Sunday, March 14, 2010

Out of body experience

The doors of illusion descend through the haze onto the cobble path you travel. You pull your cloak tighter around your shoulders as you approach the gaping portal. A phosphorescent glow seeps out through the cracks and the warm gust of some foreign land breathes on your skin with the promise of something different. Spirits bolstered, grown tired of the dull landscape surrounding your path, you step one foot across the threshold.

The gust becomes a vaccuum and you are sucked forward through the door. The gravity propels you as you fly through infinity. A cascade of silver spiraling in a funnel follows your trajectory and the clouds part ways dancing in geometric patterns. up through the atmosphere like an eagle soaring on a thermal. The air thins and the sun pierces the particles dancing in its light. An angel implodes and a can of tomato soup takes its place. The can tilts forward to intercept your travel. Confined within the can is a swirling mass of energy. The source of attraction, a worm hole to a different dimension.

Your torso twists in upon itself and your limbs grow a mind of their own, swirling and teaming with cosmic radiation. Your skin glows, growing whiter and whiter until, in a flash of electricity, it turns invisible. Your face is put on a hillside and your eyes float to the night sky. In a moment of clarity your mind wipes clean. Your voice echoes off the moon and your tongue licks from the oceans.

In the next instant it was as if none of this ever was and you wake to find yourself in a stranger's body.