(Where am I? What happened? Wait, I was hit by a truck!)
(Could I be in a hospital?)
Everything around me was darkness. It was like floating on the high seas on a starless night, only deep darkness. I couldn't move or feel my limbs, but even so, I felt as if I were floating in the currents of a river that were guiding me somewhere.
Completely helpless, I started counting the minutes to distract my mind. However, as the minutes turned into hours, boredom began to dominate me.
(Seriously, what is going on? I thought I had died. Am I in a coma? But if I were in a coma and conscious, I should at least be able to hear people in my hospital room, I think.)
(Honestly, it seems like you can't trust what you hear in documentaries. The doctors in them said that a person in a coma was capable of hearing what was happening around them. What a big lie!)
(Wait, I was hit head-on by a truck, right? Can people survive that?)
Hours later, with no changes, and reasoning through my situation, I came to an impossible conclusion.
(As Sherlock Holmes said: "When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.")
It was painful to admit, but I really might be dead. It was impossible for me to have survived that accident.
(But if I'm dead, where is heaven or hell? Do all religions on Earth have some kind of afterlife? Could they all be wrong?)
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After days turned into weeks, I stopped trying to count the time I had been there. Strangely, I started to find this place comforting. Floating in the middle of nowhere had its cozy aspect, and little by little, it seemed like this place was embracing me.
(The feeling this place gives me is indescribable. Is this the feeling babies have when they are floating in their mothers' wombs?)
I slowly felt as if I was starting to forget important things, like the names of my parents, my brother, and even my own name. Old memories began to blur in my mind like the faces of my parents and high school friends, even my childhood memories as if I were being purified.
(What is happening to me...)
Just when I thought this really would be my end, I spotted a light in the distance approaching me. It got closer and closer until I could really see what its identity was.