Two Jungian psychoanalysts in the Lake Shore University clinical psychology department are working on a secret project when one of them, Dr. Templeton, begins to suspect that something sinister is going on. Before he can confirm his suspicions, he is murdered by none other than the venerable dean of students in front of 2000 witnesses at the annual freshman orientation assembly. Contradicting all of these witnesses, including the maverick faculty duo Timothy Legend and Alix Fitzsimmons, the dean claims he is innocent. Soon more Jungians are murdered, and it becomes clear that someone is combining the techniques of lucid dreaming with the properties of the Jungian model of the human psyche in order to control minds. Timothy and Alix are plunged into the bizarre and impossible world of Carl Jung's "collective unconscious" where, with the help of the Weisenheimer artificial intelligence project, they must either defeat the culprit or become the next victims.