The Afterlife Is Not What You Think It's Like (Part 7)

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Humans are born with five senses. Some even say we have a sixth sense. And some like to argue that pressure, temperature and motion are all unique senses as well. When the whole world around you is three dimensional and limited, you have a false sense of control and observation. You think you can perceive everything there is to the world. The truth is we?re built with a very limited perception in the grand scale of the universe. We can see, but only on a narrow spectrum. We can hear, but only in a narrow frequency. Our minds and consciousness have evolved to ignore all the other things going around us such as radio waves and background radiation because they are invisible to us.
My experience past hell, in the so called Plains, was the most painful and eye opening experience of my life. What do you perceive when all your senses are stretched to their limits? In The Plains, you can perceive everything there is to the universe. Your eyes can somehow see all waves of light. You ears can hear all frequencies. And the result? it isn?t fun or enjoyable. It?s something that tears apart your very soul because our fragile minds never evolved to handle this much information. To sum this up in two words as I write the rest of the part:
Mental Overload
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The moment I walked into that strange and nonsensical fog with Tasha, I knew I had stepped into the wrong place. The blue robed woman?s word echoed around in my head as my stomach turned itself inside out.
Your species was never meant to visit the plains
It?ll be hard to describe this place but let me just start with what I saw when I first opened my eyes. My whole body was already feeling extremely uncomfortable and tingly like there was an electric current passing through me. The air felt thicker and it seemed to cling to me in clumps and weigh me down. In a way, it nearly felt like walking through high pressure water hundreds of meters under the ocean.
As soon as I began to feel those sensations when I arrived or materialised (I still don?t understand how the fog brought me there), I opened my eyes and regretted it. The Plains weren?t really plains, they were more a jumbled mess of everything that ever existed. It was so messed up, that even the difference between the ground and air was not defined. It was like being in a watercolour painting, where objects and colours bled into each other.
The sky was black. When we really think of black, we think of the absence of light, of darkness but here black meant nothingness. If you were to ask me what existed before the universe or what exists outside of the universe, I?d tell you it would be that. So with the sky, being absolute nothingness, it served as a container for everything in this place and that was probably the only logical thing in The Plains, the only thing that followed a pattern or law and made sense.
I saw so many strange new colours. They were completely unrecognisable and I could try my best but I just wouldn?t be able to describe those colours. It?s like me asking you what the colour of happiness is. What the colour of dreamless sleep is. It?s something you can?t put into words and visualise. These new colours overwhelmed my vision to the point where I could barely point out any colours I actually knew, those that I understood.
All around me and far out into the horizon, random objects were floating, walking, crawling?.. moving. Some could have very much been some kind of entity and some looked like average objects. Others were incomprehensible like those four dimensional gifs.
?Ethan, can you hear me??, Tasha asked next to me.
She shouldn?t have mentioned hearing cause the moment my mind shifted to ?hearing?, I heard all the sound in the universe. I heard everything from the faint heartbeat of flies to the explosions of supernovas and it made my ears bleed. My thoughts were overwhelmed and being squeezed inside my own head by all the input from my environment. By everything.
?Listen Ethan, close your eyes and just ignore everything. We need to make it through this place to get to the Hall Of God. The more you shout out the outside world, the better you?ll cope. Start with closing your eyes? Tasha advised.
I couldn?t respond to her. I had sunk really deep into this world. I began to separate weird creatures walking through the mess of everything. Their bodies were impossible shapes and their eyes seemed to radiate some sort of beam of light. They swept the plains like spotlights, searching for something?.
I felt Tasha?s hand grab me and pull me forward. She was saying something but I didn?t have time to even figure out what she was saying. The moment she moved me and my head moved slightly, I saw in all directions at once. Like a fly with 360 vision, my whole world spun and the dizziness shook my entire body. I didn?t realise it before but somehow I could see beyond my field of vision. No, it wasn?t beyond my field of vision, I was seeing the different layers of this reality. Reality isn?t just a stable 3D world, it?s made of parallel universes and other worlds and here in the plains, I could see them superimposed on top of each other like a crazy nonsensical photograph that?d been generated by an AI
?Ethan, please, we have to get moving or we?ll die here?
I closed my eyes. Movement was less painful. We started to walk forward. I felt objects pass through me and around me. Some things were solid, those we bumped into and had to walk around. It was much harder when we had to keep our eyes closed but we kept moving.
