A story idea came to me while thinking about the
electrical nature of the brain and brainwaves. Brain activity is, of course,
electrical in part and the overall activity of the brain produces waves that
can be detected through the skin by an EEG (electroencephalogram).
I wondered, “What if someone were naturally keenly
sensitive to these mind patterns through the means of electrical conduction, so that if he or she were to touch someone,
that would allow picking up the electrical conductivity through another
person’s skin, which this person would somehow understand, in effect allowing mind reading?” But the problem with that is
the EEG pattern is far to general to reflect specific thoughts. At best it
could convey a mood.
However, some brainwave patterns are associated with
forms of consciousness other than normal wakefulness. So then I thought, “What
if someone had the ability to emit a naturally powerful (but strange)
electrical generation of their own brain to override someone else’s brainwave
pattern and put that other brain into whatever pattern he or she wished?”
Such a person could instantly drop another person into
various stages of sleep, including dreaming (REM) sleep. People like that could
also force a person’s brain into the highly suggestive state associated with
hypnotism.
Imagine a story in which a villain has such a power. On
contact skin to skin contact, his powerful brainwaves can force another person
into another state of consciousness. He could use this in a wide variety of
ways, but hypnosis would be his primary power—taking what he wanted from others
by reprogramming them to do his bidding.
So then imagine the hero having a sort of brain defect
that makes him or her immune to the villain’s power, but which also limits and
challenges the protagonist. This could be a variety of things for the sake of a
story: schizophrenia, cerebral palsy, autism, or even something more extreme,
such as having had surgery to divide the hemispheres of the brain to stop
severe childhood seizures or something.
Whatever the case is, the villain at some point would try
to override the protagonist’s brain based on changing brainwaves through skin
contact, but finds it can’t be done for this one person, who in turn realizes
something very strange just happened—which the villain can’t allow anyone to
know about. The protagonist now has to face the villain’s henchmen chasing
after him or her, in the meantime struggling with his or her own brain deficiency,
while trying to understand who the
villain really is and what he is up to…
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