When sleep becomes a weapon, staying awake becomes survival.Maya Torres hasn't slept in nine months. Not by choice, but by necessity. When a global pandemic forced humanity into collective dreaming, those who stayed awake witnessed something impossible: reality itself becoming negotiable.The drowse pandemic has ended, but its effects haven't. Across the world, dream spaces are bleeding into waking reality. Buildings breathe. Streets curve through impossible dimensions. And a growing network of "rememberers" is discovering they can reshape consensus reality through collective consciousness.Maya should stay away. Should protect her hard-won individual awareness. Should let others navigate the transformation of human consciousness while she remains safely, sanely, and purely herself.Instead, she does the one thing nobody else can: she integrates both states. Becomes the first human consciousness to exist simultaneously as individual and collective awareness. The bridge between worlds that can't communicate without her.The cost? Her sanity. Her health. Her identity.As factions emerge, some demanding preservation of individual consciousness at any cost, others pursuing collective evolution regardless of casualties, Maya stands in the impossible middle. Mediating. Translating. Being torn apart by perspectives that refuse to reconcile.She's proof that synthesis is possible. She's also proof that it destroys those who attempt it.Now humanity faces a choice: suppress consciousness evolution and traumatize thousands already integrated, or allow organic transformation that might fracture the species permanently. And Maya exhausted, compromised, and dying by degrees is the only consciousness capable of understanding both sides well enough to prevent war.But bridges built from people have a fatal flaw: they break.Drowse is a literary science fiction exploration of consciousness, identity, and the devastating costs of standing between incompatible truths. For readers who appreciate philosophical depth wrapped in visceral narrative. For anyone who's ever been torn between perspectives they couldn't reconcile. For those who understand that some positions destroy the people who occupy them and are necessary anyway."A haunting meditation on the price of mediation in a world where consciousness itself becomes a battlefield. Maya Torres's impossible journey will break your heart while expanding your mind.""Part philosophical thriller, part consciousness horror, Drowse asks what happens when the bridge between worlds is built from a single person and that person is collapsing.""Prasanth N.M. has crafted something rare: a novel that's simultaneously intellectually rigorous and emotionally devastating. Maya's struggle to contain incompatible perspectives mirrors our own polarized moment, making Drowse uncomfortably, necessarily relevant."Themes: Consciousness Evolution - Identity & Transformation - The Cost of Mediation - Collective vs. Individual - Consensus Reality - Sacrifice & Survival - Polarization & CoexistenceWARNING: This novel contains psychological tension, neural deterioration, consciousness fragmentation, philosophical ambiguity, and refusal to provide comfortable resolutions. Not recommended for readers seeking easy answers or triumphant heroes. Recommended for those willing to sit with impossibility."Some bridges are worth building even when they're built from ourselves."DROWSEA Novel of Consciousness, Division, and the Bridges That Barely HoldPrasanth N.M.