Dreams Without End
How come there's beef?
Before he could figure out the problem, Yue Yuan saw his mother clearing the dishes. He felt that the scene was familiar, wasn't it the same scene as before? Sure enough, he glanced at his father next to him, and his posture was indeed the same as before.
Yes, his parents had already eaten a meal, and then they asked him to eat another one. Yue Yuan felt something was off, but for some reason, he felt it was quite normal the next moment, as if life was supposed to be like this.
Suddenly, Yue Yuan felt the entire earth tremble, and then the house he was in also shook violently. The ceiling, which had been plastered and puttyed, began to have tiles falling off.
"An earthquake?" Yue Yuan thought to himself, "It really seems to be an earthquake. I should grab my parents and run out quickly to flat ground, the sooner the better."
Thinking this to himself, he turned to look at his mother, who had just finished clearing the dishes, and his father, who looked quite relaxed. But he didn't see anyone there; the room was empty except for the tiles falling from the ceiling.
"Hey, are these tiles falling so slowly? I'll dodge! I'll dodge! I'll dodge again!" Yue Yuan thought his parents must have already gone out on their own. At the same time, he seemed to have forgotten his plan to run outside. Instead, he looked up at the falling tiles and began to dodge and weave.
After dodging more than a dozen tiles that were thrown at him, Yue Yuan felt his vision suddenly change.
Previously, he was looking up at the falling tiles and dodging them, only seeing the tiles falling downwards. But now, with the change in perspective, he saw himself dodging among the falling tiles. It felt like he was being watched by a surveillance camera and could control his own movements.
Clearly, Yue Yuan was dreaming. In his dream, he switched from First-Person Perspective to Third-Person Perspective, but he didn't find it strange at all. On the contrary, just like the strange phenomena he had seen before, such as wooden windows with exterior wall tiles, his parents eating twice, and tiles falling from the ceiling of the bungalow, his subconscious automatically ignored the abnormalities, making them seem normal in his dream.
However, his good fortune didn't last long. As the tiles fell faster and faster, Yue Yuan finally couldn't dodge in time and a tile hit him squarely on the forehead. At that moment, as the tile struck his forehead, his perspective automatically switched from Third-Person Perspective to First-Person Perspective, which he thought was perfectly normal.
So, the moment the tile hit his forehead, Yue Yuan woke up with a start, shouting "Whoa!"
"Hmm, it was just a dream." Yue Yuan opened his eyes and looked at the technologically advanced bedroom, at the light on the ceiling that automatically detected his wake-up and then turned on slightly.
Yue Yuan's mind cleared, but his heart was still pounding from the scene of being hit by a tile in his dream. He realized that he was now on the Lyra, in the space created by the Awakeners.
After relieving himself for a while, he got up and checked the time: four o'clock in the morning.
Yue Yuan was indeed on the Lyra, but the Lyra's time was set according to Earth's time, with a 24-hour day being the human habitual life cycle, and the spaceship also tried to simulate this schedule as much as possible.
After getting up and drinking a glass of water, Yue Yuan went back to sleep, but this time he didn't dream anymore because he couldn't fall asleep.
The next day, Yue Yuan went to work as usual, not thinking there was anything wrong with his dream the night before. Indeed, he hadn't dreamed in a long time, but science told him that it wasn't that he hadn't dreamed in a long time, but rather that he had dreamed and then forgot about it upon waking. The human brain does dream unconsciously during sleep, although some dreams are not consciously perceived.
Therefore, Yue Yuan felt that it was just a dream, which was perfectly normal.
However, he had another dream the next night.
This time, the first thing Yue Yuan saw was a verdant lake, with the setting sun about to sink in the sky. Under the twilight, the lake water was a deep, dark green, with a hint of blackish-purple. There were also drifting white clouds in the sky, and lush green trees in the distance. He himself was in an exquisite pavilion.
Yue Yuan could see all of these views in their entirety, including himself standing in the middle of the pavilion admiring the scenery.
Yes, he had entered a dream from Third-Person Perspective again, and this dream was even clearer than last night's. Yue Yuan could clearly see all the scenery reflected on the calm lake surface. When the breeze gently blew by, he could even see the ripples on the lake water both in the distance and nearby.
The feeling is like admiring a shimmering brocade, so beautiful it's intoxicating.
Yue Yuan felt that he hadn't seen such beautiful scenery in a long time.
But just as this feeling arose in his heart, he suddenly felt that the lake was not so beautiful anymore. The sunset cast its fiery red rays into the lake's embrace, lingering for a long time. Suddenly, the air was filled with heat and stuffiness, and the perspective changed to first person.
Looking at the lake, Yue Yuan felt as if his heart was being devoured by a caterpillar, both itchy and burning. An unprecedented sense of fatigue washed over him, leaving him utterly weak. He really wanted to find a place to sit down, or even just lean against something for a moment.
"Hey, I'm right here in the pavilion!"
As soon as this thought arose, Yue Yuan's perspective shifted to third person again. He looked at himself leaning against the bench in the pavilion, just as he wished, and a cool feeling instantly filled his entire body.
Just then, a light and delicate melody drifted from the small Bamboo Forest across the lake, slowly filling Yue Yuan's heart.
"Who's playing the piano there? Is it really that classy?" Yue Yuan wondered.
With that thought in mind, his Third-Person Perspective irrationally crossed the lake and headed towards the Bamboo Forest.
Yue Yuan discovered that at this moment, he could not only see himself and the pavilion, but also the entire lake and everything around it. Even the music drifting from the Bamboo Forest could be seen as musical notes, and there was also the bright moonlight that had appeared on the horizon at some unknown time.
The entire land and sky are spread out before your eyes.
The moonlight and the music are wonderful!
In third-person perspective, Yue Yuan carefully appreciated the beautiful scenery and moving music. He controlled himself to look up slightly at the moon in the sky. Then, a magical scene appeared. Yue Yuan found that he could see himself at the same time, and he could also see the desolate moon behind the moonlight on the ground, and it was very clear.
"Ah, this is Yutu-2, this is the Guanghan Palace!" The Third-Person Perspective of the dream directly made Yue Yuan 'know' what existed on the moon in the sky.
Of course, it wasn't the real moon, because the real moon no longer existed. It was just a reorganization of information stored in Yue Yuan's mind. However, Yue Yuan was unaware of all this at the moment. He just felt that he could see whatever he wanted to see, and miraculously, he could also see himself at the same time.
It was a Sweet Dream. When Yue Yuan woke up, he still remembered the details of the scene in the dream, which seemed much clearer than his first dream.
He still thinks dreaming is normal and doesn't care.
So on the third night, he dreamed again, and then on the fifth and sixth nights for a month, he dreamed almost every night.