Prologue

{In the Third Dimension} (Will explain in the next few chapters)

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"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."

Either possibility is terrifying, but which one is true?

The truth was that we were never alone. They were always there, but we were just unable to see them.

They are always present, every day around us, and yet, we are blinded by our biological and mental restrictions.

Souls, spirits, ghosts... they have had many names throughout the history of time.

Legendary beasts, planet swallowing life forms, connecting with beings who wield unimaginable power, everything was possible...

They all exist...

But we have forgotten...

Forgotten how to see, feel and perceive the unimaginable power that the universe contains.

We were not always like this. Humans in our quadrant of the galaxy used to be an intergalactic species. We were able to connect through technology, and also through our minds.

A simple thought was able to transmit detailed information billions of light years away.

A simple thought was able to move a species towards a common goal.

A simple thought and we were able to make dreams, into reality.

Technology pushed the boundary of physics that we deemed impossible in our modern day, building machines that could harness the power of stars.

Life thrived, and death evened things out. The balance of the world was maintained, until one fated day eons ago, we lost everything, turning into creatures that became out of tune with the world.

We went into a dark age, where everything became about survival.

We still have our complex individual thoughts and emotions, but we had no means to express them to the fullest extent.

And that was the fall of the human species.

Fortunately, millions of years later, we started to wake up.

We rediscovered precious knowledge and technology like how to manipulate fire, knowing how the moon affects the tides and how to properly use a wheel. All of this happened out of the blue. Millions of years of nothing, and then all of a sudden, civilization?

We started waking up as we learned to survive. But we advanced too fast. We don't have the foundation to survive what's to come.

But, 'they' already knew that. 'They' needed to do something to restore order to the chaos about to occur.

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{Somewhere in the Fourth Dimension} (Later explained what that is)

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'What the fuck... What the fuck! WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!' I roared in my mind.

'What the fucking hell is happening...' I can't see, I can't smell, I don't have any of my senses besides my thoughts. What the fuck.

The last thing I remember was looking at my phone and switching the song before everything turned and stayed black. What is happening, is this death? How am I still able to think? How is this possible?!?

Am I really dead? Everything just gone like that? The worst thing is I don't even know how I died. I feel like losing my mind but the only thing that kept me sane was HOW CAN I STILL THINK!?!?!?

Seriously what is happening to me? Not having any sense besides my thoughts, I feel like I am losing my mind. I don't have anything to ground me in reality, but what even is reality? Is what I am experiencing real? It cant be...

How can this be real? Why is this happening to me?

This has got to be a dream. One of those lucid dreams! But I don't have any sensation. But how can it be a dream if I can't see, feel, touch or hear anything!!!

So not a dream... I mean who knows, we barely know anything about dreams. Maybe anything that we can conjure in our minds is dreams.

My mind started to rapidly think of radical theories of what happened. Is this like one of those novels, the process of reincarnation?

The thoughts reached many absurd lengths. Maybe this is what happens when you die, pure nothing.

Fuck that's horrifying. There is no way I am actually dead right? I shouldn't be able to think...

As I slowly lose my mind over what happened my emotions overtook me. Anger, sadness, hate, regret, longing. Waves of emotions washed over me. I just can't believe it's just over like that.

I want to cry but I can't. I want to punch, punch anything, but I can't because I can't feel if I have a body. I thought of making a quick jab forward but I just can't register anything.

I know how it feels but don't feel anything when I perform the action. I want this to end but I don't have control over it. What is going on, I know this will be over soon.

So quick, I don't even know how I died. It seems like I slowly came to the conclusion that I died. Fuck, I don't even know how long I have been in this state. Fuck this is so trippy I thought to myself as waves of emotions slowly receded as I finally started to calm my thoughts.

This will be okay, at least I am not feeling any excruciating pain. It could be worse. My thoughts can be my burden or savior it all depends on me.

Little by little I started to just be at peace doing my best to think of nothing, just focusing on being present.

As challenging as it is, whenever my thoughts went astray, I forced myself to just be present.

Focus on now. Not the past nor future. No more 'what ifs' or 'I wish.' Just be present as I pretended to breathe, in and out.

Only focusing on the rhythm was I able to somewhat remain sane.

It felt like eons went by since I had nothing to base time off of. I don't even know if when I count numbers in my head they still represent time or not.

I mean nothing present is changing so how can there be time? Isn't time just a measure of change? I mean my thoughts are ever-changing, but then how would you measure the change that you can touch nor see? Just because you think so?

Oh my god, what useless thoughts. I mean all I have now are thoughts. Is this what hell is? Forever being able to think and feel emotions trapped in my mind.

Huh, guess this would make any vile person go crazy. Stuck with insanity forever. It can make a sane person go insane. But what the fuck did I do to deserve this? I miss my family. I hope they're doing well. My sister should've started school by now if anything.

I hope she's doing fine. My brother probably already start his first class, hitting on some chick he thought was attractive. Pshh, I'd laugh if I could. And just like that, my thoughts would bounce back and forth between hope and despair.

Nothing happened in the darkness for the longest time. At least that's what I think. How long has it been...

I feel like I am on the precipice of losing my mind. Just one push and I don't know what kind of dark thoughts would consume me.

Thoughts of mass destruction came to my mind. How cool would it be to be able to destroy the fabric of space through strength? Maybe commit genocide? What about three-way? Never done that before. I thought shamelessly.

I wonder if stars have sentience. They literally blow themselves up and fucking destroy so many things. But in the wake of their destruction comes creation. I mean that's how literally every element is created. Through the destruction of stars.

Fuck, to have my mind think about the infinite possibilities is like torcher to the person who is unable to experience these possibilities. Such a predicament that I am in. I laugh in my mind.

How did I even end up here? I asked myself as I thought back to the events leading up to my current predicament...