zigdon

Wake up

You're comfortable, on a level and plush surface

Your eyes are closed, but you're aware of a bright light behind your eyelids

Someone is talking to you, you know they have been for a while

They are operating on you in some way, there is slight pain, but you are not alarmed

As they tell you what they're about to do, you feel a tugging here, a pinch there, a stab of pain elsewhere

YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHERE YOU ARE

Carefully wiggling parts that aren't being worked on, you figure out you're prone

Pain in your left arm, where The Voice is working

Pain in the right foot

Pain in the right arm

Pain in the back of your head

No sense of how big a space you have - might hit something if you wiggle the toe too much

Pain in your right eye, it wasn't there a second before, was it?

Understanding that you're injured, you don't really want to figure out where more pain might be hiding. There might be something larger you forgot, and it might be unbearable to remember.

You suspect that if you start freaking out, you won't be able to stop, and there will be Damage.

holy crap, terrifying.

Comply with the Voice's commands, maybe when They're done, you'll be at a stable point to figure things out.

You hope you don't freak out when you find out they're removing an arm, or are aliens working on you in a cave, or whatnot.


This is how I woke up, at 2am, with the nurse replacing my IV line. One of the scariest, most bizarre experiences of my life.