The year is 2117, there is an Invention that allows anyone to hook their brain up to a mainframe, they call it the dream catcher. This product was created by Mainframe Machinery aka M&M. In this mainframe for the dream catcher you can have group dreams with friends or strangers. You can get paired by the type of the dreams your having or by types of people who are dreaming. Lucas Hardy, Madison Fink, Rachel Bush, Jacob Pitch, and Michael Lane use the dream catcher nightly. Also with this invention you can meet new people through technology in a whole new light! Share your dreams your desires and all your hopes, but with this great invention opens up our brains and hearts to a whole new type of evil and villains.
What secrets are hidden deep inside your dreams? Would you be able to tell your friends? What if you could show them instead?
'Apparatus to Superimpose Dream-Space Onto Reality Using Theta Waves' was patented some time before the War by a technology company in Shenzhen, but never caught on. Now that the patent has expired, hobbyists are building their own and learning what friendship and boundaries mean when you can let someone explore your innermost thoughts.
Written as a smaller personal challenge during NaNoWriMo 2020. Loosely inspired by my experience growing up in a small Canadian town as the Web was just starting to catch on.