The nightmare continues. Williams, a famous psychologist at the University of California, accidentally uncovered a shocking secret in the process of solving dreams and puzzles for Ligaya. ...
Twelve terrible emails.
Williams, 56, works at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He devoted his life to the study of human dreams and wrote a lot. He is a famous American master of hypnosis and dream interpretation. One day at the beginning of 20 10, when Professor Williams accidentally found a heinous email in the mail: Where am I? How did I get here? I tried to identify where I was, and the memories of pain and torture were looming. I feel strangely familiar with this place, but I can't remember where it is. Suddenly, a strong fishy smell came from all directions. On the park bench, I saw a broken finger wearing a ring with a faint blue light. I recognized this sapphire diamond ring as an engagement gift for my fiance Mara. Mara, he hasn't come to see me for a long time. Did he have an accident?
This dream was recorded at 4 am on February 3, 2009, 65438. The dream master is a girl named Ligaya, who is the female anchor of Philippine national television. She can't work because of nightmares, and now she has left her job. Williams continued to search Ligaya's e-mail. The next letter was recorded at midnight on February 5, 65438. The dream has moved from the park to the seaside-the white foam waves have receded. I saw a human skull in a crack in a pile of rocks. On the rock next to it is a faded LOTOS glasses made in Germany, which is horse-drawn!
The nightmare continues! 65438+February 16 At 4 pm, Ligaya woke up after a nap at home. She described it this way: when I woke up, I had a headache and my throat was on fire. In my dream, I was lost in the virgin forest in the south. The sun can't reach the ground, and the grass is filled with an unusually unpleasant smell of carrion. I stumbled all the way and found a human leg among thorns. Rats are biting, insects and flies are crawling ... I feel uncomfortable ... A memory begins to emerge: my marat was kidnapped, no, precisely, killed by a group of desperate fugitives ... This news seems to have been broadcast repeatedly on the TV station where I work.
Similar dream records, a * * * has 12 emails. Ligaya's dream record time is very clear, but the place in the dream is a bit chaotic, and the plot occasionally overlaps, but the content is creepy without exception. At first, Williams didn't think it was just a nightmare caused by neurasthenia of an insomniac. But through dream analysis, he was puzzled: was her boyfriend really kidnapped and killed? If this is true, why do these body parts frequently break into her dreams?
In order to explore the connection between Ligaya's dream and reality, Professor Williams went to the Philippines to study this special nightmare. After he got in touch with Ligaya by mail, he flew to Manila, the capital of the Philippines, on October 5, 20 10.
As soon as he got off the plane, Williams saw the news on the TV screen of the airport: according to the Philippine national television, local police found some residual limbs of a man's body in Manila National Company, Western Bay Beach and Southern Forest respectively. After DNA comparison and corpse replacement, it is found that this is Mara, the son of a wealthy businessman who has been missing for more than a month. According to police investigation, marat's father is a famous local car retailer. Not long ago, Mara was kidnapped. The kidnapper extorted 654.38+0 million pesos from his parents, and tore up the ticket after getting the money. The police only received one finger. ...
Through this news, Williams realized that Ligaya's dream is not fiction, and the only way to solve the mystery is to analyze Ligaya's dream and reproduce it!
A clue in a dream
Ligaya lives in a single apartment in downtown Manila. When Professor Williams arrived, she was being investigated by the local police. However, things are far worse than the professor imagined: Ligaya was deeply hit by her boyfriend's accident, insomnia and nightmares, and lost many memories. The police found almost nothing in her inquiry. Although Mara's body was found, it was still impossible to solve the case.
After identifying himself, Williams took the initiative to report the case to the police, hoping to find clues that would help solve the case through the analysis of Ligaya's dream. According to Freud's theory, he thinks that dreams express our repressed desires. Therefore, the analysis of dreams is a shortcut to understand the subconscious psychological process. Through Ligaya's description of dreams, she dreamed that her boyfriend's body and limbs were all places where they dated. In this regard, the physical evidence such as park tickets and tourist tickets collected by the police at her home has been confirmed.
According to the investigation data of the police, Ligaya is smart and beautiful, and is a popular female anchor of Philippine national television. In the autumn of 2008, while hosting a racing show, Ligaya met marat, the son of a well-known local car retailer, and they fell in love. However, just before their wedding, marat unexpectedly disappeared. ...
Williams analyzed that Ligaya frequently dreamed of her boyfriend's residual limb, probably because she missed her boyfriend too much, and associated with the bad consequences of her boyfriend's kidnapping, which led to frequent nightmares. However, the coincidence between the location where the gangster dumped the body and her dream is a mystery. To solve this mystery, we must hypnotize Ligaya and awaken her sleeping memory.
On October 6th, 65438/kloc-0, Professor Williams relaxed Ligaya, lying on the sofa, and slowly led her to recall the good times when she dated her boyfriend in words-Ligaya's breathing gradually changed from shortness to relaxation, and she was completely hypnotized. Williams began to ask her, "Do you know Mara?" She answered clearly: "well, he is my fiance!" " "Williams then asked," Do you know where he went? " She replied, "He's missing! Oh, no, he's dead ... "Suddenly, Ligaya screamed" Ah "and immediately woke up from hypnosis, pale and sweaty. ...
