And all of this happening at once caused the following thoughts to enter my brain:Īm I having a heart attack? A couple of fingers on my left hand have pins and needles, but it's been like that because of a pinched nerve. And not just the darkness of the room since the only light in the area was from the TV in my room - it was actual darkness, only separated by what I can best describe as occasional stars that were allowing me to see small bits of the room and adjacent hallway.Īt this point, I'm not sure if I started working myself up into a panic attack (something I'm fortunate to have never had, and probably wouldn't know what it was if I did have one), but I began trying to take deep, slow breaths - but felt like I couldn't catch a deep breath at all. Because even though my eyes were open, what I saw was mostly darkness. It wasn't until my vision started getting a bit wonky that I became a bit concerned, though. At this point, I wondered if I got hit with a bit of food poisoning, but I hadn't eaten anything out of the ordinary. The weirdness continued, as I almost started feeling a bit like I was getting a bit weak while also feeling like I was in a haze - a feeling I hadn't felt since I caught either the flu, COVID, or something else on a cruise back in February 2020.
