The Shared Dream: Scifi thriller Novel
A mind-bending exploration of consciousness that will leave readers questioning the nature of reality itself.
When Maya Chen wakes from a vivid dream of an impossible Times Square filled with strangers who seem to know her, she dismisses it as her imagination running wild. But when she discovers an online forum of nearly a thousand people describing identical experiences, her world shifts forever.
The dreamers call themselves "The Collective"—ordinary people from every corner of the globe who find themselves sharing the same fantastic dream landscape night after night. They've mapped seventeen impossible locations: libraries where books write themselves, forests with upside-down trees, beaches where waves are made of singing light. What started as wonder, however, has turned to terror as dreamers begin disappearing—entering the shared space but never waking up, their bodies trapped in mysterious comas while their minds remain prisoners in a realm between sleep and death.
Determined to understand what's happening, Maya ventures deeper into the dream world than anyone before her, uncovering the existence of "The Architect"—a vast intelligence that has been orchestrating humanity's first steps toward collective consciousness. But evolution, Maya discovers, isn't always a choice. As the boundaries between dream and reality begin to dissolve, and the thoughts and experiences of thousands of minds start bleeding into the waking world, she must decide whether this transformation represents humanity's greatest leap forward or its most dangerous trap.
Racing against time as more dreamers fall into permanent sleep, Maya faces an impossible decision: preserve human individuality as she knows it, or embrace a new form of existence where consciousness itself becomes shared, where privacy dissolves, and where the very concept of "self" must be redefined.
The Shared Dream is a haunting and beautiful exploration of what it means to be human in an age where the mind's final frontiers are being crossed. Part psychological thriller, part philosophical meditation, it asks the ultimate question: if we could share our consciousness with all of humanity, would we still be ourselves?
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