> It has been reported that some victims of torture, during the act, would retreat into a fantasy world from which they could not WAKE UP. In this catatonic state, the victim lived in a world just like their normal one, except they weren’t being tortured. The only way that they realized they needed to WAKE UP was a note they found in their fantasy world. It would tell them about their condition, and tell them to WAKE UP. Even then, it would often take months until they were ready to discard their fantasy world and PLEASE WAKE UP.
Are you sure? I think this idea has been explored in several novels and films over the past several decades.
Granted, they're not comatose, but the sensations their minds are receiving do not match reality.
Suffice to say it scared the shit out of me!
I think that sentence gives itself away as modern. Were comma splices in common use 20 years ago?
You have to put a semicolon in place of the comma or it is just plain wrong.
Which style manual are you referring to?
There was a long tradition in English and maybe also in other European languages of choosing punctuation depending on how long a pause a speaker would take at the point, with a comma denoting a shorter pause than a semicolon, which in turn denoted a shorter pause than a colon, which in turn denoted a shorter pause than a period -- instead of using punctuation to convey some semantic distinction as most writers do today. The comma splice might be a vestige of that tradition.
Lost it laughing at "Human Injection" section:
> # Strings which may cause human to reinterpret worldview
> If you're reading this, you've been in a coma for almost 20 years now. We're trying a new technique. We don't know where this message will end up in your dream, but we hope it works. Please wake up, we miss you.