With a groan, you slowly returned to consciousness. Your head was pounding and your tongue felt like it was made of sandpaper. Behind your eyelids, you could tell there was a brilliant light. You briefly wondered where that light could possibly be coming from in your bedroom. After several moments, your foggy memory dredged up that late night drive and the odd light that had appeared in front of you. Holding your hand out in front of your face helped soften the light a bit, though you also felt a sprinkling of dust or something raining down on your face. Cracking your eyelids open, you saw that you weren’t in your car any longer, you weren’t even sitting down. You weren’t sure how, but you were now lying down and facing up into a brilliant blue sky with the sun blazing high overhead.
Your slow as molasses mind finally pieced together a thought, Have I really been unconscious all night?
Your muscles felt worn and strained, but you managed to turn your head slightly and saw that your car wasn’t even in sight. Instead, a pristine white beach spread out in either direction, bordered by a thick wall of vegetation towards your head and a gently lapping sea opposite the greenery. Sitting up was a chore but you eventually managed it.
Looking around, you kept thinking that there was no way you could have ended up a beach. You didn’t even live anywhere near a major body of water, let alone one like what was stretched out before you.
It has to be a hallucination you kept thinking. Though it’s a really good one at that you had to admit as you picked up a handful of sand and let it slip through your fingers.
It took far longer than it should have, but you eventually managed to half crawl down to the water. On hands and knees up to your elbows in the water, you felt how refreshingly cool it was. You hadn’t realized how almost painfully hot you had become lying there in the sun. Again, you were struck by how realistic everything felt in what had to be a hallucination, a dream, or whatever. Splashing some water down across the back of your neck, you watched as the water become almost mirror smooth beneath you.
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