God's Glasses

The subject wakes up on the floor of a dark room. His head is heavy, but is comfortably nested in soft padding. He raises his hands and feels the hard smooth shell of the helmet that confines his head. Feeling claustrophobic he pulls, and lifts at any available hold. Eventually he accepts the helmet cannot be removed. A light flickers on and his eyes adjust. He sees someone lying on the floor just as he is, and that person is also wearing a helmet. When he stands to approach the person, he cannot understand what he sees.

There is no longer another person lying on the floor, but only a single person standing alone in the room wearing a helmet. He is looking down at that person. He again grabs at the helmet in panic, and sees the person below also grabbing at the helmet. It does not take long before he realizes he is watching himself from above. Again he raises his hands and feels the entire surface of the mask. He sees his fingers when his hands pass over the top, and reasons it is some sort of periscope.

Encouraged by this discovery he paces the small mirrored room, looking down at himself banging upon the walls. Eventually his foot scrapes something against the white floor, and he kneels down to find it is a sheet of crisp white paper. Turning it over he sees from above that it contains text illegible from that distance. He raises it as high as he possibly can but it still cannot be read. He finally places the sheet over the top of the helmet and sees the mirror image of blurry letters. No longer able to see himself he slowly lowers the paper, and just before the letters become clear everything goes dark.