<div class="episode-cast">
<h2>Center: Episode Summary</h2>
<p>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 increasingly difficult to distinguish from constructed experience.</p>
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<h2>Cast &amp; Crew</h2>
<p><strong>Written &amp; Produced by:</strong> <a href="https://neuralnets.carrd.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a><br />
<strong>Directed by:</strong> <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17755189/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a><br />
<strong>Story by:</strong> <a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/neural-nets-and-pretty-patterns/">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a></p>
<p><strong>Staff</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17754818/">Dr. June Lowell – Bliss Blank</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/ring-of-kees/">Dr. Tessa Finn – Ring Of Keys</a><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17796355/">Dr. Meg Aerin – Bun Li</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/echo/">Elle Lawson – Echo</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/swirlsandtwirls/">Iris Vale – Swirls and Twirls</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/neural-nets-and-pretty-patterns/">Zev Talcott (Z) – Neural Nets</a></p>
<p><strong>Dream Team</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17778008/">Cael – Jericho Caine</a><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17760876/">Nyra – Dizzy Dollie</a><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17765752/">Hespa – Syndirella</a><br />
Reverie – Britt Reprogrammed</p>
<p><strong>Subjects</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/jade-wolf/">Oona Reyes – Jade</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/thespacebimbo/">Phoebe Bosworth – Sofi Starship</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/flux-lynniegal/">Lyra Crosswell – Flux Lynniegal</a></p>
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<h2>Center Episode Synopsis (spoilers)</h2>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words"><em>&#8220;Not me. Not that. But not nothing, either. A &#8216;something&#8217; that I do not recognize as a thing.&#8221;</em> (Kristeva)</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">Episode 10 presents the moment of complete dissolution. Researchers Meg and Tessa, stripped of external identity markers by their guide Oona, enter a mirror chamber where they encounter Nyra, a figure embodying their own repressed desires.  The episode refuses comfortable lines between observer and observed, victim and complicit agent.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">The script systematically deconstructs the distinction between dream and reality through clinical testing: clock checks, finger counting, mirror reflection. Yet these very tests become proof of deeper entrancement rather than proof of wakefulness. The researchers can&#8217;tescape the framework because the framework is internal.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">Nyra functions as something beyond antagonist: she is simultaneously the embodiment of their fantasy life, their accuser, and their architect. She speaks their shame aloud, naming what they have internalized and hidden. This naming is abject intimacy, grounded in her claim to know them better than they know themselves.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">The episode&#8217;s climax abandons pretense entirely. Physical and psychological boundaries collapse as the researchers discover they are already transformed, already inscribed with identities and purposes the Center has designed. What remains is not resistance but recognition of the role they&#8217;ve become.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">The final moment promises further transformation through a mechanism Nyra controls, suggesting the apparatus continues its work. The researchers will emerge fundamentally transformed.</p>
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<h2>Listen &amp; Explore</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5VVhwaymeOKbV9RG7Gre98" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Listen on Spotify</a></li>
<li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deep-dream-state/id1822405042" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Listen on Apple Podcasts</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/minderaser" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Support the creator on Patreon</a></li>
<li><a href="https://neuralnets.carrd.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Creator bio &amp; portfolio</a></li>
<li><a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/episodes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">All episodes archive</a></li>
<li><a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/cast-and-crew/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full cast &amp; crew list</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38590860/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View this series on IMDb</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt39110677">View this episode on IMDb</a></li>
<li>
<div><a href="https://isni.org/isni/0000000528776254">0000 0005 2877 6254</a></div>
</li>
<li><a href="https://musicbrainz.org/artist/134bc2e9-16e4-4b1e-b779-b9024f002882">Musicbrainz for Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bookbrainz.org/author/59c9b4e8-2b6f-4230-b631-df2b01553b42">Bookbrainz for Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a> , including <a href="https://bookbrainz.org/edition/7129df87-bacd-4a1b-9671-5b478895ee88">show script books</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h2>Human Made Art &#8211; free range!</h2>
</div>
<p>The poster image for this arc is from <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/vika_glitter-6314823/">Vika Glitter</a>, under the Pixabay license.<br />
The Deep Dream State aims to use human art at every stage of the creative supply chain.</p>
<figure id="attachment_1250" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1250" style="width: 414px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-1250" src="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Hespa-Deep-Dream-State-Character-Art.jpg" alt="Hespa deep dream state character art" width="414" height="404" srcset="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Hespa-Deep-Dream-State-Character-Art.jpg 414w, https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Hespa-Deep-Dream-State-Character-Art-300x293.jpg 300w, https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Hespa-Deep-Dream-State-Character-Art-277x270.jpg 277w" sizes="(max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1250" class="wp-caption-text">Hespa &#8211; Deep Dream State Character Art, from Echo Doll</figcaption></figure>
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<h2>Consent Declaration</h2>
<p><strong>Deep Dream State</strong> is a surreal audio drama written and produced by <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.carrd.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a>. The series merges lucid dreaming, hypnosis, and transformation into psychological fiction exploring the boundaries of control, identity, and desire.</p>
<p>All performances are works of fiction and take place within a consensual creative context.</p>
</div>
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<p><a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/arc-3-sitri-center-episode-10-center/">Source</a></p>

