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The Dreaming Mind
Object Class: Safe
Containment Procedure: Information Control, do not allow the proceses we've uncovered to be leaked to the populace. Any spreading of information will result in termination of the mole and those who've heard how to do it. Since it has proven unfruitful to wipe their memory if they've already communicated with it.
Description:
SCP-XXXX refers to a specific entity, as well as the entire process of, speaking to that entity. If it is shown to be multidimensional in nature, we will also consider the space that it exists in as a part of the anomaly.
SCP-XXXX seems to elude any physical detection via any means. Only the observed effects and the Subject's accounts can be recorded. Containment is through the suppression of information of how to contact the being. SCP-XXXX itself, if multidimensional in nature, may one day be contained by the foundation. Until then, we have not found trustworthy, repeatable benefits for staff. As such, disclosing, practicing or attempting to change the information recorded without going through the Lead Scientist will result in termination. Tests are currently being continued with D-class personnel, due to their near costless and potentially high reward nature.
The Dreaming Mind appears to be another consciousness that exists, speculatively, within all humans. Whether all humans can contact this consciousness in not understood at this point. The Dreaming Mind is either a part of our minds or a separate entity that resides within us. Regardless, SCP-XXXX seems to be a metaphysical entity within the mind, or spirit, of the individual. These metaphysical beings seem to share knowledge between each other but are separate entities. Whether this is due to a connected consciousness between them, or that they can meet up and exchange information, is unknown. Whether these beings require the human subject to be living to continue living themselves is unknown.
The Dreaming Mind has many anomalous properties that seem to escalate as the user contacts (via. Meditation) this being. To contact this being, the subject is placed into a very noisy room. This rooms is equipped with comfortable seating choices, a clock, a small piece of charcoal and paper as well as four speakers placed in each corner of the room where the walls meet the ceiling.
Once the Subject succeeds in the experiment, the Subject will not respond to verbal, chemical or physical attempts to attain a response. During this time frame, they are effectively in a deep coma. All Brainwaves have been shown to cease, their digestive tract and heart rate slows, although they do not require other technology to keep them alive during this time.
This time ranges inversely to the amount of time that they've spent speaking to SCP-XXXX. Meaning that as they become more proficient with entering that state, it takes them less time to come out of it. For more information on these conversations, see the Addendums. It is also shown that the anomalous properties increase in respect to the amount of time they've spent inside this state of mind.
The Subject, upon immediate return to awareness, is always very distressed and found mumbling unintelligible things under their breath. Upon request to elaborate or to speak more clearly, they will just continue to ramble. This catatonic state usually lasts for thirty minutes or so, but has been shown to last as long as three days in a few cases. After this state of mind passes, the Subject will often be more psychologically healthy and their ability to learn new concepts often raises as well. It's been estimated that an average of 10 IQ points are gained by Subjects through this process.
The Subject's more interesting qualities, will be their physical ones. As they spend more and more time within The Dreaming Mind, they'll become naturally stronger, faster and will have quicker reflexes. It's been shown that a 125 Lbs. Male D-Class Personnel was capable of pushing over 1,000 pounds with his legs after continual communication with the being. Another notable feature was a 140 Female D-Class Personnel was capable of lifting 250 pounds with each arm. As such, Subjects used for these experiments are put in isolation and are constantly watched by experimenters and guards to be sure they do not try to escape or harm anyone. Regardless of these increases, there seems to be absolutely no physical change to their body during this time. Their muscles/bone structure shows no testable (as of this time) differences.
Subjects that continue with the Meditation start to lower the Humes level around themselves. This makes it important to keep them away from Mnetic effects other than The Dreaming Mind, as we've seen Hume Levels (in the case of SCP-XXXX-1) that threatened to tear reality apart. These Subjects, after about two weeks of continual practice, will always make the request to stop eating and will not consent to masticating anything. Attempts to force the Subject to eat, often deadly to the soldiers, when successful show that the food will turn into bellowing smoke made of a thick content of Carbon Dioxide and Methane Gas. This does not seem to be in attempt to harm the Soldiers, as when Personnel are informed of this and touch food to their lips by choice, even without the intent to eat it, it turns into the same Smoke as before.
