Paralyzed

New Work Wednesday! Today I experienced something I hope to never have happen again. I wrote this after it occurred and I am still shaking. Apologies it isn't cheerier but its what I felt.

Author's Note

Review if you like, your thoughts and opinions are always welcomed. As always thanks for reading!

Reviews

[Glen Weimann]

Joshua Hi. I wrote a poem 'Let me go' along very similar lines. The whole locked-in thing that one sometimes sees on news programmes is simply terrifying. Your writing captures all of that. A sort of nightmare come panic attack. You missed a proof-read, I think, 4 lines from the end with 'was is a dream'?

It's not much consolation for an able-bodied person, but one only has to look around and see people with the most severe physical limitations managing to achieve amazing things and seemingly being happy. I think we all take our hat off to them and admire their positivity and worry that we could never do what they have. Let's hope we never have to find out.

Good work!
Nigel

[Joshua McNay]

Thank you for the review! It's funny I proofread and fixed one mistake in the end and missed a second one. Thank you for pointing that out so I can fix it. Thanks again for the review, I am glad to see people can relate to this.

[Joshua McNay]

Fixed the error, thank you again Nigel for pointing that out!

[emptyinkwell]

I love that the vividness of your imagery manages to make the reader (or at the very least - me) feel uneasy. I've experienced this before. I went to bed once and then had a dream where I really needed to wake up but I physically just couldn't. My mind was awake enough to dream but too asleep to move the rest of my body. It's a strange, haunting feeling and you portrayed it here so well!

[Joshua McNay]

Thank you for the review! It was a feeling I do hope I never experience again. It was completely unnerving. I am learning I am not alone in this occurrence which makes me less scared than I was when it first happened. Thank you again for reading and the review.