The Strange Pale Green Living Room and Lanyard

The Strange Pale Green Living Room and Lanyard

I got home from work exhausted, unlocked my front door, and walked inside, but my living room was laid out completely backward. The couch was against the opposite wall and the paint was this strange pale green instead of yellow. My partner came around the corner from the kitchen, but they had long dark hair and called me by a different name, asking how my shift at the airport went. I don't work at the airport, I work in accounting, but when I looked down I was wearing a navy blue security lanyard. I tried to pull up photos on my phone to prove this wasn't right, but all the saved pictures were of vacations I never took with friends I didn't recognize. The weirdest part was that they weren't mad or hostile at all; they just kept gently asking if I had a migraine because I was acting so disoriented. I had this sinking, dizzy feeling that this was actually my real life now and my real home was gone forever, and then my alarm finally went off.