Seizing Dreams [B2]

Chapter 150.2

Yu Hao had wanted to get Zhou Sheng to do an experiment with him at night, but since the Golden Crow Wheel was at home, he would have to wait for him to get back before carrying it out. Yu Hao hung up the video call and recalled the contents of the report, which had even mentioned 'spiritual channels'. However, those would only target individuals; after crossing into the subconscious world, at the end of the subconscious that was even further away was a part of mankind's collective unconscious.

Yet, theoretically speaking, no one could get there. The author also integrated Freud's dream theory for further analysis; bypassing one's consciousness could only be done one layer at a time, just like how a person who reaches a limit while diving can no longer dive any deeper.

During periods of wakefulness, most people can only touch the edges of their dreams through their surface consciousness, and they rely on 'daydreaming' to let their thoughts run wild and enliven their conscious world.

During dreams, some people could occasionally enter their subconscious world for brief periods, but it's unlikely for them to break through the boundary of the subconscious again and enter mankind's collective unconscious. Jung, Frued, and an analyst, have all tried to find the mysterious channel at the depths of the unconscious but ultimately failed.

The possibility of people in the past having arrived there for brief periods of time could not be excluded, but due to the restraints of memory, impressions, as well one's physical condition, not one of them could explain clearly what it was after waking up. In the end, metaphysicians embellished it and suggested the very metaphysical idea of the 'world's conscious'...

"Gege!" Yu Hao jumped off the bed, pushed the door open and went out. Fu Liqun had his earphones on as he lay on the sofa to use his phone. He hadn't slept yet. After glancing at Yu Hao, he patted the spot next to him to motion for him to come over and sleep.

"What is it?" Fu Liqun took off his earphones and asked, "Can't sleep by yourself?"

"I remember that you were comatose for some time in your Loulan dream?" Yu Hao sat on the edge of the bed and asked.

Fu Liqun answered, "Yes, why?"

Yu Hao said, "What does it feel like to be comatose in a dream?"

Fu Liqun thought about it. He put down his phone and looked puzzled.

"I forgot." Fu Liqun said.

"Try to recall it. Did you have another dream in your dream? What kind of place was it? Did you see anyone?"

Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng had discussed this before, and their discussion started from the question of, 'How to wake up someone who falls asleep in their dream?' However, he remembered that the concept of 'dream in a dream' was not necessarily related to the layers of channels in the conscious world. Some people would still be in their dreams after waking up from a dream and would still be in a dream after waking up one more time. One layer encased in another, each dreamscape had its own unique scenes.

"A dream within a dream?" Fu Liqun said, looking a bit blank, "It's not a dream within a dream. I've had a dream within a dream before. It was different from the situation that day."

"How was it different?" Yu Hao asked again.

Fu Liqun said, "I was in a very spacious place."

"Was there light?" Yu Hao asked, "Was it a seaside? Or a desert? Or a fog?"

Fu Liqun struggled to recall it. He said, "Let me think about it...There was nothing there at first, and I didn't know who I was either. In fact, I couldn't even see myself...It was..."