[WP] You find yourself waking up in a seemingly infinite space. All that's there is a locked box.

Having just dropped a heavy dosage of DMT infused with Ayahuasca I knew i would be in for a surprise when it hit. A darkness descended upon me, tingling as it was, a weight had been unsheathed and in this I floated free. Blinking was all it took for things to change, for on the other side of the split second the blink took, I was here.

Where I was, I knew not, but here I was, I was here but what was I?

Looking down towards where my hands would have been I was greeted with a sense of nothingness. My vision felt normal and my movements felt normal, my eyes felt as if they were open but I simply could not see anything of my self. Turning a full 360, as If I still had a body to turn, I began to become aware of my surroundings. Whiteness in all directions, a seemingly infinite abyss of pureness. It was clean, pure white, nothing in my days had come close to this level.

Movement was smooth, in my mind I was walking, but I had no body. I could best describe it as floating in zero gravity, but unlike astronauts and the cosmonauts, I still had full control. Had I attained the next level?

I decided to go upwards. In my mind, from my point of vision, that is, I decided to go upwards. With no body, no landmarks, it was impossible for one to know if it was up or down or inside out or backwards or forwards or whatever multitude of directions were possible. So i continued to move myself on this projection until I began to approach an object. It felt like I was moving towards it for only a few seconds and its size increased exceptionally fast and then I was there.

Was I even moving, or did they object simply appear and begin to grow in size I thought to myself.

The object was a black spherical box. I had no physical being to actually open the box, as far as I could It had five different openings, but also no keyhole. A sphere box unable to be opened, locked perhaps and here "I" was before it. Spurred on by my previous movements in this place where my thoughts dictated my entire consciousness, I decided to my thoughts on the box.

Had I willed the object into existence I wondered. What else could I do with this type of cognition

I started to imagine the inner workings of the box, its unique intricacies. Internally, It was built like a maze, as complex as a watch. I had always been intrigued by the complexities of watches, yet for some reason had never made an effort to find out how they operated. A pendulum and gears, I wagered. Around this time, I heard shifting within the box, much like gears turning. A range of clicks bounced back and forth each stimulating a different part of my hearing, before reaching a magnificent and triumphant end note combining the entire collection of clicks into one.

Expanding in every direction the sphere seemed to explode. This immense white space was lit up for the last time. The immediate expansion must have held everything other than white, and soon enough it joined with the darkness of the sphere. The patches of light within the sphere dispersed every which way along with the darkness still emerging from the point where the sphere once was.

As my point of vision was quickly changing from white to dark, the small patches of light from within were being flung rapidly through me, past me and before me. I continued to watch in amazement as the my entire vision was lost to darkness minus the small patches of light. They would have been no greater than the size of sand grains. There were trillions upon trillions of these small lights. They had all been together within the sphere, and now they were free, as was I. I was reminded of my lack of body that had contained, and even kept me prisoner at times.

I wanted to examine these small patches of light, so as it was, I willed it to be. Once again, Did they simply just start getting bigger until they reached an appropriate size of had I moved so close?

As it gained in size, I soon found myself in what could only be described 'Space'. You know that Space with the moon, planets, the Sun, stars, and poor old Pluto? I was in that type of space. These things looked like galaxies, stars, but mainly vast emptiness.

What if I pondered. Could it be I was actually in space? Thinking for a moment, it was only a moment im sure, but on the other hand my concept of time was lost, much like i was.

Remembering my days in science class, I knew a few aspects of the 'Space' I was in. Blackholes, wormholes, asteroids, asteroid belts, Matthew McConaughey, the list goes on. I knew of our Solar system, and I decided to try and find it.

Not knowing anything about our local star system, i was pretty much fucked. I had the feeling we were situated in one of the far reaches of the milky way, but that was just one galaxy of the however many there are. Finding a needle in a haystack would have been easier. I thought I recalled hearing that the milky way was a spiral galaxy in my school days, so I would start with these and work my way down.

Once again my concept of time was fucked. I didnt know what time it was, my thoughts felt like they were moving fast. Faster than they usually were, perhaps the entirety of this event so far had only elapsed a few seconds on Earth, but so much had happened for me.

I Started searching the expanse of the darkness for what looked like spiral objects. It was a similar feeling to being on Google Earth and having the ability to zoom in and out in a certain location and the moving to an entirely different part of Earth in an instant before zooming in again. So this was it. I was spending my 'time' looking for our own Earth in this web of lights. My list of galaxies that looked spiral quickly grew, but the quicker it grew to more work I would have to do. The list, in my mind, would have been into the billions had a figure needed to be placed on it.

I moved into each one of these galaxies to look for things like our Solar System. That was really the only thing I had a decent knowledge of about our local area. If only I had studied harder in science I might know some more features relevant to this search.

In this time of great searching I was able to achieve much with my thoughts. I composed poems, wrote symphonies, started to understand senses. All of this just came to me, it was almost a continuous epiphany. I had theorized on a range of topics such as violence, greed, suffering, empathy and even the mundane like art of telling jokes, although for some this wasnt really a mundane thing. My cognition had hit a new level.

I could now begin to sense time with this increased cognition. I was searching for what seemed like billions of years of time. It was somewhere between 3 billion and 6 billion years. The early stages of my search i had no ability to count the time, and as such it is impossible to try and recollect, even for me.

Finally. Finally I had found what my search purpose was. Our Solar System, and our Earth. As it got bigger, or as I approached. Despite all my thought and theories, I was still unable to distinguish this phenomenon and decide upon what it actually was. So i left it a mystery.

It really was our Earth. The geography looked about right from what I remembered of the documentaries. I was here now, and there I was, my body, myself. A went up to myself, but I was just there, he was just there. Not doing anything. Nothing was actually moving, and there was no sound. This actually shocked me. My first shock in billions of years. Time had stopped here on Earth. Nothing had changed in the years I was gone, exactly the same before my life changing blink.

Moving right to the body of myself, I tried to enter, but like the black sphere I could not. I had to will this into being. I was there and began to ponder. My billions of years of knowledge was compressed and the question was simple.

Sacrifice my knowledge of my 'self' into the physical being of myself, or remain a non-physical being

Questioning my travels of space and looking into what it was I wanted the answer soon manifested. I theorised that I would be able to enact this same action of taking the physical form of any organic being. I had already lived a substantial life in the body of a human. I had experienced my first kiss, a broken heart and, at the time, what I thought was true love. I had experienced the tragedy of loved ones dying, and the pain of losing friendship. Love and loss was the human condition, the entire human condition and from which either joy or suffering would derive. This is what I had arrived at some 100, 000yrs ago, and now I was putting that theory into practice.

So if I could enter any physical organic being, i would have needed to sacrifice my knowledge, wisdom and apparent immortality. I would not give this back for the life of a human, who only has 80yrs to live. That amount of time was far too short. I would set off into the depths of space to look for another species of organic beings. 'Extra Terrestrial Life' is what humans called them. I just wanted another intelligent species to experience their life, their way of thinking. Love? Loss? I needed to understand a condition not experienced by humans or by whatever it was that I was.

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