I'm someone else, unfamiliar, unknown to my waking self. I seem to be near the coast of Japan. It's dark, it's night, and there's little to be seen, but in the distance I can see what appears to be a nuclear bomb, explode. Although I sense the shock, it's still something like a fantasy, a passing event with little influence on my reality. Only the red glow in the background stands out against the night sky.

Then I'm in the ship once again, and this time things are different. This time a second nuclear explosion takes place much closer. The effect is immediate. My first thoughts are of radiation and how it is going to affect 'me'.

I feel a pressure enter my stomach or somewhere near that point, and before I know it I'm faltering. My 'consciousness' dropping out rapidly, I see a radiation guage there before me, dropping, dropping.. I see now the lowest point which reads something like "ground", with the dangerous red bed in between. For a moment it hovers a little above there and things seem to hang in the balance, then it hits the very bottom.

I drop out of physical awareness - with a sudden blow. Everything fades to black, and I feel myself in "spirit" form all of a sudden. In this dampened state, a very small, glowing light seems to pull into focus. It's surreal. I think back to 'my' friend, who was there with me at the time of the accident. I (and by this I mean, my own ordinary consciousness) seem to know that I could either follow back to see what happens with him, or that I could allow this surreal/death-like journey to continue. I'm afraid, and remembering on some level that I'm dreaming, I instead choose to wake.