From Passive to Active Abilities
These are real and foreseeable benefits.
If the differences in the depth of research in various scientific fields among civilizations at the same level, resulting in differences in the combat capabilities of their warships, are the outward manifestations of civilizational power, military performance, and external skills practiced, then this kind of improvement is an internal strengthening, an internal skill practiced.
When two civilizations of equal strength go to war, the civilization with superior external strength may prevail for a time. However, if it cannot directly overwhelm the opposing civilization with weaker external strength but stronger internal strength, then the superior internal strength will gradually become apparent. The civilization that only has superior external strength will find that as the war goes on, the opposing civilization will become stronger and stronger, and may even stage a comeback.
This shows how important it is for a civilization to cultivate both its inner and outer qualities.
Human Civilization has always relied on the power of Alloy No. 2 and the combat strength brought by Mechanical Mastery, making it quite powerful among civilizations of the same level. This is how the Kun-Tai Civilization and Crimson Flame Civilization were defeated by humans.
Now, humanity has further strengthened its internal capabilities, making the entire civilization even more powerful and robust, and far more formidable than ordinary civilizations at the same level.
Of course, other Alien Race also have long periods of wakefulness and short periods of sleep. After all, Alien Race cannot all have 24 hours a day like humans. The daily routines of each race are basically influenced by their home planet and are evolved from the billions of years of the cycle of the sun and moon on their home planet.
Therefore, it's normal for other races to have days that are several times longer than humans, but similarly, their rest periods would also be longer. While this conclusion isn't universally applicable, humanity has at least observed this pattern in the lives of the Kuntai People, Nair People, Dog-Headed People, and individual members of the Crimson Flame Civilization.
They all have one thing in common: they are Carbon-based life, and their rest and sleep time is directly proportional to their wakefulness time.
As expected, the Awakeners appears in a civilized manner, so its benchmark is Human Civilization, not just one individual human being.
However, what humanity is unaware of is that this is merely one benefit of the Nationwide Dreaming Event, a byproduct of the process. Moreover, the original intention behind promoting the growth of human energy was not, as humanity itself imagines, to enhance the inner strength of Human Civilization; it was just a side effect.
Of course, humanity hasn't discovered this problem yet. Right now, all of humanity is still immersed in the joy brought by the benefits of these scraps, until several years later.
On this day, Yue Yuan, perhaps the first person to discover that he had been dreaming continuously, found that he had stopped dreaming after falling asleep. This would have been a perfectly normal thing a few years ago, but after dreaming every night for so many years, suddenly not dreaming seemed abnormal.
This stark contrast immediately caught Yue Yuan's attention. Upon waking, he realized that this might be a new development in the Dreamscape Event.
Since it was only one night without dreams, Yue Yuan didn't rush to consult with scientists in the relevant departments. He simply had 'Tianhe Light' record the events and waited to see how things went over the next few nights. If he continued to dream, it meant it was just an occasional occurrence; only if he stopped dreaming altogether would it indicate a real change.
A month passed quickly, and the results made Yue Yuan realize that changes had indeed occurred. In every subsequent sleep, he did not have any related dreams.
"Is this the end? Or is a new phase of the dream about to begin?"
Filled with doubt, Yue Yuan activated the network through his Brain Chip. After the Virtual UI Interface appeared, he compiled his recent experiences with related Dreamscape Event into a series of insights and uploaded them to the human data center so that others could have a reference.
Yes, he didn't consult any experts. It had been proven time and again that human exploration was utterly futile in the face of phenomena created by a Level Six Civilization; this was true when exploring the boundaries of this space, and it was true now when exploring the origins of dreams.
Humans discovered neither the Awakeners nor any machinery in the Void. Finding nothing, they naturally couldn't ascertain the source of the dream's power.
"It should be over by now! The reason why the Awakeners hasn't appeared yet, or rather, the reason why the truth hasn't been revealed to humanity, is probably because some humans haven't ended their dream." More than ten days later, Yue Yuan had this thought again.
Yue Yuan felt that if there were Mental Power strength, his Mental Power strength had been enhanced more than tenfold over the past few years. He could even stay awake for more than a month at a time, and only needed to rest for one day to fully recover his mental state.
This is a gradual process.
In recent years, in addition to feeling energetic, the benefits that Dreamscape Event have brought him include another ability related to sleep.
Yue Yuan discovered that, without realizing it, he could now actively hypnotize himself. The method was simple: he would use subconscious suggestions, much like in a dream, to tell himself that he needed to rest and sleep. Under this suggestion, he could quickly fall asleep and rest after lying down.
Most people fall asleep unconsciously while passively drowsy, and their ego is in a passive state during this process. But Yue Yuan is different; he can actively enter a state of sleep and rest.
In other words, you can sleep whenever you want.
Not only that, shortly after discovering that he could control when he fell asleep, Yue Yuan was surprised to discover another new ability: he could wake up at a relatively precise time before falling asleep through 'subconscious suggestions in his dreams'.
This means you can actively control your sleep time without using an alarm clock.
On a technologically advanced spaceship equipped with alarm clocks, this ability might seem useless, but Yue Yuan, with his excellent scientific literacy, knew it was far from useless. This was because it involved human control over their subconscious and conscious minds, and the ability to actively and precisely manipulate their biological clock.
These are all things that the field of mental and consciousness research needs to study, and are also one of the areas where humans explore the biological secrets of themselves.
Of course, this ability is not always effective; it is ineffective when you are well-rested and full of energy.
Yue Yuan had read other people's sharing about dreams online, and he knew that this ability was not unique to him; others also had it at a certain stage, and he was just faster at it.
Yue Yuan, who thought the dream had ended there, was surprised that the Dreamscape Event was not over yet. After subconsciously suggesting to himself when he would fall asleep and when he would wake up one night, he suddenly wondered if he could also suggest to himself when he would have a dream. So he actually suggested to himself that, and as a result, he actually had a dream when he fell asleep.
After that, Yue Yuan used this method to make himself dream every time, and he would not dream unless he was given a hint. Of course, dreaming in this way did not bring him the feeling of continuous growth of his Mental Power.
In other words, Yue Yuan turned passive abilities such as sleep, sleep duration, dreaming, and controlling dreams into active ones.
"Could this be the result of the universal dream time, making humans more energetic and turning many passive abilities related to dreams and sleep into active abilities?" Yue Yuan wondered.