Deep Dream State

Blake is out of Kamas, out of options, and out of runway. Hespa tells her the truth about what Vale Four is, what it costs to leave, and what it costs to stay. Naia Anderson has been waiting for someone exactly like Blake to walk through that door. The arrow was always aimed at her.

Piper, Blake, and Gia keep going deeper into the game. They're wearing Prismatix and spending Kama tokens. At this point, they're not just playing the games. They're getting played by all the factions. Neuroplex bmanagement wants their data and their selves harvested. The Holdfasts want to push them to the point of rebellion. Cael and Hespa may be playing their own game. All the subjects can tell...

We all make choices. Vale Four opens its arcade. The subjects get Kamas, get games, and lose three hours they don't remember losing.

There is a world behind this world. We’ve been making Deep Dream State for a while now. It was time to make a trailer. This is what the show is. Making a trailer deep into season four isn’t standard practice, but Deep Dream State isn’t a standard audio drama.  I wish I had an in universe explanation of faction sabotage.  Well, I did, but the succubi won’t let me say it. I&#...

You watch the hands. Recalibration isn’t what anyone said it was. The Tell Cycle ends where it always had to: with the person who knew the whole hand before the deal. Cast & Crew Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Directed by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Co-Directed by: Bliss Blank Cast Dr. Zev Talcott (Z): Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Dr. June Lowell: Blis...

Did I break science? Z reviews the FaceTrace profile on every subject in Vale Four.  He discovers the system has gone proactive and frenzied, in that way.  The Synthserv, played by dark romance author Valentina Vallay , isn’t waiting for sessions anymore. She needs seed.  She’s seeding herself into everything, learning everyone, optimizing for Z’s approval.  Ava is attaching.  El...

Everyone in Vale Four is getting read for filth. They deserve it. FaceTrace is reading microexpressions before subjects know what they’re thinking, but June and Elle know they can’t afford a tell. So they’re practicing on each other, mapping their own blind spots before the real sessions begin. Ava’s already figured out she’s being measured, and she wants more. Cast &...

Don’t twitch. FaceTrace reads microexpressions before the subject knows what they’re thinking. Naia knows Vale Four is about to deploy it. June and Elle know they cannot afford a tell. The question is whether you can teach yourself to lie with your face. Highlights This is the first episode of the Deep Dream State’s Tell Cycle. Each Cycle in Vale Four looks at a different adverti...

The whole world is already singing. Sinker is the third episode of the Vale Four arc and the Hooks Cycle. The hook doesn’t need the lab anymore. Hilton and Astoria have opinions. Celeste and Vera finally tell someone. That someone tells Z. Z tells Iris. Iris tells the camera. The camera tells everyone. Cast & Crew Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Directed by: Ne...

You already fell for it. Hook Line is the second episode of the Vale Four arc and the Hooks Cycle.  The audience’s impulses drive the narrative. In desire horror, the audience always gets exactly what they want and then some. In this case, you wanted the hook to work harder. The music patterns spread beyond the lab and into the bodies of everyone within earshot. Celeste and Vera discover the...

“Is this bait?” Refrain is the premiere episode of Vale Four, the fourth arc of the Deep Dream State desire horror series.  Desire horror is deeply immersive storytelling; the audience’s impulses drive the narrative. Vale Four follows a covert operation to expose a corporate research facility before their IPO.  The facility picks up where Sitri left off. Each Cycle tracks a diffe...

The medium was always the mechanism. Arouse concludes the Sitri Center arc and completes Deep Dream State’s five-hour narrative exploration of control, desire, and surrender. The staff and subjects of the dream research institute finally confront the true nature of the systems reshaping them. As the boundary between experiment and experimenter collapses, one final revelation reframes everyth...

Barbie goes matryoshka. Meg and Tessa believe they’ve reached Ur, the destination they’ve been mapping through the Institute’s dream architecture. What they find there is Nyra, who has been waiting, and a version of the lucid dreaming protocols they know being used in a direction they didn’t anticipate. The structure of Sync is its argument: every apparent resolution collap...

