The deep darkness starts to lesson all around you and you find yourself in a completely new setting. At first you do absolutely nothing but stare blankly ahead. You've never experienced anything like that feeling in your entire life, and your mind races through all possibilities to make sense of your situation. Everything from dreams to the afterlife flash across your mind to grasp what's happening.
Shortly, your senses are actually picking up your new surroundings. You find that you're sitting down in a very large open room with people roaming around everywhere. There are stores lining all the walls and most of the people are carrying bags with them. You're clearly in a mall of some sort. But not one that you recognize at all.
Then you look down at your closest surroundings and find that there is a line of people that are all facing you. And you notice that almost all the people in the line are children. You've no idea why they're looking this way so you spin in your chair a bit to see. You only see a Christmas tree and a large green and red velvet wall behind you. That's also when you notice the spinning motion felt very foreign to you, almost as if you haven't spun around like that in many years and your whole body felt very odd and achy. A young boy a couple feet way is looking at you expectantly as you are horrifyingly putting the pieces of this puzzle together.
Hesitantly, you look down at yourself. You see the ends of a real full white beard that runs down your chest onto a large red suit that's hugging around a huge round belly.
You snap your head right back up in terror and try not to scream. But the reality is starting to hit you --- You're a mall Santa Claus!