Chapter 4: Lack of common sense
A human being has consciousness, or at least that’s what human beings tend to believe, and of course, it could be debated upon whether a human being has that or not. The human body most of the time acts as an autopilot, and the brain takes care of the whole body, ensuring that a person doesn’t do anything that would jeopardize the body.
Now here is the thing that Aric, or maybe all other humans, could do. He could ask his brain to concentrate on different parts of the body. This might sound weird, but let me break it down. For example, there is an itch in your hand. The itch isn’t so annoying enough for you to scratch, but it is still there. If you are occupied with some other work, you wouldn’t even notice, but once you ask your own brain to concentrate there, it would tell you about the itch and thus prompt you to scratch.
Now here came the kicker for Aric. He randomly just used his brain to check his whole body, and then suddenly, along with the whole body, he saw that he could somehow see two small bulbs of light.
INSIDE HIS BODY.
This freaked him out. Aric, who had been lying down, sat up with a jerk. He checked his whole body again and again, and at the end, he was still able to see the two bulbs of lights. These two white orbs of light floated away from each other. They didn’t move or rotate around each other. It was just floating small orbs, and Aric could tell that it was inside his consciousness because he was able to move the perspective around easily and also because his brain was telling him that it was inside his body for some reason.
He took a deep breath.
These two orbs of light felt so fascinating that he wanted to move the perspective closer and ’touch’ them. These orbs of light seemed like they were calling to him; it was an indescribable feeling, but he could tell that these orbs were something special.
He approached one orb, and after mustering the courage, touched it. What happened next blew his mind.
One moment he was in his dimly lit room; the next, he was standing on an open road bordered by towering trees and expansive grasslands. The transition was jarring, leaving him momentarily stunned as he struggled to comprehend his new surroundings.