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Where am I? I coulda sworn I was at Jack's place after that hard night of partying, whats going on? I look around at my unfamiliar surroundings, and I feel a faint ringging in my head, Hangover? A couple of flashes in my memory and I find out I am Jason Avarin. A few memories later I get a few new ideas about what is going on and I am glad my name didn't really change, but what happened in my world? Suddenly I feel extremly nauseous and rushing to the bathroom I throw up whatever Jason ate last night. When the feeling of nausea was gone I begin to consolidate my thoughts.

I was Jason Vin, college student on Earth. I was studying in programming and psycology, and after finishing an especially hard exam, my friend Jack took me partying with him. After a hard night of partying I remember getting to his apartment and that's it. The memory flashes I got was like a summary of this dude, Jason Avarin's Life.

Jason, lived in a world called Aedoth, with continants similar to earth. The rest of the memories was of his father and family, most of which hated him for being born. The only person who seemed to care about him was his mother, Raychelle Payton. Thinking about her makes me glad that at least I've got parents now, I was an orphan back on earth.

Each person is born with a "Gift" a special power, thinking about it I am curious about my power, and from my new memory I have silent hypnosis. I can hypnotize someone if I make eye contact for a little while. A little underwhelming, but I know plenty of ways to use this, way better then the old Jason did. It seems this power is one of the reasons my father's side of the family dispises me.

My father's side of the family has very strong mental powers, My father being a Telekinetic and my Grandfather who built the company was Telepathic, which help a lot in the family business. My mother on the otherhand can whisper to animals, a "gift" that is trained properly would've been pretty strong but she never did, which sort of is why I am in the position I am in this family as everybody except my mother thinks I have a worthless "gift".

Currently I am in my room in a small house that father had gifted our side of the family, just me and my mother live here. He sends us money, well mainly sends me money because he thinks mother is useless. Learning that I begin to dispise father's side of the family, as mother not useless in my eyes.

Our house lies in the adjacent district and is right next to a park. Which means more often then not our house is visited often by animals mother talks to. I watch as a small squirrel runs into my room and gestures towards me to come downstairs as if proving my thoughts.

Walking downstairs I see my mother in the kitchen sitting on a chair with breakfast set up. When I say breakfast I mean there is a bowl of cereal and a glass of orange juice and I sit down taking a bite. It tasted like a generic sweet cereal brand and I couldn't really complain, I was hungry dispite my episode this morning. My mother starts to speak and I look up.

"You're up early, which is a surprise. I thought I was going to have to go up and get you myself, but Henry here wanted to check first." Henry seemed to be the name of the squirrel who led me down here.

"Uh yeah I had a weird dream." I wasn't sure how to tell her I wasn't the real Jason, so I just started to act the way Jason did in my memory.

"Oh do you remember what it was about?"

"Not really." Conversation stopped as neither of us had anything really to talk about. Jason was usually a quiet kid to begin with so I don't have much difficulty not talking.

"Have you made progress with your gift?" She asked me suddenly in the midst of the silence.

"I'm not sure, I haven't tried it out in a while." That part was the truth as Jason wasn't really all the best at using his gift, and I hadn't tried it ever. From the memories I got I can see the problem with Jason ever using his gift so I can maybe try to use this gift better.

"Can I test my gift on Henry?" Mother looked surprised when I asked but she nodded and said it was fine.

I looked Henry right in it's beady little eyes and comanded the words: You are sleepy, you relax and curl up faling into a deep sleep, so tired. Henry's eyes close and he does in fact curl up and fall asleep but before my mother says anything I continue to see if I can command Henry while it is sleeping. Your so tired, when you wake up you will forget these memories and run to my bed, when I snap my fingers, you will do so, but forget this command. When I clap my hands you will wake up. I then snap my fingers close to Henry and watch as he jumps up and dashes up the stairs.

Finishing my breakfest I follow it and see it sleeping on my bed. Clapping my hands softly Henry gets up and looks around in confusion. Henry then jumps back downstairs back to mother. Though that test was kinda cliche for hypnosis it proves I can do commands when the subject is asleep.

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When I walked back downstairs I am rushed into a hug by mother.

"Your gift worked! Spectacularly in fact! I'm so proud of you!" I was practically choked in that tight hug of hers.

"Mom-I c-can't breathe..." She released me and I gasped for breath.

"Sorry honey I was just so excited for you. You could barely stun people before, but now you can control people!" I was about to correct her that Henry was not a person, but I decided to let her believe what she wanted as I thought about something. What if I could in fact, hypnotize myself? I had read in a novel once about using a mirror to hypnotize oneself to do things maybe it could work?

