." Aulden asked him, "Who are you?" The man said, "My name is The Wind. I'm your guide - your personal guide." Aulden told him, "I've never had a personal guide before." The Wind answered, "Actually, I've been with you all your life." "Well," Aulden said, "I never noticed." The Wind replied, "I know. You'd think a man would notice what goes on inside his own head."

Aulden Schlief then asked The Wind, "Where do we go first?" and The Wind answered, "That's for you to decide." "For me to decide?" Aulden said, "What kind of guide are you?" The Wind explained, "I'm here to help you think, but I'm not going to do your thinking for you."

Then Aulden was able to see that they were on a sidewalk, and there was a bar down the street, so he said, "Why don't we go there?" and off they went.

That's how Aulden Schlief met The Wind when he fell down and landed inside his own head. As a point of interest, Aulden is an English name and it means "old friend." Schlief is German and it means "slept": old friend slept.