When I woke up, I was surrounded by…well…light. The best way to describe it is to imagine yourself with hundreds of spotlights, directed on you, from all different angles. When I opened my eyes, for that fraction of a second, that was what I saw, and I instantly shut them agian. After seeing stars on the back of my eyelids for a few minutes, I tried to feel my way around.

I felt the edge of the area I was laying on, and rolled over, expecting to hit the ground. When my feet didn’t hit anything, I realized I was laying on a bed, floating high above whatever lay below me. I instantly hung on to my “bed” and felt my feet dangle. I felt my hands starting to slip. More, more, and even more, like a terrible nightmare. Finally, with a last effort to pull myself up, I fell off.
Falling.
Falling.
Falling.