Kristen: (rolling her eyes) “you were going crazy with the program yesterday, your brain worked overnight, it is not unusual, it happened before to most of us”

Maxine: (looking around) “where is Louise?”

Kristen: “outside collecting samples”

Maxine: “well…, we save the simulation and store it in the super computer through the satellite; we’ll show it her later”

Kristen: “we still need to try the simulation in a real and bigger vortex, but for now is fine”

Maxine: “just remember the simulation code Bette-456”

Kristen: “you are like Louise, using our daughter nickname to codify her experiments”

Marcus: “ladies, sorry to interrupt but a new vortex is forming”

Maxine: “let’s try the simulation, and bring Louise here”

Marcus: “check the readings…, a flux transfer event is about to start…and it is here in the vessel”

Maxine: “Kristen, don’t call Louise, come help me, I will program the system to record data, and you start the simulation…”

The explosion, the dream dissolves, and Maxine’s voice repeat “Bette-456…Bette-456…Bette-456… time is over”

New Pasadena, 5:20 a.m. the same day–Arroyo Park Cyber observatory border with Old Los Angeles ruins

Kathryn: “they are still, what is the reading in the instruments”

Danica: “apparently they are sleeping, but they have different sleep patterns”

Sharon: “what do you mean?”

Danica: “the sleep pattern is normal in the cadet but it is very odd in Louise, the fourth and fifth stages are longer than usual the theta brain waves in the fourth stage are disrupted and the alpha waves in the fifth stage are mixed with beta waves which are incredibly rare”

Leonor: “okay… may someone translate this to English”

Sharon: “my God Leonor, you didn’t know?”

Leonor: “course not, I teach how to build houses and roads, no that mumbo jumbo of brains and waves…, oh don’t tell me you know about that”

Sharon: “sure I do, I teach sports and physical education and I should know how human body works and sleep cycle is one of the main things we have to know”

Leonor: “fine, fine, may you explain it to me, just the basic stuff”

Sharon: “sure, the sleep cycle has five stages, the stage one or light sleep is the 5% of the cycle, muscle activity is slow, the second stage is the 50% of the cycle and the heart rate and the body temperature decrease these two stages are characterized by the presence of theta brain waves that are slow waves (4-7 cycles per second), then we have the third stage that is the 5% of the cycle and it’s the beginning of the deep sleep and the fourth stage that is the deepest sleep which is the 15% of the cycle and the predominant brain waves are the delta that has very slow rate (0-4 cycles per second) finally in the fifth stage or REM from rapid eye movement, which is the 25% of the cycle has the fastest brain waves also call alpha with around 13 cycles per second and there is where the dreams come from, eventually you may have beta waves in the REM stage, though they are usually present only when you are awake, in case of the cadet Tasha, her sleep patter is as I told you, but Louise has 25% in the four-stage and 50% in the fifth stage with presence of beta waves in this last one”