Contrite Whispers

" Just a few metres away was my body lying in the soft mattress of the hospital bed attached to numerous medical, beeping equipment. By some unnatural and miraculous phenomenon, I was standing here in an alternate reality. My heart beat, faintly audible from the monitor that recorded it, was still running. This meant I was alive, barely alive but alive nonetheless. When I was a child, I used to desire I could see how everybody would be and how the world would go on if I wasn't around. In this moment, this wish was granted but I wasn't sure I wanted that anymore. "
What if he couldn't wake up? What would happen if he did? What if he learns something he doesn't want to in the Asleep. In the nostalgia during Asleep, will he be awake again? What happened to him, how did he reach this fringe of life and death?