It all began like a blurry dream. I came to my senses slowly as I had blacked out earlier. My skin could feel a cold chill and there was a peculiar smell in the air. I instantly tried to wake up but somehow I could not. It was as if I was under a spell. This has never happened to me before. For once even opening my eyes was a big struggle. I knew I was alive but I was in total darkness. Then again, I wondered if I had died and reached afterlife. If yes, Holy Moly I might have reached hell or something.

I was starting to panic and my futile efforts to move my body were yielding none. I discovered I had no control over it. I started to think about sins that I had committed, but then I could not remember anything. Finally from the corner of my eyelids I could sense some light. As I put more effort into it I found out that lights were too powerful and blinding. I wondered if I was passing into another dimension or energy field.  After a brief pause I made another attempt. This time my brain was able to grasp more details. It was not the source less kind as I had imagined earlier, it was more like electric ones.

 I still had no control over other parts of body and wasn’t able to move. I abandoned my desires to move and concentrated on my other senses. Slowly my ears were picking up on sounds. It was mix of various sounds.  I could hear some footsteps, beep and some other noise, which I was unable to comprehend. Suddenly I could see some figures gathering around me. As time passed on they began to take shape, form and color. I was scared for my life or if I had any left. I was still trying to make out what they were. They had big eyes and somewhat resembled like aliens in the movies.

I could not fathom where I was or if I was hallucinating.  Out of blue, I was sensing intense pain inside my body familiar to incision. It was like a deep cut and I could feel blood pouring out from my body.  I could not bear anymore and I screamed but there were no sound coming out of my mouth. I screamed in pain, please stop I can feel it, please stop but my screams were silent and it had no effect on the figures that surrounded me.  They kept going at it as if they were performing some kind of surgery. Somewhere down the middle I again lapsed into unconsciousness. There was a big pause, a kind with no thoughts. Pure emptiness and void, the kind I have never experienced.

After the nightmare, I came to my senses again. I did not know what to make of the things I felt the last time, as it was surreal. I wondered if it was a dream. I opened my eyes and I could not make out where I was and why I was here. It just did not make sense to me. I don’t recall how I got here. What did I experience? Did I encounter a fatal accident? Am I still alive? Questions were running wild in my mind. I was able to move. I was able to stand up. I touched my own face with my own hands and I could feel it. I am definitely not dead.  Just to be sure I checked my own stomach and my hands were up against the scar. There were some stiches.

May be I was in some kind of accident. But the surrounding did not resemble hospital or medical facility of any sorts. It looked like a small-enclosed space. Suddenly, it struck my mind that I was in a tent. I got out and found myself in middle of nowhere.

It was sunny with bright blue sky, birds were chirping and butterfly fluttering from one flower to another. Paradoxically, I seem to be only creature out of place in the lap of mother nature.