The door to the lab opening up gets the attention of Brock, who was watching all the subjects getting prepped for the tests in their respective rooms. The room he and the rest of the personnel are standing in is an observation deck that sits above the testing area, overlooking the series of single rooms that each test subject, of which there are several dozen, is led to and will be strapped into the machines that will monitor their bodily activity while the tests are being administered. Looking back towards the open door, Brock watches as Dr. Colt finally makes her appearance and heads over to the doctors station, whispering something inaudible to Dr. Austuuk.<br/><br/>The good doctor breaks away from the files he is double-checking to acknowledge his colleague. "Oh, Miss Colt...I'm sorry, Dr. Colt. So glad you made it. Our good friend lieutenant Gohlen was pretty adamant about not starting these new set of tests without you present. It seems that we, and by we I mean Dr. Linthe, seems to have discovered an interesting pattern that has taken place over the last few tests. As you well know when we first started the physical trials everything was going as planned. Our volunteers were put into different states of unconsciousness in order to induce dreaming in attempt to find out which state would be best for causing manifestations of dream phenomena into reality. We soon discovered that the most powerful manifestations came during REM sleep but that all stages of sleep, when induced with dreams, were able to cause manifestations of some kind. However, once taken out of the dream, the manifestations would soon disappear again. For months we were able to repeat this but made very little progress on figuring out how to cause permanent, or at least long term, manifestations without the subjects being asleep. We considered that there is just a natural barrier between reality and the dream world that could not be breached. Then out of nowhere everything started going south, the subjects unable to produce even the simplest of manifestations at all. For the last few weeks we have tried again and again but met failure at every turn. Needless to say it has been causing a fit of despair among many of the personnel. It was suggested that perhaps the subjects were just too exhausted after all the trials but that was proven false as they show signs of normal energy levels. Oh, excuse me," He pauses to catch his breath, realizing that the excitement of the new tests is causing him to speak a mile a minute. Taking a bottle of water off the table, he unscrews the cap and takes a swig, swishing the cool liquid around his mouth before swallowing. He places the bottle back on the table. "What we didn't consider, which was pointed out by Dr. Linthe, was the mental state of the subjects. We were worried about their physical fatigue levels and not their, oh how do you say...'beliefs.' After every test, each subject is conducted through a post-test interview to determine their level of mental dexterity but we neglected to account for their thoughts, their emotions, their ideas. Of course we had questions during the interviews that touched on these matters but those were always used as ways to determine what sort of effect the tests were having on their ability to reason. What Dr. Linthe found was that, as the months went by and as the manifestations never really went beyond being able to exist in reality without the need for the subject to be dreaming, the overall attitude of the subjects began to decline. In short, they have been become less and less convinced that manifestations could exist without needing to dream. This led to them falling into despair, wanting to abandon the whole project."<br/><br/>As the doctor goes through his explanation of events, Brock walks over to the doctor's station and nods a greeting towards Dr. Colt. "This is all abstract speculation, of course. Right, Dr. Austuuk? Perhaps, Dr. Colt would like to know what exactly is going to be conducted here today."<br/><br/>The doctor clears his throat and gathers himself. "Of course. There are still the tests that have to be done to find any indication of what sort of effect, if any, emotions and beliefs have on the physical body. What we plan to do here is to induce a dream-like state onto the subjects while keeping them conscious. Before the dream state is induced we will inject them with a serum that will allow them to be more receptive to suggestion. Once injected with the serum and put into the dream state we will then work them through a series of subliminal messages to create their manifestations. Then, we will slowly pull them out of the dream state while attempting to keep them unaware of this, so that when they wake up they will believe they are still dreaming. The hope here is that this will allow the manifestations to be in a stable condition as the subjects are pulled out of their dreams."