Dream Census: Reclaim Your Nights

By Abhay Singh

In a city that never sleeps, your dreams are the last remaining resource to be harvested.

Eden Lopez is nineteen, exhausted, and barely surviving in the neon-lit rot of Los Angeles. In this world, the OneiroLink implant is a "polite parasite" that optimizes human output by monitoring even the hours spent in bed. When a citywide stimulant shortage makes waking life a haze of dynamic pricing and desperation, Eden finds herself pulled toward the "Dream Boost"-a clinical promise of restorative rest that comes with a hidden, high-resolution cost.

Inside the network, her dreams are no longer her own. They are "Partner Assets"-proprietary sequences watermarked and patented by the TrendSleep corporation.

When the system attempts a real-time raid on her subconscious, Eden must choose: accept a comfortable cage in "Sanctuary" housing or join a growing underground of "offline" dreamers. Together with a union organizer, a cynical tech-ethics expert, and a mysterious dream avatar known as the Lucid Monk, Eden prepares for the Unownable Dream.

It's time to take the phone out of the box and the corporation out of the skull. If rest is resistance, then sleeping is a revolution.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GHF6G3VB
• ISBN13: 9798244270259
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"