I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 875: Edge of Dreams
"Close...your eyes?"

"Is it the team leader?"

"The team leader is not dead yet?"

Hu Le muttered in a daze. He saw with his own eyes that the team leader's body was entangled by the colorful tentacles, and then with a force, it was squeezed into colorful juice and poured onto the dining table...

But why now, did he hear the team leader talking to him?
"Of course I'm not dead!"

Hu Le was still confused when he was suddenly awakened by a loud curse.

It's really the team leader! It's the team leader's voice.

"Team leader, where are you? Why can't I see you?" Hu Le asked blankly.

After he asked this question, he felt someone suddenly hit his head hard, with quite a bit of force.

I remember that when I made mistakes at work in the past, my team leader would hit me in the same way. The force and location were surprisingly consistent each time. Hu Le also realized in an instant that the team leader was behind him.

He subconsciously turned his head and looked behind him. The surrounding scene also changed as his perspective turned...

The walls are turning into afterimages made up of blocks of color. The tables and chairs suddenly melt and flow to the ground. Everything in the field of vision is becoming blurred, turning into an aggregate of colorful pixels.

Hu Le watched as the pixels grew larger and larger until they were completely mixed together.

When he turned his head completely, he saw the team leader holding the dream catcher, standing in a blur of colorful paint, looking at him helplessly.

"Didn't I tell you to close your eyes?" the team leader said with some complaint.

Hu Le, who was about to say hello, saw that the team leader was angry and quickly shut his mouth.

"Hu Le! You always let me down! Sigh..."

The team leader raised a finger, poked Hu Le hard on the forehead, and scolded him in frustration.

Hu Le also knew that he did not listen to the instructions, so he just lowered his head and let the team leader scold him for a while.

Seeing that the team leader's anger had subsided a little, he asked weakly: "Team leader...why can't you open your eyes?"

Hearing Hu Le's question, the team leader tapped him on the head again.

"You are just too curious! Didn't I tell you? We are in a dream state and will enter the boundary between reality and dream. We will see many things that we shouldn't see."

Thinking of the scenes he had just seen, Hu Le asked fearfully, "Are those things real?"

“Once you see them, they become real.” The team leader sighed and said helplessly.

"What do you mean?"

"Literally, those things can only exist in dreams and cannot enter reality because they conflict with the rules of reality. They can only float on the border between dreams and reality, like fish in a glass tank..."

The team leader raised his hand and opened it vertically, making it look like a piece of glass.

"But we are different. We are the people outside the glass tank. Although we are in a dream, our consciousness still follows the rules of reality and belongs to the existence in reality."

"When you open your eyes, reality and dreams are connected, and the fish in the glass will jump out, leaping from the dream to reality, thus becoming a 'real' existence."

"So, what you see will actually happen. They will come out of the fish tank through your consciousness, and through your 'imagination' of the dream, they will realize the dream transition."

When the team leader said this, he looked at Hu Le seriously, with a scrutinizing look in his eyes. "What's wrong, team leader?" Hu Le also noticed that there was something wrong with the team leader's eyes, and asked quickly.

"Nothing, how do you feel now?"

"feels good."

Hu Le was not lying, he really felt good now.

Everything was normal except that the colors around him made him a little dizzy.

"Team Leader, I saw...our bodies were crushed. Is that true too?"

Hearing Hu Le's question, the team leader was stunned for a moment, then sighed: "Since you saw it, it must be true."

"Then why are we still standing here?" Hu Le was very confused. He looked at his palm and then looked at his body. They were intact and did not look like they were crushed at all.

"Tell me what you saw in detail."

The team leader did not answer immediately, but asked Hu Le to tell him what he saw. Hu Le thought about it and then told him the whole scene.

"So that's it..."

After listening, the team leader nodded in understanding.

"Has the dreaming process been rationalized in your consciousness?"

"Does this have anything to do with the dream process?" Hu Le asked.

"Yes." The team leader pointed to the dream catcher in his hand and explained to Hu Le:

"The process of dreaming is inherently irrational in reality. Separating our bodies from reality and transforming them into dream creatures that can adapt to dreams is itself 'unrealistic'."

"If no one sees this process, this experience will be put in a 'blind box'. This blind box does not need any explanation. We only need to know that we entered this blind box and when we came out, we became dream creatures. The whole process is blurred and rationalized."

"However, during this process, you opened your eyes, which is equivalent to opening the blind box. Everything inside now needs an explanation that conforms to reality. At this time, you will start to dream..."

"Just like when we dream, we are rationalizing what we are feeling in our bodies."

"If you feel cold when you sleep, you will dream that you are in Antarctica."

"If you feel hot while sleeping, you will dream that there is magma all around you."

"If you have to pee when you sleep, you will dream about going to the toilet. You think you have finished going to the toilet, but you actually peed on the bed."

"If you dream of a beautiful woman sleeping next to you, with her hair brushing against your face and you feel itchy, it could be that a cockroach crawled onto your face while you were sleeping."

"Like this, dreams rationalize all feelings. Human consciousness itself is a filter, serving as a bridge between dreams and reality, blending all possible or impossible things."

"This is a form of self-protection. When the body's feelings are consistent with consciousness, consciousness will not collapse."

"So, what you saw is a reasonable explanation for the process of our dreaming. The huge colorful tentacles crushed us, destroyed our real existence, and then used some method to throw us into the dream and become dream creatures."

After hearing this, Hu Le basically understood why he had just seen those strange scenes.

"So, we are dream creatures now?"

(End of this chapter)