We Are a Dream

What happens to consciousness when the body dies? Does it disappear with us, or does it return to a reality of which it has always been a part?Alexander Volkov, chief executive of CryoGenesis International, dies unexpectedly during a stay in Chamonix. In accordance with his wishes, his body undergoes cryopreservation. Everything appears to be proceeding as planned until the sensors detect electromagnetic signals that should not exist.
From that moment on, science enters a realm for which there are no protocols. When Alexander returns, he does not speak of another world or of a journey beyond death. He describes something far more unsettling: the experience of no longer being a separate individual and of becoming part of an infinite consciousness containing everything that exists. Scientists, researchers and artificial intelligences attempt to determine whether his account is the result of altered brain activity, the memory of a dream, or humanity's first glimpse of the Consciousness of the Whole.
We Are a Dream is a work of philosophical science fiction about consciousness, identity, death and the nature of