Before I was blindfolded, I was made to stretch out my right arm. The blindfold flashed between two colors, seemingly all of one particular color before seemingly all of another particular color and yet it was no color at all. It was as transparent as a vacuum and as dark as a black hole. I stood in position as the cloth was tied around my face.
I suddenly felt my right hand forcibly removed as if by a blade or something unnaturally swift snatching it away. The pain that came from it was not physical, but was the pain of no longer being able to do things as I had become accustomed to doing.
As immediate as the hand was removed, the hand was replaced. I had all the sensation I did before, but there was another sense present that felt new because it was an old sensation that I had forgotten for so long that encountering it again made it a new thing to discover.
Still blindfolded, I felt something reach through my forehead to pluck something out from under my skull without leaving a wound. There was no pain, only a severe loss of (the identify of) self. I felt like a statue made of fired clay, lifeless, unknowing, and unmoving.
That same something was implanted in the upright palm of the (new) right hand. I immediately felt renewed, remade, and rededicated. Despite being securely blindfolded, I could see. But it was seeing in a spectrum that the eyes in my head could not see and I could not understand what I was perceiving, and so even though there was sight, I was still blinded.
I felt my right hand closed into a fist that covered what was embedded in the palm. The blindfold was removed. I was prevented from examining or opening my right hand to see what it had become.
I was dressed in the unbleached linen regalia of the [Tribe of Seers]. First Mother sat on the tripod High Seat before me. I knew without looking that the Youth was standing behind me and that it was he who had blindfolded me.
“I tell you nothing new, [Keri].”
A beaded headdress is fitted over my head. My eyes are covered by it, and as I am blinded, the dream ends.