Journey Into The Floater’s Universe, Or Some Stupid shit…

Karan Dubey
2 min readApr 23, 2023
Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash

To be or not to be…

Closed eyes. No thoughts. A singular focus on the magnificent darkness that resides in between the eyebrows where magic happens. Warm hands, cold dives into the unknown where creatures resides in odd shapes and forms. Unfamiliar, extraordinary, frightening? They glide and float with no strings, in and out of the vision, eye floaters they call it. A fitting name, but a misunderstood phenomenon.

These eye floaters, they have a world of their own. And the deeper you go, the more you strip away from the reality. You zone out, slipping into the world of, dreams is it? It can’t be. You are not unconscious. The awareness is there, however slim, And the creatures may not be attached to a string, but you are.

Or is it a pull, like a magnet that draws you in? Circling around the edge of their atmosphere it seems, as the gravity lures you in, closer and closer to this inexplicable world. Eye floater they named it, insubstantial, insignificant, they claimed, oh! What do they know! For the closer you get, the clearer it is.

This world, it’s unlike anything you have ever imagined. Just shapes and forms, focus points, bright spots, the black holes, and everything else that can’t be described in words, for they haven’t devised ones in the English Language to describe what you experience.

Am I levitating? Floating, swimming, gliding through the universe as a consciousness, watching it all from far, far away, so the shapes and forms look so tiny and petite?

Where are the thoughts gone? The stream of them that would come in between, cut the strings, and drag me back to reality? No, not tonight.

Tonight, I fly among the vastness of this dark world, eye floater, they named so inappropriately. Tonight, I experience magic, feel the shapes and forms in their native glory. Tonight, I go as deep and off the edge as this world lets me, for tonight, I don’t try, I just be.

But, the awareness is faltering now. This is as far as it gets. This is as far as they let me in. Soon I will dive back into the unconsciousness, as dreams take over the mind yet again. Like they do night after night.

The mysteries of this world still remain unsolved. Perhaps, they are meant to…

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Karan Dubey

I write because I have to. It helps to silence them voices in my head. Poetry and Satire are my primary outlets.