My eyes opened. There was only blackness, unending and eternal. I found myself lost in this blackness for a long time, so long I cannot give a proper estimate. I saw shapes emerging in the black: faces, monsters, Gods, Goddesses, hexagons, pentagrams, coke, airplanes, black holes, worm holes, strange and fantastical images forever imprinted upon my memory. Then there was a swirling creature of darkness, arms and legs like tree branches and a head shaped in the likeness of an old Zoroastrian demon. I could not hide my thoughts from the beast. It knew the dark thoughts which lay hidden in my mind, and every manifestation of fear that lingered in my heart. It smiled at me, as if to affirm my suspicions, as if to say: “I know what you are. I know what sleeps inside of you.”
I recall at last seeing an ocean of stars amidst the fabrics the universe, meteors cascading through the cosmos, while a satellite floated alone. Its signal went nowhere.