[ WP ] You are hooked up to the machine . You are the test subject , the first person to have their conciousness uploaded . They flick the switch ...

The initial shock was something akin to both being abruptly woken from deep sleep and yanked from underwater simultaneously. Disconcerting panic, all encompassing darkness, echoing nothingness, complete sensory deprivation, extreme cold shifting to intense heat and back again. A flood of sensations whirled together, touch, smell, hearing, was it real, could it be real, all blurring together. Thought, conscious thought meant you had to be alive, I am thinking, I must still exist, I am confused, I must be conscious. I am aware of cold, under me is cold, my back is touching something cold, I slowly register the sensation and the shape of myself as I lay still. Slowly more and more of myself begins to solidify in my mind, arms, were they my arms, lay at my sides. Toes come along next, an experimental twitch, I swear I feel the electrical impulse travel from my artificial brain. The small movement sets off a chorus of excited noises from the team of scientists I can now recall being present. My eyes are the last part of my body that I become aware of. But what am I now? Am I the same as I have been? My eyes snap open, the arm that raises in front of me barely registers as mine. Smooth and unmarred skin stretched tight, no sign of wounds or scars. I have been through hell. I have survived beyond reason. And now I am finally whole
