For what felt like an eternity, my mind wandered through a thick, impenetrable fog, where thoughts tangled and slipped away before I could fully grasp them. The world around me seemed to exist just beyond a veil, blurred and out of reach as if I were caught in the space between dreaming and waking. Sounds and sensations floated in and out, vague and unformed, leaving me adrift in a sea of uncertainty, where time had no meaning, and everything felt distant... disconnected. Sometimes, I could hear a gentle voice talking to me but I couldn’t make out what they were saying. There were times when I felt my body being gently carried around in careful arms, the tenderness wildly familiar. Once, I felt prickling sensations around my ankles and up my shin, which had been weird and left me a bit

