I think that I was trapped in a spiral,

plummeting downward for a long time,

but I couldn’t see it and didn’t realize I was falling at all.

Right up until I crashed  into the bottom.  
 
 
 
 
 

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I awoke in what I believed to be an unlit, dark room with someone wearing a doctor’s mask shining a light in my face. 

I could hear a couple people talking in the room with me:  “…[BLAH BLAH] Too late to reverse the brain damage…

And I thought to myself, “Uh-oh. That’s not good.”