Copyright © 2026 Authors retain the copyright of this article. This article is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

@article{206233,
        author = {Kanishk Sharma},
        title = {Literature as a reflection and critique A study of psychological and scientific aspects in Blake Crouch's Dark Matter},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {13},
        number = {2},
        pages = {1351-1357},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=206233},
        abstract = {Literature is an extension of psychology when it comes to character analysis, reflection of self, stream of consciousness and element of being. 
This paper studies the impact of our thoughts and actions on our sub-conscious mind focusing on Blake Crouch’s best-selling novel “Dark Matter”. Analyzing it in the aspects of our mind and its reflection on the world around us. Through the novel’s fluid narrative, it explores the themes of identity and the self, nature of reality, choices and their consequences. “Dark Matter” serves as the lens that allows us to see inside our mind and how the keys of our emotions open equally radiant doors of life. The novel ushers you to think how our mind functions and how it affects the roots of our actions.
The paper aims to reveal the scientific and psychological anecdotes from “Dark Matter” with its relevance to the contemporary times and present a visionary and uniformly constructed study on human actions driven by emotions and thoughts but most importantly what goes behind it.},
        keywords = {Human Mind, Stream of Consciousness, Dark Matter, Identity, Reflection of self},
        month = {July},
        }