Subjects seem to gain a high resistance to non-anomalous dangers. This includes (likely not limited to) poisons, gases, heats below 300 degrees Celsius and -6 degrees Celsius without clothing, chemical burns, electrical burns/cardiac arrest. The Subjects are still susceptible to physical force, including restraints, blades, guns. Although it's been shown they take considerably less damage from explosives. One of the subjects was bound with a primed grenade stuck to his hand and there was only minimal damage to the fingers, extending to the tendons but not even reaching the bone.
Subjects will cure most (likely all) diseases, not limited to cancers, degenerative diseases, genetic diseases and others. Subjects will also report that they feel 'anew and reborn.' It's been shown that extremely old subjects regain the vitality of their youth, able to complete things like obstacle courses, sparring matches and weight lifting. The Subjects often show no will to escape or change their current situation given their newfound potential, instead they attain a calm and centered state of mind.
As the subject's hume levels lower to less than half that of constant reality, they will develop an aftershade that follows their movements very closely, but has been described and often matches the SCP-XXXX's appearance that the Subject saw within their meditations. As their Hume levels lower, their abilities to do things raise higher and higher until most are terminated, for fear that the event with SCP-XXXX-1 may repeat. Ones that find a 'baseline' hume level that's often at about half of that of constant reality, they're allowed to continue their meditations.
At this point, it's important to note that using some form of memory-wiping to erase their memory of this being is not possible, even when using anomalous objects or beings to do so. This is what leads to the belief that the being is somehow connected to us in a non-corporeal way.
Subjects that are allowed to continue will begin to show physical distress. They will not act on it in social situations, but will be found to be losing hair, getting less sleep and when they do, it's in a cold sweat. Upon asking for them to explain, more than half of them will not elaborate, even if threatened with death. The ones that do all describe a consistent phenomena. They say that The Ama'kha, The Dreaming Mind (Always using this full title.) has tricked them. That they were led to believe that they had limitless potential while being led in the wrong direction and that it's not working anymore to improve them. They say their physical form, in some way, is stopping them from continuing their progress with The Ama'Kha, The Dreaming Mind. They also say that their physical form has become so strong that they cannot escape it any longer, but if they had their knowledge before, they would've been able to. This eventually leads to a catatonic state where the user, using either anomalous abilities or not, will attempt to commit suicide. We have not been able to prevent this in any cases. See Addendums for a recollection of one of these experiences.
Subjects that are not terminated by the SCP foundation, or themselves, will die of starvation exactly 44 days after the beginning of their fast. This is shown to not have anything anomalous other than the timing of it. It will speed/slow the eating of fats, muscles and tissues to match this 44-day period. Even in the extent of the extremely under and over weight. Attempting to give Subjects any form of sustenance does not work, even when injected into the blood. There are various properties that manifest to not allow the process of consuming nutrients. Such as, when given via. IV, the plastic will melt and effectively seal the liquid from entering their body. When attempting to inject it via. needle, the Subject's blood pressure rises to such that, that the liquid is forced back through the needle and into the syringe.
Now, Moving away from the Subject themselves and to The Dreaming Mind that they're speaking to and the state that they enter, upon reaching this comatose state they describe a surrounding of 'floating on a red cloud amidst the stars.' They sit on a gaseous sphere that floats in a void of space, not within any solar system or galaxy. They say that then, a piece of this red gas will form into another, smaller sphere that another being will be sat upon. No personnel have seen where this being might've been before this process takes place.
