The slow steady thrum of a machine sounds from somewhere behind you. You don’t recognize it. Where’s it from? When did it even start humming? You don’t know, nor do you remember it being there a few minutes ago, or was it an hour? Your brain is fuzzy, leaving spots of your memories foggy or gone completely, having disappeared in the time it took you to think of your next thought. This was confusing. It made your head hurt, a hammering ache behind your eyes that seemed to pulsate in time with your heartbeat. Your heartbeat? Why do you know the rhythm of your heart? Oh. There it is. To your left. Another machine perhaps? Probably, it seemed likely. It beeped in a soft chime in time with the thumping in your chest that you were aware of now. Huh...weird. …show more content…
You seem to feel perfectly tranquil now. Another flash of a memory of before you woke... Brown. Rough. Leather? Maybe burlap. No, definitely leather. Steel buckles holding said leather shut. What was it strapped to though? Oh. You remember now. It was you. You vaguely remember the feeling of rough leather against your ankles, thighs, chest, lower arms, wrists, biceps, and throat. But why? Why were you being restrained? You don’t remember struggling with anyone or anything. You just remember lying there silently. Why were you silent? You used to be very talkative. Odd. Oh. There was another strap in your mouth. A gag? Your face scrunches slightly in confusion. How weird. Why were you gagged? The confusion disappears as another machine beeps, this one a high-pitched beep that has you wincing and shifting away from the force. It grated on your nerves, clawed at your senses like someone had taken a nail and drug it across a metal slab. You make a soft noise, a mix between a grunt and a grumble of irritation before it finally shuts itself off. Odd. Oh well, it’s gone now and that’s what matters. It takes a small amount of effort to open your eyes, which is unusual. A few minutes later your eyes finally adjust to the soft …show more content…
You are mine now~” She coos softly at you, another screaming face stretching the thin substance that made her skin before she absently pushes it back into her form while you watch in horror. You watch helplessly as she turns on the second tube, a translucent colored liquid dripping into your veins and causing you to go numb. She picks up a scalpel, it's metallic tip glinting maliciously in the light as she gives a husky giggle that comes from the large gaping hole where her voice box was exposed to the air. A quick hand movement has the flesh of your stomach splitting open cleanly, blood welling out only to be soaked up by the greedy sponge material of her tongue, a thin layer of slime coating the edges of the flesh wound before probing deeper, between layers of muscle until your stomach split open to reveal your chest cavity and the mirage of colours that were your organs. You squirm uncomfortably, stomach churning at the odd slosh the fluid your organs floated in made as you shift around, causing you to stop fairly quickly. You feel none of this, although you are fairly certain you should be screaming and losing consciousness from pain, but the painkiller she had forced into your veins seems to be fairly powerful. You watch with morbid fascination as she proceeds to cut through the top layers of flesh and muscle of your legs, peeling them away from bone as she licks the blood up and pins the flesh and muscle to the
Hi, my name is Lauren and I believe that I am your biological granddaughter. I realize that my Mom tried to contact you in the past and you said that you did not want contact but I wanted to try and contact you myself. If you don't want to talk to me that is fine as well, just respond with no or no thanks
The light was as bright as the sun and I could feel my retinas burning. In the back i could hear a slight beeping sound almost like it was graphing my heart beat. I heard voices, “Scalpel.” “I’m going to make the first incision now....” And then nothing, the voices stopped and i was back in my own head. I was startled by a falling sensation, as i was thrown into an even colder room. The light in here was dimmer, but it was still blinding. I crawled over to giant metal door and punched it and screamed for them to let me out. I needed to finish my work, my whole reputation depended on it. In a few
The horn has already sounded and I’m still running. I can feel my blood pulsing in my ears. The sounds of useless advice feels the air. I continue to run. I come across a cave and ran into it. I gasp in shock and as I walk into a lab filled with mindless people editing videos. A film crew rushes at me and says, “If you were able to be in Divergent, which character would you be?” I shake my head in confusion. I attempt to back up slowly, but they grab me and place me in front of a computer and yell, “Edit!” The slam the headphones on my head and everything becomes a blur.
