My head was swimming with a million thoughts and I couldn’t focus on a single one of them. My mind was a buzzing and confusing mess. I was in between the state of sleep and awake. I was afraid to fully awake. I didn’t remember what happened, but all I knew was that it was something bad.

Something truly bad, like the end of your life kind of bad.

I didn’t want to consider the possibility that I could be dead. That I had met the same fate as ...