Something's wrong with how I'm watching anime.

Ultimately, dreaming occurs when the brain is in a resting state, a state in which a person has given up active thinking.

.........

Kazama felt as if he had resurfaced from underwater.

My consciousness went from a state of confusion to a feeling of coolness, and I slowly came to my senses.

He was currently in a lake.

The lake water is multicolored, reflecting a rainbow of colors.

The lake surface was as smooth as a mirror, but due to the refraction of the seven-colored light, it did not reflect any scene.

Kazama stood there on the lake.

He subconsciously looked around.

The lake shore is about 400 meters away, but it is currently covered by dense white tree branches.

The layers folded and piled together inevitably evoke the image of a bird's nest.

The sky was covered with thick, golden clouds that were slowly drifting by.

Kazama lowered his head.

who am I?

Where am I?

What am I going to do?

Under the three philosophical questions, Kazama's consciousness and logical thinking quickly returned.

This is a dream.

Beginning with 19th-century psychologist Mesmer, modern psychology, through years of development, posits that dreams are an extension of reality, a authentic manifestation of different realities within the subconscious.

This is the scientific perspective.

However, from a mystical perspective, dreams are closely linked to supernatural beings. Unlike reality, these illusory realms often best reflect the deepest truths of the world.

By entering the dream in this way and with this purpose, Kazama is naturally on the side of mystery at this moment.

According to Cerberus, dreams and magic have something in common.

The mystical side seeks to analyze one of the three fundamental elements, the spirit, starting with dreams from the distant past.

Magicians skilled in mental manipulation can consciously control things within dreams. Furthermore, prophetic magic often achieves its results through dreams.

This is also the purpose of Kazama's arrival in this dream.

So, what should we do now?

Cerberus only said that he would see omens of the information he wanted to know in his dreams, but he did not explain the specific process.

Or rather, has the omen already been formed at this moment?

Kazama wants to know about the world that's out of control—is it this lake?

As Kazama was lost in thought, a small hand grasped his finger.

Kazama looked down and saw that a little girl had appeared beside him sometime during the night.

She was wearing a pink dress, and even her skin and hair were pink, with her fluffy long hair reaching all the way to her heels.

His short stature only reached the pelvic area of ​​Kazama.

Kazama recognized it at a glance; it was the image of the elf shown on the Dream Clow Card.

"Dream?"

The Clow Cards are not merely alchemical creations; each card possesses its own life. They are magical beings derived from the obscure and incomprehensible magic circles deep within the cards.

Hearing Kazama call her name, Yume nodded timidly.

"Thank you for bringing me here..."

Kazama instinctively reached out to touch Yume's head, but she dodged him.

Yume hid behind Kazama, one hand still holding Kazama's finger, the other pointing forward.

Kazama didn't think much of it and instinctively turned around to look.

The tranquil lake has now changed.

The lake water began to surge, and a mound of earth quickly emerged from the water.

The soil mound was turned over, revealing a small pit.

A golden seed fell from the sky and landed in a pit. Immediately, it took root, sprouted, and grew into a verdant branch.

The branches grew rapidly, and a flower bud emerged from one of them.

Then, the entire mound, along with the branches and flower buds, disappeared, leaving behind an egg the size of a human head on the calm lake surface.

sowing....

Growth...

A white egg was born...

Kazama watched the entire process and then summarized it in words.

But just as he was about to observe whether the white egg would change, the Dream Card tugged at his finger again.

Then, Kazama felt his feet slip and a sense of weightlessness as he fell.

In the bedroom, Kazama suddenly opened his eyes and sat up in bed.

Sunlight streamed into the room through a corner of the curtains, and Cerberus, lying on his back on a soft cushion on the floor, was snoring softly.

The alarm clock by the bedside has its hour hand pointing to the number eight.

A card slowly floated down from mid-air and landed on the blanket in front of Kazama.

Dream Cards.

The night has passed, and the dream has ended.

But the scenes in my dream are still vivid in my mind.

The white egg that finally settled in the lake seemed to signify the outcome of this divination.

Chapter Forty-Six: Cloud Mountain Witch

At the Kazama family's dining table in the morning.

Kazama, dressed in casual home clothes, sat in front of a chair, while Cerberus sat cross-legged on the table.

On the table was a large bag of breakfast, mainly steamed buns, plus two cups of soy milk. Kazama had just bought it from a breakfast stall outside the neighborhood.

He picked up a snow-white bun, bit it open, and clear syrup oozed out, spilling onto his hand. Seeing this, Cerberus immediately put his hand to his mouth and licked it.

"So, the dream divination method has taken effect, bringing to life the question you want to know in the form of a scenario."

Kerberos put his hand down again and began to talk about what he had seen and heard about Kazama's dream divination method yesterday.

"However, according to you, the golden seed that was planted eventually grew into a white egg..."

Are there similar elements in those anime series?

"The process of sowing is hard to describe... but there are indeed a few things that exist in the form of eggs."

Kazama was holding a leek pancake in his hand, chewing as he spoke.

"Unfortunately, the footage was too short; according to my sense of time in the dream, it was only about a minute long."

"Then, I woke up. Eight hours had passed in reality."

“That’s normal,” Kerberos nodded, his tone completely unsurprised.

"Dreams can be considered a kind of virtual world of the mind, which cannot be filled with the concepts of time or even space."

"In addition, dream interpretation consumes a lot of inspiration, so it's normal to wake up in such a short time in a dream," Cerberus explained.

"So, what do you think we should do now?"

Kazama put down the half-eaten pastry and pondered, "I think what I saw in my dream is more likely a symbol of some kind of imagery."

"Instead of referring to a specific thing."

Although the egg-shaped object in the anime exists, its shape and characteristics are very different from the egg I saw in my dream.

If it's an imagery, what does an egg generally represent?

"Generally speaking, the most direct thing is hatching...birth and new life."

"The emphasis is on process and growth. If we consider it from this perspective, it means that the products of the subsequent loss of control are not fixed states that can be achieved overnight, but rather that can grow and develop."

There's another scene that Yumebu saw that Kazama is quite interested in.

"It's not just about the final egg; the process of being seeded is also evident before the egg appears."

"This part of the information should not be meaningless."

Considering the state of the egg, could it be that the product represented by the egg was actually created by an uncontrolled manifestation of existence?

If that's the case, Kazama can indeed think of a few anime series with such a purpose in the list.

"Based on this information, the temporarily determined direction of our thinking can be further filtered."

"Furthermore, by confirming the conditions, the screening process can be further narrowed down."

"For example, has a second loss of control actually occurred?"

Has a second loss of control already occurred?

Since Kazama sensed the spying from Cerberus, he was worried that things might get out of control again, so he immediately checked his entire list of shows he was watching after he returned.

But they gained nothing.

Therefore, it is tentatively classified as normal.

However, it's not 100% certain.

After all, the pattern of things getting out of control has not yet been 100% proven.