I began to feel a deep headache after about five minutes. This place was penetrating right into my head, digging in like a drill and poking my brain matter. It was the most extreme headache I?d felt, one that I felt deep inside my skull. It made my stomach churn and twist. I felt sick. Sicker than I?d ever felt in my life.
I was starting to lose my stamina, my breathing coming out in gasps. Even the air here seemed thick and it felt like trying to breathe in a vacuum. Tasha continued to pull me with her. She was mentally stronger than me, more resilient. She could grit her teeth and push through this place to reach her goal. I on the other hand was starting to lose it.
After two minutes, I felt a different kind of sensation in my stomach. It felt like the acid from my stomach was leaking into my insides and then I got a sudden urge to throw up. I felt hot liquid climb up my throat and into my mouth. It had a foul coppery taste. I finally opened my eyes to see what had come out of my mouth and realised it was blood.
Red and dark. The only stable thing in this reality, one that I recognised and something that made sense to me.
Tasha must have looked too.
?This is normal. I?ve been told this place has that kind of effect on people. Just hang on until we get to the Hall Of God?
?How do you know this Tasha? Who told you??
?When you?ve been in the afterlife for long enough, you hear stories of people who made it out of this place?
I didn?t say no more and we began walking again. I thought throwing up would have made me feel better but nothing changed and my headache remained, drilling into my skull and eating away at my sanity. It would be a matter of time before I simply give up with this absolute torture.
I heard Tasha swear under her breath as I felt a warmth fall on my body. Opening my eyes, I saw the creature that I described earlier, roaming around the place with searchlights. One of its searchlights had fallen right on us and it was now fixated on us. The creature seemed startled, possibly confused because it didn?t do anything for a few moments. Then it let out an indescribable sound. It was a high frequency sound that buzzed in the air like electricity. Almost instantly, more spotlights began to focus on us as other similar creatures drew near and examined us.
?Run?
That was the one word I needed to hear as I started to run in this place for the first time with my eyes open. The world became a blur of pain as we stumbled and bumped into things. The only thing keeping us running was our desire to get into the Hall Of God.
Finally, we reached something. It was like a white piece of silk, one so large that it stretched across forever and seemed to disappear into the sky. Beyond it, we could see the ghost of a large structure. It looked like a huge building, with one singular large room.
I pieced it together pretty quickly - The Hall Of God.
What confused me though, was the barrier that we now faced. How were we supposed to cross it? Was it safe to just walking in. We had stopped running now as the creatures had long stopped chasing us. Still this place beginning to become way too excruciating to stay in. We had both thrown up large volumes of blood and were close to just collapsing.
I looked over to Tasha, hoping she?d give out the next instruction but what she said next confused me.
?You know Ethan, I could have made it out here all alone, but this barrier is the reason I brought you with me. I was looking for someone naive enough to come with me?
?What do you mean Tasha? Please I can?t stay here any longer?
?I?m sorry Ethan. I like you, but I need to do this if I want to get into the Hall Of God?
?Do what-?
She lunged at me, pushing me to the ground. Before I knew it, she was punching me hard.
Again and again like she was beating a boxing dummy. I saw stars and my head spun. Each punch left a lasting sting on my face and as more and more rained down upon me, I started to lose consciousness. Then she stopped and clamped both her hands around my throat, pressing down hard.
?To get into the Hall Of God, you need to make a sacrifice.?
Her voice seemed distant. My chest was burning and my head was spinning from the lack of air. I needed to get her hands off my throat. I needed to save myself. For my family.
I punched her in the stomach, and then punched again. It startled her and her grip loosened slightly. I took the window of opportunity, pushing her off me to the side and scrambling to my feet. Before she could get up again, I stomped my foot in her stomach again and she fell back down with a gasp.
I had taken the breath out of her because she didn?t try to get up again. I knew what I had to do, but I couldn?t bring myself to do it. I couldn?t kill another person, even if it meant not getting to visit the Hall Of God. Even if it meant staying in the afterlife forever.
I began to walk over towards the barrier, hoping that touching it would kill me or something because I couldn?t take this place any longer. I heard Tasha get up behind me again. Maybe I should just let her kill me. She?d been through all this so she could get her life back.
I turned around and saw her walking up to me. She looked right into my eyes with an intensity I had never seen before. Her face was devoid of emotion. Then she tried to push me into the barrier. I didn?t really mean to dodge her. It was an instinctual reaction and when I moved away, she stumbled and fell right into the barrier herself instead.
Her body disintegrated into nothingness
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OD
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