It's been 2 weeks since the car crash and 10 days since I sensed the energy in my body. I've trained day and night, barely closing an eye... I think. Right now I can feel it in my whole body, circulating and floating around. But the biggest achievement I've made is that I can feel the energy out of my body, like sensing the air around me. Right now the area I can feel is only 1cm or so away from my body, but it's enough.
When I move a part of my body, or when something in the room moves, it creates ripples in the energy. I can guess when someone enters the room based on the ripple, as there's not much in the room that can make big movements. But that's most of what I'm able to do with it for now. Also, the bed, bandages, clothes, needles, the energy from each of them is different. It might be because of texture, or color, or maybe both. Anyways, for now, I can't feel details, only the general shape of objects. And I've discovered that although it's easy to move the energy inside my body, I can't feel my organs, at least yet.
And someone just entered. It's the doctor. It seems I'm healing faster than expected, which might mean I won't have to live in the hospital until I die, but it will still take around a couple of months until I can leave.
Of course, the faster healing is probably because of the psychic energy, although my nerves probably won't regenerate. I don't even know if it will ever be possible to get them back.
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Another week passed, my sensing ability has gone from 1cm to 10, which is pretty good. It's also more accurate, I can feel the hairs on my body, barely, like a denser area in the energy. Anyways, now I'm not focusing on increasing my sensing range, this is enough for now. I will focus on using the energy. See if I can use it to eventually regain my bodily functions.
I start by extending the energy out of my body. I can move the energy in the air, but it's harder, it takes all my concentration to do it and even then it barely noticeable.
Moving the energy in my body is pretty easy, I got the handle of it in a couple of minutes, getting it out is harder. It took me 2 hours to learn, but it was worth it. I could use it to form a ripple in the energy, much better than I could just by using my will. It was probably interacting with the air, in the way physical objects create waves in the energy. But it could not affect the physical world any more than that, I probably have to increase the quantity of energy, which I can do by simply using it.
It took me 5 days to increase it by around 10 times, at which point I could use it to form a slight breeze in the air, and my sensing also increased to 15cm, as I wasn't focusing on it.
I tried doing other things with the energy, like condensing it in a small ball. The only thing I could use it, for now, was making people feel weird by throwing it at them. That's probably the reason the nurses come here less and less often. Maybe I shouldn't have done that, or just do it to 1 person.
Oh, and today is my birthday, sadly I will have to celebrate it like this. But I'm not sad. I can't be sad when I think about how that bastard that put me here is just walking around out there.
My parents both came to see me.
[HEY, ALAN, IT'S MOM. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! WE LOVE YOU!]
'Thanks, I also love you!'
It's getting depressing having to communicate like this. It makes me feel... disconnected from everyone. I can't even use my hands to read since my arms and legs also lost all feeling. If I wasn't able to 'see' with my new powers, I don't know how I would've handled this.
After that, we continued to chat for a while, she told me how they are still searching for the driver, but they can't find any more clues.
Also, the energy coming from their directions… has changed. It's different from before… it's making me uncomfortable.
They remained for a short time after which they left, and I continued training my energy until a nurse came, then I threw another energy ball to annoy her. Her energy changed, it made me… uncomfortable…
Oh, now I get it. The energy is also affected by people's emotions, for example, this one, when people have negative emotions about me. Then did that my parents had negative thoughts about me? Maybe they didn't want to take care of me now that I was stuck like this...
It seems I was blind in more than one way.