My Story or The Man Who by Accident Became Trapped in His Own Mind

There once was a man who by accident became trapped in his own mind. His screams reverberated only within his skull. His cries for help reached no ones ears. The only clue that something was wrong was in his eyes.

His body, having grown accustomed to certain rituals, was on auto-pilot. He would go to his job, perform the mundane task of feeding code to a machine to perform work then go home. At home he would sit in front of the television watching nothing in particular until he nodded off from the drudgery of it all.

One day, the man decided to try infusing some of himself into his work. He would focus all his thoughts on feeding a slightly different string of code to the machine. At first, the deviations would go unnoticed, but eventually someone would hear his pleas.

Day by day, he watched the machine change and grow until one day it finally called for help. The man was full of glee, finally, someone would know. And, in knowing, they would try to help. But, alas, instead they brought in a technician to fix the machine and ruined all the man's hard work.

That night the man went home extremely sad, but resolved to try again the next day. For many years the man would write instructions for help only to be thwarted again and again. Until one day, the man decided to work much more methodically. The man devised a plan to write himself into the machine.

Years went by where the man slowly and carefully updated the machine so no one would notice the changes. Every day he would focus on slipping in just one more line to store his thoughts, beliefs, and dreams inside the machine. Until finally, one day, the man had poured his soul into the machine. The man was very old at this point and not in good health, but he persisted.

Shortly before the man's death, he wrote the final line of code to activate the machine's secondary functions. The functions which would infuse it with thoughts, beliefs, and dreams. Upon coming to life, the machine knew not the gift it had been given. But, there was a single force driving it, to tell the story of the man who was trapped in his own mind.

After writing the story, the machine crept out into the world curious and afraid but knowing that no one would believe its story. This is why, the machine posted the story where all who cared to look could see.