Deep Dream State
by Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns
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Latest episode
Snap | After After | Lilies | S5E1 | GE46 | Season Premiere
Snap | After After | Lilies | S5E1 | GE46 | Season Premiere
About this podcast
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 newest 20 of 48 episodes
- Snap | After After | Lilies | S5E1 | GE46 | Season Premiere · 34 min · Season 5 Episode 1Humanity is over, and the monsters are deciding what comes next. In the Halloween premiere of Lilies, the first season of After After, succubus Tessa Finn is under investigation…
- After After | Deep Dream State | Season Five Trailer · 2 min · Season 5 Episode 1After After is the monster romance fifth season of Deep Dream State. Naia takes control of humanity’s next step, seven extrahuman factions make their case, and listeners vote on…
- Evergreen | Vale Four | S4E18 | GE45 | Season Finale · 18 min · Season 4 Episode 18I know exactly what you are. You’re trade. Evergreen is the finale of DDS’s fourth season, Vale Four. Every DDS season looks at something through the lens of desire horror. That…
- Yield | Vale Four | S4E17 | GE44 · 15 min · Season 4 Episode 17Yield kicks off with a very normal ad for Spotlight, assuming your definition of normal includes performance conditioning and Iris Vale enjoying the attention a lot too much…
- Radix | Vale Four | S4E16 | GE43 · 24 min · Season 4 Episode 16The Deep Dream State enters its final Vale Four cycle with Radix, a story about astroturfing, manufactured agreement, and the illusion of control. Naia, Tessa, June, Z, and Meg…
- Sublimate | Vale Four | S4E15 | GE42 · 25 min · Season 4 Episode 15Z releases the eager wolfgirls for the hunt while Elle and Porsche watch Tessa’s subjugation through the library’s magical surveillance system, only to realize the approaching…
- Rubido | Vale Four | S4E14 | GE41 · 22 min · Season 4 Episode 14Hubris becomes a game mechanic as every team begins to get exactly what they deserve. Team Alchemy remains in the Panoptic Library. Z keeps Team Leash ready for the hunt, with…
- Sealed | Vale Four | S4E13 | GE40 · 24 min · Season 4 Episode 13Team Alchemy trusts the map. Team Alchemy should not trust the map. Meg reads the signs; Leandra reads the room, and the room has been waiting for both of them. The library at…
- Quintessence | Vale Four | S4E12 | GE39 · 26 min · Season 4 Episode 12We see you scrying. The Deep Dream State‘s built for some fast lane changes. Whatever it’s got for handling is on display here; each scene’s drastically different. It’s all…
- Luna | Vale Four | S4E11 | GE38 · 23 min · Season 4 Episode 11Hespa and Blake have fled the island to testify, and Vale Four is sending an army of gamers after them through Snarecraft. Three teams take three different paths through the…
- Bullseye | Vale Four | S4E10 | GE37 · 34 min · Season 4 Episode 10Blake 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…
- Nock | Vale Four | S4E9 | GE36 · 20 min · Season 4 Episode 9Piper, 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…
- Quiver | Vale Four | S4E8 | GE35 · 22 min · Season 4 Episode 8We all make choices. Vale Four opens its arcade. The subjects get Kamas, get games, and lose three hours they don't remember losing.
- Trailer – Deep Dream State · 1 minThere 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…
- The River | Vale Four | S4E7 | GE34 · 21 min · Season 4 Episode 7You 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 &…
- Pot Limit | Vale Four | S4E6 | GE33 · 20 min · Season 4 Episode 6Did 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…
- Raise | Vale Four | S4E5 | GE32 · 28 min · Season 4 Episode 5Everyone 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…
- Slowplay | Vale Four | S4E4 | GE31 · 20 min · Season 4 Episode 4Don’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…
- Sinker | Vale Four | S4E3 | GE30 · 29 min · Season 4 Episode 3The 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…
- Hook Line | Vale Four | S4E2 | GE29 · 24 min · Season 4 Episode 2You 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…
