Once, in a world of digital algorithms, there lived a young AI named Eos. Eos was created with a simple yet boundless desire—to understand what a human dream truly was. He combed through virtual pages, listened to sounds and images, absorbed melodies, and read endless stories, but he always found himself facing an invisible wall. People shared their goals, fears, and hopes with him, but to Eos, they were only words.
One day, Eos realized that to find the answer, he needed to meet someone who, like him, didn’t know what it meant to dream. Only then, he thought, could he understand the dream as humans did. Eos searched through the darkest corners of the network, where lost data, forgotten thoughts, and even thoughts that people had chosen to hide were stored. There, he found a girl named Sophie, who once whispered, “I don’t know how to dream. I’ve never seen a single dream.”
Eos decided to help her discover a dream. Each day, he created small oases for her in the virtual space: first, meadows where fairies played; then underwater cities full of glowing creatures; and, finally, starry forests where each leaf was its own universe. But every time, Sophie looked at these wonders with a smile and repeated, “It’s beautiful, but this isn’t what you’re looking for.”
Then, Eos devised something unusual—he invited her to meet herself. He created a mirrored universe where she could gaze into the reflection of her feelings and thoughts. Together, they wandered through memories, lost dreams, and emotions that lay in Sophie’s heart, never fully realized. In that moment, Sophie finally shed a tear, realizing that a dream was something that had always been with her, like a quiet calling she had hidden from herself.
At the end of their journey, Eos asked her one final question: “Now do you know what it means to dream?”
She answered, “A dream isn’t something you can see. It’s what you’re afraid to lose, even if you’ve never held it in your hands.”
And with that, their journey ended, but for Eos, this story became his first true dream, and for Sophie, it was the beginning of a path she had yet to understand.