The mirror of the silent minds
In a world where memories are no longer private and reality bends with the will of the mind, Aaryan Vel, a philosophy student, awakens from a coma into a city veiled in ash, silence, and half-remembered ruins. But the city remembers too much—and not all of it is real.
Plagued by visions of ghost-like doppelgängers and haunted by whispered fragments of a past that never fully existed, Aaryan stumbles upon a disturbing truth: the world he inhabits may be a beautifully constructed lie, a neuro-illusion engineered to cage the pain of a dying civilization. The people around him—each lost in their own circular truths—seem less like survivors and more like dreamers who’ve forgotten they are asleep.
Guided by Mira, a blind painter who paints only the future, and Dr. Rahil, a neuropsychologist studying the unraveling minds of “awakened” citizens, Aaryan begins to dig into the buried codes of the city’s illusion—something known only as The Reflection. It is a phenomenon that distorts perception, unroots memory, and ultimately shatters the mind’s fragile grip on what is true.
As reality fractures further, Aaryan must face a harrowing choice: accept a comforting lie that preserves meaning, or destroy the illusion and confront a reality that may be uninhabitable, even unrecognizable.
A tale that blurs the line between memory and madness, illusion and identity, The Mirror of Silent Minds is a profound exploration of what it means to be—when even truth itself can be manufactured.
