You can teach a dog not to bite

ᐡ ᐧ ﻌ ᐧ ᐡ I'm living in a [%&$#]ing cartoon

Dry burning pained my eyes as I tired to focus on the world around me.

It was bright and overstimulating, the constant droning of something deep and ominous made my stomach queasy. Everything other than what I could feel was so loud, music blaring and ringing much louder than I used to be able to hear things. Was I in a concert? I squinted hard, eyebrows starting to ache as I tried to make sense of the odd shapes and objects moving around me.

"Where the [&%*$] am I?" Did... Was... Did I even? My mouth... It's... It's not opening?? Why- Why is it-, "What the [&%*$]-" I tried again and again before finally trying to tear at where I thought my mouth was. But all I was met with was my upper lip, no break, and... A bone? There's no way it was a bone. There's... There's no...

I grabbed both ends of the thing that was locking my mouth in place and with every ounce of strength tried to pry it from my mouth. The harder I pulled, the more tears stung my closed eyes. I only opened them to find out my process and promptly let go. My face had stretched as cartoonishly long as I could pull, the bone lodged into my mouth permanently.

The floor started to move like water, the black and white tiles elongated as my knees, which I only now realize I had been standing, hit the floor with a 'thud'. My own harsh breathing had filled my ears, continuing to grab and pull at the bone that glued my mouth shut.

"WHY HELLO THERE!"

A terrified yelp left my throat as I jumped around to my back, scooting away like a scared animal. The overbearing... *wrong* voice of whatever the hell it was created a new ringing in my ears. It continued to harp on about something, stuff I admittedly didn't even listen to. I was too focused being horrified, trying to find someway away as it came closer.

Its bright red gums and white teeth curved unnaturally around a pair of eyeballs that rested on a cartoonishly large tongue. Benteah this thing was a human male body and yet it was anything but human.

What the fuck is happening.

Where am I?

How did I get... here?

My eyes stared forward trying to gain any sense of self, anything about myself I can reassure myself with, just... Anything. But... I just.. I just... Forgot.

Swallowed by the same feeling like when you walk into a room and freeze, looking around helplessly because you had completely forgotten what you were looking for. I could have sworn that I was just thinking about something.

My head was completely empty, all fading thoughts quickly being replaced by multiple extreme senses of dread and anxiety. Feelings that I didn't have thoughts for. I wasn't able to think about anything besides what my eyes were processing, anxiety guarding my vision.

I was completely entranced as I stared out ahead of me, completely zoned out from the stimuli around me. My eyes tried to lock in on the vibrant colors, vision swaying from one spinning block with eyes to another. It didn't matter how long I watched them, I couldn't process anything, my body was stuck in the feeling of being a deer in headlights.

"Hellooooo! Is our new guest home?!" It boomed again, a hand waving frantically in my face just enough to startle my brain back into working. I looked back up, now pressed against a wall with a slowly calming chest.

At least, I think I was calming down? I put a hand to my chest inhaling deeply, finding the breathing doing nothing to ease my aching heart. Now that I was listening, my heart... Didn't feel like it was really beating either.

"Welcome to the Amazing Digital Circus, my friend!" My new nightmare of floating teeth glided over, a bubble coming way too close with its sharp teeth, They hovered a few inches off the ground to stare at me. Neither of them looked... Hostile. Didn't sound hostile either, I at least heard when it called me 'friend'.