A panicked man rushed to the hospital upon discovering he’d been transported into that one Eiffel 65 song.
Forty-two-year-old Tommy Lynch tells the BBC he woke up in his bed to find he looked like “an Avatar.” While he wasn’t super tall and didn’t grow a tail, his skin had mysteriously turned blue.
When Lynch arrived at the emergency room, he says, “Everyone in the reception of A&E [the Accident and Emergency department] was staring at me like they’d seen a ghost.”
“They whisked me through, put me straight on oxygen, asking me all these questions,” Lynch says. “I had about 10 doctors all around me at one point.”
As it turns out, Lynch was perfectly fine. His new blue hue was actually the result of dye rubbing off from the set of bed sheets he’d been sleeping in, which had been recently gifted to him.
“They went to take my blood and as soon as she wiped my arm, the wipe went blue,” Lynch says. “Then it clicked. I said, ‘oh my god, I’m so sorry.'”
While he could breathe a sigh of relief about his blue skin, he did turn red with embarrassment.
“I was mortified but they said I’d given them a good laugh,” Lynch says. “They don’t usually have funny stories in A&E.”
Lynch adds that it took about a week to wash all the blue off. But in the end, he learned a valuable lesson.
“Always wash your sheets before you sleep in them,” Lynch says. “Unless you want to jump the queue at A&E.”