Sleep Mode: They Programmed Dreams. Then the Dreams Fought Back.

By Claire Autumn Reid

Sarah wakes inside the perfect world-clean, silent, and curated by NeuroVale's groundbreaking dream-enhancement program. She's told she's a product tester, helping shape the future of memory therapy. But when strange glitches begin appearing in her simulated sessions-fragments of fire, a child trapped in a basement, a name that doesn't belong-Sarah's reality begins to unravel.

Haunted by a snow globe that keeps reappearing and a girl who seems both familiar and impossible, Sarah starts questioning not just the program, but her very existence. The deeper she digs, the more the boundaries between dream and identity blur. What if her memories are not her own? What if she's the glitch?

As the lines fracture between her artificial world and a much darker origin, Sarah must confront what she was created to hold-and who she was made to protect. But some truths don't want to be uncovered, and the cost of knowing could be her erasure.

In a surreal, psychological descent that weaves unreliability and raw emotion, Sleep Mode dares to ask:

If you were made from someone's pain... what happens when they heal without you?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FG1T2V6V
• ISBN13: 9798231908073
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Twist & Tether Press
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"