A story which has been going on in my head since I was a young teen. This isn’t my paracosm, I get this story every time I listen to Bran Van’s Drinking In LA.
One night, a guy’s drunk after going drinking at a bar and almost getting into a fight. He drives his car fast and it crashes. An egglike structure of something like semi-permanent snow forms over his car. He is comatose but alive. Somehow, the structure keeps him alive although frozen, like how food in the freezer is still edible long after it’s meant to be.
The apocalypse comes. Earth doesn’t get destroyed but every living thing dies in a fire which affects everything but the car.
Aliens come to Earth. They’re doing like what our scientists do on Mars. Checking to see if there’s any intelligent life here.
Everything else is so scorched they can’t tell that it was once alive but they dig through the car and find him there. A creature/monster is how they see him. They are humanoid aliens. I never was quite sure at how to imagine their physical appearances only that they’re not quite human enough to see him as one of their own.
This creature/the young man fascinates them although they think it/he is dead. They watch it until he awakens, thirsting and desperate for something, like alcohol or maybe just water, which isn’t on earth anymore. He’s going to die. They rush to help him although they don’t know what he needs just that he’s thirsty.
There are two wakings after this, one is him waking in bed to his stereo, the other is him waking in hospital to human doctors and nurses. In all of these though, there’s the impending sense that he’ll die soon, somehow – whichever one of the three is his real waking up.
When I google it, nobody mentions this story so I think it’s something my brain made up. It’s partly from lyrics and partly from some vocals which I also can’t find online although I heard them on the CD every time I played it. They say ‘he’s alive, alive’ ‘yeah, and mighty thirsty already’ or maybe it’s ‘yeah, and mighty thirsty I reckon’.
I try to avoid this song because this story scares the wits out of me and I can't get past the story when I listen to the song, they're linked in my head.