Deep Dream State
Deep Dream State is a full-cast monster romance and desire horror audio drama by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. As the originating work of desire horror, it locates the uncanny inside wanting itself. While conventional horror positions you against a threat, desire horror implicates you in it. The horror emerges from recognition: the realization of why characters stay, and why surrender feels like relief. Since 2017, the show has used research in dream science, surveillance studies, behavioral economics, and advertising technology to examine systems of control through immersive sound design and full-cast performance.
Episodes
The Chthonic looks like a luxury cruise, but the staff are already serving something much older and less human than the passengers realize. Olivia keeps the guests smiling while Captain William, Alistair, and the Dagon Dream Group quietly turn bells, apps, debt, and desire into tools of control. Below deck, the crew compare notes, swap warnings, and realize that getting exploited is practically part of the employee handbook. By the...
The tide is rising. And shame makes a sound.
Mairead’s gambling debt has come due, and the Chthonic’s leadership has been watching the whole time. The captain’s mast isn’t just a disciplinary hearing. It’s a recruitment. Mairead gets her assignment and her uniform and her smile, and the bachelorette party decides karaoke is a crime against humanity and makes a break for it. The question’s always ...
Veil opens with three bridesmaids slipping away from a loud karaoke night into the ship's instrument room, where the purser Selene warns them the deep ocean so…Veil opens with three bridesmaids slipping away from a loud karaoke night into the ship's instrument room, where the purser Selene warns them the deep ocean sounds they hear are not just whale songs but something that wants to be heard. The next day, an archaeological...
There is a world behind this world. You just need to look in the mirror.
The ceremony is not for any human bride. The midnight rite binds flesh and will in a covenant older than the ship or the civilization that built it. Emma stands at the altar, and the abyss has been waiting.
Cast & Crew
Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Co-Produced b...
This world’s an illusion. You just need it washed away.
Amanda and Brittany surface from a shower neither of them turned on, finishing each other’s sentences about a dream they both had. Below decks, the crew watches and crosses them off the list. What the entity wants is a mind that still resists and Sara and Kara have been resisting all voyage.
Cast & Crew
The veil lifts, and the ceremony deepens. A garter coils and slithers.
Welcome to Episode 6 of Deep Dream State, where the rituals no longer pretend.
Episode Summary
Sarah follows a mysterious note into the stone corridors beneath the Chthonic complex, believing she is close to uncovering the truth behind the Institute’s rituals. She is met instead by Nikki and Fion, two insiders who claim to be acting on her be...
You’ve been here before. You don’t remember, but the ship does.
Something in the Chthonic’s architecture is clicking into place, and it isn’t just steel and wire. The surveillance feeds are running. The whales are still circling.
Cast & Crew
Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Directed by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Co-Directed by: Bl...
Your transcendence is already on sale.
There’s room for everyone inside the Lotus. The whale song is real and the recording equipment’s has been running the entire time.
Cast & Crew
Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Directed by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Co-Directed by: Bliss Blank
Ship’s Crew
We’re the Captain now.
Cast & Crew
Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Directed by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Co-Directed by: Bliss Blank
Ship’s Crew
Olivia, Cruise Director – Bliss Blank
William, Ship Captain – Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Nika, Ship Maid – Echo Doll
Sel...
Before the cameras rolled, there was Violet.
Violet Verdier follows a trail of half-remembered ritual into a stone circle where a coven is already waiting. The grounding techniques she learned turn out to have older origins than Lilly Ekimmu let on.
In this work of folk horror, the initiation began before she arrived.
Cast & Crew
Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Directed by: ...
We demand the world we despise.
Five contestants move into the Glass House, a fully transparent competition space where privacy is a setting you toggle and suspicion is the only currency that matters.
Cast & Crew
Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Directed by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Co-Directed by: Bliss Blank
Contestants...
They can’t clock me.
Every uniform tells a story. None of the stories are real. What matters is what they do to you: how they fit and what they unlock.
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
Ash...
I’m in complete control.
The Council isn’t watching anymore. They’re playing. And everything Ashley thinks is real was probably written by someone else.
Cast & Crew
Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Directed by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Co-Directed by: Bliss Blank
Contestants
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
Za...
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
Cont...
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
Co-Di...
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 Ca...
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: Neural Nets ...
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 shape desire. It manufactures i...
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.
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