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.^~††£&&##         internal visionary state         ##&&£††~^.
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......^††& i  wake  suddenly,  and   for  a  second &††^......
.^~††£&### everything is completely  calm and  dead ###&£††~^.
.^~††££&&& silent.  it's  dark,  and  warm,  and  i &&&££††~^.
.^~††£&### slowly  start   to  piece  together   my ###&£††~^.
.^~††£&###        consciousness and my body.        ###&£††~^.
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....^†††£& then  the  fear  hits  me   and  i  feel &£†††^....
....~†£&&#    acutely sick. something is ~wrong~.   #&&£†~....
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.....~†£&# there are circles and  crosses inscribed #&£†~.....
.^~††£&### all over  my  vision, pressing in, being ###&£††~^.
.^~††£&### almost hostile. i can feel them  squirm, ###&£††~^.
.^~††£&###    their internal logic changing and     ###&£††~^.
.^~††£&### grinding trenches in my mind.  it's like ###&£††~^.
...^~~††&# language, sentences i  can't hide  from, #&††~~^...
.~††£&#### forcefully transcribed in  my mind,  and ####&£††~.
.^~††££&##            doing damage there.           ##&££††~^.
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.^~††£&### then i  realize  i  can't hear  anything ###&£††~^.
.^~††£&###      because there's something there     ###&£††~^.
.^~††£&&##    already, droning everything out, a    ##&&£††~^.
.^~††£&### rapid  melody, almost  caustic  in  it's ###&£††~^.
.^~††£&###        particular microtonality.         ###&£††~^.
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.^~††£££&# my surroundings are  entirely calm. it's #&£££††~^.
.^~††£££&#              almost mocking.             #&£££††~^.
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....~†††£& i  feel  helpless,  but  i must  try  to &£†††~....
.^~††£&### escape. to crawl on the floor  searching ###&£††~^.
.^~††£&### relief, such is my  nature.  turning the ###&£††~^.
.^~††£&###     lights on does nothing... getting    ###&£††~^.
.^~††£&###  outside does nothing... drinking water  ###&£††~^.
....^††£&& does  noting... but time  does  -  after &&£††^....
.^~††£&###     thirty seconds i'm normal again,     ###&£††~^.
.^~††£&### doubting  anything  of this  happened in ###&£††~^.
.^~††£&###             the first place.             ###&£††~^.
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.~††£&#### my eyes are  still tense though, scared. ####&£††~.
.^~††££££# i    don't   know    what    to    make. #££££††~^.
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....~†††&#              but i'm tired.              #&†††~....
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.^~††£&### this can  happen  if you wander too far, ###&£††~^.
.^~††£&### i guess?  i  shouldn't  be  so  reckless ###&£††~^.
.^~††£&###              when dreaming?              ###&£††~^.
...^^††£&# i  imagine a  prick  on the nose, that's #&£††^^...
...~~~††&& what these  are.  like you do with a cat &&††~~~...
.^~††£&### who  comes to close  to your sandwich... ###&£††~^.
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