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Chapter 7 - Dissociation

It wasn't a pleasant feeling.

I was reading, like I normally did. Cooped up in a corner, with my blanket around me. It was quiet and dark, as always. It was after a few thing happened one after the other.

Suddenly, my mind wasn't registering anything. I was looking at my phone, reading the words. But what were normal letters before, suddenly seemed like they were symbols. I couldn't read them; My brain couldn't register them.

For a few seconds, I stared blankly. And then, I mechanically looked up and around me.

It was very strange. I had no thoughts. I had no memories. I could see, hear, and feel. But my brain just couldn't register anything. Like I was just a pair of eyes with no brain nor body. Seeing but at the same time not seeing anything that I was looking at. I wasn't responding to anything.

Later, I became normal, and went back to reading. I didn't think much of it. It was normal for me to zone out, so I just thought: Maybe I was just zoning out again.

It wasn't until it happened a few more times that I started to realize. I was dissociating.