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The Dreaming Mind, SCP-XXXX itself is described as being a 'blue, etheric human with no mouth.' They're said to be very transparent, able to make out the individual starts behind their form, which is not possible with the gas cloud. They are often described with the same general features, being about 5'4", 120 pounds in form, sleek and skinny and they're always matching to the gender of the Subject. Their appearance, other than this, does vary. Some have hair, some are bald, some have eyebrows that curve, some that slope, so on. The Dreaming Mind does not seem to reflect the appearance of the Subject in any way except for gender. It has been shown that in the case of transgender D-Class Personnel, this gender will match the gender that they feel, rather than the sex they were born as. It is also shown that these D-Class Personnel often have a longer initial catatonic state and after starting the process of meditation, their hormones will naturally shift as if they were receiving Testosterone. Scientists have been looking into a very redacted version of the process that would just achieve this effect, as it seems to never have any side effects is unlikely as of this time.
SCP-XXXX will continually attempt to make a deal with all Subjects that have taken part in the experiments. It will insist that they allow it to fuse with their soul after they help it grow stronger, so they can be unified again. Is has been shown by all personnel that accept this deal, regardless of how long they've meditated with the being beforehand, will instantly petrify. They are turned into a Geode of a human being, a surrounding of rock composed of common materials with quartz filling the inside of the Geode. Whether this is confirmation of a soul or not is unknown.
SCP-XXXX acts very differently when the Subject is someone who is violent, often for 'no reason.' These people who are much more prone to acts of violence, terror and general destruction/harm report that theirs is black in colour, hard to make out against the void if not for it's glowing yellow eyes that look like football shaped stars in the void. They say that theirs is darker, and attempts to consume them that results in an argument, a physical fight or them leaping off into the void. What's interesting is that their decisions seem to reflect how they leave their initial catatonic state.
Those who have chosen to argue it all show a dominance by their Ego, Self Actualism and become very focused on owning Tangible Things. After being told D-Class personnel aren't usually allowed to own many things, they fall into a steep depression that often results in the end of their life. When one D-Class personnel was actually supplied with these things (see addendums) it was shown not to be productive to experimentation and it has been ceased.
Those who physically fought the entity will appear to be the same for a while, until it is realized that there is a complete failure in their auto-immune system. They will contract something and die. In a test where someone who was expected to have this Dreaming Mind variant was kept in a sterile environment, it was shown that they developed an auto-immune disease where their body started to eat the muscles of their heart. Upon implanting a pace maker in the subject, it ate away at the connective tissue that separates the user's lobes from their more primal parts of their brain, leaving them as empty husks. It is believed that counteracting this or making it beneficial in any way is not possible.
Those who choose to dive into the void are very interesting. See Addendum "Wakeful Dreams" for further information. For a consensus, they live their life in a constant dreaming catatonic-like state. Becoming incapable of really, any task, but they're a delight to be around, pardon one exception.
SCP-XXXX-1 - A Human Male named ███████ █████████ from ███████, Wisconsin. They were the initial subject of The Dreaming Mind. Subject (SCP-XXXX-1) will be referred to as Amani, per request. Amani was not captured, instead interrupting one of our operations when a quite large street vendor seemed to appear out of nowhere in [REDACTED]. Amani approached our agents with palms down and asked to be taken to the SCP foundation, showing no form of aggression towards our agents. The Agents originally hesitated, and decided to detain them for their information of The Foundation. Upon transport, it was shown they had anomalous properties with being able to escape restraints without effort, breaking them in the process. Upon request, they agreed to keep their hands cuffed in front of their body. They were taken to Site 59 and being interviewed by Dr.███████ upon arrival.
Object Class: It is not contained. Suspected Keter/Thaumiel.
SCP-XXXX-1 Audio Log 1:
Subject: Amani
Causation: Delivery to the SCP Foundation.
Description: Puzzling
Transcript:
"Hello, take a seat." The Researcher prompted to Amani, already having been seated while waiting for them to arrive.
"Hello, thanks." Amani said, taking a seat.
