Since “the incident,” James “JP” Patrick has been having nightmares

“I can’t get it out of my head,” says Patrick, an artist and DJ based in Brooklyn Center.

He’s referring to the penultimate night of Burning Man, the weeklong arts festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert — just before the festival’s climactic ritual of burning a massive wooden effigy known as “The Man.”

At dusk on Aug. 30, Patrick was sitting on the playa meditating when a Cybertruck wrapped with Christmas lights ran him over, dragging him along the playa ground for several seconds as he screamed.

“The impact was immediate, obviously, but it wasn't even the impact that hurt,” Patrick recalls. "It was the being drug under the car. That was the part that was just, not only physically very painful, but almost more so just

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