48. Lucid dreaming
After the body fell into the black hole, Hu Xing's consciousness was a little blurred. She had almost retreated several times, returning to the nightmare state of not waking up, and at one point she had even seen the confused light and distorted people in the study.
But fortunately, a pair of hands firmly grasped her, and a voice kept whispering in her ear: "Relax, you can, hold on, and you will wake up and see your dreams." ”
The space finally stabilized.
Hu Xing felt that his body had landed, his feet stepped on the ground, and the surrounding scenery slowly became clear.
She saw the sea.
The coastline stretches into the distance, but it is blurred, and the distant sea is so foggy that you can't see anything clearly. Only the blue waves swelled nearby, slapping against the beach in waves, drowning the delicate white sand and the messy footprints.
Hu Xing was wearing a white dress, barefoot, and walked aimlessly along the beach. The sea breeze ruffled the hem of her skirt and ruffled her long hair, whirring behind her. A seagull flew in and circled over her head.
"Am I in a dream?"
"Yes, you are in a dream, you are awake."
Hu Xing saw Aoki standing not far away, the sea breeze was obviously very strong, but his old trench coat was like an iron cast bronze sculpture, not moving at all.
Hu Xing's chest rose and fell, a little nervous, and a little excited.
"Is this a lucid dream?"
Hu Xing learned the concept of lucid dreaming in psychology class. Scientists call the kind of "dream you know you're dreaming" "mind-body projection", also known as lucid dreaming, and the English name is Lucid Dreaming, which was coined by a Dutch doctor named Frederick in 1913.
"I thought lucid dreaming had to be a special constitution!" She said.
"No, in fact, everyone can have lucid dreaming, as long as they are properly trained," Aoki said. ”
Hu Xing believed that what Aoki said was true.
"What a beautiful sea! So comfortable! She watched the waves rush to her instep, then looked into the distance, "But why can't I see anything in the distance?" ”
"That's the boundary of dreams." Aoki said.
"The boundaries of dreams?"
"Yes." Aoki explained, "Dreams are spaces that you create by yourself, and in Professor Mei's words, when you project things from the real world into dreams according to your memory, this space has quality, and human mental power is limited and cannot infinitely bear the quality of the space you create, so dreams have boundaries." The size of this spatial boundary depends on the person's spiritual power, and the stronger the spiritual power, the larger the dream space he can create. ”
Aoki walked towards her step by step, approached her, looked at her and smiled, "Your spiritual power is already very strong, many people can only see a small area in front of them in their dreams!" Their dreams rely on constantly changing scenes, and some people feel that they dream of a large place, which is made up and pieced together by their own brains when they wake up and recall the dream. ”
"I see." Hu Xing seemed to understand, "It's amazing, I can create such a wonderful space by myself, am I God?" ”
"In your own dreams, you are God." "Everything here is created by you, including yourself. ”
"Myself? How can I create myself? If I created it too, then where am I? Hu Xing asked a series of questions that even she herself was stunned.
Aoki said, "When you dream, your real body is sleeping. Only your cerebral cortex is active. So now you are really just your consciousness. Human consciousness is like an iceberg, when we are awake, it is the part of the iceberg that is exposed on the surface of the water, which we call the surface consciousness, and the iceberg is hidden in the larger mountain under the water, which we call the subconscious. The subconscious mind is the basis of the apparent consciousness, but it never shows the dew, it only comes out to breathe when you are asleep, and brings you into a dream, and at that time, your apparent consciousness is resting. ”
"And what about me now?" Hu Xing asked.
"As a successful lucid dreamer, your present conscious body is fully united, and your apparent and subconscious minds are awake at the same time." Aoki said.
"Can I change something? If I had created it. Hu Xing had a whim.
"Have you ever played with building blocks?" Aoki asked.
Hu Xing nodded.
Aoki pointed with his hand, and suddenly there was a pile of blocks on the beach.
"Creating a space is like building blocks, you need to be very careful in your calculations to make it big and beautiful."
He crouched down and set up on the ground, and in a moment it was a square, hollow high-rise.
"The builder of your dream space is yourself, and the material you build is your memory, extracting and organizing your messy memories, and reconstructing amazing three-dimensional pictures through careful calculation, layer by layer. If you don't have a firm grasp of the rules and try to change them, it's like pulling a small piece of ...... out of a block."
As he spoke, he chose one of the seemingly random pieces from the middle of the building block tower he had built, pulled it out, and the tower fell down with a thud.
Hu Xing understood, but Bing Xue was smart and she immediately found the problem: "No, where did you get this stack of bricks from?" Isn't the sudden extra thing also breaking the rules of my space? Also, how did you get in? ”
Aoki smiled and said, "Do you want to be a big fat man in one bite?" I just had my first lucid dream today! Now that you've consumed a lot of mental strength, when you wake up, I'm afraid you'll be in a wheelchair like your grandfather! ”
Hu Xing screamed: "Oops! Where's my grandfather? Aren't we in his dreams? How did it come to my dreams? ”
Aoki stood up and pointed to the distance and said, "Look carefully. ”
Hu Xing knew that he was referring to the boundary of his dream. She noticed that there was a vague fluctuation in that hazy gray background, like a shield made of air there, under the onslaught of some mysterious force.
"What's that?" She asked.
"When we dream, the cerebral cortex emits strong brain waves, and in addition to that, our bodies also emit bioelectricity," says Professor Mei, who said he has detected a special type of radiation that has not yet been confirmed and captured. Aoki explained, "Right now, you're dreaming at the same time as your grandfather. ”
"You mean, it's my grandfather's brainwaves that are interfering with each other?"
"Pretty much." Aoki said.
"Then how do we get to my grandfather's dream? Hey, we've been here for so long, my grandfather is about to wake up, right? Hu Xing said in surprise.
"Don't worry, dreams are your conscious function, and they are not bound by space and time, so time is just your feeling, and it doesn't exist in dreams."
After Aoki finished speaking, he grabbed her hand with his hand and said, "Close your eyes." ”
Hu Xing closed her eyes, the darkness hit, and she suddenly felt her body tighten, and the whole space wrapped her tightly like a cocoon.
Until Aoki said, "It's okay." She opened her eyes and found that there was darkness around her.
A mysterious and powerful force pulls them and quickly plunges them into the endless abyss.
She looked down at their feet and saw her outsider being pulled by a dark shadow, falling at great speed.