"I read a scientific report before, almost no one sleeps without dreaming."
"You think you didn't dream last night, but the dream was shallow, and you just didn't remember..."
"Dreams are the activities of the human cerebral cortex and soul consciousness. Not dreaming means the brain is basically inactive, which is only a feature of dead people..."
While recalling these bits of knowledge in his mind, and gazing at the starry scene all around, Zhu Zhengwei suddenly thought of a song that could describe the ethereal beauty in front of him: It's all bubbles, even if it's just a fleeting blossom...
The next second, he poked Wang Jun's dream nearby.
Pa!
The bubble expanded.
A hazy world completely opened up.
In the world of dreams, Wang Jun was standing in front of a character customization page, pinching a face, and it turned out to be his own. With high spirits, he said, "Hmm! My face needs sword-like eyebrows! I want to be tall! European leg length, hair must be thick!"
Good grief!
Zhu Zhengwei watched from a distance, laughing, "This guy is still customizing his character, playing with a starter account, but he's pinching his own height, weight, muscles... Hey, wait, what's he pinching now?"
Clearly, he's an internet addict youth.
Even in his dreams, he's frantically gaming.
Soon, roommate Wang Jun created his character and started fighting newbie monsters on a lawn to level up.
"This dude must have read too many old-school online game novels, dreaming of an immersive online experience with a virtual headset. I can enjoy it too," Zhu Zhengwei thought, imitating him to fight monsters, wielding a long sword, and slashing at a goblin.
Gah!
Nine-Headed Dragon Flash!
Ha!
Cyan Lotus Sword Song!
But before long, Zhu Zhengwei, having enjoyed for a while, saw the stamina bar in the game constantly depleting, and he felt exhausted.
"Games can be tiring too?"
When he opened his eyes, he immediately felt his left hand aching, as if it had swollen.
"Ah! My hand!"
He lay in bed gripping his Qilin Arm, almost forgetting this point: entering other people's dreams is all well and good, but it's a bit hard on the body.
Blinking, he ignored Wang Jun and gently poked at Li Xiang next to him, "Let's see what kind of dream you're having."
Pa.
The bubble expanded.
Boom!
In a luxurious mansion, Li Xiang was holding a famous pure actress while chatting on the phone, laughing and talking.
Over the years, Li Xiang's business had been flourishing, creating a blockchain, a new cryptocurrency, enticing people to mine, driving up his virtual currency, then cutting off novice investors, even international ones, eventually becoming the top crypto tycoon after Musk.
"Good grief, this guy actually dreams of becoming a big capitalist," Zhu Zhengwei gaped.
"Come here, baby."
Li Xiang removed his clothes and was about to embrace an actress to do something indescribable when he suddenly saw Zhu Zhengwei, "Hey, hey? Isn't this my old college classmate from years ago, how did you suddenly appear in my 8,000-square-meter luxury villa?"
He looked bewildered, obviously puzzled.
But like other dreamers, he quickly didn't mind and smiled mischievously, "Good brother, between you and me, we're as close as brothers! This is the actress we both liked when we watched movies together back then! Wanna join me?"
Zhu Zhengwei: "....."
Though you're wealthy now, your brotherly spirit is strong, but Zhu Zhengwei directly declined and exited the private chat Li Xiang had set up,
Not being a brother here, I won't join you in experiencing the dream, the last one cost me a sore hand, but this one, no way.
He had no plans to wet the bed the next day, it would be embarrassing.
"Two goofballs."
Zhu Zhengwei exited the beautiful dreams of his two roommates with relish, then looked at the bubbles floating above and below, each like a mobile app icon, clicking one after another bubble to enter them.
Pa.
Pa.
Pa.
That night, he found that possessing the ability to enter the Dream Stealing Space was indeed fascinating, encountering all kinds of bizarre dreams.
...
...
The next morning.
"Sure enough, I can enter the dream world," Zhu Zhengwei had dark circles under his eyes, having spent the entire night engrossed in experiments, studying his superpower.
After breakfast, he went to the school clinic and greeted the nurse, "Auntie, I'm here to pick up my medicine."
"Go ahead, young man," the nurse smiled.
Zhu Zhengwei opened the fridge and the first thing he did was replenish his factor VIII.
After all, hemophilia is an inherited bleeding disorder, lacking clotting factors, leading to continuous bleeding from injuries and internal hemorrhages.
Clotting medication is essential and should be stored in the fridge.
So he had previously communicated with his advisor to get approval to store it in the school clinic.
The current situation was too bizarre; it's better to be cautious, taking preventive medication to avoid any bodily issues.
Soon, he went to class.
"Hey, last night I dreamed of becoming a millionaire and my good brother and I funded impoverished rural areas and actresses."
"Last night I dreamed I was a swordsman, customized weapons with my good brother, very powerful, and female warriors liked them."
Wang Jun and Li Xiang, those two rascals, were lively and seemed well-rested, chatting idly, while Zhu Zhengwei ignored them, started goofing off in class, carefully organizing the results of his one-night experiment.
"My superpower isn't simply seeing dreams. It can specifically be described as 'seeing the surface activities of the soul's unconsciousness'."
But there are also many limitations.
1. Can enter others' dreams, cannot directly manipulate others' dreams, just a guest in the dream, not the host.
2. Entry condition: sleep.
3. Sensing retrieval range of dreams, currently within a hundred meters.
4. In the dream, only one's real body and the dream state are synchronized.
It seems because he opened a special "deep subconscious" restricted switch, he can synchronize the dream muscles, flesh, activities, and the real body, and thus can see others' dreams.