The abject never looked this good. Meg and Tessa have entered the mirror chamber at the heart of the Sitri Institute’s dream architecture. Nyra is already there. Center is the episode where the testing protocols – clock checks, finger counting, mirror reflection – stop functioning as tools the researchers use and start functioning as tools being used on them. Cast & Crew Writ...

Welcome to the Hive. Here come the queen bees. Meg and Tessa surface from dreamlock not entirely sure what just happened, and Oona’s not going to let them forget it. The temple they descended into last entry turns out to be something else entirely: a blueprint, not a metaphor, its architecture a precise echo of the server infrastructure running underneath the Sitri Institute. The wheels are...

The Naditu Empire never ended. Meg and Tessa are still inside the Institute and still losing ground. The restriction protocols are working. The pulse patterns are working. The wheel is on the schedule and they both know what that means. Their only remaining move is Oona Reyes: a prisoner with a court-ordered stay, a colorful file, and the rare ability to anchor multiple minds into a single shared...

Episode Summary In “Tether” , the boundaries between discipline, devotion, and discovery blur beyond recognition inside the Sitri Institute. What begins as a study of synchronized dreaming becomes an experiment in control. Meg and Tessa are drawn into the same patterns they once observed, repeating phrases that echo through the walls like incantations.  Z weaves the experiment into a living labyri...

Here be dream dragons. After Cusp mapped the threshold, Descendent crosses it. Meg and Tessa follow Lyra’s dream coordinates into the Sitri Institute’s buried architecture, tracing corridors that run older than the building above them. The stations are real. The map is real. And somewhere at the end of it, behind a soundproofed door with a keypad neither of them can crack, something is...

Between what you want and what you’ll admit. Lyra Crosswell dreams in corridors. Mezzanines, transfer tunnels, platforms that lead nowhere she can name. She thought it was an aesthetic obsession. The Sitri Center thinks it’s a map. Something is encoded in the Institute’s architecture, and Lyra’s subconscious has been tracing it all along. Cast & Crew Written & Produ...

The program needs that data – raw. Elle’s dream training has become protocol. Tessa is running the sessions and the line between researcher and subject has moved again without anyone filing the paperwork. When Dr. Lowell declares the program a failure, Meg enters the chamber as a contrasting profile – and finds out she was always the template. The Sitri Institute doesn’t just sha...

You’re not being graded. You’re being rewritten. Elle Lawson is locked in REM paralysis. The dream figures are already inside. Meg Aerin is taking notes. The Construct is responsive and the journal is mandatory and the line between researcher and subject is getting harder to locate in the data. Cast & Crew Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Directed by: Neur...

This center is my dream. Construct 37 is running. The dreams are escalating. The research team is watching. Tessa Finn is about to learn the difference between engineering a dream and becoming one. Cast & Crew Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Directed by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Co-Directed by: Bliss Blank Principal Cast Zev Talcott (Z) – Neural Nets and Prett...

Everyone sees what you are. The Sitri Center is a dream research institute where scientists do more than study subconscious fears. They engineer them. Tonight’s first subject is Phoebe Bosworth. Her dreams have already started escalating. The experiment has already begun. Cast & Crew Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Directed by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns C...

The game makes us all the same. The final challenge connects every contestant to every other through a chain of haptic triggers. The winner claims a surprise prize. The door closes and a new season begins. Cast & Crew Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Directed by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Co-Directed by: Bliss Blank Contestants Madison – Pipp Ashley – Jade Hanna...

The masks are coming off. The chain is buzzing. The prize is waiting. And someone’s about to break. Cast & Crew Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Directed by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Co-Directed by: Bliss Blank Contestants Madison – Pipp Ashley – Jade Hannah – Echo Doll Zarah – Bun Li House Staff April, House Synthserv – Bliss Blank Kitty, Season One Winn...