Suddenly, Elias found himself standing on the deck of a ship made entirely of glass, sailing through a sea of liquid clockwork. In the waking world, this would be impossible, but in the dream, it felt undeniable. His brain’s activation-synthesis mechanism was firing random signals from the brainstem, which his cortex frantically tried to organize into a coherent narrative.
The day’s logic was beginning to fray at the edges for Elias. As he drifted into sleep, the executive centers of his prefrontal cortex—the parts of his brain responsible for reason and math—slowly dampened their activity. He was entering the REM stage, where his brain was no longer a passive observer of reality, but an active creator of a . Psychodynamic Neurology: Dreams, Consciousness,...
As he steered the glass vessel, the "dream-work" began its subtle distortions: Dreams, Consciousness, and Virtual Reality - Routledge Suddenly, Elias found himself standing on the deck