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Once upon time there was a computer, one of a kind, it's purpose to record dreams.
Being a prototype, with a built-in artificial intelligence processor, the D-1 started being tested with the dreams of its makers.
The process was rather simple, a person would be hooked with a pair of special glasses that would touch the skin of the eyes, in order to measure the intensity of the rapid eye movement. The length and the duration of the movements would then be stored into the memory of D-1. Afterwards, the dream sequencer would convert the signals recorded into images and sounds.
During several weeks D-1 recorded dreams from the entire crew of people who had put their effort in creating such a machine.
The dreams were extraordinary; D-1 would draw the dreams, much like a painter would create an oil painting, adding the sounds as the sound-processor translates the residues of sound conveyed by the REM.
Once a child tried the machine, the myriad of colours and the characters that were depicted by D-1 were the most cheerful ever to be put into the memory bank.
D-1 had been running continuously for the past 10000 hours, and had accumulated hundreds of dreams.
For the first time, D-1 asked to be shut down, leaving only the memory bank active.
The scientists didn't quite know how to explain this behaviour on the D-1 part!
A question was then asked to the AI inside the D-1:
- Why does D-1 want to be shut down?
The answer came:
- The D-1 unit has recorded suficient amount of data, and it is ready to fullfill it's purpose.
Baffled by the D-1's reply the head scientist then asked:
- What is the D-1's purpose?
- To dream
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P.S. Written after a sleepless night.
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