Min Tinghe, one of the gene-editing experts on our team,
Her husband died in a car accident five years ago, and it took her more than two years to barely recover.
But in the lifelike dreams woven by the Dream Control Helmet, she saw her living husband once again. The moment they met, the psychological defenses she had built over several years collapsed instantly.
Min Tinghe asked to see her husband in her dreams again. Although she knew the dream was fake, the feeling of tightly embracing her husband in the dream was real.
We took pity on her, so we cleared out a lounge for her in the Experiment Building and gave her an exclusive helmet.
For the first few days, every time Min Tinghe woke from a dream, her face was washed with tears. Sometimes she even sobbed her heart out. Waking up forced her to repeatedly confront the cruel reality that her husband was dead. One second, the couple was deeply in love; the next, they were separated by life and death. It was unbearable.
After a few days, she stopped crying, and her tear-swollen face gradually returned to normal.
We were initially relieved, thinking she was slowly emerging from her grief again. But after some close colleagues went to see her, they felt the situation had become even more horrifying. She had not emerged from it; she had sunk even deeper.
Although Min Tinghe never said anything, all her close colleagues said that her gaze had changed. It was the gaze of someone who felt that the real world was a dream, while the Dream Control Helmet was reality. She was gradually hypnotizing herself, reversing the false and the real to lessen the pain she felt every time she woke up.
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