Simply put, doing push-ups in the dream, your soul consciousness will mobilize the corresponding muscles and nerves of the body to move, causing a similar synchronization effect when waking up.
This superpower is quite interesting.
"You know, our dreams last night were really unusual. We all dreamed of the same person," the two brothers in the dorm started chatting again, suddenly looking at him, "What do you think? We all dreamed of you."
"Our dorm is united and loving, isn't that normal?" Zhu Zhengwei feigned defensiveness: "Wait, I treat you guys as dorm mates, but you have ulterior motives towards me?"
"Drop dead you!"
The two of them looked exasperated.
Seeing that he had muddled through, Zhu Zhengwei suddenly broke into a cold sweat, "These two are fine, but quite a few people in the entire dorm building went through my dream last night. They couldn't all remember me, right?"
He thought about it and felt they shouldn't.
He hadn't been as detailed as this dorm mate; mostly, he just went in and took a casual look before coming out.
Moreover, he believed that most people's dreams were unconscious and whether they could remember the dream content was another matter.
"But I'm afraid that in most people's dreams, there will be some blurred image of me." Thinking of this, Zhu Zhengwei suddenly thought of an extremely terrifying possibility.
"I can't continue to unscrupulously peek into others' dreams in this dorm building."
"If I do it a few more times, they'll definitely remember seeing me vaguely in their dreams, and I might become the 'dream lover' of the entire boys' dorm building..."
And then the scenario emerged:
While walking down the road, male classmates kept approaching him: Hey, classmate, you look familiar, have we met somewhere...
Just imagining those interactions was too beautiful not to look at.
In the long run, if the guys in the whole dorm building mistakenly think they have some fleeting affection for me because they think of me day and night in their dreams, wouldn't they all start showing their affection....??
Hiss!
Friendship quickly turned awkward.
Zhu Zhengwei panicked a little and deeply reflected.
"In the future, I need to find a way to change direction and can't casually use these poor guys for the same experiment."
"Even in dreams, I should change locations and visit the dreams in the girls' dorm building..."
"If it were girls, they'd say while on the road: Hey, classmate, haven't we met somewhere?"
"I have no objections to that."
His thoughts were all over the place.
"Roll call is starting."
Soon, the gray-haired professor began lecturing.
A group of students were slacking off, and Zhu Zhengwei also secretly started using his phone to surf the web, researching information about dreams all morning.
At this moment, he truly realized how bizarre his power was.
Superpower: Seeing dreams.
This is one of the seemingly most ordinary and common abilities in countless novels and myths.
Yet in reality, "soul consciousness" is an unknown field that both ancient and modern science over thousands of years cannot comprehend.
In the millennia of human civilized history, no one has ever given up researching the phenomenon of "dreams."
It involves deep human mysteries, consciousness activities, and spiritual souls that are most desired to explore.
It touches the activities of the deepest parts of the human brain, concealing fears deep in fundamental genes.
From Ancient China's widely known "Zhou Gong's Dream Interpretation", known as a mystical wondrous book, to Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" in modern history, which is also one of the "world-changing books" and "epoch-making eternal masterpieces" in the field of dreams,
"The Interpretation of Dreams" is alongside Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" and Copernicus's "The Celestial Revolution" as the three major works leading to the three major ideological revolutions in human history at the time.
In a certain sense, these three can be seen as representing humanity's exploration of the three major directions of the world's myriad entities.
The origin of human soul and consciousness,
The origin of human body and flesh,
Ever-exploration of the external world,
Soul, flesh, environment...
This is the exploration of the three domains by human scientists.
While there have been major breakthroughs in the origins of species and celestial movements, the field of human brain spirit and will progress remains slow.
The "spirit communication superpower" in front of him is indeed absurd; it involves human exploration of the consciousness and soul.
In a sense, his ability could be said to be dancing wildly on the cerebral cortex of human unconscious activity.
Zhu Zhengwei first attempted to post online, questioning vaguely and roundaboutly:
"If I can see other people's souls, what kind of experience is that?"
Soon someone answered the message.
"Such a simple question, my grandma told me the answer when I was a kid: dogs can generally see the dirty stuff or souls that humans can't."
"Then your marvelous experience...would of course be to eat poop."
"+1"
"+2"
"Same world, same grandma."
...
Heh heh,
close the forum, keep your IQ intact.
In fact, Wang Zhengwei from the start didn't have much hope for the answer he would get online, so he planned to explore on his own again.
"I seem to be seeing other people's dreams, which may actually be seeing other people's souls, or perhaps what Daoism refers to as the divine sense?"
Zhu Zhengwei organized his thoughts, his mouth gradually curved upwards,
Someone once said, ideals shine into reality.
Here, it's a projection of dreams into reality.
"Moreover, I've discovered something even more interesting."
"I seem to be able to link together all the dreams of others, forming a massive dream world."
"The dreams of others are false, but my dreams are real! Perhaps, for me, a world composed of countless dreams might be no different from a real, gigantic world."
Perhaps it could be called:
Mobile Dream Net?
Lying in the classroom, Zhu Zhengwei gazed out at the sunlight through the window, somewhat stunned by this bold idea.
He suddenly felt a sense of disbelief.
But regardless, possessing this superpower, having been educated in science, he was using his logic to dance disco in the realm of gods, launching a violent assault on the realm of soul dreamscapes!