The attempt to reveal the truth through hypnosis failed. 20 10 At the beginning of April, Williams decided to use high-tech means to realize Ligaya's dream reappearance, so as to help the police solve the case and find a cure for her. In fact, ATR Computer Neuroscience Laboratory in Japan has made a new breakthrough in the study of human cranial nerves, which can display people's thoughts or dreams on the computer screen. Williams pointed out that this is the first time in the world to obtain image information directly from brain activity. For example, through a special functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner, you can capture photos of brain activity, and then reproduce the image that the target is seeing through software, thus recording his dreams.
Thanks to Williams' efforts, the Philippine police obtained an effective device to read the human brain. In the process of monitoring Ligaya's dream, they found that whenever she met her boyfriend in the park, beach or the wild, a girl with long hair would appear in her dream, and then the picture immediately switched to a frightening scene, either a barren mountain cemetery or a cliff, with dismembered male bodies scattered ... At this time, Ligaya's brain waves were very disordered, and the picture was unstable and distorted.
Invade the dream and find the killer.
Next, the police searched the interpersonal network between Ligaya and Mara, and finally found a girl who matched the image in the dream picture, Simone, a beautiful bartender working in an upscale club in Manila. Simone cooperated with the police's inquiries and answered any questions. However, in the investigation of her, the police still got little-she only admitted to knowing marat, but didn't know that Ligaya was his fiancee.
When the police appeared in front of Ligaya with a picture of Simone, she didn't know Simone at all, and she didn't seem to have any impression at all. She looked at Williams and the police and others and shook her head blankly. This is very strange. Is Simone an illusion in Ligaya's mind, or is her memory loss aggravated? In view of this bizarre phenomenon, Williams decided to use a "brain reading machine" recently invented by American scientists to monitor and change her dreams and uncover the truth!
"Brain reading machine" is an electrode reflection technology called "transcranial cortical magnetism", which inputs a pulsed magnetic field to the target brain area to monitor human brain activity, and then sees the dream of the target person on the computer screen through brain functional magnetic resonance imaging technology. Another popular term for this diagnosis and treatment method is also called "invading brain cells". Because this high-tech is still in the clinical trial stage, it is extremely risky in practical application. A little carelessness will cause the target person's brain to "burn" and become a real walking corpse. However, under special circumstances, such as the need to solve a case, the competent department and the government will also approve the use.
With the consent of the police, Williams decided to take a chance. He also wants to enter Ligaya's dream together, hoping to discover the hidden secrets in her dream. In order to ensure the safe and smooth operation, he also invited the most authoritative neurosurgeon in the Philippines to assist. After the instrument connected their brains, Williams went into the subconscious of the dream owner Ligaya. He trudged through the desert and saw Ligaya dancing in the desert in a white wedding dress, just like a pure angel coming to the world.
Williams followed Ligaya across the desert, across a small river and into a swamp. In the dark, they walked into an abandoned factory in tandem. In some workshops, there are all kinds of instruments of torture, including axes, hooks, chain saws and gouging out knives ... Suddenly, the red light flashed, and Ligaya's white wedding dress suddenly turned into a red tulle full of enthusiasm and vitality. Holding a heart in her hand, she sent it to her mouth bite by bite, and blood spilled down her mouth.
In this dilapidated factory warehouse, Ligaya has completely turned into a demon. She not only kills people, dismembers bodies, but also eats human organs. In the corner of the warehouse, Williams saw a dismembered male body, and the woman whose heart was cut out turned out to be Simone ... Williams tried to stop her atrocities. In the process of the contest between the two sides, Ligaya screamed fiercely: "In my territory, you must abide by my rules!" As she spoke, she picked up the machete on the ground and pounced on Williams again. Williams fled in fear and called for help ... At this time, the medical staff who were monitoring their dreams quickly unplugged his instrument and woke him up, and Williams returned to reality.
This is a difficult and dangerous strange journey. Ligaya's subconscious hides such a cruel side, and a strange imagination attacks Williams' heart: Is Simone her rival in love? As soon as the idea came out, he was ecstatic and his thoughts gradually became clear. According to Ligaya's dream display, he can draw such a logic: marat often goes to high-end clubs, having an affair with Simone, the bartender of the club, and betraying Ligaya, who is about to get married. So, Ligaya hired someone to kidnap Mara, and after successfully extorting 6.5438+million pesos, she killed and dismembered the body ... But her hatred did not disappear, and she subconsciously wanted to kill her rival Simone, but after this huge blow, she selectively lost her memory, and Simone escaped!
Following this train of thought, the police asked Simone again. She finally admitted her love affair with marat, but she really didn't know that marat had a fiancee, and she didn't expect her lover to be madly killed by Ligaya! Williams' inference was established, and after difficult evidence collection, the Philippine police finally confirmed the crime of kidnapping and murder by Ligaya.