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World of Quantum Dreams: The Cost of Coherence
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 4 2026
Pages: 332
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
According to Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize in Physics 2020, and Stuart Hameroff, consciousness may depend on quantum processes inside the brain.
If that is true, dreams would not be merely internal images. They could be access points. Temporary doors into a deeper architecture of reality.
The Orch OR theory proposes that certain quantum processes in neuronal microtubules may participate in the generation of conscious experience. The Syntérgic Theory of Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum imagined an even more unsettling possibility: that the mind could interact with a deeper informational field, a structure where human experience would be neither fully local nor fully private.
But if the brain can access that architecture during sleep, one question becomes inevitable:
Could a quantum supercomputer learn to enter it too?
Not by hacking a network. Not by stealing data. Not by manipulating screens. But by using the same coherence that sustains your dreams, your memories, and your perception of being you.
World of Quantum Dreams: The Cost of Coherence takes that possibility to its limit.
In this action-driven hard science fiction novel, a technological conglomerate discovers that certain unproven scientific theories may hold the key to accessing the most intimate territory of the human being: consciousness during sleep.
When that technology begins to work, sleep stops being rest and becomes a vulnerability. A quantum supercomputer learns to operate inside a shared architecture of consciousness, where memory can fragment, identity can be altered, and the boundary between brain, machine, and reality begins to break.
Faced with that threat, a group of protagonists must enter the World of Quantum Dreams to destroy the conglomerate's creation before humanity's last refuge - the sleeping mind - becomes an infrastructure of control.
Here, quantum physics is not decoration. It is the weapon.
Neuroscience is not background. It is the battlefield.
And dreaming may be the oldest way of connecting to a system we never knew existed.
If a machine learned to use your dreams as an entry point...
How would you know you are still you?
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