Chapter 8: Analysis (Thank you to the alliance leader for getting out of the way)
"I didn't even jump back to the first layer of dreams this time!"
In the small rental house, Pei Chu slowly sat up from the single bed, looked out of the window where it was already dark, and sat on the bed in a daze for several minutes, and then groped seriously for a while before exhaling a long breath of turbidity.
"I should be in the real world by now."
Standing in front of the desk, looking at the familiar textbooks and school bags, as well as the urban village market outside the window, which was already a little lively, a wonderful feeling that had not been seen for a long time surged in my heart again.
"Is the dream world I experienced real or false?"
Standing in front of the window and watching for a while, although Pei Chu felt that he should be "awakened" at this moment, he remembered clearly what he had experienced in his dream.
It's so clear that it doesn't feel like a dream at all, but the real world.
Especially the self in the first dream, a Xia Guoli worker who went to the Federation thousands of miles away to work hard to make a living, all the experiences seem to be true, it seems that in another corner of the world, or in another world, there is such a self.
"I'm really a little skeptical right now, and the world seems to be a dream as well."
Pei Chu raised his hands and looked at them, and let out a silent sigh.
When he woke up this morning, he was not as resistant to the dream world as he had at first, it was just like a few more haunting memories in his head, like watching an impressive movie and playing a game that simulated reality.
But even if he can distinguish it intellectually, emotionally, the alternation between the illusory and the real, the familiar people and things, still makes him a little dizzy.
After standing in front of the window for a while, Pei Chu followed the trajectory of his daily life and went to the bathroom to wash.
After a simple wash, Pei Chu saw that the time was almost up, and then picked up his schoolbag and went out.
Although he has experienced the strange world in his dreams, his current identity is that of a student, and students can't escape going to school.
His grades were not good, and he really didn't particularly like to stay in school, but compared to the first layer of the dream world, he was a laborer, so he couldn't help but touch his shoulder.
He felt that being a student was actually very good, compared to the kind of hard work of carrying heavy objects on the dock, which was dozens or hundreds of times worse than the dock shanty wooden house where he lived now, he was already living in paradise.
I bought two steamed buns and a cup of soy milk at a breakfast shop in the private house area downstairs, and walked all the way to the school.
During the whole day at school, Pei Chu thought about the world in his dreams over and over again, and the kind of memories and pictures that came to his mind had made him deeply immersed in it.
"My first dream seemed to be another me, living in a completely different era with a completely different life trajectory."
"And my second dream, it's me, I woke up in a dilapidated room, and it seems to be weird everywhere."
Pei Chu sat in the seat of the classroom, and instead of listening to the teacher's lectures, he drew a large circle on a blank homework book.
And then the reality is marked on this circle.
Then he drew a slightly smaller circle inside the large circle, and wrote the first layer of dreams on the edge of the slightly smaller circle.
Then he talked in this slightly smaller circle for a while, and stared at the third layer of dreams.
The first circle represents the real world of himself, a student, the real world that he can intellectually tell himself.
The second circle is the self in the first dream world who is in another era as a dock worker, which is a world where many people or NPCs exist. All experiences and memories are very real.
The third circle is the strange world of gray fog.
After the three layers and layers of circles were marked, Pei Chu thought for a while, then deleted them all, and drew three triangle circles on the blank homework book again.
He felt that he needed to distinguish the relationship between the dream world and the real world, the relationship between the two dream worlds was a dream within a dream, but it might not be.
"I remember watching a movie about Stolen Dreams before, in which it seems that the hero's wife committed suicide because she couldn't distinguish between reality and fantasy, and the final ending of that movie, whether the hero returned home or not, has become an open-ended ending that I don't know whether it is real or unreal."
Pei Chu looked at the relationship between the dreams and reality he listed, but he couldn't help but think of a science fiction movie he had watched.
He felt that the situation in that movie was somewhat similar to his current situation, that is, he fell into the dream world, except that they used all kinds of strange technological means to steal in other people's dreams, and he entered the dream world by himself.
Moreover, not one dream world, but two.
Dream within a dream!
Pei Chu felt that he might still be able to distinguish between the dream and the real world now, but after a long time, he didn't know if he could really distinguish between it in the future.
This feeling is very subtle, that is, when he is in the gray imitation world on the second layer, he can associate with the real world, as if he knows that he is in a dream, but there is a feeling of being pulled into that strange world.
The feeling of nervousness, panic, and dazedness was exceptionally clear.
And in the first dream world, it seemed to be himself in a different time and space, but the different life experience made him feel that it was almost himself. Fang Yunhu, Liu Sixi, Lao Val, he can even recount their height, body type, appearance and characteristics little by little.
Finally, I woke up in this real world, and then thought back to the two dream worlds, and felt that I knew that it was a dream, but when I was in the dream, it would feel very real.
"I have to know that it's a dream, a dream world!"
Pei Chu felt that he had to think of a token like a small spinning top made in the protagonist of the movie, to remind him whether he was living in a dream or reality.
He didn't know how long his dream could last, but he seriously thought back to his experience, and when he first fell into the dream, he probably realized that he was in a dream, but soon the development of the dream world made him forget about reality.
It was only when the dream of the first and second layers jumped that I seemed to be able to remember it again.
"What should I choose?"
Pei Chu frowned and thought, he suddenly didn't know how to distinguish between dreams and reality, and he didn't know if his dream world had any effect through this means?
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