I have been spending the last few days trying to figure out what is going on. I can’t tell if this is a prison, or if the whole thing is just a dream that I can’t wake up from. I noticed that the dreams i do have never seem to show my face. Never seem to show a reflection in anything that you would normally expect. I know that I should see my face back in a reflection in a window or a car, or something, but there isn’t anything there at all.
I have been looking around the edges of the room. I can’t move my head, so this is a frustrating activity. I strain my eyes as far as they go one direction, and the world grey’s out at the edges as I strain to capture small details in the room. The funny thing is that the room seems so normal and bland, that almost seems too normal. Have you ever walked into someones house, or a business, and everything seems false? Like someone just staged the place, and no one has ever lived there or will live there. Or the business is a false front to something else going on behind the scenes? This is what this room seems like. I don’t think it is a hospital, but it isn’t a home. It seems too industrial to be somewhere that anyone would want to live. It also seems like a huge building.
The funny thing that comes to mind is a storage unit. You know the units people rent to store extra things? Boxes and furnature and all the things they can’t store at home. A long series of hallways, and door after door. That is what it feels like. The odd thing here is that I can’t remember ever seeing anything outside of my room. Of the building at least. I have all these other memories flowing into my head, but I can’t remember how i got here. My room seems larger than a storage unit, so that isn’t an accurate description, but it is what the environment feels like to me. I feel like outside my door is a dim hallway with doors going down the space.
The room itself seems normal for a room. Like a bedroom in a mid range hotel chain. But more like a hotel chain that had been converted to a recovery facility at short notice. Like somewhere they needed to warehouse people, but didn’t want to go through the hassle of getting new furniture. The thing about that is, it doesn’t do justice to the place either. It isn’t like either of those things. There isn’t enough furniture in the room to make it seem like a hotel. Not enough medical equipment to seem like a recovery room. So it is something in between. And the lamps, why aren’t there any lamps. Why is the light seeming to come from everywhere at the same time.
The door is a plain wooden door. It looks more like a door you would see in the bedroom of a house. Nothing fancy, and kind of cheap looking and flimsy. Not too flimsy, but enough that it looks like something someone bought on bulk. The odd thing that i just noticed. The door is hinged out. Normally it would hinge into the room so you can remove the hinges if you are trapped. This one seems to hinge out. That also means the door swings out into the hallway, and not into my room. That is an odd thing to notice, but it just caught my eye. I need to think about a few things. Why did they set up the doors like this? What exactly is making me feel like there are more rooms like this everywhere around me? Why do i see a long hallway, and dim lights, when i think of what is outside this room?