Neon REM: The Sleeping Ruins

In 1985 a covert REM-synchrony program uses tape-loop oscillators, CRT monitors and synth rigs to invade dreams across the Iron Curtain. Neuroscientist Mara Kovak and archaeologist Tomás Ortega discover the broadcasts resonate with millennia-old ruins—stone glyphs answer in sleep and temples begin to stir. As governments weaponize dream-invasion, waking and sleeping worlds start to blur; ancient powers leak into neon-lit streets. A synth-scorched thriller across labs and desert temples forces Mara to choose: shut the protocol down or unleash something older than memory.