<description>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 … &lt;p class="read-more"&gt;&lt;a class="btn btn-default" href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/arc-3-sitri-center-episode-10-center/"&gt; Read More&lt;span class="screen-reader-text"&gt;  Read More&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Two researchers enter the Sitri Center's deepest level and confront the architect of their own dissolution.

Two researchers enter the temple at the heart of the Sitri Center and confront the architect of their own psychological transformation. Reality and constructed experience become indistinguishable as identity itself dissolves.

Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 10: Center

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<h2>Override: Episode Summary</h2>
<p>Tessa and Meg uncover a place designed to convert pleasure into data and consciousness into code. They can&#8217;t tell if it&#8217;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 &#8211; their own selves.</p>
<hr />
<h2>Cast &amp; Crew</h2>
<p><strong>Written &amp; Produced by:</strong> <a href="https://neuralnets.carrd.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a><br />
<strong>Directed by:</strong> <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17755189/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a><br />
<strong>Story by:</strong> <a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/neural-nets-and-pretty-patterns/">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a></p>
<p><strong>Staff</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17754818/">Dr. June Lowell – Bliss Blank</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/ring-of-kees/">Dr. Tessa Finn – Ring Of Keys</a><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17796355/">Dr. Meg Aerin – Bun Li</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/echo/">Elle Lawson – Echo</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/swirlsandtwirls/">Iris Vale – Swirls and Twirls</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/neural-nets-and-pretty-patterns/">Zev Talcott (Z) – Neural Nets</a></p>
<p><strong>Dream Team</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17778008/">Cael – Jericho Caine</a><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17760876/">Nyra – Dizzy Dollie</a><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17765752/">Hespa – Syndirella</a><br />
Reverie – Britt Reprogrammed</p>
<p><strong>Subjects</p>
<p></strong><a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/jade-wolf/">Oona Reyes – Jade</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/thespacebimbo/">Phoebe Bosworth – Sofi Starship</a></p>
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<h2>Override Episode Synopsis (spoilers)</h2>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words"><em>&#8220;Power is not something that is imposed on society against society&#8217;s interests; rather individuals are the vehicles of power, not its points of application.&#8221;</em> (Foucault)</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">In the opening scene, Tessa and Meg emerge from a shared dream state, disoriented and uncertain whether their intimate encounter actually happened or is a false memory implanted by the dreamspace itself. Oona, their guide within this realm, teases them about their apparent sexual connection while hinting at deeper mysteries within her favorite location: an ancient temple. As the three discuss the temple&#8217;s layout and function, Tessa and Meg begin to notice architectural parallels between the sacred space and modern computer infrastructure, recognizing that the temple&#8217;s design mirrors data centers, server rooms, and processing systems.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">The revelation deepens when they realize that the temple is not merely allegorical but a literal blueprint encoding how consciousness is processed and controlled. Meg and Tessa piece together that the &#8220;wheels&#8221; producing pleasure are actually drive systems, the ducts and pipes correspond to data channels, and the &#8220;punishment cages&#8221; align with isolation units. This recognition prompts them to understand that the dreamspace is not random or natural but deliberately designed to process human consciousness the same way machines process information. Oona confirms this insight while expressing her own fascination with the implications.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">Returning to the dreamspace in a subsequent scene, the three encounter a disturbing vision of an automated system where individuals have been transformed into perpetual sources of data and pleasure, their consciousness reduced to repeating cycles of stimulus and response. They witness figures being controlled through pleasure conditioning, their thoughts systematized into numerical patterns and codes. Tessa and Meg recognize these patterns as coordinates, a map encoded within the rhythm of the system itself. Oona and two other figures named Elle and June attempt to pull them deeper into this loop, using pleasure and conditioning to blur the line between their will and the system&#8217;s control.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">In the final section, Tessa and Meg attempt to resist but find themselves increasingly influenced by the conditioning they&#8217;ve witnessed and experienced. Oona reveals that she has &#8220;rewired&#8221; them through exposure and suggestion, reshaping their neurological responses to favor obedience and compliance. When Tessa protests that this is real manipulation, Oona reframes it as revelation rather than imposition, arguing that what they&#8217;re experiencing is simply the truth of what they already desired. She explains that passage through a deeper level of the system (called Ur) requires complete surrender: the shedding of pride, clothing, and independent thought. Oona presents this not as punishment but as the necessary cost of the knowledge they&#8217;re seeking, and Tessa and Meg, exhausted and partially conditioned, accept her guidance toward the next threshold.</p>
<hr />
<h2>Listen &amp; Explore</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5VVhwaymeOKbV9RG7Gre98" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Listen on Spotify</a></li>
<li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deep-dream-state/id1822405042" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Listen on Apple Podcasts</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/minderaser" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Support the creator on Patreon</a></li>
<li><a href="https://neuralnets.carrd.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Creator bio &amp; portfolio</a></li>
<li><a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/episodes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">All episodes archive</a></li>
<li><a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/cast-and-crew/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full cast &amp; crew list</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38590860/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View this series on IMDb</a></li>
<li>
<div><a href="https://isni.org/isni/0000000528776254">0000 0005 2877 6254</a></div>
</li>
<li><a href="https://musicbrainz.org/artist/134bc2e9-16e4-4b1e-b779-b9024f002882">Musicbrainz for Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bookbrainz.org/author/59c9b4e8-2b6f-4230-b631-df2b01553b42">Bookbrainz for Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a> , including <a href="https://bookbrainz.org/edition/7129df87-bacd-4a1b-9671-5b478895ee88">show script books</a></li>
</ul>
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<h2>Human Made Art &#8211; free range!</h2>
</div>
<p>Series artwork for this arc is from <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/vika_glitter-6314823/">Vika Glitter</a>, under the Pixabay license.<br />
The Deep Dream State aims to use human art at every stage of the creative supply chain.</p>
<figure id="attachment_961" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-961" style="width: 414px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-961" src="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Nyra-Deep-Dream-State-Character-Art.jpg" alt="Nyra deep dream state character ar" width="414" height="404" srcset="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Nyra-Deep-Dream-State-Character-Art.jpg 414w, https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Nyra-Deep-Dream-State-Character-Art-300x293.jpg 300w, https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Nyra-Deep-Dream-State-Character-Art-277x270.jpg 277w" sizes="(max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-961" class="wp-caption-text">Nyra &#8211; Deep Dream State Character Art</figcaption></figure>
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<h2>Consent Declaration</h2>
<p><strong>Deep Dream State</strong> is a surreal audio drama written and produced by <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.carrd.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a>. The series merges lucid dreaming, hypnosis, and transformation into psychological fiction exploring the boundaries of control, identity, and desire.</p>
<p>All performances are works of fiction and take place within a consensual creative context.</p>
</div>
</div>

