Stuck Here
- Clint Haugen
- Aug 7, 2023
- 1 min read
I counted down from 10
And watched the black ceiling fan
Spin
Around and around
“10 . . . 9 . . . 8 . . .”
I was trying to hypnotize myself
I was trying to meditate
I was trying to stay in between sleeping and being awake
A voice told me
That I would wake up in another world
If I counted down from 10
“7 . . . 6 . . . 5 . . .”
I had heard that you can lucid dream
When you’re stuck
Frozen
In that state between being awake and being asleep
I imagined floating above my body
I imagined seeing myself from above
I imagined floating up
And up and up and up
Above my house
City
State
Country
Continent
Planet
Galaxy
Until earth
Was just a
Speck
“5 . . . 4 . . . another world . . . 3 . . .
“Countdown from 10,
watch the fan,
lucid dream,
Hypnotize yourself,
Astral project,
Meditate,
And you’ll end up in another world.”
Well, I listened to the voice. I tried to do it. I tried to believe that I could.
“Another world . . . 2 . . . another world . . . 1 . . .”
“Now bring yourself back down to your body and open your eyes, and when you open them this time, you’ll be in another world.”
I obeyed.
I brought myself back to my body.
But,
When I opened
My eyes,
I was still in the same bed
In the same room
In the same house
In the same city
In the same state
“Well, that was bullshit.”
. . . But then I noticed the time.
And now,
I am
stuck here.
-CH 8.7.23
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