The Awakening

“….There are X rays, UV rays, Radio waves all travelling around us. We can’t see them, we
can’t feel them. But they exist. Right here, they exist with us. You don’t see it doesn’t mean that
it’s not there. Some things like this are hidden from our eyes. BUT THEY EXIST!….”

My eyes are feeling heavy, but my alert ears could still hear these muffled words. These
words… that kept floating between my conscious and unconscious self….

Cold… No, it’s freezing! It’s freezing, it reminds me of the time I went ice swimming in Finland. I
couldn’t move much. It felt like I was trapped in a swamp of molten iron, except that this lava
was cold. Trying to move felt like trying to lift a 100 pounds. The air around me felt so heavy, so
dense….

…If only I were not deprived of my vision. I wish I could know what this was all about. This
dream was going way beyond the knowledge I could’ve accumulated within 15 years on Earth.
This dream is too weird, but why!? I can’t seem to put a finger on it….

….I felt like something was pushing me. I could feel wheels rolling under me. I tried to open my
eyes again, now that I was fully awake. But the dense air restricted my attempts….

Where?…

What?….

I opened my eyes to a brightly lit ceiling. I wanted to look around more, but my tired eyes were
giving up. I caught a glimpse of what seemed to look like a laboratory from 3032… Have I time
traveled !?…

Questions kept popping into my head. It felt like the ink pouring from the broken nib of a pen.

Cutting through my thoughts came a quick adrenaline rush. I could feel the energy bursting in
me. My hormones and chemicals were exploding from the reservoirs of my brain without control.
My muscles were tightening and blood was rushing through my veins. My lungs were
swallowing huge gallons of air, and still felt deprived of oxygen. My ears were being haunted by
loud, howling noises. Finally, I opened my eyes.

My vision wasn’t clear, as if oil was smeared in them. The colors seemed weird and the
surroundings were too bright for my eyes. Visibility seems to induce pain in me. Light seemed to
penetrate through my eyes, into my head. I felt like the light beams were powerful enough to
break my skull and cut through my brain.

I saw a weird looking human stare into me… She was holding a scalpel. I don’t know how I
knew it was a ‘She’…I just knew.

The scalpel cut right into my hands. But I felt no pain. I could still feel my blood rushing through
my veins. But I couldn’t feel the scalpel! I tried hard to feel the pain, I tried to feel something at
least…Still, nothing.

This place was definitely messing with my head…. Oh, no! I can feel something. Is that a
needle!? I can feel it not on my skin, but somewhere beneath it!! What is this!?

“…. Oh, God I’m being drugged. No, No, NO….. Oh, no! I’m being drugged… Just let me go!!
Pls, Pls, Just let me go…pls….”

….I drift back into sleep…

What am I seeing now? It’s different from everything I’ve ever seen. I can see things from my
past and future happening at the same time. I can see things that I’ve never seen. I can feel
things in my head. Not on my skin, in my head! I’m seeing things in my head too… I see with my
eyes and in my head at the same time. I can’t understand this at all. What is happening…

“This is torture! I feel like I’m dying. I’m being drugged, I’m being tortured…. Help!”

I can’t feel my head, I can’t feel my body… Am I dead or alive? What was I doing!?

…. I had some questions. I’m sure I had some questions…But I can’t remember… I wanted to
ask something. But whom did I want to ask?…. What?, Where?… When was my question??
I can’t find my question. I think I lost my question when I was in that trance.

My eyes open again. This time a pale, greyish skinned human is standing next to me. His skin is
like that of a frog…..

Frog…. Webbed feet…Frog is an amphibian… Amphibians can live on land and
water…Tadpole…Frog… Lizard??

He….Hairless, weird…He. How did I know it’s a He?………

He…. Lizard….

He asked me, “ What is your name? Think about your name”

“ Name…Adrie…. Name….”

N..A..M..E….Name…. N…A…A for Apple…Red… Red rose…

Name… Me…Who?…. Who is this?…..I…. I’m….Mmmmmmm

“It’s done. Take him to the cell”

Lizard?…. Lizard…. Dinosaur…..I hate…. Hate…. Hats??….Mom’s round hat….blue hat….
Ha…Ha?

Dragging… Me, Dragging through the floor…. Handcuffs??

Room…white room…. Zoo…animal… Adrein Animal…

My name!!…. I said it…. What was it????

My name…..A….Ad…..Ar….en…????

Water from eyes…eyes burning…head exploding…no name in head….my head,
hurts…die…want to die….no me….happy, die

“ Where is my name??? I lost it??? Where is it??? Find my name….Pls find my name… my
name!!! “

” Pls find name….lost it….Pls find…find!!! Help!!! ”

….
.

I woke up with a shudder from this nightmare. Who was Adrein? Why was he haunting his
sleep?

I could only think of one possible explanation to this. My work life has gotten so hectic that it’s
haunting me in my sleep too.

I still remember that night when NASA scientists were called on an urgent meeting in the middle
of the night to discuss a possible alien invasion from the abandoned space ship that was found
in the Pacific earlier that night and all those UFOs that kept hovering above our heads for the
past couple of months. Three weeks hence many missing cases began to be reported which
ended in a mob finding an alien among a crowd gathering in Indiana. The people reported
seeing a weird man, who they thought was a convict.

I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that it was a bunch of common people who found this
alien who appeared to be just an albino man. Further experiments found that this albino couldn’t
be captured in an X ray and he was handed over to NASA for further studies.

Now, day in and day out we are experimenting with this lead to squeeze out as much
information as we could from this life form from the other end of the universe.

I looked into the speech I had prepared to deliver at the press meet today.

“….There are X rays, UV rays, Radio waves all travelling around us. We can’t see them, we
can’t feel them. But they exist. Right here, they exist with us. You don’t see it doesn’t mean that
it’s not there. Some things like this are hidden from our eyes. BUT THEY EXIST!….”

I dressed up in my best tuxedo and came to the laboratory. Martha, my junior, came running to
me with bad news.

“The Press meet has been cancelled. The President has ordered us to shoot the creature and
destroy all evidence about our findings. It is so that the public would not panic…”

As she was talking, I caught a glimpse of the creature, one last time, being carried in a cell,
chained…

… His body looked starved and weak, the chemicals and psychedelics we have been injecting
into him for months seems to have deteriorated his soul itself…

…I saw his pathetic eyes that seemed like it was drilling into my very being. As if he was
communicating to me, only that I couldn’t hear him.

Help!

I browsed through all the findings about the extra terrestrial life that we had found through our
experiments. The short waves that the creature emitted had many broken words in them….

….Head of Earth, Book, Masons, Absyssinia, Kassel,Bel, Kitvei hakkodesh…..

Nobody could decipher these. Some language experts were of the opinion that these were from
some ancient languages like greek, hebrew or latin. But these languages were lost to time and
we couldn’t find any man who could decipher them in 3032.

But one particular sentence kept repeating in those waves… As if the creature was trying to
convey some important message:

Menk’ dzer mej yenk’
K’vo tirakaly k’vo tsarrayin

I finally managed to find an armenian speaker who translated this for me three years later…..

Help!!