Everyone Was Dreaming
It's rare for Yue Yuan to personally notify everyone about a meeting; usually, his assistant does it, and it's almost always a video conference. But this time, everyone was required to attend in person.
Such cases are rare, so those who received the notification took it very seriously. The number of people was not large, probably only a little over a hundred. Those who were notified were either government officials, fleet Commander, chiefs of staff, Science Officer, or top scientists in their respective fields.
Upon arriving at the venue, Yue Yuan didn't even say an opening remark. He went straight to the podium in the main Conference Room, his face grave as he surveyed the crowd. His first words were. "Did you all have a dream last night?"
Those who had originally planned to listen to Yue Yuan's opening remarks and then use the time to inquire about the general content of the meeting were visibly taken aback. They had only received a notification, but had no prior knowledge of the meeting's topic.
Well, they were only stunned for a moment, and then they realized what was happening.
Did you have any dreams last night?
This simple sentence startled everyone present, who then looked at the people next to them, seemingly observing their reactions.
For a moment, the venue fell silent.
Everyone had their own answer, but no one stepped forward to speak. Seeing this, Yue Yuan turned his gaze to Zhu Pete, who was closest to him.
"It's been done." Zhu Pete looked up and added, "And it's been going on for many days in a row."
Upon hearing his answer, the others present first frowned, and then most of them showed an expression of sudden realization.
So the second person gave the same answer, then the third and the fourth. Almost instantly, the venue turned into a marketplace.
"Good!"
Yue Yuan raised his hands and pressed them down. After the crowd quieted down, he asked again, "How many of you were aware that you were dreaming while you were dreaming?"
"I, I clearly feel that I am having Lucid Dream, and I have found that as the number of dreams increases, I can also control the dreams," an astronomer answered first.
At almost the same time, others also said that they felt the same way.
Seeing that everyone was doing the same, Yue Yuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued, "How many of you have managed to switch between the Third-Person Dream Realm and First-Person Dream Realm?"
After asking the question, Yue Yuan gestured for those who had done it to raise their hands.
This time, not all of them succeeded; about 90% of the more than 300 people present successfully switched between the First-Person Dream Realm and Third-Person Dream Realm.
Having obtained this answer, Yue Yuan then conducted targeted questioning on those who had not raised their hands, and discovered that these individuals were the ones who experienced continuous dreaming relatively late in life.
Just as I expected!
Having received this answer, Yue Yuan understood somewhat. It was indeed similar to his previous guess. People who dream frequently and have had consecutive dreams can basically switch between different perspectives in their dreams.
After learning about these circumstances, Yue Yuan revealed the purpose of the meeting and shared his thoughts and speculations about the appearance of the dream.
"Is the Chief of Staff worried that not all humans experience this kind of dream?" After listening to Yue Yuan's Chen Shu, a sociology expert stroked his chin and spoke up.
"Hmm." Yue Yuan nodded. "Do you have any thoughts?"
"According to the Chief of Staff, the data from the psychological counseling department shows that more people than we are present have experienced continuous dreams. At the same time, the data collected by 'Tianhe Light' also shows that humans on various Residential Spaceship have actually experienced this, but at different times. Everyone is still in the stage of doubting whether there is a problem with themselves, so there has not yet been a large-scale spread of this news."
The sociology expert then said into the microphone on his conference table, "So I think this situation is very likely to have occurred to all of humanity, just with a time lag. Therefore, what we should be worried about now is not that group of people who 'don't dream,' but rather that we should prepare an explanation for all of humanity, an explanation for this continuous dreaming."
As soon as the expert finished speaking, most of the people in the room turned their attention to Dai De.
As the dean of the Department of Spiritual Consciousness the Academy of Life Sciences, Dai De was naturally the most suitable person to interpret dreams. After all, we're in the interstellar age now; Zhou Gong's Dream Interpretation are no longer popular, and humanity needs a scientific explanation for dreams.
However, these stares stumped Dai De. He was indeed the dean of the Department of Spiritual Consciousness and had been researching mental and consciousness matters, but he had not been able to explain this situation where everyone was having a large-scale dream together.
It's possible to force an explanation, but that would just be throwing out some plausible but ultimately unreliable arguments that don't truly explain the phenomenon.
Feeling the gazes of the crowd, Dai De spoke helplessly, "Based on the data from 'The Tianhe Light,' we now roughly know that this is likely an event affecting all of humanity. To be honest, we have no ability to explain such things. I think the only possible cause for this phenomenon is the Awakeners, and you must know that we are currently in a space created by the Awakeners."
"Attributing the Dreamscape Event to the Awakeners is quite appropriate." Yue Yuan also spoke up for Dai De. He had previously visited the Research Institute of Human Mind and Consciousness and knew that it was impossible to explain this phenomenon with current human research and theories on Mental Consciousness.
At the same time, Yue Yuan also understood that if everyone's analysis was correct, then this matter was most likely the work of the Awakeners, but he didn't know why the Awakeners hadn't appeared yet.
"Perhaps it's a test of our Human Civilization?" Yue Yuan gave himself a vague answer in his heart.
Calling all the top executives to a meeting certainly meant more than just asking these few questions, so the meeting continued. After roughly deducing the situation, Yue Yuan returned to his chair and began to make arrangements to address the matter.
First, there is the issue of internal stability among humanity. He will still entrust this matter to Zhu Pete, while the issues concerning fleet personnel will be handled by the various Commander, chiefs of staff, and Science Officer. Government officials will cooperate in all related work and formulate contingency plans for this matter.
After everything was arranged, the meeting lasted for several hours.
After the meeting, everyone went about their own business as Yue Yuan had instructed, and then it was just a matter of waiting.
What are we waiting for? Of course, we're waiting for all departments of the New Government to fully mobilize, and then to fully activate the 'Tianhe Light' to conduct thorough investigations throughout humanity, both overt and covert, to find out whether all of humanity is experiencing continuous dreams.
The results of the investigation came out quickly, and they were the same as those discussed at the conference: it was indeed the case for all of humanity.