Caution: Contains elements of horror that may be unsettling for some readers
Aristotle Theory
Although Aristotle didn’t explicitly propose a theory involving whispering to influence a person’s dreams while they sleep, he did acknowledge the potential impact of external factors, like sounds, on dream content. In his work “On Dreams,” he mentioned, “When someone is asleep and spoken to, the dream will reflect the voice they hear.”
Source: Research Gate
Saiko started having romantic dreams about Kishimoto, a boy in her class. Her friend suggested Kishimoto might be using the “Aristotle Theory” to make her like him — breaking into her room at night and whispering to put his voice in her head.
Saiko didn’t believe it until her brother said he heard a boy’s voice in her room.
In her dream that night, Kishimoto confessed his love and gave her a ring, but then a man named “Jack the Ripper” killed him with a knife. When she woke up, there was an empty jewelry box by her, and later she found Kishimoto’s body on the street, gutted.
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