Nightborn moves between the rational corridors of academia and the shifting, symbolic landscapes of the dream world. Dr Elise Harrow, a respected Jungian analyst, begins receiving emails from strangers across the globe describing the same dream. In each one she appears as a shadowed figure standing at the threshold of something vast and terrifying.

At first she assumes it is a trick of collective suggestion. But when patients she has never met begin drawing her likeness and reporting identical details, she realises the phenomenon is not psychological coincidence but a psychic infection spreading from mind to mind.

As Elise investigates, she experiences blackouts, waking visions and an escalating loss of boundaries between waking and dreaming. Desperate for answers, she collaborates with a neuroscientist researching dream transmission and a folklorist studying archetypal visitations. Together they discover that something ancient has awakened in the collective unconscious — a force that feeds on emotional resonance and uses Elise as its avatar.

Steeped in symbolism, shadow work and mystery, the story blends cerebral tension with gothic unease. It asks what happens when our dreams are no longer private — and what hidden parts of ourselves might come to life if they were shared.