If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon

The man in white sat in front of the jade goblet, the candlelight cast a huge shadow swaying on the wall, the entire temple was silent, the huge bronze pillars were hidden in the darkness, and the vine-like patterns intertwined and vertically pieced together on the zenith and the rainy ground. Another ring symbolizing the ancient mystery.

Here it goes, here it goes, this dream again.Standing on the edge of the candlelight, Lu Mingfei thought silently.

Wandering in the same dream for countless times, I may still be terrified and helpless at the beginning, and feel sympathetic when I wake up, until now I have become slightly numb.

Lu Mingfei didn't know if this was a good thing or not. Masashi Toyama's psychotherapy was indeed effective. Now that he saw his dead friend sitting in front of him, he no longer worried that he would hold him accountable. Nor will he be afraid of what he really looks like under his skin.

I don’t know how many times of psychotherapy successfully let Toyama Masashi plant a stamp in his subconscious. According to Toyama Masashi’s words, the best way to treat repetitive nightmares is to first solve the knot in the source of nightmares in reality. The nightmare was naturally resolved.But if there is no way to find or solve the knot, then the next best thing to do is to solve the nightmare itself.

Masashi Toyama, who was wearing a white coat uncharacteristically, lit a candle that afternoon and told Lu Mingfei about "lucid dreaming" for three hours. It basically means that people's dream activities mainly come from the subconscious. People who can control their subconscious mind can control their dreams to a certain extent, and achieve the effect of knowing dreams in dreams.

Lu Mingfei said that I am familiar with this, I have seen Inception.Masashi Toyama also nodded happily and said, then you must know what to do next, right?
Lu Mingfei replied hesitantly, find yourself a spinning top?And at this moment, he saw Masashi Toyama smiling at him, and told him that he didn't need to bother looking for the top anymore, because I was your top.

Thinking about it now, Lu Mingfei still thinks this is quite gay, but Toyama Masashi also immediately explained the meaning of "I am the spinning top". He told Lu Mingfei that the reason why most people cannot actively control their dreams is because they There is a lack of training for the subconscious mind, but even professional psychologists cannot fully control the subconscious mind, but they have smarter ways to control it limitedly.

Plant a deeper subconscious mind in your own subconscious mind, a "stencil".

Immediately Masashi Toyama asked Lu Mingfei mysteriously, if I say elephant now, what do you think of?
Lu Mingfei replied without hesitation, Crayon Shin-chan.

Masashi Toyama's expression was obviously stagnant at that time, he coughed a few times, and said naturally, very well, you have basically understood how to counter the subconscious.

Lu Mingfei immediately complained, "Will you say this script when I answer anything?"

Masashi Toyama said that’s not the case. When I mention elephants, what you think of is the protagonist of Japanese cartoons. This means that in your subconscious mind, you have planted a deeper subconsciousness, a stencil, in the part of the “elephant” , so when it comes to elephants, you will think of Crayon Shin-chan instead of the big guy in Mammalia, Proboscis, and Elephantidae in nature.In the same way, if you keep having a nightmare, then we connect some symbolic things in that nightmare with another familiar thing, and let the latter become your stencil.

Lu Mingfei felt that it was a bit confusing, and Toyama Masashi gave a simpler example. He said that the concept of lucid dreaming has always been an interesting topic in psychology, because he proved that dreams are nothing but subconscious disturbances during sleep. , It has nothing to do with parallel universes, quantum mechanics, and predicting the future.

The original developer of lucid dreaming was a professor of psychology at Harvard. His method of controlling his dreams was extremely simple, that is, adding an insignificant habit to himself on weekdays, that is, putting a pill in his pocket. The ring, and more than dozens of times a day, I reached into my pocket from time to time to make sure the ring was still there, and while touching the ring, I asked myself silently, is the world I am in now a dream or reality?
Toyama Masashi smiled and went on to say that when the professor happened to sleep one day and fell into a dream, his subconscious made him do the same action. At that moment, he realized that he was dreaming, that is, the concept of lucid dreaming came into being. Began to spread widely in psychology.

Lu Mingfei said that he should also prepare a ring?

Masashi Toyama shook his head and said no need, didn't I say that I am your spinning top.I remember you described your nightmare, in which you kept seeing a man in white and a candle, right?
Lu Mingfei was stunned at that time, because he found Masashi Toyama in front of him was wearing a big white coat, and a candle was also lit on the table.Afterwards, Masashi Toyama asked Lu Mingfei to take the initiative to relax, and then he used "hypnosis" to consolidate and strengthen this impression. After a few times, when Lu Mingfei saw the white clothes and candles, he would think of Masashi Toyama from the psychological department, which caused his subconscious to determine whether he was dream.

Masashi Toyama told Lu Mingfei that under normal circumstances, if you know that you are dreaming, you can easily control your dreams. In your dreams, you can travel to various places, meet anyone you can’t see, and even You can also travel the universe and go to the fantasy world to play, so the so-called nightmare is naturally not worth mentioning.

Lu Mingfei was very excited when he heard it, and wished he could go home and sleep and have a dream, doing something he knew everything in the dream, but as soon as he fell asleep, he found that he had been fooled. He was not the general situation that Masashi Toyama said, he Is the general situation.

