Allergy season is in. Year after year, the same story. My eyes get itchy and my nose and ears get totally clogged. Nothing seems to work. I was so bored with it, that at this point, I would try anything. It is so noticeable, that last week when I was walking along a small street in Chinatown, looking for a dumplings place I've heard about, an old chinese man stopped me and asked me:
"you want allergy out?'
I asked him what he meant by that, to which he just replied:
"I give you allergy out"
At this point, I was willing to try anything. So I said yes to the old man. He went back into his rundown store and came back out with a small bottle.
"Put one drop in ears, one drop in nose. Close nose and blow. You be happy"
I took the bottle and asked him how much but he refused to receive any money.
That night when I got home, I got undressed and the bottle fell off my pants' pocket. I had totally forgotten about it. I was a bit skeptical, but decided to try it. I applied a drop in each one of my nostrils and a drop in my ears, covered my nose with two fingers and blew.
And then it happened...
My eyes were closed, as they always are when you blow your nose. Before I could open them again, I felt a strange sensation inside of my head. A warm tingling. It felt as if my eyes were rolling back into my head. Suddenly my ears popped, they were no longer clogged. I opened my eyes but what I saw disoriented me: I no longer saw the cabinet mirror in front of me. I was looking at the shower and the toilet, which were at opposite ends of the long bathroom.
I slowly turned my head around and saw myself in the mirror: I could see the right side of my head, my right ear, and in it, my right eye peeking out of the tiny ear hole. I turned the other way and saw exactly the same on the opposite side. My eyeballs had rolled all the way back to my ear canal.
I still could see perfectly. It took me a couple of minutes to get used to this, but I could see perfectly. I had a bit of a problem with perspective, but other than that, it was fine. I tried covering my nose again and this time instead of blowing I sucked the air in. I felt the same tingling sensation and my eyes rolled back to their original place.
I was happy. Not only my allergies were gone, but I had also learned to control my peripheral vision like nobody else.
...And then I sneezed.
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