"Dreams are the easiest thing for humans to forget."
Chen Chen said in a low voice as he walked, "I once read a research paper on dreams. It said that within five minutes of waking up from a dream, about fifty percent of the content of the dream will be forgotten. Within fifteen minutes of waking up, more than ninety percent of the details of the dream will be forgotten."
"So, dreams may indeed be a kind of 'anti-information' that exists in reality."
Chen Chen continued. "Of course, the anti-information here has nothing to do with the antimeme effect. The reason why dreams are easily forgotten is that there's a type of 'MCH neurons' in the brain. These neurons can secrete a 'melanin accumulation hormone'. This neuron and the hormone secreted can be mapped to the hippocampus, which is the area of the brain that mainly controls memory.
"In the experiment, activating these neurons will inhibit memory, and these MCH neurons that can inhibit memory are only active during the 'rapid eye movement' phase, and the rapid eye movement phase is a characteristic of humans when they are dreaming. In other words, during the sleep phase that produces dreams, the brain will coincidentally inhibit the formation of memory."
"Because dreams mainly occur during the rapid eye movement period, and this stage is the period when MCH neurons are active, so it will hinder the hippocampus from storing dream memories. This is why the dreams that humans have are often forgotten after waking up..."
Hearing Chen Chen's explanation, Little X immediately pulled up the paper from the Internet. "I've found it. It's indeed as you said, but what does this have to do with the 'way to hide ourselves' we're looking for?"
"Uh..."
Chen Chen shook his head. "We can start from this aspect and create a dreamlike meme to achieve the same effect as an antimeme. This can be regarded as a research direction for the time being."
"Alright."
Little X said thoughtfully, "I can try to use E language to perform calculations and see if I can find memetic effects that can affect human dreams, but I'm afraid it will take a long time. Still, it's easier than directly deducing an antimeme."
Chen Chen nodded and this approach was tentatively set. "Very well, but it's better to be as fast as possible."
As he said this, Chen Chen frowned slightly.
"Are you worried about the Federation's quantum computing?"
Little X suddenly felt a little puzzled because as far as she knew, Chen Chen had never urged her because this kind of urging was a sign of a lack of confidence. This kind of situation was rarely seen in someone as strong-willed as Chen Chen.
Chen Chen suddenly paused when he heard this. He frowned and finally said what was on his mind, "I don't know why, but ever since I fused with the T-virus and became a non-human, I've been feeling an inexplicable sense of unease."
"At first, I thought it was just an illusion, or perhaps it was the discomfort of transforming into a non-human. But now that a month has passed, this uneasiness hasn't lessened at all. Instead, it's getting worse. Even taking NZT-48 can't alleviate it …"
Little X whispered, "I've also noticed that this uneasiness has begun to affect your judgment. Recently, your decision-making has become more and more radical. I'm still a little puzzled as to why you're suddenly willing to step up the research on memetic effects!"
Hearing this, Chen Chen could not help nodding. "In this case, it seems that all of this isn't my imagination... When I fused with the T-virus, there were indeed hidden dangers that I didn't notice."
"Dream..."
However, at this moment, Little X suddenly said, "Do you remember, when you woke up from the life incubator, you said that you had a dream, but after waking up, you forgot about it. But just now, when you were feeling uneasy, you mentioned the dream again. If this is a subconscious hint, does that mean that the source of the uneasiness in your heart is related to the dream?"
Chen Chen's pupils shrank.
Only then did he suddenly recall that when he was fusing with the T-Virus, he had indeed had a very terrifying dream. However, when he woke up, he had completely forgotten about it. The only thing he could remember was the fact that he had had a dream...
For someone like Chen Chen who possessed terrifying willpower and self-discipline, this was almost impossible to achieve.
In that case, the only explanation was — in that dream, there was something that was enough to make his subconscious feel ominous.
Thinking of this, Chen Chen suddenly came to a realization. He was almost certain that the source of his uneasiness must be something in the dream!
"That ominous feeling doesn't come from the T-virus itself."
Chen Chen suddenly murmured, "After all, I've been undergoing blood tests every day recently. If there are any subsequent problems with the T-virus, it will definitely be discovered. But if it's not the T-virus and my body that have a problem, what could it be?"
"Do you need hypnosis to retrieve that dream?"
Little X asked, "Maybe hypnosis can make you recall everything in the dream."
Chen Chen hesitated for a moment and then nodded. "I can try..."
With that, Chen Chen left the park directly and stood by the side of the road. In less than half a minute, a business car stopped in front of Chen Chen. Chen Chen directly opened the door and got in.
"Don't go back to the Spire Experimental Base."
Chen Chen shook his head. "Go to the Faraday cage built in the industrial park and then lock me in."
"You..."
Little X hesitated. "You suspect that this is a memetic effect?"
"No."
Chen Chen shook his head. Just when Little X breathed a sigh of relief, Chen Chen suddenly said, "I suspect that this is an antimeme effect."
"Ah..."
Little X whispered, "That shouldn't be possible, right?"
Chen Chen shook his head and said nothing more.
Dreams, antimemes...
Perhaps it was really his subconscious that kept warning him, allowing him to deduce the key factor of antimemes and dreams.
For ordinary people, of course, this was a very outrageous thing. How could the subconscious be so intelligent? However, if he had taken NZT-48, all of this was not impossible...
After all, this drug had never disappointed him.
Chen Chen thought silently.
However, if this was the case, then all of this was very frightening. He had been infected with an antimeme without knowing it?
However, where did this antimeme come from? The dimension of Gantz?
No, impossible!
If it was spread from the dimension of Gantz, then did it not mean that the USB drive did not have the power to block the memetic effect? In that case, it was impossible for him to get rid of the entanglement of the memetic effect of "Crash".
Therefore, these two causal relationships were conflicting.
Then, since it was not spread from the dimension of Gantz, then where did this antimeme come from?
The business car sped on the flat road and soon left the Eco Science City, heading in the direction of the industrial park.
Inside the car, Chen Chen fell into deep contemplation.
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