“Parth! Wow, something really weird happened”, I said, as I got up from my bed.
“What? You were just sleeping.”
“Yeah! So, I had a weird dream.”
“There’s nothing weird about having a weird dream.”
“Hear me out. In the dream, I was telling you that I was in a dream and that you weren’t real. You asked me to prove it. So, I claimed that I could control everything around us, and ordered the dream universe to conjure up a glass of water for me. Funnily enough, a beige coloured mini-tube appeared out of nowhere, and a sealed glass of water came sliding down from it, right into my hands!”
“Yeah. That is a weird dream! You have a vivid imagination. No wonder you keep discussing stuff that goes over my head!”
“By the way, when did you get here?”
“I got here just as you woke up.”
“Oh. So, anyway, I had read about this phenomenon just today. It is known as ‘lucid dreaming’. It is a state in which a dreamer somehow attains a sense of self-consciousness, and realises that whatever’s happening around him is probably not real. I guess reading about it triggered the lucid dreamer within me! Amazing! Imagine the possibilities! You are literally the god in such a dream! You can make just about anything happen!”
“Relax, bro! It was just a dream. You get excited about stuff that bores me to hell!”
“Oh yeah? So, what do you do all day? Play video games? I bet that’s what you were doing before you got here!”
“No, I wasn’t.”
“What were you doing, then? Stalking Ishita?”
“Actually, I don’t remember.”
“How can you not remember?”
“I don’t know. I just don’t.”
There is a change of scenery, and we (I, the writer, and you, the reader) end up in a laboratory, with people dressed up in pharmacist coats and looking at a computer screen.
“So far so good”, said a woman in a pharmacist coat, removing her headphones.
“The subjects are stable”, said a man, looking at the computer screen. On the computer screen, the name of one of the subjects reads, ‘Parth Gupta’. The man turns his head towards two beds, and on them, lie, covered in white blankets, two naked bodies. The bodies look pale but have wires attached to the heads.
“We might have unlocked the key to immortality”, said the woman in the pharmacist uniform.
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