Cal: What exactly is Level X?
GR: Level X is the next level of consciousness. Beyond the level of dreams, of unconsciousness, beyond everything except perhaps imagination. Essentially, Level X is the stage where dreams or imagination can become reality.

Cal: So is the reality uh, real or just in the minds of those imagining it?
GR: Both. At the level X stage, imagination via dreams becomes as real as reality itself. Of course, whether this is something that can actually exist in nature is something that only experts of the space continuum could determine and I’m not sure if they could agree on it or not.

Cal: What’s the basic principle behind this series?
GR: Six subjects are hooked up to a computer because they’re vivid dreamers. The type of people who can recall their dreams and actually influence them even while they’re sleeping. There’s been cases of people who even when dreaming can take extraneous input and contort them into their dreams simultaneously. That’s what these people are like. Anyways, they’re hooked up to monitors so their dreams can be evaluated when suddenly, the computer they’re connected to, decides that they’re some kind of computer virus and pulls them in to, well, basically destroy it.

Cal: So, it’s going to be a very, very short series?
GR: Of course not. What happens is that the six subjects, or rather their dreams, all merge together into one entity. So while their bodies are still separate, their dream states….their level X states, if you will, are now all connected.

Cal: In other words, they’re now all sharing the same dream?
GR: Exactly. But since they’re obviously all different from each other, they’re not going to have identical dreams. Each will add, or subtract from the consensus dream. So, each is a contributing member of that dream.

Cal: But doesn’t someone have to be like the focal point, the base for the dreams that the others can build on?
GR: No. Even though they all share the dream, at different points, one of them will exert more control. Usually, this is based on knowledge, fear, or just a more general awareness of the particular locale that the dream is in at that particular point.

Cal: so, the dreams will constantly shift?
GR: Right. Anything that can be imagined can be part of the dreams. For example, one dream takes place during the Black Plague. That was exerted by historial suggestions.. But something that happens there might trigger a science fiction thought into a whole new dimension and shift everyone over there.

Cal: What about the research facility? Can they shut down the computer or something?
GR: No, the subjects are now an integral part of this massive computer. So while the subjects are in the different dream worlds, the researchers try to find a way to get them out. In fact, one way might be to send someone in after them!

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