"Why did you want to be detained by The Foundation?" The Researcher asked,
"My family are long heirs to the knowledge of Nicholas ███████. I have not come to be detained, I've come for help because I need to be contained. Secured, protected, all that stuff you guys've got a hard on for. I wasn't supposed to be the direct heir to The Book of ██████. But I took a sneak peek anyways and let's say, the content wasn't as good as the cover. A lot of formulas and things that've never been my niche. I did find, however, this." Amani stopped speaking as again, they broke out of their restraints again.
Note: The Steel Cuffs seemed to melt in a way similar to wax applied to a moderate heat. It was not glowing red, nor was it actually heating up. Instead melting like a witch assaulted with water.
After they broke their restraints, they put their hands on the table that separated us and inscriptions started to be burned into the surface. It depicted something like a man standing at the bottom of a staircase and another standing at the top, bathed in some kind of glowing light. There were multiple, twisting dimensions surrounding the stairs that surrounded a backdrop of stars. Before I could start to sketch in my pad, the table turned to ash.
-Continue Recording-
"Sorry, I can't let you go spreading that around. The following text taught me to talk to this being within myself. A severed unit of my soul. It's like I've gained another half of myself in the process and we walk together, but not truly unified. I fear what will happen the day I allow this to happen." Amani said.
"Now, let's not jump to any conclusions about a soul and all that. It is probably for the best that you did not accept whatever deal of unification you're talking about, as it could cause trumendous consequences if the being is malevolent in nature. Now, you've burned a table, what else can you do?" The Researcher asked.
"Name something." Amani demanded.
"I would very much enjoy a green apple, if you don't mind." The Researcher asked.
Note: Amani would then reach down to the ash of the burned table and reach into it, pulling out an apple without a speck of ash upon it's surface. Amani then lowered their eyebrows as if thinking,"Let me show you it's not slight of hand. It'll take me a moment longer." They then took their other hand and pressed the apple down, back into ash and discarding it into the pile. They then put their palm face up just above the pile this time. Ash started to be carried by an impossible stream of air, spiraling around the epicenter of their palm and coming into the form of a sphere, then an egg shape and finally an apple. Once the form had been attained, I saw it slowly start to change it's composition in a process I cannot explain. My perception was that it was ash, then it was not. They did nothing else to it that was visible to me.
-Continue Audio Log-
The Researcher continued the interview,"That was quite impressive, how do you do that?"
Amani paused for a moment, saying,"I don't actually know. The thing I've come into contact with has given me abilities I never knew were possible for people. I've seen my Mother and Father do a lot of things that you would call anomalous. They are normal to me."
The Researcher asked,"So, this being that you keep referring to, is it a God?"
Amani spoke again,"No, this isn't a God. It's a part of me, it's a part of you, but yours is different, yet the same. It's hard to explain."
The Researcher pried futher,"So everyone has one of these things inside of them, you think?"
Amani elaborated,"I don't think, I know. I walk hand in hand with that which embodies the unification of the knower and the known, the strength and the barrier that requires it, it's weird. I can see it inside of you, I can feel it's wish to speak to you. I don't suggest it."
The Researched again pried,"Why do you think it'd be a bad idea for me to talk to it?"
Amani continued on,"Not everyone could do this, I'm a dick, so I do well. I don't let it torment me, I don't let it consume me. I do not give in to promises of unobtainable things, nor do I strike deals. I have my own self and that's all I need. I don't really doubt that I can achieve it alone, just by talking with it. I don't need it to take me over so I can be happy, as it wishes for. Instead I want to be the one to grasp the heavens, the earth and the stars. I want to be the one to guide them to peace."
The Researcher sounded surprised,"You claim to be a dick and yet you want to, quite literally, save the universe? Also, from what?"
