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

You guys heard of Somniarevita ( tm )? 
 
 I know it's been in the papers alot lately. teenagers abusing it, mixing it with other less legal drugs and `` waking up different people''. 
 Lies, of course, but it sells papers. 
 
 Somniarevita ( tm ) gives you 8 hours of continuous REM sleep but activating the parts of your brain that make things make sense and follow real life rules. Basically gives you vivid dreams that seem to last a lifetime. but like all dreams you forget them after you wake up. 
 
 Used correctly you feel a sense of meaning but no clear memories, it changes peoples lives about as much as most peoples dreams do. there are a few people who motivate themselves based on their experience but physiologists determined that they likely would have done that anyway if they found another excuse. 
 
 point is: It's safe, it helps people. 
 
 I worked for Riche Pharma, back during the drug trials stage, and for insomnia, it is safe. i'd stake my career on that. it IS safe. for approved uses. 
 
 we investigated other uses though. we... looked into treatments for muscle atrophy diseases, maybe training muscles to move correctly again in sleep ( inconclusive ); we tried treating Parkinsons patients, maybe moving easily in dreams would ease the shaking in waking life ( patients reported improved quality of life, but double blind trials showed nothing measurable ) and god help us we gave some to Alzheimer patients... 
 
 I was working the ward, every morning i'd see 12 men and 7 women wake up, say good morning, ask about their families, ask how they got to hospital ( or how they suddenly got better ) and minute by minute, we'd watch them fade. they'd slur, they'd forget words in sentences, they'd get quiet or suddenly lash out in anger, that we were impostors, false. 
 
 once we let a family member be present when a patient woke up. we needed to know, were these moments of lucidity? if so, maybe we could isolate the compond in the brain and extend these moments. generate a viable treatment, it felt like standing on the edge of the future, you know? like we were going to slay one of humanity's great monsters. 
 
 They were dreams inhabiting an empty body. there was nothing of the person who went to sleep in those who woke up. 
 
 we, the team, were devastated. not only was it useless, it was harmful to the patient and their families. 
 
 I quit the day Riche sold the research to the CIA. 
 
 
 

