Comfortably Numb

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

IN 2037, YOUR MIND ISN'T YOUR OWN. IT'S A RENTAL PROPERTY.

For twenty years, Dale Lank has enjoyed a life of quiet, blissful ignorance. Like everyone else, he leases out the unused parts of his brain to corporations. A sock magnate uses his subconscious to dream up new argyle patterns. A yogurt company borrows his contentment centers for market research. In return, Dale gets a steady paycheck and a life of automated, frictionless ease. The system works.

Until the yogurt company goes bankrupt.

Suddenly, Dale is hit with a tidal wave of his own unfiltered consciousness. The world is too loud, food has too many flavors, and he can't remember how to make a decision. To make matters worse, the Department of Mental Resource Allocation has given him a 30-day deadline to find a new mental tenant before his brain is foreclosed upon and used to optimize traffic patterns.

His desperate search for a new lease throws him into the bizarre underbelly of his perfectly managed society. He finds a therapist AI who dispenses wisdom via mangled sitcom quotes, a cult that believes he's the prophesied 'Human Prime,' and a startling discovery in his own mental archives: a sentient, secret intelligence named Mabel who has been living in his head all along. Now, Dale must not only fight for his own soul in a surreal virtual courtroom but also protect his daughter from the same system, all while trying to negotiate with the ghost in his own machine.

For fans of Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams, Comfortably Numb is a hilarious, bitingly satirical, and surprisingly heartfelt journey into the future of the human mind. It asks a terrifyingly simple question: What's left of you when you're no longer using your own brain?