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    Hyos, The Sleep Machine
    Hyos, The Sleep Machine
    Hyos, The Sleep Machine
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    Hyos, The Sleep Machine

    By J. LAST

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    In a distant future, humankind has colonized Hyos, an empty volcanic planet in the Cygnus constellation. In this futuristic world, people with brain implants live in an underground advanced society and fear mental illness. They cannot sleep normally and are completely dependent on a sleep machine. One day, the sleep machine appears to malfunction and Leda, a young military woman, wakes up during artificial sleep. What will happen next? Ari, an expert on brain implants, is called to investigate the matter. He is one of the few people on Hyos with a neurological disability and is secretly frustrated by his inability to cure himself.  As he tries to understand the sleep machine malfunction, he starts to uncover secrets from the past and has to confront painful memories of his mother's death. What is the real truth about this civilization? Can memories and dreams be suppressed? Can the human brain be controlled? Hyos, the sleep machine is an exciting short read with futuristic action and suspense and is suitable for all ages. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ. LAST
    Release dateOct 13, 2018
    ISBN9781386639732
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      Hyos, The Sleep Machine - J. LAST

      Jane Last

      Hyos

      The sleep machine

      Copyright © Jane Last, 2018

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. It is illegal to copy this book, post it to a website, or distribute it by any other means without permission.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

      This is a work of fiction. The outbreak of psychosis, features of psychosis and treatment of psychosis refer to a fictional medical condition.

      First edition

      This book was professionally typeset on Reedsy

      Find out more at reedsy.com

      Dedicated to TB, DK and AK who have always supported me in my endeavors.

      They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.

      Khalil Gibran

      Contents

      BEGINNING

      HYOS THE LOCATION

      BRAIN WAVES

      HYOS THE PLANET

      ARI

      HYOS THE HABITAT

      LEDA

      HYOS THE PSYCHOSIS

      NOMAN

      HYOS THE ATTACK

      COMMITTEE

      HYOS THE SLEEP MACHINE

      AMNESIA

      HYOS AND EARTH

      CONFRONTATION

      CONCLUSION

      APPENDIX A - Chronology

      1

      BEGINNING

      Strange are all beginnings, for the roots are lost in the shadows of time.

      Year: 10,000 Hyos Time Scale (HTS)

      Location: Planet of Hyos, Sleep Unit 76NWS5

      Leda’s sleep cycle on the sleep machine came to a halt. It had never happened before. She woke up unexpectedly. But, this was not the normal sleep machine waking-up sequence, with a programmed duration of fifteen minutes, that activated different parts of the brain sequentially, thus ensuring a gradual transition from sleep to wakefulness. What had occurred was an abrupt resumption of consciousness. For the first time in her life, Leda had woken up on her own. It was a very unreal feeling, and she did not immediately realize that she was awake. In fact, her first thought was that she had died and entered a new dimension of existence.

      Too premature had been the termination of the cycle. Leda had experienced a dreamless sleep for five hours and ten minutes, the duration of which had been precisely recorded by the sleep machine. That any premature awakening should happen at all, had never been considered. Not a single person of the planet had ever woken up before the end of their seven-hour sleep cycle, which was continuously monitored by the sleep machine. It was inconceivable that there could be a system malfunction. The sleep machine was a uniquely designed piece of equipment that provided artificial sleep to all inhabitants of the planet. It was powered by an unlimited geothermal energy supply. Its components were made up of the special metals Hyium and Elonnium that could only be found on the planet. The sleep machine generated special electrical impulses that could act on specific sleep neurons within human brains, and thus both initiated and maintained sleep. The whole civilization of the planet of 100 million people depended on its smooth functioning.

      Should this state of sleep as created by the machine be called sleep? It was difficult to say. The artificial sleep, which Leda and all others on the planet experienced and which was essential for their lives, resembled a comatose state in which there was little brain consciousness, and which was neither coma nor sleep. It could not be called a coma, for people who are in a coma have minimal brain activity and do not usually wake up. Nor did the artificial sleep resemble the natural sleep, with its sequential complex brain activity and different levels of consciousness. It was an in-between state where there was a uniform baseline brain activity that was strictly controlled by the sleep machine.

      Leda normally experienced a dark blankness during her daily sleep cycles. She remembered nothing that occurred during her sleep as there was really nothing to remember. Her higher brain functions switched off when the cycle was initiated and switched back on at the end. All that was required of the brain during the sleep cycle was to maintain the basic physiological functions of keeping the body alive. Like all the people linked to the machine, Leda’s brain wave patterns were being continuously monitored to confirm quiescent brain activity. Leda had no knowledge that any other type of sleep existed. From the age of five, her brain was dependent on the sleep machine.

      But this particular sleep cycle had been strangely different. It had started normally enough at the usual time. There had been no indication that anything unusual would occur. Leda had entered the total emptiness of sleep for a lapse of time, when suddenly something changed. The bland sleep landscape unpredictably shifted from dark monotony into brightness. Her sleep was critically altered.

      She saw a flash of light illuminating the blank scene and then, there was the view of a green land on a sunny day. She felt alive in sleep. She could hear the sounds of nature. She could smell grass. Then, she saw a beautiful living creature that she had never seen before. It was a blue-and-green bird with a brightly colored tail. It felt so vivid and real. She was immobile watching the scene, when abruptly the image disappeared. The sounds faded away. The memory of the experience dissolved. She wanted desperately to hold on to the memory and to keep it in a permanent place. But, it was too late. It was all gone. All she felt was a spasm in her head and she woke up.

      When she resumed consciousness, Leda’s body did not immediately adjust. She experienced a piercing headache due to the unnatural awakening. Her eyes were open, but she couldn’t see anything. Her heart was galloping unevenly in her chest, and she had difficulty breathing. Although parts of her brain had resumed normal activity, the motor pathways that allowed her brain to control her muscles had not. Her upper body was rigid. She could not move her lower limbs. Her throat went dry at the thought of being stuck here, paralyzed and helpless.

      But, Leda had never been a helpless woman. Long years of military training had forged her character and her instinctive drive for survival at the age of twenty five was strong. She’d been through worse, hadn’t she? This was only scarcely different from the time she had fallen in

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