#so crossing my fingers i dont end up dreaming of my throat being torn out by an infected

[ourg0dsal]

When I was 17 me and my father got this really bad flu. And both of us having immune systems with the strength of an unborn fetus, we both literally almost died. My father was coughing up blood and I was reaching fevers of 105-106. To this day my brother is convinced we had Covid even though it was a few months before Covid officially hit America. So for now we will just say it was a really bad flu. And during this flu was the first time i ever experienced a real and true "fever dream". Something up till that moment I had only thought was a term to describe something out of wack and surreal. Also during this time, I was really into Jackcepticeye and specifically his subnautica series. It was all I was watching.

And during this dream, that neared honestly closer to straight up hallucination rather than dream. I was in the world of subnautica, at the furthest depths you can reach in the game, in complete and utter darkness, oxygen was running dangerously low, my cyclops and seamoth, were thousands of kms away on opposite sides of the map, and a leviathan was circling me. And I didn't know if it was aware of me and choosing not to attack. Or unaware and seconds from discovering me.

And I know how this sounds. A relatively b-rated movie filled with clichés. But I- 17. flu stricken. And fully convinced this was real. It was the most terrifying thing in my life. Knowing I was going to die, ether from suffocating, or being attacked by a monstrosity at the furthest depths of the ocean. With no hope of ever being found.

Anyways. Fever dreams are real and can be funny. But also can be terrifying and signify your body is so hot it's frying your brain. And now I have a memory scorched into my brain of being stuck at the bottom of the ocean, Even though I've never gone further out than waist deep at the beach.