I didn't blink twice when I fell into the abyss. I didn't even gasp. Really, I wasn't falling, more that I was floating or sustained in absence of everything. Not wet or cold, not any feeling I could describe. More like sensory deprivation. Like the opposite of the ringing you'd hear and what your eyes would echo after getting hit by a flashbang. Just bone chilling darkness and silence. Like I'd been sent back to my mother's womb, or not even having my soul sent to the planet at all. The unknowing quiet and shelter from the real world, like the brief second before you pass out. Those 9 minutes felt like forever. I thought I was for sure going to get struck or punished, like my judgement day had already come. You can only expect something horrifying to happen right after experiencing something like that.

Be careful what you wish for, a famous phrase.

What did I wish for before I was swept away? Where was I? I consciouslly never jumped into this pit, rather I was swept in like it was a tsunami. But it wasn't violent, actually, it was soft. But why, what did I do? I can't seem to remember, and my mind is playing tricks on me. Can anyone hear what I'm saying? Have I woken up? Am I even saying anything or are these just my thoughts? I wish i had the answers. Oh, that's it. Where was I? Screaming, crying, and throwing up. I wished to die, or to switch lives with someone. I don't think I got what I wanted, because as the color returns to my photoreceptors, all i see is my body below me, not dead, but frozen in time. A coma, thats what it is. AHow could my body survive and be in a coma if I, my soul, am not in it? But I still can't remember how I got to this hospital.

Guess I'll have to backtrack.