“Death by gravity, or death by lead, your choice,” said the gun-holding kidnapper. George stood on the edge of a narrow cliff. He wiggled his toes over the edge, wondering what to do. Decisions, decisions, decisions, he thought. A life time of decisions, and now he faced the final one.

“Give me a second,” said George. “This is a big decision.” Then George whirled around, grabbed the guys gun hand. George heard the shot. He felt an explosion in his chest, but he didn’t let go, and they both went over the cliff.

While falling George thought, “At least he won’t kidnap anyone else.”

Then the credits appeared, and the lights came on in the theater, and my consciousness was back to reality. That was intense I thought. Movie dragged me right in. I grabbed my empty popcorn box and drink cup, threw them in the trash on the way out, left the theater, got in my car and was driving home.

As my mind reminded me that my mom would be asleep, and to be quiet, a car T-boned me and my car burst into flames. I was trapped, and on fire. My face and hair was burning, and then for a split second everything went dark. When my consciousness awoke, I was above the excitement watching my body burning. I waited to see if my car would explode, but it just kept burning. I got bored, so I left, wondering, “What should I do next? What do I want to experience?”

Since I am not the character on the screen that got killed, and since I am not the character watching the screen that got killed on the way home, there’s only one obvious conclusion: I don’t know shit. I don’t know what I am, except, I am a consciousness with a bad memory that forgets its not a character in a movie, and it’s also not a character watching a movie. When the movie ends I wake up and leave the theater; when I die, I wake up and leave the other theater. And here I am without a body, just hanging out in space, wondering what to do next. What do I want to experience.

Maybe I’ll just have or create a vivid dream that’s so good I forget I am a consciousness having a really cool dream.