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Deep Dream State

Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns

Deep Dream State is a full-cast dystopian sci-fi 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

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Arc 4: Vale Four – Cycle Two: Tell – Episode 5: Raise

Deep Dream State ·

2026/04/10

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 & Crew Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Directed by: Neural Nets and

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Arc 4: Vale Four – Episode 4: Slowplay

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2026/04/03

Arc 4: Vale Four – Tell Cycle, Episode 4: SlowplayDon’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 advertising phenomenon through the pink noir lens.

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Arc 4: Vale Four – Episode 3: Sinker

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2026/03/27

Vale Four – SinkerThe 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. June watches. Naia plants seeds and waits. Vale Four goes public. So does everything else. Cast & Crew Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty

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Arc 4: Vale Four – Episode 2: Hook Line

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2026/03/13

Vale Four – Hook LineYou 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 staff isn’t immune. They’re just self-medicating. June and Naia

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26:03

Arc 4: Vale Four – Episode 1: Refrain

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2026/03/09

Vale Four – Refrain “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 different advertising technology. They’re all real, although heavily

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Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 12: Arouse

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2025/12/21

Season Finale SummaryAll the pieces on the board. All the players revealed. One final spin. 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 their reality and the systems that have been reshaping them. As the boundaries between experiment and experimenter collapse, one final revelation reframes everything that came

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21:58

Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 11: Sync

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2025/12/14

Sync: Episode Summary At the temple’s center, succubus Nyra weaponizes lucid dreaming protocols against researchers Meg and Tessa. When they think they’ve found Ur, the dream pivots into nested false awakenings, each apparent resolution collapsing into another layer. The structure becomes the meaning: trapped in perpetual false awakenings, characters and listeners lose their footing simultaneously. Cast & Crew Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Directed by:

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21:28

Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 10: Center

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2025/12/04

Center: Episode Summary Episode 10 takes listeners into the pretty pattern at the heart of the Sitri Center, where psychological boundaries dissolve. Two researchers discover they are not alone in this space, confronted by a presence that knows their deepest vulnerabilities. The episode explores themes of identity and the mechanisms of psychological transformation. Reality becomes … Read More Read More

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Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 9: Override

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2025/11/28

Override: Episode Summary Tessa and Meg uncover a place designed to convert pleasure into data and consciousness into code. They can’t tell if it’s a factory, a temple, or both. Oona has already begun rewiring them for obedience, and the deeper system demands total surrender. The only way out is through – their own selves. … Read More Read More

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Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 8: Artifact

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2025/11/21

ARTIFACT: Episode Summary Meg Aerin and Tessa Finn are trapped in a neuroscience institute designed to break them – and it’s working. They recruit Oona Reyes, a prisoner with rare cognitive abilities, to infiltrate the institute’s deepest chambers. What begins as an escape plan spirals into a ritualistic exploration of ancient mythology woven into the … Read More Read More

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Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 7: Tether

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2025/11/03

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 … Read More Read More

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Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 6: Descendent

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2025/10/25

Episode Summary Inside the Sitri Institute, the illusion of control collapses. “Descendent” follows Meg and Tessa as they uncover the Institute’s buried architecture: corridors mapped to ancient cities, rituals replaying through dream loops, and coded panels that speak in tongues older than science. The deeper they trace Lyra’s recordings, the more those echoes leak into … Read More Read More

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Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 5: Cusp

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2025/10/11

Episode Summary Inside the Sitri Institute, control begins to fracture. “Cusp” explores the moment between awakening and surrender, where observation turns intimate and the researchers become subjects of their own experiment. When a new assistant, Elle, joins the team, her bright eagerness only deepens the cracks in the hierarchy. Dr. Tessa Finn and Meg Aerin … Read More Read More

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Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 4: Gazes Back

Deep Dream State ·

2025/09/15

Gazes Back starts with the soft sell and ends with a hard line. Elle’s “puppet” routine becomes training, stitching mantras into performance. When Meg drops, Z and Tessa step into a room that should have stayed sealed and the protocol writes them in. The fallout is administrative and intimate at once: roles adjusted, edits exposed, … Read More Read More

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Arc 1: The Chthonic – Episode 5: Shower

Deep Dream State ·

2025/09/12

Shower begins with Amanda and Brittany drifting through foggy thoughts and memories. They’re unsure what’s dream and what’s real. So are you. All you know is that the tentacles are very very VERY real. What follows is a series of rituals and revelations that tie their personal disorientation to a wider pattern. Old myths of … Read More Read More

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Arc 2: Incognitoh – Episode 6: The Chain

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2025/09/12

The finale of Arc 2. The Chain brings the experiment to its breaking point. Every connection is tested as the final contestants face the ultimate trial. What began as a game ends as revelation: identities blur, alliances collapse, and the truth of the Deep Dream State becomes harder to ignore. This concluding chapter locks every … Read More Read More

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Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 3: Incubator

Deep Dream State ·

2025/09/06

Incubator ventures into sleep paralysis, succubi, and the blurred line between myth and science. Elle Lawson’s dream locked in the Sitri Center, where research and ritual overlap. Dr. Meg Aerin treats Elle’s immobility as data. Dr. June Lowell demands metrics, not poetry, but Meg presses forward, framing Elle’s surrender as proof of neurocompliance. Inside the … Read More Read More

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Deep Dream State: A3: Sitri Center E2: Adapt

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2025/08/30

Adapt picks up where Drill left off. The subjects of the Sitri Center are asked to bend, to change, to let themselves be reshaped. What begins as a calm suggestion becomes a pattern they cannot refuse — each dream folding into the next, each voice reinforcing the same instruction. Adaptation is survival, but it also … Read More Read More

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Deep Dream State: A3: Sitri Center E1: Drill

Deep Dream State ·

2025/08/23

Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns presents Deep Dream State: Sitri Center E1 Drill, the opening chapter of an immersive audio drama where dreams become battlegrounds of control. This first episode introduces the high stakes world of the Sitri Center where scientists do more than study subconscious fears. They engineer them. Dr. Tessa Finn, ambitious and … Read More Read More

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Winner Winner (Incognitoh Episode 5)

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2025/01/19

This is the fifth episode of the Incognitoh arc. It moves to crown a winner, sees a revenge arc, a love arc, a welding arc, and sets up a few major twists. The seires concludes with an open ended CYOA for the next text arc. You can participate in deciding that. CW: gaslighting, manipulation, braindrain, … Read More Read More

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