Running girl in forest

My first attempt at doing stream of consciousness writing. I think it went ok :) Originally written in Danish, this was done in the Summer of 1997 for the exams after the Danish 10th Grade (17 years old).

The picture slips quietly into my thougts. It wakes hidden instincts from a forgotten time far away. Its mood wakes thoughts in my hidden mind. I feel like closing my eyes and fall into the picture... Just close my eyes and fall... Just fall...

Now I am in a rain forest many thousand years ago. I find myself laying under a shrub. I am afraid. Something is after me. I don't know what it is. I am afraid. I feel the adrenaline rushing through my body. Suddenly the shrubbery to my right rattles. I jump up. I almost feel a claw. I only just avoid it. A run. Run as if I had never done anything else. I no longer feel the fear. I no longer feel the wound The Unknown gave me almost half an hour ago, as I stood on the field next to father's hut. I notice only the feeling of running from something I do not know what it. I run. I fall. Something comes out in front of me. I try to stand up. I fail. I can almost feel the claws of The New Unknown tearing through my body. I do not feel them. It jumps over me. Everything turns black.

I wake up. I do not know where I am. I fall asleep.

I awake again. I now know where I am. I fall asleep.

I wake yet another time. It is night. I do not fall asleep again. I lie and look straight up at the roof of father's hut. I am naked. I am under something soft. It is animal fleeces. My father has killed them. I still look up into the roof of the hut. Father enters. He is saying something. I only just understand him. He is saying he has killed The Unknown. He is saying The Unknown was a large ape. I believe him. I fall asleep.

I awake. It is night. Maybe the same night. I do not know. I think of The Other Unknown. Was it father? I fall asleep.

I dream. I see a large, black panther standing in front of me. She growls. I understand her. She says she and her people will not harm me. She says she will help me. She says that I must not harm her or her people. I believe her. All turns black.

I dream. I am laying under a shrub. I see a cave. A large, black panther comes up from it. She looks at me. I turn my gaze to the ground. I look up again. 3 small panthers come up from the cave. I know they are her kittens. I look around. She is gone. I hear breathing next to me. I look. It is her. She is looking at her kittens. She turns her head. She is looking at me. I look at her. She turns her head. She is looking at her kittens. I look at her kittens. I feel tired. I fall asleep.

I wake up. It is daytime. I am laying in father's hut. I turn my head. I see father. He is sitting by the fire. I call to him. He looks up. He looks at me. He is surprised. He is happy. He is saying I have been laying here for three days and three nights. He is saying I i was lucky. I tell him about my dreams. He is very quiet. He tells me not to move. He runs out of the house. Time passes.

Father returns. Someone is with him. It is our priest. Father asks me to tell him my dreams.I do so. The priest tells father to be proud. He is saying that I have a totem. He is saying I am special. He is saying I should be proud. He is saying Panther is very special. He is saying he has only Mouse. He asks father if he can be my mentor. Father says yes. The priest says I can come to his hut and live there when I recover fully. I say I will come very soon. Father is proud. The priest leaves. I fall asleep.

I see myself from above. I am slowly falling into my body. My eyes are closed. I feel myself writing a story. I feel thousands of years having past since I was last aware of my own actions. I am writing on a computer. A have a feeling of melancoly. The feeling grows as I see where I am. I hold my finger in the air. I ask for a printout. I get the printout. I sign it. I walk out of the room. The feeling of melancoly fades from me. I am happy. I leave the place. I disappear.