I awake from a long slumber to discover myself lying on the floor of a white room. The floor is clean, the walls spotless, and the white ceiling impossible to distinguish from the rest. Possibly I am in an endless escape rather than a room, a consistent lighting prevents any perception of depth or corners. I am dressed with a simple white gown that extends down to my feet. I can lift myself from the ground and feel the floor solidly beneath me, it is cold.
The air in front of me glows slightly and a fizzing and crackling sound can be heard. A bright purple light propogates from a central point. From the point of light grows a ball, or orb. The orb hovers in the air at the level of my eyes. I turn my head, yet the orb maintains the same position in my line of site. I look up and down, and the orb still holds its position in my viewing area. Attempting to trick it I try to drop the ground and put my face down, but as I try to fall forward the floor stays steadfast against my feet and the orb holds its position. My body is locked to the position of this orb. I reach out and try to touch the orb, but it is out of my arm's reach. Taking a step forward yields the same results as before, the purple orb holds its position.
Tired of playing games with the orb I sit down, cross my legs and just look at it. The solid appearance of the orb disappears and is replaced with a crystal ball appearance, with a purple tinge around the surface and a light purple cloud in the center of the orb. I think to myself how weird this is, and as I do the cloud grows larger inside the orb.
"Why am I here?" The cloud moves to my side of the orb, then falls back to the middle. It appears that the orb is able to understand my questions, and in some manner is providing me with answers.
"What are you trying to say?" The cloud moves towards me and increases in size.
"Am I dead?" The cloud dissipates then reforms in the middle of the orb. And the cloud performs similarily when I ask "Am I alive?"
"Where am I?" Again the cloud dissipates, but this time it grows larger before doing so, and when it reforms it is filling the entire orb, and it then shrinks back to its original size.
It's apparent I need to gain some better understand of how this orb is communicating with me. I proceed to ask some very simple questions. "Where is my right hand?" The cloud moves to the right front of the orb. An also expected result is observer with the counterpart left question. "Where are my feet" results in the cloud moving to the bottom front of the orb. "If I'm a pitcher and I throw a ball, where does it go", the orb's cloud moves to the distal side and slowly goes toward the bottom. Attempting to confuse it I ask where my heart is, the cloud moves towards the front of the orb, and if understanding my attempt to challenge it, it grows and shrinks in a beating like fashion before returning to the center.
Even though I am unmarried I ask, "Where is my wife" the cloud simply dissipates as it has done so before. "Where would my wife be if I married tomorrow?" the cloud moves to the distal side. "What! Are you saying that I'd be unable to love someone?" The cloud shrinks in size. "What are you trying to say?" As demonstrated before the cloud moves towards me and increases in size. I ponder that response for a moment, and I think that I understand, so I ask, "Where will my wife be". The cloud moves to the fore of the orb and pulses its size.
"Will we have children?" The cloud grows in size. "How many?" The cloud pulses it's size three times. "What will be of my children?" The cloud pulses once and moves toward me and pulses. It returns to the center, pulses twice, and then moves to my feet and dissipates. It then returns to the center and goes to the back of the orb. "But, can I stop this?" The cloud moves towards me and shrinks. "Huh? Oh yeah, can I stop this if I still get married?" The cloud moves away from me to the back, and saddens my face.
Not consciously aware of it earlier, I catch myself making motions with my arms as I am asking questions of the cube. Testing my approach I point to my head and state "big". The cloud quickly grows and I realize the error in my approach. I shake my head and turn my hands, the cloud responds more naturally with a slowly increasing size until it completely fills the orb. Satisfied with that I place my hands on my belly and stretch. The orb grows at this time, despite me not asking anything. I realize it's joking about my weight, so I shake a fist at it and the cloud grows smaller and moves away.
This is very curious item, so much that I almost forgotten about being in this strange white room. So I open my arms wide and wave the room, shrugging my shoulders, the cloud grows until it fills the orb, then it dissipates. I motion my arms again and then touch my fingers against my temples, the cloud grows. I make a fist and carefully extend one finger at a time, point to the orb, make the motioning, and then place my fingers on my temples. The cloud grows to its maximize size then shrinks back to normal. I open my palms towards my body and shake them, I say "build", and then wave my arms at the expanse. The cloud responds by growing in size.
I am for now satisfied with my answers. I place my hands together and put them aside my tilted head. My body slips from it's stance and turns horizontally in the air. I can feel a soft warmth being pulled over me, and a comforting body beneath me. I close my eyes and drift back.