Dream Realm Mystery

Surely he can't really not wake up?

Thinking of Inception, Yue Yuan's subconscious worried that he might not actually wake up.

However, just as this worry arose in his subconscious, Yue Yuan, who was flying in mid-air in a third-person perspective, suddenly found himself in First-Person Perspective and falling. The speed of the fall was getting faster and faster, and soon it was like free fall. No matter how Yue Yuan tried to fly up again, it was ineffective.

"I'm going to be killed by this fall! What should I do? What should I do? No, no, no, I'm dreaming. I can't die from this fall. No, no, this is Inception. Maybe I'm already awake. This is a real fall. I'm doomed! No, no, I've been genetically enhanced. This little height won't kill me!" Yue Yuan was somewhat smug. He had just flown several stories high, so he really couldn't die from the fall.

Overclock Mode activated!

Yue Yuan subconsciously activated the Human Body Overclocking, and then a miraculous scene occurred.

Unbeknownst to him, the man lying in bed asleep had actually entered a Human Body Overclocking mode, his overall physical attributes increasing exponentially—his resistance to blows, impacts, and high-G acceleration. Yet, even so, he still didn't wake up.

What Yue Yuan didn't know was that this time, his entry into the Human Body Overclocking mode was almost instantaneous, unlike when he was awake, he didn't need to prepare for a period of time beforehand.

However, he was unaware of this in his dream.

In his dream, Yue Yuan really did freefall, but just as his subconscious told him, nothing happened. He just crashed into the ground, creating a big crater, and causing a flurry of dirt and rocks to fly around him.

However, the dream took another turn. After switching to First-Person Perspective, Yue Yuan found that the peaceful and serene scenery around him had changed into a terrifying hell. The huge pit he had created under his feet had also shattered. At the same time, an Abyssal Maw hidden deep in hell snapped at him with lightning speed.

Yue Yuan couldn't avoid it and was bitten squarely by the Abyssal Maw.

This bite awakened his inner fear, and he suddenly woke up.

"Call!"

When Yue Yuan woke up, he found himself covered in a cold sweat.

"This dream is too real..." Yue Yuan stared at the ceiling and looked at everything around him, just like the previous times, in order to calm the confusion of the dream.

At that moment, he realized that something must have gone wrong.

But where exactly did things go wrong?

In the following days, this problem continued to bother Yue Yuan, making him somewhat absent-minded in his daily work and life, but it was not very obvious, so others did not notice it.

Time passed day by day. On this day, Yue Yuan returned to his residence and followed his usual routine. Before going to sleep, he prepared himself to continue dreaming.

Sure enough, he dreamed again after falling asleep, but this time it was not a continuation of the previous dream, nor was it about things on Earth, but rather a scene after humans came to the stars.

After the first time he dreamed of a starry sky and a spaceship, Yue Yuan discovered that these two elements appeared in almost every one of his dreams.

Gradually, dreaming seemed to become a regular part of his nights. Later, he even discovered that it wasn't just at night, but also during the day; he would dream whenever he was asleep.

Of course, Yue Yuan also knew that this was not day and night in the normal sense, but rather a schedule set by humans themselves in the spaceship environment.

In other words, whether or not you dream has nothing to do with the day-night cycle and sleep schedule set by humans themselves; it only depends on whether or not you fall asleep.

Yue Yuan's days of falling asleep and entering a dream continued, and this time, just like before, he fell asleep and entered a dream, and as soon as he entered the dream, he began his dream journey from Third-Person Perspective.

The scene in the dream was also very familiar. As soon as the dream appeared, Yue Yuan knew that he was on the First Generation Lyra, because he remembered the equipment, layout, and interior space of the ship very clearly.

The dream, which began from Third-Person Perspective, went smoothly. Although there weren't many things that felt out of place in the scene, Yue Yuan realized he was dreaming after a few scene transitions, something that had never happened before.

Furthermore, after becoming aware of his dream state, Yue Yuan found himself becoming more adept at controlling the things within his dreams. Of course, as he dreamed more frequently, he also discovered some patterns emerging in his dreams.

The most obvious thing he could feel was the relationship between the switching of the dream's perspective and the dream content.

Yue Yuan discovered that when dreaming from Third-Person Perspective, he could more easily control that third-person self and the things in the dream through his subconscious. In one dream, Yue Yuan found that he could even create things out of thin air as if by magic, but only things he was familiar with.

Similarly, when starting a dream from Third-Person Perspective, he can easily see things very clearly within the dream, and this trend seems to increase his control over time. Furthermore, Third-Person Dream Realm have another advantage: nightmare scenarios are virtually nonexistent in third-person perspectives.

Conversely, when the dream perspective is inexplicably switched to first-person, the entire dream scene seems to lose control, and the scene becomes terrifying, with many horrific things appearing until he is awakened from the dream.

As he dreamed more frequently, Yue Yuan's perception of his dreams became increasingly clear. After a while, he even knew he was dreaming as soon as he entered a dream. With this foundation, Yue Yuan decided to test whether Third-Person Dream Realm and First-Person Dream Realm truly had that difference every time.

So, after a dream in which he somehow entered First-Person Perspective and caused terrifying things to appear in the dream, Yue Yuan tried to use his subconscious to pull the dream to Third-Person Perspective, but he failed.

However, as he dreamed more and more often, and as Yue Yuan tried to do so each time, he gradually discovered that he actually had the ability to actively switch between First-Person Perspective and third-person perspectives in his dreams.

Later, in a dream, he confirmed his guess: the dream turned into a nightmare when it was viewed from First-Person Perspective, and into Sweet Dream when the perspective changed to a third-person perspective.

"Why is this happening?" Yue Yuan asked himself.

Several times he thought about telling others about his recurring dreams, and now he even deeply suspects that something is really wrong with him.

"Dreams are related to the subconscious and conscious mind. It seems I need to talk to the scientists in the field of Mental Consciousness at the School of Academy of Life Sciences. Hopefully, they know what's going on. Hmm, it's already after work hours. I'll go tomorrow." Yue Yuan made up his mind to ask what was going on tomorrow. After all, it wasn't a very urgent matter, and it wasn't worth going during his rest time. However, he sincerely hoped that the scientists in those fields could provide an explanation.

Now, Yue Yuan is basically certain that his series of dreams is no accident, because it is too bizarre. How could a normal person have such a long period of continuous dreaming every night and be able to feel it, and with the increase in the number of dreams, the memory and control of the dreams become better and better?

Something's definitely wrong, but where is the problem?

With their own questions about the dream, Yue Yuan went straight to the department of the Life Science Research Institute that was researching the direction of Mental Consciousness early the next morning.