Juxtaposition

Science Fiction

Written in response to: "Write a story in which a character receives a message from somewhere (or someone) beyond their understanding." as part of What Makes Us Human? with Susan Chang.

And when I got up, I saw things that never seen before. Hard to explain. Think about a television, the three main colors in the television and in the human eye are. Red green and blue but their colors outside the spectrum think about a dog a dog can hear sounds at a higher pitch than a human being can but it’s still viable sound in the same way. Women can see more colors than men can but the colors that both men and women can’t see. And that’s what im seeing.

Language is limited is limited to what people see when people see something they have seen before or a new invention is made they come up with a new word from the words they have but I do explain to a blind person. What color is and how do you explain a color people I’ve never seen to people with limited eyesight? It’s impossible, but I’m gonna try anyway if you read Raymond Moody and Elizabeth Kibler Ross people of any faith describe the color they see during their NDE the best way they can describe it is white, but white doesn’t begin to describe it and I’m seeing that color along with other colors, but the people around me don’t understand. They think I’ve gone mad and they tried to send me to the loony bin, but the people in the loony bin think I’m fine.

Then I start hearing voices maybe I should’ve stayed in a little bit cause that’s what people Looney been say but they’re not vicious or cruel. They’re just voices. But the thing is I start saying the things that the voices say to me to people and they say that sounds just like a dead person. What the hell is going on in my dead or in my life or am I in the cusp I must be in “the twilight zone”. Fuck. Sorry the interpreter or the translator you could say. Describe what I see and describe what I hear. Taste smell touch to both sides because neither side understands the other one. Weird but the other thing is, they both speak in the same language; English, but it’s still difficult to translate. Like English in England and English in America. But it’s a completely different animal? Kids using old English in new English in words that have not been invented yet. Imagine trying to describe to somebody in the 12th century what Internet is. It’s like that.

The words for color are different. The means of transportation are different. The words for emotions are different. The word thought translates different. Everything is different, but they’re able to use anecdotal language to communicate with those still on the earth plane.

But I try. And I charge at first I was just giving it away for free but if this is what people want and I’m getting calls all the time make them pay for it and it isn’t just about the money. It’s about not being called at 3 AM by either side for a conversation that is not urgent.

It’s 3 AM this present from the other World says hi. OK hi. What do you want? That’s it? You just wanna say hi? I’m not gonna get eight hours of sleep because you need to tell me hi? Start charging people so that people from the other side can say hi then I won’t be getting woken up anymore or called anymore or bothered.

But it’s interesting. Maybe I could tell a new dictionary field with words from the other side that way people on earth could understand what the bleep is going on over there but they told me there’s no such place heaven or hell. The best way they can describe it is everyone’s vibrations are raised think about playing courts on a piano. Each key is a half step or whole step higher. In the same way, they’re saying their rate of vibration is higher than ours not that they’re better than us, but their vibration is higher.

What do they eat? Where do they go to the bathroom? Do they go to the bathroom? Do they eat? Do they sleep in 1 billion other stupid questions people are paying me to answer. Then there were the scientists or as they call them the fucking scientists we need to measure this to prove that it can be repeated and it doesn’t work. Just because a chair is there one day the spirit can move the chair to another place another day and then it’s not there so much for consistency so much for the scientific method.

But I should’ve expected that I get the widows the widow ease the children have lost parents. The parents who have lost children. They got crazy dog people too. I miss my dog. I wanna talk to them. Dogs don’t talk they bark the wag their tails, but they don’t talk. Here I’ll tell you what your dog saying woof woof bark bark. That’ll be $50. Can the email us I don’t know. Can they send us letters? I don’t know there was a special word. We agreed on. OK. Don’t kill the messenger is a famous Line, but I’m not a psychic. I can’t tell people their future what’s going to happen to them even though they think I can but even time is different on the other side according to the people I’ve talked to time is happening all at one time instead of linear so they can see the future the past in the present all at once, but I’ve never told the future or lottery numbers for the best time that the “publishers clearance house”. I’m just talking people over there. Say the people over here and what people over here. Say the people over there. Humans are idiots.

There are stupid people on this side and stupid people on that side. You’re an asshole when you were here you’ll be an asshole when you’re there, but you’ll use a different language and see more colors. Can I teach them how to do what I do now I got into a strange accident in this came about spontaneous. I didn’t ask for it. I didn’t train for it. It just came. I don’t know how to get rid of it either.

Posted Mar 27, 2026
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