"Mom, I am going to play some games in my room, thanks for breakfast!" I made up a quick lie and ran back up to my room to test out my theory.

I went up to my room and sat on my bed, looking at the mirror across from the bed and stare into it activating my gift, and suddenly I find myself in a mysterious black room.

Huh? What happened? I was trying to hypnotize myself, but now where am I?

I look around and I see two disks in one corner of the black space I am in. Walking over I look at what they are showing like a screen. One is me, looking in the mirror eyes hazy, and the other is what I am looking at, which is what I am looking at, which is what I am- Well I think you get the point it shows what I am seeing from my point of view. I get a flash of inspiration. This! This is consciousness and subconsious mirrors, one shows what my consious mind sees while the other shows what my subconcious mind is doing.

The consious one is creepy and the subconcious one is a bit trippy to look at. Turning away I think I am in my subconcious or dream like state, sort of like lucid dreaming. I could theoretically do whatever I wanted in here because anything is possible in your head right? To test that theory I imagine a cup of coffee in my hand.

Feeling something heavy in my palm I look over again and it is there! I cup of coffee! I can't really -feel- it but I felt it appear. Taking a sip I spit it out as it is tasteless. That proves that senses dont really work here I guess, still a bit confused that I can see though. Trying to test out the sound I drop my mug on the floor, at least, where I think the floor is. I watch as it just falls into oblivion, out of sight.

Oh thats a bit odd then I guess there wasn't really floor here either, I just assumed.

Figuring I should just change this place to my like I make it into like a living room area with a beanbag couch that I lay in, and actual carpet flooring even if its just for aesthetic. I think about what to do next? My gift is still activated so I can be in here, and I haven't felt any strain yet, so I am fine for now. What could I do that can affect me out there from in here...Oh I know!

I decided to make a system, something that would affect my consious mind and probably give my eidetic memory at the least. All that I really did though was make a camera, that when I wanted to archive something I would say "record" in my thoughts. It was a little tricky to set up but actually not really, I just put a fabricated camera in from of the consious mirror, and anytime I said record it would record it and place it in a storage in my head, in a bookshelf. Testing this new ability I had one book on the bookshelf called, "How to get Eidetic Memory" I don't think I named it that, but it was named that automatically.

This place I was in seemed empty so I thought, whats the harm in storing information in here? I was planning on making an additional system, one that would identify anything I learned through "Record" and started working on that.

Time seems to move slower in here, because I feel like I've been in here for a long time but looking through the consious mirror nothing much seems to be happening, like the world is frozen, I will have to test that later to be sure though. I finished the second system and I can kinda feel the strain of my power now, it feels like a headache and is not fun. Basically there is a computer like program that scans what is records and crosschecks with memory to see if I know what is being Identified and will show me with a bold text box above there head, but I have to test it out first I have no clue if it can work.

I turn off my gift and I am back in my room, but I still have a splitting headache, ugh, I will try not to overuse it next time now. I wonder how the new systems I set up will affect my perception but eh, worry about that later I guess.

I pull open a book on monsters. It was kinda childish but I recorded it, taking a picture of each page. I did find with a bit more difficulty, deep under my bed, a book on anatomy of humans and monsters, I bet this was for school, but luckiliy I am on summer vacation for 2 months. I go downstairs and think Identify on my mother and I see information pop up on the top of her head.

Rachelle Payton (Mom) - Human - Gift: Animal Whisperer

Well that proves that it works. I look over at Henry now sitting in my mothers lap.

Henry - Normal Squirrel

I actually don't know much about Henry so I suppose that is why there is a question mark. Looking out the window into the park I see a variety of ??? - Human - Gift: ??? and Normal Bird, Normal Rabbit. Occationally I see a couple of Mutant labeled creatures, but they aren't attacking so they aren;t fully monsters and no one really cares to attack them or for them to attack us.

"Hey Mom?"

"Yeah honey?"

"Can I get a small mirror to take everywhere?"

"Oh, why?"

"It's to help with my gift...is that okay?"

"Of course it is, I think I have a spare, let me go get it." She got up from the couch and went into her room, bringing back a small foldable mirror.

"Thanks Mom!" I look into the mirror and think Identify, but I think it is always scanning for the most part.

Jason Avarin - Human - Gift: Hypnosis (Eidetic Memory) (Identify)

Seeing that I begin to imagine all of the things I could do now with my gift, I could build more systems in my own head, and I could possibly plant them in others as well.

This is going to be fun.