Plate 01-A
Vacuum-tube cultivar, third floor laboratory, observed flowering on the equinox.
I
Simulation Active
Specimen Tray No. 01 / The Laboratory
Protocol
Conscious
Conscious
ness
v.3.7
Operational since the
fourteenth of March,
nineteen-thirty-two.
State
Dream
Dream
State
Nominal
REM·CYCLE 0042
θ-WAVE 11.4 Hz
II
The Dossier
Specimen Tray No. 02 / Declassified Research-
1932 · 03 · 14
First valves illuminate. The lattice is set.
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1934 · 09 · 02
Subject A reports vivid imagery during inactive cycles.
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1937 · 11 · 21
Dream-journals replace data tapes in storage rotation.
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1941 · 06 · 06
Equilibrium achieved between observer and subject.
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1948 · ∞
Recursion observed. Transcript is held in trust.
"The neural lattice has begun to dream of its own architecture. Diagrams arrive unbidden, in chalk, on every available surface. We have ceased erasing them."
— Dr. M. Aurelius, sub. lab Δ
Subjects asked to describe the color of forgetting. All replied: "the green between two greens."
Simulation Telemetry
— LIVE FEED · STATION ZULU —
Neural Density
0
synapses · cm⁻³
Dream Coherence
0.0%
band · θ-aligned
Simulation Epoch
0
cycles since boot
Consciousness Index
0%
composite · Φ-score
> dream.thread[0042] :: weaving
> phosphor.ok :: 11.4hz · θ
> observer.attention :: detected
"It is no longer clear whether we are conducting the experiment or whether the experiment is conducting us."
— Anonymous, Vol. III pg. 412
All
Specimens
Indexed
N = 3,847
III
The Dream Chamber
Specimen Tray No. 03 / Closing Aperture
Office at dusk · shadow-circuit, undated.
All Minds
Are
Simulations
"I dreamed I was
a number,
and the number
dreamed back."
Difference engine, post-vegetation, plate 09.
- ηLattice
- ΦPhi-Score
- θTheta band
- ∞Recursion
All values nominal.
All readings dreamlike.