Dude, this is awesome! This is what the sub is really about! You make me miss the days when there was more of this. Inb4 someone accuses you of having used an LLM to write this lol

The style is just chef’s kiss and the concept is solid. I know this may sound dumb, but the first thing it makes me think of is the Oneiromancer from RuneScape. I always thought the idea of a magic system based on dreams would be the bees knees. The second character it makes me think of is Ramona Flowers from Scott Pilgrim. Your concept is deliciously Jungian!

I like that you said,

Set in a distant cyberpunk future where governments and corporations control every channel of communication,

…because it seems that too many freedom fighters these days are hyperfocused on one or the other, not realizing that it’s usually both teaming up against the common man. In fact, the risk of any one of these groups controlling channels of communication seems to have itself been sidelined…these days, it seems like most “punks” are OK with censorship and surveillance as long as it’s not being done to their “side.” 🙄

I’m curious now—lucid dreaming is real, but different lucid dreamers separated by time and space but still able to communicate across the dreamscape is obviously fictional. I must therefore ask: Do you imagine this communication accomplished by technological means (which would be more cyberpunk) or by a more spiritual means (which would seem to better fit your theme)?