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Sine: Collective Minds

I had a very wild dream this morning. It could very well turn into an interesting book/movie/TV series/game. In the dream a group of people started trying to develop a new and unique operating system for computers. However, they began work with incorporating technology and the human consciousness. The first thing they realized was that if they got people to unify their thoughts that they could communicate telepathically. Eventually they discovered that getting enough minds to work in unison gave the group the ability to use certain psychic/metaphysical abilities. In order to facilitate the unison of minds, they developed a chip that could easily be installed in the back of the neck. This chip allowed the person to “connect” with everyone else who wore the chip. Essentially this produced one collective mind, or rather used everyone in the “network” as a node in a biological super computer… which resembled one mind. This made them all super smart and by directing their thoughts on one purpose, they could use abilities like pyrokinesis, telekinesis, etc… The name of the chip was the Sine (Not sure why… I think it had something to do with the signal it transmitted). There was also a biological agent that they had to infect a person with in order for the chip to work properly. Some where resistant or immune to the virus that made up this agent, these people formed the resistance against the Sine.

The Sine didn’t care about anything but making the connection stronger and increasing their power. They only ate to sustain themselves but skipped “civilized” steps such as slaughtering and cooking their meat. They did have certain nodes who worked solely improving current or creating new technology but for the most part, the rest of the Sine spent their time trying to expand “The wave” by “recruiting” more nodes. If you where resistant to the agent they could still enslave your mind but you couldn’t think for yourself and thusly couldn’t actually act as a decent node. These people where used for hard labor. Individuals who the Sine found to be completely immune to the agent where killed on the spot. Imagine a world where technology has gotten to the point to where people ignore all things civilized and essentially become beasts and machines. There is no love, only power. The entire world was rather post-apocalyptic in appearance except for the few automated Sine cities. They used robots and the enslaved to maintain them.

Alright, on to the dream:
I was part of the resistance. I was completely immune to the bio-agent and could not be enslaved or converted. I operated alone simply because traveling in large groups attracted the attention of the Sine and could prove dangerous. As one person, I could hide better, and maneuver through their society much better. I used a modified Sine chip to transmit a signal that made the other nodes believe that I was another node. However, I was completely autonomous. Essentially, my mission was to hunt down and kill certain key nodes in the network. I did this by hacking the Sine network itself with the modified chip. From there I would hunt these people down and try to kill them. It was difficult though because they had super powers and I did not. They also where able to instantly call for reinforcements and I was only one man. This meant that I often had to kill a node before they knew they where dead. This meant that I had to sever their heads in an instant and by surprise. In order to facilitate this I had several katanas and a razor whip (a whip with several razor sharp barbs that if used right could be wrapped around a human neck and pulled in a manner that decapitated them).

In the dream my wife was resistant to the bio-agent and had been exposed to it before. However, they didn’t capture her for a while. Part of my mission was to track her down and release her from the network. I finally found her doing housework in a run down place in the middle of nowhere. There where five Sine that she tended to and I somehow had to disable her chip and get her out of there before everyone else discovered our escape… which would be difficult because the Sine would notice if a node was dropped.

So, I infiltrated the house. Luckily I had managed to steal an experimental cloaking device but the sine where still able to detect me psychically. I snuck up on my wife and managed to disable her chip by using one of the katanas, it happened to be an electrified katana and worked well enough for knocking people out and disabling chips. I didn’t get to remove the chip, however, and one of the Sine was coming down stairs.

I quickly hid behind a bookcase and enable the cloaking device. The Sine came down and saw her laying on the floor. He picked her up with his mind and turned her unconscious body slowly in the air to examine her. I quickly came out from behind the bookcase and with a flick of my arm I managed to decapitate him with my whip. I grabbed up my wife and made a run for it. However there where still four more Sine in the area and they all detected the dropping of two of their nodes. They all came to investigate. I attached the cloaking device to my wife and hid her so that I could fight without distraction. I prepared that just in time to have four Sine approach me in this run down building. One of which was powerful enough that he was able to fly through the window.

I immediately threw a katana at one of them, who managed to stop it with his mind. I pressed a button on my belt and it exploded quite forcefully, killing him instantly. I knew that I had to end the battle soon and get out of there before a whole horde of Sine descended on me. A cool kung fu battle ensued which was quite interesting considering the three others could use telekinesis and spontaneously make things explode. My modified chip shielded me from direct attack but that still meant that they could chuck flaming furniture at me. After fighting for a few minuets I threw down a few pellets of some kind of poison. It produced a cloud of dust that knocked out two of the three Sine. I was somehow protected by something that I bit down on just after throwing the pellets. The last Sine was strong enough that he actually was able to project a field around him that repelled the toxic smoke. We fought for quite a while, with things flying everywhere. I started using both the electrified katana and the razor whip but it was fairly useless. This guy was way too powerful. Then all of a sudden he started twitching and convulsing and then he just stopped. I didn’t know what did it but I wasn’t going to take the time to investigate. I rushed him and cut off his head with the katana.

It was then that I saw that the cloaking device was disengaged, my wife had her eyes closed very tightly and had a look of extreme concentration on her face. I rushed to her and when she saw my confused look she said in an exhausted voice “I hacked his mind, there’s something wrong with my chip.” She then passed out. I quickly ran around and severed the heads of the unconscious Sine. Gathered up my wife and ran.

Apparently when I electrified the chip, I managed to somehow cause certain circuits to overload and burn out. The disabled circuits allowed my wife to use the Sine system but not be controlled by it. Essentially she could now hack the system, temporarily disable nearby nodes, and even use their special abilities. However, by doing so, she alerted all nearby nodes of her presence; a sort of double edged sword.

I was taking my wife to a resistance researcher. I hoped he could develop a way to modify more chips for the bio-agent resistant individuals to produce more people with the same abilities as my wife. However, it was on this journey that I woke… the first thing that came to my mind was “THAT WAS AWESOME!”

I think that dream could easily become a movie, TV series, or game. The premise is relatively unique although it seems to borrow from several other stories from the same genre. In any case, I thought it was cool enough to share.