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

30 minutes for an entire life? Wonderful, just pop the pill before you go to bed and when you reach peak REM, you'll enter a whole new life, one you design. It all started when a the company behind Sleepresta, Remedal, released a new sleep supplement allowing anyone to lucid dream, they named it Lucy. This led to the dream-hacking movement. People started to experiment mixing Lucy with other drugs and found that each drug had a different effect, some unlocked your brain, allowing you to solve your life's problems in a single night. Others locked your mind out of lucid dreaming and forced you to live your dream. These were dangerous combinations and eventually people would n't wake up, so the world government approached Remedal forcing them to identify and market safe combinations. Thus, the birth of Nightlife. Using your first several short REM cycles you decide the settings of your life that evening: superheroes, world peace, character in your favorite film, all options. It was incredible at first, people living out who they wanted to be in their dreams, society was better for it. Crime rates dropped globally, the world seemed happy. 
 
 30 minutes for an entire life? What if two is n't enough? How about 3 or 4? Society collapsed, there are not many people left, not many wake at least. Automated systems continue to keep the basics running, windmills and dams provide power to water processing which keeps those that are left healthy, but food is scarce, animals run free, nature is taking over. It seems the only solution is to follow the others, take the pills and join them in a new life. 
 
 I wake up in a world of my design, prefect in every way. Every way except one, I'm the only one here. Everyone else is me. I know what they'll say, what they'll do before it happens. They do what I want, but this is n't company, it's solitude. I'm all alone in a world full of people. I wonder if the others met the same fate. Maybe, one life is enough.
