Chapter 15: Dream Wandering
"Do the Adepts have to use their abilities as much as possible to activate the genes, to make the genes stable, and to prevent them from disintegrating?"
Ender's words made Char thoughtful.
This is an important message.
Char finds that when she is immersed in a state of studying, her headaches will be greatly relieved.
He thought it was because of the distraction, but he didn't think about using "ability" to activate genes.
"Is a headache a precursor to genetic disintegration?"
Char felt a chill in her heart, and she was a little afraid.
He unknowingly walked in front of the ghost gate, and almost died of extremely miserable genetic disintegration.
Sequence 1 "Reader" has the ability to "never forget", and in this day and age, having a strong memory does not have much advantage.
Because, there are so many ways to enhance your memory.
Drugs, hypnosis, light brain assistance... Rich people even directly implant memory chips in their brains to directly instill a large amount of knowledge and information into them.
But from an evolutionary point of view, "reader" is a good sequence.
Because, the reader's ability is easy to use.
If you replace it with other more obscure and difficult to use abilities.
Perhaps the Alien was unaware of his abilities and died a tragic death due to the collapse of his genes.
Hearing Ender's explanation, the students were relieved, lined up, and each went to the robot maid to get a dream potion.
......
Back to the room.
Char lay on the bed, looking at the high ceiling, and the room was quiet.
After a while, Char made up her mind, took out the dream potion, took a light breath, pierced the needle into her arm, and slowly pressed the syringe, pushing the purple liquid bubbling inside into the blood vessel.
Suddenly, Char felt a chill hit his bones, and the blood in his body seemed to be frozen.
His dark eyes were bloodshot, and the veins on his forehead were bulging, and he gasped for breath.
I don't know how long it took, the chill gradually dissipated, and a warm current gushed out of the body, like the warm sun in winter, which is indescribably relaxed.
Char yawned, a thick sleepiness hit, and the scene in front of him began to spin, turning into an illusory whirlpool, as if pulling his soul out and flying into the endless deep void.
After the vertigo subsided, Char finally regained her sense of self.
In front of him was a young man with messy black hair, deep-set eye sockets, thin body, and ordinary facial features, curled up in bed, breathing steadily, and falling into a deep sleep.
"He's... I? ”
Char was stunned for a moment, and finally realized that his body was sleeping.
"Am I dreaming?"
This is the second time Char has experienced such a conscious dream.
The first time was on the platform, Char dreamed that he had entered an empty playground and met the Dream Girl.
Two dreams, with one thing in common.
Char knew she was dreaming.
In the dream, Char was still able to maintain a clear sense of self.
However, it was different from the dream on the platform.
Now, Char seems to be in a state of soul detachment.
His consciousness was suspended in mid-air, looking at his own body, and he could clearly perceive the real world.
For many years, scientists have been studying whether there is a soul or not.
It wasn't until the popularity of androids and prosthetics that most scientists had to admit that souls existed.
Nowadays, the scientific community believes that the reason why humans are different from androids is that humans have souls, and androids do not have souls.
The soul, on Dr. Kakul's map of the Kabbalah Tree of Life, is called spirit. In the field of psychology, it's called consciousness.
"Clear dreams blur the boundaries between dreams and reality, and consciousness can directly perceive the real world." Char realized that she began to manipulate her consciousness and wanted to move.
The consciousness was ethereal, floating in mid-air like a balloon, Char tried for a long time before the consciousness slowly landed, pushing the door and wanting to get out.
Char's consciousness passed through the door and went straight to the hallway.
"Can we only observe reality, but cannot interfere with it? Yes, I'm dreaming now, after all. Char said secretly in his heart.
But the next moment, Char suddenly found that he had returned to the guest room, suspended above his body, as if he had never moved.
Char tried again and made her way to the hallway, but quickly returned to her original position.
He tried three or four times in a row with the same result.
"Circular dreams?"
If Char hadn't been conscious, he would have thought he was stuck in a dream loop.
Cyclic dreams are a rare type of dream.
In your dreams, you will do the same thing over and over again, such as getting out of bed and going to school. But you don't have to go far before you find yourself back in bed, getting dressed again, going to school, and so on.
In fact, this is the awakening of consciousness and detachment from the body, and the physical body is still asleep.
Soon, Char discovers the truth about the Circular Dream.
Consciousness cannot go too far from the physical body, and once it goes beyond a certain range, it is pulled near the physical body.
Char made a simple estimate, and the limit of his consciousness activity was now twenty meters.
Consciousness can pass through doors, walls, floors, and objects in reality cannot block consciousness.
Char's consciousness passed through the wall and came to the next room.
The student staying in this room is the black-haired teenager Ouyang.
He had apparently been injected with a dream potion as well, staring at the ceiling with vacant eyes, his mouth slightly open, and saliva pouring out of his pillow wetting his head.
In addition to the syringes of the Dream Elixir, there were empty pill bottles scattered on the floor.
Ouyang is a drug abuser.
He was afraid that the effect of the dream potion would not be enough, so he also used other drugs to assist.
Char's consciousness looked at Ouyang and saw a cloud-like flocculent object hovering above his head.
It was Ouyang's dream.
Char is not yet a true dream builder and cannot enter other people's dreams.
However, he could already see that Ouyang was dreaming, and he could also see the colors of Ouyang's dreams - colorful and disorganized.
Under the influence of the drug, Ouyang was having a crazy dream.
"What color dreams are the others doing?"
Char was a little curious, and his consciousness passed through the wall to the rooms of the other students.
Some students' dreams are white, like a white cloud.
Some students' dreams are green, like an endless grassland.
There is also a female student whose dream is pink, which is an extremely ambiguous color, and she has a dream that belongs to puberty, and her face is flushed.
Char arrives at Kaisha's room and finds the blonde girl's dreams as dark as dark clouds.
Her brow furrowed, her expression frightened, as if she was having a nightmare.
Char tried to help her, but her fingers stopped in mid-air.
Char wasn't a dream builder yet, and he didn't know what kind of impact it would have if he interfered with other people's dreams.
Eventually, Char didn't interfere and left Kaisha's room.
Dreams are very personal things, and it is very immoral to interfere with other people's dreams without their consent.
"And finally Susanna's room, what is she dreaming about?"
Char, with a deep sense of curiosity, entered through the door and entered Susanna's room.
The rebellious purple-haired girl was lying on the bed with her eyes closed.
In her sleep, her eyelashes fluttered lightly, and she looked very cute.
However, Char did not have no dreams in Susanna's head.
"She didn't dream?" Char was a little surprised, and then he found the unopened Dream Elixir on the table.
Out of the ten students, Suzanne was the only one who did not inject the Dream Potion.
Just when Char was surprised, Suzanne suddenly opened her eyes and shouted, "Who is it?" ”
Char was startled in her heart, and her consciousness suddenly dissipated.
"Delusion? But I clearly felt that someone was spying on me. ”
Suzanne straightened up, rubbed her temples, put her headphones back on, and immersed herself in the world of rock 'n' roll.
"Whew..."
Char sat up from the bed suddenly, only to find that consciousness had returned to his body, his forehead was covered with cold sweat, and his heart was pounding.
"Suzanne didn't sleep at all! And, she discovered my consciousness? How is this possible? ”
Char's brows furrowed, consciousness has no substance, unless he has professional training, or has strong insight, ordinary people can't detect the existence of consciousness at all.
Suzanne was quick to notice.
Who the hell is she?