I did not wake up.
Waking up implies that I had been asleep.
But I wasn't.
Something ended… and something else began.
The first thing I noticed was the silence،not the absence of sound, but the absence of meaning.
The world existed… but it didn't make sense.
The ground beneath me flickered, as if reality itself was struggling to remember what it was supposed to be. Lines of something، code, light, memory، moved beneath the surface of everything.
I tried to move my hand.
It responded… a second too late.
Not a delay.
A translation.
As if I wasn't controlling it directly..
as if something else was interpreting me.
Then I saw it.
A fracture in the air.
Not a crack.
A misalignment.
Like two versions of the same reality overlapping… and failing to agree.
I reached out.
The moment my fingers touched it..
The world didn't shatter.
It rewrote itself.
And in that instant, I understood something I was never meant to know:
This world… wasn't real.
And neither was I.
For a moment, I thought that was the end.
That whatever this was… would simply erase me.
But it didn't.
Something shifted.
A faint sound echoed through the broken space، not from around me, but from within. Like a system attempting to initialize.
Fragments of light gathered before my eyes, forming shapes that refused to stay still. Symbols. Lines. Something like… an interface.
I couldn't read it.
But I understood it.
Not with my mind…
but with something deeper.
Something that didn't belong to me.
Then the fracture expanded.
And from within it… something moved.
Not a creature.
Not a person.
A presence.
Watching.
Waiting.
As if it had been there long before me… and would remain long after I was gone.
I tried to step back.
My body obeyed.
The world didn't.
Distance lost meaning. Direction collapsed. The more I tried to move away…
the closer I became.
And then…
it noticed me.
The moment our awareness touched, everything went silent.
The system.
The space.
Even thought itself.
And a single voice..
not mine..
echoed through the void:
"You were not supposed to see this."
But I already had.
And something beneath reality responded.
The space trembled, not from force, but from recognition. As if my awareness itself had triggered something forbidden.
The fragments of light stabilized.
Slowly. Reluctantly.
Like a system forced to acknowledge an error it could not erase.
Then….
a shape formed.
Incomplete. Unstable.
But undeniable.
A frame.
A boundary.
Something that separated me… from everything else.
And within it…
something began to take form.
Not a message.
Not a warning.
Something worse.
Recognition.
As if the system itself… had finally noticed me.
And this time…
it wasn't going to ignore me.