Bookscape

Prologue
"So this is a trance..." Alice queried, starring intently at the bewitched reader. The reader, a middle-aged man clothed by in a thick red nightgown and a plush pair of matching slippers, reclined against the red leather chair that he sat in, ignorant the bustling scientists around him. Alice had taken note of the man's loose posture and lack of animation. The man rarely took the time to blink his eye's, and twice, Alice could have sworn that the man had ceased breathing for seconds at a time. The man remained blissfully unaware of the wires that had stretched from his limbs and head, across the room to a large set of apparatus. Suddenly, he turned the page.

The scientist beside Alice simply nodded, before pointing to a viewscreen mounted against the wall. "The subject's breathing and heart rate had remained in a stasis for quite some time now, according to our studies... As you can see, however, his mental activity is off of the charts."

Now Alice nodded in agreement. "I've seen them in trances before, but never this deep. And his brain activity... it's absolutely haywire. You are aware that human's are normally limited to the use of only ten-percent of their minds. This man's brain activity is more animate at this moment than our's will ever be in our entire lives!"

"Don't be so sure, you may just find the perfect story for you one day..." the scientist mussed

Alice payed the man little attention, as her gaze was set firmly upon the patient. "How long has he been under?" she asked.

The man starred at directly her, relaying a sense of awe. "It's been three days since he last looked away from that book."

Alice's eye's widened in disbelief.

Trivia

 * Bookscape was inspired primarily by Inception (2010), and episode-nine of the animated mini-series Kino's Journey