A Strange Place

A journey through a strange, dreamlike world of sound, illusion, and silence.

It’s a strange place: darkness surrounds you and the sounds of your footsteps echo hollowly, as if you're walking in a stone bunker. You take a couple of steps and they fall silent. And again you walk — silently, as if on a soft carpet.

"Tick-tock-tick-tock..." — an invisible clock beats out the rhythm. Is it a clock? ...or is it my heart?

You look around — and multicolored lights shimmer and vague shadows dance. Ethereal, colorful patterns on invisible, weightless walls. You have the feeling that you're in a cave, but in reality it's just an illusion — before you, stretching to the horizon, lies an immeasurable expanse, wrapped in viscous yet weightless fog. You walk and feel how it resists your every movement but... you only have to stop, and you can no longer feel it.

A moment of delight — and suddenly everything disappears. The world folds in on itself, swallowing everything… except for you… Then comes the light — bright, blinding — and the silence.
You wake up.

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