THE ROCK

A Story by Astroboy

Regression no 4

Hypnotist: Counting back from 10... 9… 8… 7… 6… 5… 4… 3… 2…1…

You’re asleep.

I saw him, he took that pill and his lips disappeared.

I enter a space, a small space, bright and unusual. I was kept there for days….

Hypnotist: What is happening Eve? Where are you?

I can feel, hear and taste colour now, it’s really quite amazing. I told my brother Jacob but he didn’t believe me. In fact he didn’t answer me at all. He hasn’t spoken since we were taken. He just lies there, staring into nothing.

Blue is spicy and loud. It’s funny because in retrospect nobody would assume blue to be this way, spicy and loud that is.

Red is sharp and made my stomach feel tight. I’m not sure what else to say about red, it just upsets me thinking about it.

Each day my mind’s different. Yesterday I could taste food just by thinking of it. They started showing me pictures of fruit, kind of like a slide show but not really because there were no instruments. The different fruit would just float into my head and I would be able to taste it. They kept showing me this grapefruit which really started to upset me because I hate grapefruit and I could tell they knew this but didn’t care. And after a while that same big dirty grape fruit would pop up every second time and it’d make me wince.

That night they put me in the pink stuff with Jake.

I’m awake. I’m secured to a table facing a large sphere of gooey pink fluid. It smells really awful and I can’t….. I can’t……

Hypnotist: What can’t you do Eve? What’s the matter?

I’m forced to close my eyes.

My stomach feels like its being forced out my belly button. Uncontrollably my eyes flick wide open. There’s darkness above me, a darkness I’ve never seen before. It’s oval, absolute, slick and superior in its presence. The room starts to evaporate and suddenly, I’m inside the darkness. I’m relaxed; the darkness fills me, empowers me and injects me with knowledge. They show me a vision... I’m floating naked in space. I can see a meteor headed towards earth. I hear a million cries.

I was lying on this very bed when it happened. You were wearing that same red sweater like you are now and looking down at me, into my eyes. It starts to get dark, very dark. You walk towards the window. You turn to look at me, I see the horror in your face, and then I too see the rock.