Chapter 8 : Tranquility

All it took me to process the information was seconds. It was an impressive feat to achieve, for my parents, their company, and all humanity.

I Look at my mother with eager eyes and asked:

" When can I get access to this library, with the help of all the knowledge accumulated there, I can learn quickly about today's world and catch up with everyone else. During my rehabilitation period, I can pass the time and digest all kinds of information."

" Don't you worry about it! First thing tomorrow morning, I will call your father to first set an anonymous account in the virtual world for you to experience the magic yourself "

" Can I access the 5th library level with it? "

" No can't do." My mother rolled her eyes as she saw me getting a bit dejected.

"Don't get frustrated yet and let me explain to you why you can't do that:

There are some rules that everyone needs to respect in the virtual world, you can have only one account per person your entire life, and before starting you need to set a character in the government office and after a variety of assessment and verification of assets and identity you can activate the character and start your journey. This is the standard procedure for everyone and we can't do that at the moment since you are in rehabilitation. So the only option left is to use the anonymous account set for an emergency by the corporations that started the virtual world project at the time. Normally this account has access to everything in the virtual world but after years of regulation some rules were added to those accounts and they became restricted and heavily monitored. The only advantage they have is that anyone can use them if they get the code for it and since many can use the same account we had to restrict the access in the library, let's take an example: If someone used an anonymous account to clear all test in the library and gain access to the 4th level or even the 5th level and then let many other people use that account, what use is the system we put in place to get people motivated to prove their worth? "

" That makes a lot of sense, and do I need a capsule to access the library? "

" No, the library is one of the few things that you can access with any device that connects to the internet. I'll buy you all the electronics that you need for everyday life tomorrow and help you with everything. We talked too much and you need some rest, Brian, Go to sleep now we have a long 2 weeks ahead of us. "

I looked at my mother beside me, who was smiling full of motherly love, she looked aged but full of vigor and youth she had the vibe of a young revived soul, they suffered a lot due to my coma, I will make it up for them after I get out of the hospital.

" I'll sleep now, you need sleep too. Good night!"

" Good night!" said my mother and after covering me she went to sleep.

I closed my eyes trying to sleep but to no avail. Seconds became minutes and minutes became hours, I couldn´t sleep. Maybe, it is because my brain is hyperactive? I tried to remember everything that the doctor and my family told me about today. It is quite hard to accept but, unexpectedly, I accepted without further deliberation.

The brain is the foundation of us human, and from what the doctor said today I can conclude that the more active the brain is, the more things one can perceive, and if my sight is different from others, what about my other senses? It is not logical that only my sight is better. Maybe there is a reason for it.

Why am I eager to solve everything now? It is not late to do it later after I finish my rehabilitation. I will try to shut down my mind and get some rest, even without sleep, I can at least think of nothing till morning comes. And so I did, it was a bit hard to not think of anything but in the end all I can see was darkness. It was a pretty good feeling, reminding me of the state I was in previously, and by that I mean my 20 years coma. But this time around it is me who is controlling everything, It was as if I programmed my brain to do something in different scenarios: I just wanted to give my brain some slack so I tried to think of shutting down all my senses partially leaving a part of my brain fully alert to give feedback in case someone touched me or talked to me and so I did obtain my tranquility for a couple of hours waking up after hearing my mothers voice talking to the doctor.

" Oh, Brian woke up!"

" Good morning mother, Good morning doctor. "

" Good morning Brian." said director eric and my mother as they came near my bad.

Director eric then looked at the health monitor to see if anything is wrong with my vitals and asked me about my sleep.

" Well I rested well but I didn't sleep at all. To be more accurate, I shut down my brain and let a small part of it alert to touch and voice so that I can wake up when someone talked or touched me. This is the only way I found to get some rest after not being able to sleep for almost 2 hours after my mother went to sleep yesterday. It felt like a coma at will, since I can control when to wake up."

" mmm, That's interesting, your brain seems to be working fine and looking at the charts in the monitor I can deduce that at the time you shut down part of your brain your body seemed to go into a comatose state." He stopped talking and looked at me with wide eyes and continued talking with an excited voice " Brian you are brilliant! we can solve the problem of your hyperactive brain with this same method, you can try to control how much your brain can use when you are awake or even sleep and you can try to adjust the amount as you see fit depending on the situation, like that you can finish rehabilitation quickly and start your daily life as usual in 3 days at minimum. We just need to link you up to a brain monitor and try to help you adjust your state of mind to conform with normal brain activity."