Dream Guide

Petru suddenly felt that he might really be dreaming, as if this was not some shit Tubuai Island, not the cave where he was hiding in the cape of exile, but a philosophical debate class in a certain university. He simply shut up and just waited for Su Huilan to say what he needed to say. In the end, he always said what he wanted to know and what he could understand.

Crow and Henran seemed to be dumbfounded, their eyes widened, their heads were close to each other, leaning on each other without realizing it.

At this time, Qingmu suddenly thought of the old willow tree in Liuying Lane, the life-long flower, and the mulberry garden.

The weather on the island changes at any time. The rain outside the cave has stopped. A rainbow has appeared over the bay. The sun shines through the misty fog and shines on the sea in the distance, shining with white gold. of light.

Aoki took out his mobile phone and checked the time. This place belongs to the Hawaiian-Aleutian time zone, and it is now a hot summer afternoon, while Wuzhong is now in the severe winter. The sky should be just getting bright at this time, and maybe there is still snow. Bi Shenghua has the habit of getting up early. At this moment, she has probably pulled up the roller shutter of the bar and is cleaning the snow at the door.

He seemed to see her straightening up in the cold wind and looking towards the distant southeast, her hand holding the broom turned red from the cold.

The backpack on his back felt inexplicably heavy. Aoki took it off and unzipped it to take a look. The first thing that catches the eye is the wicker with a slight green color.

Thousands of mountains and rivers, everything seems like a dream, only the greenness of the willow branches remains unchanged.

Aoki does not want this world to be a dream.

"Well, even if the combined mental power of seven billion people is unshakable, it still can't prove your theory." Aoki retorted stubbornly, "When we are all in a dream and no one can wake up, the difference between dreams and reality What’s the difference? It’s a paradox!”

Su Huilan nodded and said: "You are right. There is no difference between dreams and reality. We don't know what the real reality is like, but we should always look upward for the truth."

"Searching for truth?"

"Yes, just like scientists often say to pursue the truth, we just want to find the truth."

"How to find it?"

"Have you ever experienced a dream within a dream?" Su Huilan asked coldly.

"A dream within a dream?" Aoki didn't understand why she asked this.

"Oh, I almost forgot, you are a dreamless person." Su Huilan sighed, with confusion, curiosity, and a little envy in her expression.

Aoki said: "It's nothing. Although I don't dream, I know dreams within dreams, but what does this have to do with finding the real world?"

Su Huilan said: "My team and I have done research on dreams within dreams for a long time. We found that if people dream for a long enough time, they will inevitably slip into dreams within dreams, and dreams within dreams will inevitably lead to dreams within dreams." If it lasts long enough, it will continue to slide into the next dream within a dream."

"Endless?"

"I'm not sure if there is an end, because when the dream slides to the third level, it becomes difficult to observe."

"Why?"

"A dream is like a transparent soap bubble, with mental tension maintaining its balance. The surface of the bubble reflects the world outside it, which is our memory. In turn, our memory is refracted into the inside of the bubble, Forming our dream space. When this bubble exists long enough, under the action of certain forces, an internal bubble will be generated inside. At this time, our consciousness will slide into the internal bubble, two The circles will be perfectly tangent."

Su Huilan made two balls with her hands, and then released one of her hands. "But the two circles are not concentric circles, nor are they two layers of films superimposed. Instead, the outer bubbles will concave inward, a bit like The curvature of space near massive objects in the universe. Hmm...can you understand it?"

"I can't imagine it, but I can understand it." Aoki nodded and said, "Then what?"

"Then, our consciousness will not feel the existence of the external bubble. The world outside the bubble needs to pass through two layers of membrane to be refracted into our consciousness space, just like two lenses, but one is a concave mirror and the other is a convex mirror. Mirror. The curvature of space will make the world after refraction be real. The more levels of refraction, the farther the dream is from reality. This is why the content of dreams within dreams is more bizarre than common dreams, and it is harder to remember after waking up. reason."

Su Huilan felt a little thirsty when she spoke, so she picked up the water glass on the table and took a sip.

"The water on the island is so sweet!" She raised her glass and greeted Petru.

"When the dream slips to the third level, the refraction of the memory has changed beyond recognition, and the mental consumption of the dreaming subject is extremely high. Such a dream is tiring, and it is difficult for you to observe what she is dreaming about unless you Using mental power to forcibly interfere with her is not observation."

"At present, we have not observed dreams after the third layer. It may be that individual dreams cannot meet the requirements of the fourth layer of memory refraction, or there may be a problem with our observation methods. However, the tension distortion of the three-layer bubble is already very complicated. Moreover, the internal space becomes extremely small, so we have reason to believe that once a person slips into the fourth level of dreamland, he may not be able to wake up.”

"Why haven't I seen any discussion on this aspect? Didn't you publish it publicly?" Aoki asked.

"As for the observation of dreams within dreams, it is easy for people with the ability to lucid dream to observe as long as they are patient, but it is difficult to express it in a paper. And I did this research not for academic results, but to prove my own View."

Su Huilan said, reaching out and making a downward movement.

"If individual dreams will inevitably slide into dreams within dreams, and deepen layer by layer, then how can group dreams be avoided? If this world is a dream that everyone is dreaming together, then can we think that as long as we experience If it lasts long enough, we will inevitably fall into a deeper dream?"

"There is a very interesting analogy. There are different dimensions in the expression of space and time in the universe in science and philosophy. Human beings are in three-dimensional space and time. We cannot understand or even imagine the world of higher dimensions and can only use mathematical abstraction to understand it. Describing it does not prevent us from yearning for it. However, many scientists, including Lester, believe that the universe has been falling to lower dimensions - from five dimensions or higher to four dimensions. , and fell from the fourth dimension to the third dimension. In each dimension, there are traces of some higher dimensions that have not yet been annihilated."

"One day, our three-dimensional world will fall into the two-dimensional universe. Maybe it has already fallen in, but we just don't know it. Now we are probably just living in a three-dimensional bubble on the two-dimensional plane. Even if it is just a The bubble is big enough for us."

Aoki thought of his experience in the dream corridor with Crow, which was a zero-dimensional, or close to zero-dimensional space. The feeling of eternal loneliness is simply indescribable.

"Where will the universe end up? Zero-dimensional space?" he asked.

"I don't know." Su Huilan said, "No one knows. If it is zero-dimensional, it will probably be another start."

"Wait a moment,"

Aoki felt that his mind was a little confused, and some dull and messy things were surging, as if someone was using a stick to stir up a dusty garbage pile that had been sealed for a long time. At the same time, it seemed as if something was crawling out of the body and filling the ear canal. , eyes and nasal cavity.

This is an old habit. Whenever he thinks of something, he will do this.

He took a breath, "Are you trying to say that our world is fixed in a three-dimensional bubble through a dream?"

Regarding the theory of dreams, you are also welcome to discuss it in the comment area of ​​the book club. Dreams within dreams are also a very interesting topic.