5 Minute Freewrite #1: Awakening

11:45 – Awake.

11:50 – Now fully, totally awake.

11:55 – This time perfectly awake. For real.

12:00 – I don't know why I was sleeping. But I'm really awake now. After many many weeks.

12:05 – A nurse came as soon as I woke up. She brought me lunch. She told me… what? I don't remember.

12:10 – Don't believe what I just wrote. I was asleep all day long… for several days, maybe. But now I assure you I am awake. Having lunch now.

12:15 – Just waken up in my beautiful room. I don't remember when I moved here. Somebody bit my steak.

12:20 – I don't know who wrote the last entries. It couldn't be me. I have just awaken. I remember me. My name is…

12:25 – OK, now I am awake. Had a coffee right now.

12:30 – Was he a doctor? What did he tell me?

12:35 – Glad I was awake when the woman came. She told me she loves me. I feel like I should remember her.

12:40 – Now perfectly awake. Who has been writing on this log, I wonder? The handwriting looks exactly like mine.

YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM SEVERE AMNESIA. YOU HAVE A MEMORY SPAN OF JUST A FEW MINUTES. SORRY. – OK, that wasn't me. It definitely was a doctor. Dr Green, I believe. I hadn't met him before. Dr Black, I believe. Why does he write on my log?

12:50 – OK, despite was I wrote before, now I am finally awake.

12:55 – Correction: I wasn't awake before. But now I am. Believe me.

13:00 – And now I am awake!

13:05 – Beautifully awake, at last. I think it's gonna be a great day.

Freely inspired by the true story of Clive Wearing, as related by Oliver Sacks. Thanks to @mariannewest.