Growing Vitality
Opinions vary.
The New Government Department, amidst the numerous interpretations, acted as a stabilizer. Various departments and experts collaborated, offering explanations from different perspectives to convey the same message to the public: dreams can evolve and are beneficial to humanity, and everyone should take each dream seriously.
Several months after the Dreamscape Event was made public, the New Government's official website also featured many explanations on how to dream better, how to adapt to advanced dreams, how to deal with various situations in dreams, precautions, and so on.
Don't panic when things happen, and don't panic if you faint in your dream due to exhaustion. Under the deliberate guidance of the New Government, there has been no panic in the nationwide Dreamscape Event. On the contrary, all of humanity has now accepted this idea, and people even share the progress of their dreams with their relatives and friends after each wake-up.
Many people have even created their own forums or online communities to share everything they dream about every night and the coping strategies they take.
The entire human race is discussing dreams, which seems absurd in Earth Era society. If this were to actually occur in Earth Era societies, it would be considered heresy and would certainly be labeled as feudal superstition.
But this is happening to an entire Human Civilization that has reached Level 4 Civilization, and it's being openly discussed every day. Countless citizens are enthusiastically sharing their valuable experiences online. Now, with the New Government's videos and articles about dream guidance, all sorts of comments are flooding in.
Now everyone knows that the reason they keep having dreams is not because of any fantasy or superstition, but because the Awakeners has achieved it through some kind of technological means.
At least that's the general explanation given by the authorities for now.
As for the specific explanation, it is the answer given by experts in human mental and consciousness fields. Of course, it is not accurate, but such an explanation is acceptable to humans because, compared to a general explanation, they can understand it and feel that it should be the case.
That's what they say.
Human scientists argue that existence determines consciousness, and that consciousness is a response to existence. This is a fundamental tenet of materialism regarding consciousness, and it is familiar to everyone. Building upon this, scientists propose that the Awakeners may influence the way the human brain processes information through some kind of creation based on conscious information, thereby causing humans to experience various kinds of dreams.
The fact that people are aware of their actions after dreaming, such as controlling dreams, using their subconscious to influence or even create things in dreams, is a manifestation of how humans can not only reflect the world but also create it consciously.
It is a manifestation of the Sentient Life and the source of wisdom.
The scenes in dreams are interpreted as a process in which a person's self-awareness creates new information through thought, processes it in the human brain (the information processing field), and then materializes and concretizes it.
This process is the transformation of human self-consciousness from passive to active control over the subconscious, and the degree of control over dreams is proof of this.
The Awakeners seems to be awakening or guiding humanity in some way, enabling human self-awareness to shift from passively accepting the subconscious to consciously taking control of everything. Many experts in the fields of mind and consciousness believe that the result of this guidance is an enhancement of Mental Power.
This statement is not unfounded; there are real examples to support it, as it is currently happening to Yue Yuan.
After experiencing many third-person warship and starry sky perspectives, Yue Yuan found himself transitioning from his first fainting spell to a more normal daily routine. As the frequency of these experiences increased, he found that he not only did not feel lethargic when he woke up each day, but instead felt increasingly energetic.
This feeling became more and more obvious. After more than ten days, Yue Yuan was able to work continuously for 24 hours without feeling sleepy.
After discovering that he was becoming more and more energetic, Yue Yuan even tried staying awake for thirty hours straight before going to sleep. He did fall asleep, but he only slept for six hours before waking up again and feeling energetic again.
Of course, he still dreamed while he was asleep, and it was still about starry skies, warships, and third-person perspectives. But now, having these kinds of dreams and entering this magical Third-Person Perspective no longer made Yue Yuan feel tired. On the contrary, it was more like a process of quickly replenishing his energy.
This situation continued, and as time went on, Yue Yuan felt his energy becoming more and more abundant. He could even go for several days without sleep without feeling tired, and his rest and sleep time was further shortened, from six hours to five hours.
In other words, at this stage, Yue Yuan only needs to sleep five hours to work continuously for three or four days. This increase in Mental Power is very noticeable, and after Yue Yuan, this effect has gradually appeared in individuals throughout Human Civilization.
If anyone previously questioned whether dreams were harmful nightmares, that opinion has now completely lost ground. Everyone feels their energy is increasing; if reality had an energy bar like in a game, each person's energy bar would be at least ten times longer than before, and the recovery speed would be much faster.
Shorter sleep duration and increased waking time, from another perspective, are actually not much different from indirectly increasing human lifespan. Of course, increasing lifespan is only one aspect; the biggest beneficiary of this trade-off is actually Human Civilization as a whole.
Because individuals possess abundant energy and recover extremely quickly, this greatly improves the efficiency of the entire civilization's development. Imagine two civilizations whose individuals originally had the same daily routine, sleeping ten hours a day and being awake for fourteen hours. Under such conditions, it would take a year to fully master the technology of a certain Credits.
But now another race spends longer periods of time awake and shorter periods of time sleeping. Under the same research conditions, this race may only need six months to fully master the technology of a certain Credits.
Within the same Great Universe timeframe, this civilization's time utilization becomes more efficient. With the same level of creativity, the time it takes this civilization to reach a higher level is shorter. Therefore, the time this civilization spends at a particular level is also shortened, meaning the probability of this civilization encountering a more advanced civilization or being wiped out by a higher civilization is reduced.
This principle is easy to understand, so all of humanity now knows that Dreamscape Event bring not only individual benefits, but also the advancement of the entire civilization.
This is an intrinsic improvement, an inherent hard power that other civilizations cannot see from a technological perspective.