The Other Half of the Dream

This is a stream of consciousness novel about the interpenetration of dreams and reality. A man picked up a pair of white headphones in a dilapidated old desert house. When he woke up, he found that he had bought two pairs. ; A girl dreamed about him on Sunday morning but didn't recognize his name; A college student touched the headphone compartment with only one earphone left before the interview; A female supervisor admitted him and sent him I went to other places and missed my student days in front of the empty office many years later. Four perspectives and two periods of time and space are nested into each other through "two pairs of headphones". The novel does not pursue a linear narrative, but alternates between fragmented dreams and waking. When you read it for the first time, you will The characters are lost, and when I re-read it, I find those long-buried echoes: pancakes, orange cats, lemon-flavored shampoo, and two identical headphone compartments. It wasn't until the last chapter, when the door was pushed open, hot pancakes were placed on the table, and two headphone compartments were lying quietly in the bag - that he saw clearly that his dream was the reality she had experienced, and she was at this moment His life also appeared in his dreams before he arrived. The full text is of medium length and suitable for a quiet time to read. It doesn't give the only answer, it just asks gently: Is the person you dreamed about last night also really awake somewhere?