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Dreamless Sleep

You know how sometimes, when you sleep with another person next to you, usually your significant other, you would put your arm behind her neck and let her use it as a pillow? Well,I’m sure this has happened to you the way it has happened to me quite often: You wake up before the other person, you want to move, yet you are unable or unwilling to do so because you don’t want towake up the other person or disturb her sleep. You try to fall back to sleep so that you could go back to the state of immobility, but the more you try to fall asleep, the more uncomfortable you are,the more agitated you become, and the harder it is for you to fall back to sleep. You are going crazy from thirst and stillness and you are pissed off because you really want to move.

Should youslowly lift up her head and sneakily pull your arm away from underneath her head? No, I can’t possibly take that chance because even the slightest movement has the potential to wake her up, which can bea rude act that has the aptitude to trigger a series of disturbances and arguments or possibly even a fist fight that could eventually result in break up. So you wait until she makes a turn in hersleep. But what if she is in such a deep sleep that she doesn’t move a muscle until she is awake? What if she is trapped in her dream, or falls into such a deep and long sleep that she doesn’t wake upuntil you died from waiting and from thirst and hunger?

This was what happened to me. My partner did not wake up in time. We both used each other’s arm as a pillow, but unfortunately I woke upbefore she did. I waited until every part of my body ached and itched. I waited until my tongue turned into sandpaper. I waited until my body turned to its extreme starvation mode as it began tocannibalize itself cell by cell, tissue by tissue. I waited until I died.

It’s hard to say how much time had elapsed before she finally woke up, but it was too late. She didn’t realize that I had died and...