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

They never could have stopped me. 
 
 While the politicians and companies argued and the addicts went mad over it, I was calculating the possibilities. 
 The drug did n't have a name, not officially, but went by a thousand names on the streets. I did n't care what they called it. An entire lifetime, burned into a short span of frenzied neural activity, and then you came out the other end. That was the trick. They never realized the potential, not until it was too late. 
 The arrangements were simple enough, for me. The system to supply a constant dose of the drug and to keep me alive while I was under was child's play. After it was set in place, it took nothing more than a few hired thugs to supply the substance itself. 
 
 I always was a lucid dreamer, from my first childhood memories. 
 
 It took them more than a week to trace the crime back to me and come knocking. 
 
 They pulled me out as soon as they found me, but they could n't decide what to do with me afterwards. The cell was helpful, it was simple enough to ground me in reality again. After I got my wits back about me, it began in earnest. 
 
 The doctors still debate how many years I burned off of my life during those days, catatonic in the bed, every neuron in my brain firing at its utmost capacity. I do n't rightly care. There are prices to be paid for such power, for living countless lives. For the full potential of the human mind. 
 
 They still linger under the sad delusion that they are the ones hunting me, months later, but they will be corrected soon. I have seen the future, made of my million dreams. 
 
 It is beautiful. 
 
 It has only just begun.