Facts have proved that Toyama Masashi's treatment was very successful, because his treatment at least made Lu Mingfei change from a dazed nightmare to a lucid nightmare.

Lu Mingfei stood in the temple, looking at the man in white who was waiting boredly in the candlelight.

Countless experiences have told him that no matter what he does next in this dream, it will be useless. The darkness of the temple is like an endless maze. No matter where he goes, he will eventually find a light in the distance. I found myself back where I started.

It is not advisable to actively approach the silent dragon king, because he does not have the courage, even in a dream, he does not dare to face the dragon king, not only because of the majesty of the other party, but more Perhaps the other party was also his former friend, but he was sent to hell by his own hands.

He sighed silently, and could only stand there and wait for the nightmare to end. He had come here many nights like this, standing in a place where the candlelight was out of sight, silently looking at this old friend who only existed in his own nightmare, until A bell rang in the darkness behind him, and the old man stood up and walked past him to his doomed death.

But obviously, there seems to be something wrong. Unlike the hundreds of unchanging nightmares in the past, Lu Mingfei encountered some surprises or shocks today.

When Lu Mingfei was in a daze, he didn't notice that the man in white who was staring at the candlelight suddenly raised his head. He had nightmares for many times. He did the same action in the trajectory, but this time, he actually raised his head and looked at Lu Mingfei in the darkness.

"Since you're here, don't you want to sit down?" the man in white asked softly.

His voice is a little inaudible, just like a dead person weaving catkins from the throat with the remaining breath, and the slight words will be scattered by a little wind, so you must listen carefully, even though every word is so insignificant. It's light, but when you connect it, you can feel the weight of the dying person.

With a light word, Lu Mingfei's ears rang like thunder, and he suddenly raised his head to meet the gaze of the man in white. Those clear molten red golden pupils were so terrifying in his eyes that he couldn't help but backed away a few times. At a loss.

The man in white was not moved by Lu Mingfei's panic. He just silently looked at the boy hidden in the shadow of the candlelight. There was no unquenchable rage in his molten red eyes, but only Lu Mingfei's anger. Some inexplicable emotions that I can't understand.

Although Lu Mingfei was trembling, he didn't know what happened to the dream, he even wondered if he was still in the dream for a moment.He said in his heart, isn't he, brother?Is this a nightmare or a real supernatural event?I remember that on the first seven days of His Royal Highness Norton, he still burned incense and worshiped Buddha, but if you can’t prevent the first seven, you can’t prevent the ghosts who go to the grave in the next year to take your life, but if you want to take your life, you have to go to Lin Nian, the dragon slayer, and insist on saying If so, you are suicidal, right?Why can't you find it on my head?

His inner thoughts were overloaded in an instant, his mouth was slightly opened and he couldn't utter a word, he could only stare blankly at the man who had the consciousness to talk to him for the first time in this nightmare.

"So it's you, come and sit with me, Lu Mingfei."

The man in white softly called out Lu Mingfei's name, without any arrogant orders, but any words that came out of his mouth carried an irresistible will, which belonged to the will of a real king in ancient times, and he asked Lu Mingfei to accompany him. If he sat down, Lu Mingfei would have no choice to refuse.

So Lu Mingfei stepped out of the shadows and walked into the candlelight for the first time. The light illuminated his face. In his dream, he was still wearing the diving suit he used to be, and his whole body was wet like a drowned rat. Some pale faces looked at the man in white in front of the candlelight jade goblet.

"It's been a long time." The man in white said, or that's what Norton said to Lu Mingfei.

But Lu Mingfei couldn't hear any nostalgia from his tone, the other party was just stating a fact, because they had indeed seen each other for a long time, but what was the reason for this sudden "goodbye"?Did they really say "goodbye"?Wasn't all this just his dream?

"Old Tang? Damn. Aren't you already... dead?" Lu Mingfei felt that there was no worse opening than this, but he still said it, his voice was low and dull.

The man in white didn't answer him, but looked at the boy in the diving suit by the candlelight. His face was soaked in water so white that it seemed that he was the resurrected dead man. There was some timid emotion hiding in his brown pupils, like A child who did something wrong was called to bow his head in front of the adults, waiting for the whipping punishment.

Lu Mingfei felt that all this was beyond his comprehension, his tongue could not be straightened out as if it were knotted, and he couldn't speak a serious word, so he just looked at the man in white in front of him, and the other was also looking at him, he thought After a lot, the original fear gradually subsided, and the same amount of bitterness rose up.

dream?Or some other supernatural event beyond my imagination?He suddenly felt very tired, and the clenched fist in the diving suit loosened.

Forget it, it's fine, it's okay, whether it's a dream or something else.

After a long time, he was silent and suddenly asked in a low voice for no reason, "Hey, Old Tang, no matter what kind of shitty supernatural event will happen in a while, I want to ask a question first. What does it feel like to die? You appear in the Are you here specifically to find me?"

"I have never been afraid of death. Death is just a long sleep for us. The real fear of death is always that it passes us by, but takes away those around us forever, and leaves us alone. "The man in white said, "As for why I am here, didn't you bring me here?"