The rooms were confined to themselves by a large metal door with a small slot about 5 feet from the floor that could only be opened from the outside. The walls were once a brilliant white, but now filled with the scratch marks and blood stains from the ones before me. The room stench of urine, most likely from the other patients. All there was in the room was a small cot with a mattress so thin, it almost looked as if it was a thin piece of plywood. As I laid there strapped to my bed by leather restraints that were made to “protect” me from myself, I kept pondering on the question “what did I do to deserve to be locked up in a place like this?” Then I remember my crime, and smile.
Nevaeh’s future was changed. As tears ran down her face, words could not describe the way she felt. Who knew what destiny had in store for her at age 18. All she went through and when her life made a sudden twist, she was shocked. Not having someone her side was the hardest thing for her. She never really had anybody to guide her to the right path, protect her, love her, and support her. It's been so many years and she still couldn’t cope with it. But now all of a sudden she comes across 2 people.
Two of the consequences of sexual abuse that interest me the most is posttraumatic stress disorder and repressed memory. PTSD is known as an anxiety disorder that occurs in response to experiencing extreme stress (McCoy & Keen, 2014). The rates of PTSD vary among the type of sexual abuse that has occurred (McCoy & Keen, 2014). Victims of sexual abuse usually have to deal with PTSD. They have flashbacks of the terrible indicants, could happen randomly or be triggered by anything. Since the triggers could happen any time, it could prevent the person from prevent the person from being able to move on, which could stop them from living a successful and happy life. Another consequence of sexual abuse is repressed memory. Repressed memory is when the brain forces unacceptable thoughts, desires or memories into the unconscious (McCoy & Keen, 2014). This is done so the brain can protect itself. It takes a lot of energy for the brain to hide these memories and they can reappear caused by a trigger (McCoy & Keen, 2014). It makes
Markus Zusak’s, The Messenger features the protagonist Ed Kennedy, and how he completed each mission of aces; diamonds, clubs, spades and hearts. The suit of spades was symbolic to Ed’s overall mission as Ed had to dig through truths about himself. Before the suit of spades Ed’s thought of himself was that he was worth nothing, evident through the narration of Ed’s monologue. The suit of spades saw Ed wanting more for his life, evident through the characterisation of Ed, the changes in his monologue.
I woke up in a cold sweat, screaming and struggling to move my restrained arms. The night guards ripped open the heavy steel door to see what was wrong. The creature was standing in the corner looking right at me. I was pulling my arms against the leather restrains trying to point the naive guards to the cause of my appalling state. The
Hello Robyn! I've read about running, it is not simple at all, I thought running is just left foot, right foot, breath. But actually, it's science!
I have something I need to tell you. It feels weird announcing this, because nothing has changed. I feel exactly as I’ve always felt, and I’m still the same person I’ve always been, I’ve just accepted a few things. It almost feels pointless to say, because it seems so obvious to me, but I think I should tell you anyway. I don’t know how exactly to explain myself, because it’s how I’ve always felt, but I’ll try help you to understand without writing down every thought I’ve ever had.
I Stood there at the door not sure if I should come in or to turn and walk
Finally making contact, she flung her assailant as hard as she could, hearing a dull thud as the intruder hit the wall before banging back and forth between the hall walls like a ping-pong ball.
Richard F. Thompson was a memory scientist who conducted research on where and how memory is stored and transformed in the brain. He conducted research on the cerebellum, which is a lower brain structure that deals with physical movement, to see how reactions are created and reestablished every time a certain thing happens, which is basically a reflex (Hockenbury, Nolan, & Hockenbury, 2016). His research was to study how a basic function reflex occurs, and how the memory knows to react when something occurs again in the same manner. Thompson succeeded in his research, by conducting an experiment with rabbits and their blinking reflexes (Hockenbury, et al., 2016). He designed a way where rabbits would react to a tone in where they would blink to it (Hockenbury, et al., 2016). He then took an extra step away from the brain, and the rabbits would still react in the same way to the tone, which lead him to discover that the main memory function is stored in the cerebellum (Hockenbury, et al., 2016).
I remember feeling dazed walking into the hospital; everything was a blur yet seemed to happen in slow motion. And the smell. It was overwhelming and stale. I was detached, just going through the motions: walk here, get wristband, sit, stay, wait. The waiting was the worst part. My mind began to spin. Worrying, and waiting, and contemplating, and waiting and waiting… My fingers began to restlessly tap, dancing out the rhythm of my steps over and over. I fell into a daze, nothing processing except
Specific purpose: to increase my audience's understanding of how memory functions and how it affects them.