The History of Human Insomnia

One hundred years later, humans invented the "time capsule". From then on, sleep was compressed into eight seconds a day. Cities no longer have beds, dreams are seen as dangerous neurological residues, and wakefulness is declared the greatest triumph of civilization. Li Che is an expert in the time capsule system and a descendant of the inventor Dr. Li. He once firmly believed that sleep was inefficient and dreams were uncontrollable, until a seven-year-old Mengmin boy told him at a hearing on children's right to wakefulness: "Those eight seconds are not sleep." "That's the door." At four o'clock in the morning, three million people in the core area collectively entered the ninth second. The voices of the dead began to revive, and the last words of the first batch of people who tried the medicine returned to the world. When the Awakening Department tried to block the truth, Mengmin was regarded as a source of pollution, and the body-slingers began to defect. Li Che had to ask again: Does the time capsule free humans from sleep, or does it send everyone to a door every day? In this decision about sleep, body, memory and the future, mankind will also face a more difficult problem for the first time: If there is more than one way to live in the future, which one is the real person?