Every night at exactly 03:17, fifteen-year-old Mike Wang wakes from the same dream: a map of stars he has never studied, a white dove that will not look away, and a voice warning that someone is teaching people to stop choosing for themselves. Then Mike begins seeing the dream's warnings in the people he loves. His best friend quits the guitar he loved. The class artist stops drawing. His little sister sleepwalks down the hall singing a rhyme no one ever taught her. The dream is only the first crack in a hidden system wired into every sleeping mind on Earth, and the crack is widening. With Lily, an artist whose drawings catch the signal others cannot see; Ken, a data prodigy who reads the network like sheet music; and Steve, a retired soldier who coaches them through fear instead of pretending it away, Mike enters the dream network to reclaim the choices being quietly taken from the waking world. To save them, Mike has to face the part of himself that wants to be chosen more than it wants to protect anyone. Cosmic Awakening begins here, a series for readers who believe courage is something you practice, not something you are born with, and that the one thing a perfect system can never calculate is who you decide to love.