[ WP ] A new drug let 's you live a lifetime in one dream

It was bound to happen. I mean, just statistically. 
 
 I woke up today, and there was an inexplicably familiar flurry of thoughts and memories in my head. I did n't notice it at first. Nobody wakes up and goes `` What a wonderful morning! Time to check my memories to see if they're consistent and I do n't have amnesia!'' You just assume it's another ordinary morning. 
 
 But then, I tried to remember what I did last night, and the day I reconstructed was unseemly. It did n't seem to fit. 
 
 I kept going about my day, but I kept thinking about it. The more I thought about it, the deeper I digged into the swirling enigma of what should have been a simple practice of recall, the stranger things appeared. 
 
 Before the day ended, I managed to piece together what was happening to me, hopping from life to life with barely a breath in my initial one, one I can no longer recall. Each time I hop into another world to explore, eventually, they make the same breakthrough. The ability to live someone else's life, on someone else's world. And always, there's a unanimous, yet chaotic, clamor for the ability. 
 
 Of course, after billions and billions, simply endless counts of lives, it's bound to happen eventually. A leak. A faint memory from somewhere else, a familiar new face. 
 
 And then, after trillions and trillions, you'll eventually encounter it, a flood of all the lives you've lived and have n't finished, the other worlds you promised you'd return to only to forget. 
 
 Has this happened before? Did it change anything? When will the breakthrough happen in this life? Will I defer or will I defect from the eons of the same decision I've repeatedly made? This ca n't continue. What will it take to stop me? Will it stop here? Will I continue until the leak is so strong that *everyone* has a daily dose of living other worlds? No. It will not reach that. It will end here. This is where my journey to other worlds ends and where my journey home begins, a home I once forgot but will never forget again. 
 
 This will be my final dream. 
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 He's so patient, but it's no use. The thoughts ca n't even begin to connect for me to synthesize them into words. I feel a straining in my brain, but it does n't manage any result. 
 
 `` It's no use. I ca n't remember at all. It felt so urgent...'' 
 `` It's okay, honey. People forget dreams all the time, it's no big deal, and besides, we have plenty of it left so we can take it again tonight.''
