Chapter 156 - Dream, Illusion And Reality

[Authors friendly note for health: If this ch goes above head just remeber, it has something related to Aryan's power]

"Let's search this area first," said Aryan and used his divine sense again to search the new place, where he was hovering around. This time too like the previous time not a single soul was found.

Aryan greeted teeth and teleported to the next spot thousand kilometers away from there, and repeated the same process. And like the last two times, no life signs were there.

Aryan was getting confused by the result of his divine sense. First, he sensed the army of ghosts but couldn't find a single ghost there. And now he couldn't even sense life in that place.

His brain was working faster than usual to find out the reason, but unable to find anything.

"Yui, you sure you didn't transport us to somewhere far from the mansion?"

"Yes, master I am sure. I choose the emergency escape point very carefully, since you can only use it once a day, I chose the safest place of all."

"Weird…." Muttered Aryan and landed on the ground.

He snapped his finger and dispersed all the mirrors that were floating in the sky. "Let's try this then," said Aryan, and clapped his hand once.

Gong!!

Came a sound and spread throughout the entire space. Just after a second, a wave of sound came towards Aryan. He smirked and said, "Got you, my rat."

'Rat!! What rat is he talking about?!' thought Yui.

She didn't want to disturb him by asking the question, so she kept her mouth shut and observed his actions.

Like the first time, this time too, he created the mirrors all over the place and swapped places with a mirror ten thousand meters away from there.

Below his feet was a giant tree, with humans hanging on it.

Aryan frowned on the sight of this and landed down cautiously. He had already used his divine sense, and no one was around except his friends hanging from the tree.

It would have created trouble for him if anybody of them were conscious, but to his pleasure, all of them were unconscious, enjoying a good nice nap.

"Master, what should we do now?" asked Yui. Aryan's friends were just before his eyes. All he had was to wave his hand and save them.

But for some reason he was hesitating to do so. 

"Mhm… Let's wait for his ritual and see what happens," with that he used invisibility magic on him and hid himself behind a big stone.

Nothing happened, and no one came till an hour. Aryan was running out of patience and was about to come out of his invisibility when the earth started shaking.

"Another earthquake?!" muttered Aryan.

While he was pondering over it he saw a giant figure approaching the tree where his friends were tied.

It was the same penguin, ancient ghost, but the size was a little bigger than before.

Now he was as tall as an one storage building. Aryan was like a small rat before him. Seeing the giant penguin Aryan remembered the battle of the cultivation fair and that evil bird helping Zagan.

The penguin unloaded some woods and bamboo from his back and looked towards the tree before him.

"Ahahahah ahahah, my plan will be a success soon. This time I will definitely get that body. I will for sure. Ahahahah, ahahahaha."

And with this laugh, he started moving his hands and making a particular pattern on the ground.

Even though his size was bigger seems like his strength was somewhat the same. He was taking ten to fifteen minutes to dig a hole and stuck a bamboo in it.

Four hours later, he completed his work and took a sigh of relief. While he was doing it Aryan was getting bored and took a small nap, keeping Yui on alert.

He asked Yui to keep an eye on him and tell him is something new happens. Yui was shouting at him for being so careless, but who cares. Aryan just asked her to do as he says and closed his eyes for a nap.

Even though Yui was super pissed at him, she did as ordered and kept an eye on the ghost.

Meanwhile Aryan, he was enjoying a good dream when suddenly something happened and his vision became black.

Aryan waved his hand kicked his leg but nothing happened. Suddenly seven lights fell on him. And a manly voice reverberated in his dream.

"Oh the chosen one, you must know the truth between dream, illusion, and reality."

"Read them all and set it in your mind. That what may be a dream, may not be an illusion. And what is an illusion may not be a dream." Added another voice.

Aryan was pondering over its meaning when many characters appeared before him.

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A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and purpose of dreams are not fully understood, although they have been a topic of philosophical and religious interest throughout recorded history. Dream interpretation is the attempt at drawing meaning from dreams and searching for an underlying message. The scientific study of dreams on the new era of cultivation is called oneirology.

Dreams mainly occur in the rapid-eye-movement stage of sleep when brain activity is high and resembles that of being awake. Dreams tend to be much less vivid or memorable. The length of a dream can vary, they may last for a few seconds, or even for hours and days.

One more interesting thing about dream is even thought the dreaming person has a good memory most dreams are immediately or quickly forgotten.

Dreams tend to last longer as the night progresses.

Opinions about the meaning of dreams have varied and shifted through time and culture. Many endorse the Freudian theory of dreams – that dreams reveal insight into hidden desires and emotions.[qualify evidence]

Other prominent theories include those suggesting that dreams assist in memory formation, problem-solving, or simply are a product of random brain activation.

From the ancient times there is an explanation of dreams as manifestations of one's deepest desires and anxieties, often relating to repressed childhood memories or obsessions.

The events in dreams are generally outside the control of the dreamer, with the exception of lucid dreaming, where the dreamer is self-aware. Dreams can at times make a creative thought occur to the person or give a sense of inspiration.

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Aryan took a breath of sigh after reading that huge chunk of paragraph when suddenly another set of characters started appearing.

At that time he really wanted to shout, "Fck you Seven!!" But he knew whatever he does has a meaning behind it. So he didn't shout or curse like the previous times and prepared himself ready for it.

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An illusion is a distortion of the senses, which can reveal how the human brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation. Though illusions distort our perception of reality, they are generally shared by most people.

Illusions may occur with any of the human senses, but visual illusions (optical illusions) are the best-known and understood. The emphasis on visual illusions occurs because vision often dominates the other senses.

Illusions are of various types. And some of them are visual, auditory, sensual, and magical.

A visual illusion or optical illusion is characterized by visually perceived images that are deceptive or misleading. Therefore, the information gathered by the visual sense is processed to give, on the face of it, a percept that does not tally with information from other senses or physical measurements.

A conventional assumption is that there are physiological illusions that occur naturally and cognitive illusions that can be demonstrated by specific visual tricks that say something more basic about how human perceptual systems work.

The visual system (eye and brain) constructs a world inside our head based on what it samples from the surrounding environment. However, sometimes it tries to organize this information "it thinks best" while other times it fills in the gaps. This way in which our brain works is the basis of an illusion.

An auditory illusion is an illusion of hearing, the auditory equivalent of a visual illusion: the listener hears either sound which are not present in the stimulus, or "impossible" sounds. In short, audio illusions highlight areas where the human ear and brain, as organic, makeshift tools, differ from perfect audio receptors.

Magical illusion, something that is created by magic. 

Distinguishing between magical illusion and reality has always been in hard tasks for cultivators. If you felt for it, then you are destined to see the worse.

Illusions can occur with the other senses too.

Both sound and touch have been shown to modulate the perceived staleness and crispness of food products. It was also discovered that even if some portion of the taste receptor on the tongue became damaged that illusory taste could be produced by tactile stimulation.

Evidence of olfactory (smell) illusions occurred when positive or negative verbal labels were given prior to olfactory stimulation.

The McRurk effect shows that what we hear is influenced by what we see as we hear the person speaking. An illusion occurs when the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, leading to the perception of a third sound. This is a multisensory, auditory-visual illusion.

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Aryan completed the last lines of characters and rubbed eyes. Everything was going above his head. Some words and terms were there that he had never seen or heard of.

Only one question was there in his mind.

'What the hell gonna happen next?!!'