The "∞" became brighter and brighter, and the surroundings became darker.
Gu Yang stared at the symbol intently, noticing that it was spinning slowly. She soon realized that the "∞" wasn't a flat symbol but a three-dimensional ring without any intersection in the middle.
"A Möbius ring?" she wondered.
She reached out to touch it, but just then, the alarm went off.
Opening her eyes, Gu Yang realized she had been asleep with her eyes closed and hadn't actually woken up. The alarm on her phone was still ringing—it was set to wake her after 40 minutes, a reasonable time for an afternoon nap.
She felt groggy and exhausted, and the sensation of being awake yet immobile was clearly sleep paralysis, commonly known as "ghost pressing on the bed." After a morning of intense hypnosis and counseling, she had likely overworked herself, leading to the unsettling dream.