Amani let out a huff and continued talking,"I meant I'm a dick in the way that I don't get pressured, I don't care what it thinks, I don't even really care about it per say, instead that it is the staircase. I am the man at the bottom and the top. It takes the illusion that it's at the top, trying to pull us up. But it just puts us on the staircase so it can hold on to our ankles and hitch a ride. Save the universe? No. Protect my family's investment. We've seen the symbols in the sun, We've heard the beings in the stars, We know of the many of the objects you know hold. My Father had seen and reinforced the chain holding The Scarlet King back. My family is… large at this point and we hold a lot of wealth. We try to stay under the surface of detection though. We just want people to keep doing their thing and for us to keep doing our thing. This may be a permanent solution to that."
Note: I am surprised by SCP-XXXX-1, Amani and their family. I have not heard of them in any records, yet they seem to be very prevalent, according to their accounts. The rest of this audio log will be redacted via. request of Dr.████████. As synopsis, we continue to investigate their knowledge of The Scarlet King only to find it's limited and far between, not likely helpful. We also attempted to get them to give us information about their family, to no success.
SCP-XXXX-1 Audio Log 2:
Subject: Amani
Causation: Failure to Contain
Description: Failure to Terminate
Transcript:
Researcher:"We've tried many materials, but it seems your ability to transmute them makes what we build your cell out of negligible. I'm afraid we have no way to contain you outside of termination. We cannot keep you contained even via. magnetic levitation and electrical fields, due to your ability to absorb them and reverse the magnet's polarity. Termination would be the only way that we can help you."
Amani:"I understand that this is not a threat, but a fact. Do you wish to terminate me then?"
Researcher:"We have no plans of doing that as of yet, we're just letting you know that you're free to stay for our supervision alone, if that makes you feel safer."
Amani:"You're lying, I can tell that you're lying. You don't even know that you're lying but your superiors have made the decision for you, I fear."
Researcher:"Now, let's not be hasty. I don't know what you're talking about."
Amani:"I'm saying that there are five men outside of that door with an assortment of weapons that I've seen and two that I've not. I didn't want to have to rush my process…"
The rest of this informational log is a script of what was observed on Survaillence footage from the interviewing room. The Researcher, while still in their chair, was pushed back to the wall and the table flipped upside down, standing on the ceiling. The door was breached by a squad of our men as Amani's hair started to lift, as if by static electricity. Sparks were visibly seen shooting from their body to the walls and to the men.
The men, somehow unaffected by this electricity, raised their weapons and started firing for them to shortly realize that Amani was no longer in a Corporeal Form alone. As the bullets melted away from his flesh, something new was left under the surface. Something that the bullets stopped short against. Amani was seen glowing brighter and brighter before their body exploded (or at least, the outer layer of which.) This left a small chunk of flesh on the video camera and blood, so our view is momentarily obstructed. The researcher was, apparently, protected by some kind of force field during and in the immediate aftermath of, this explosion. They described only that they had closed their eyes and prayed, expecting to die.
The small piece of meat slops off the camera after a few moments and we see Amani, in a smaller form. Amani seems to have shrunk to about 88% of their original size and has lost all extra fat/muscle than what is required to have a healthy form. Two of the Soldiers that were not in the path of the blast came around the corner and started firing, we see the shield come up around the researcher this time. It resembled a holographic book being flipped upside down, covering the area where the researcher was. The bullets visibly ricocheted off of Amani's body, because they melted in the process and all that was reflected upon contact were small bits of molten metal that seared into our officers bodies. They kept shooting, believing this to be a counter-assault, rather than a consequence of their own attack and it eventually, lead to the deaths of all 5 operatives sent to kill Amani.
Amani then turned to the researcher, floating off of the ground and in the nude. They looked down to them and winked,"This is my appreciation for you having been so Cordial with me. I appreciate that we were good enough friends that they even knew not to tell you, lest you give it away or be unable to proceed. Know that after the SCP foundation falls, when I find a way to contain them all, you will be a benefactor of whatever rewards I reap as well. Consider this an adoption to the family."
Amani then promptly disappeared in a flash and small sonic boom, before the shield dissipated again. The boom was strong enough to knock the camera off of the wall, ending the feed.