<p><a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/arc-3-sitri-center-episode-9-override/">Source</a></p>

<description>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. … &lt;p class="read-more"&gt;&lt;a class="btn btn-default" href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/arc-3-sitri-center-episode-9-override/"&gt; Read More&lt;span class="screen-reader-text"&gt;  Read More&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Bliss or brainwashing? The system doesn't care which you choose.

Tessa and Meg realize their dream temple is actually a data processor designed to convert consciousness into code. Oona has rewired them for compliance, and deeper layers of the system await those willing to surrender everything. The only way through is to stop resisting and start saying yes.

Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 9: Override

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<h2>ARTIFACT: Episode Summary</h2>
<p>Meg Aerin and Tessa Finn are trapped in a neuroscience institute designed to break them &#8211; and it&#8217;s working. They recruit Oona Reyes, a prisoner with rare cognitive abilities, to infiltrate the institute&#8217;s deepest chambers. What begins as an escape plan spirals into a ritualistic exploration of ancient mythology woven into the facility&#8217;s experimental technology. They discover the true canonical meaning of &#8220;treatstick&#8221; and the hidden history of the wheel. The episode blends scientific ambition, psychological manipulation, and the dangerous allure of forbidden knowledge.</p>
<hr />
<h2>Cast &amp; Crew</h2>
<h2>Cast &amp; Crew</h2>
<p><strong>Written &amp; Produced by:</strong> <a href="https://neuralnets.carrd.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a><br />
<strong>Directed by:</strong> <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17755189/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a><br />
<strong>Story by:</strong> <a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/neural-nets-and-pretty-patterns/">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a></p>
<p><strong>Staff</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17754818/">Dr. June Lowell – Bliss Blank</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/ring-of-kees/">Dr. Tessa Finn – Ring Of Keys</a><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17796355/">Dr. Meg Aerin – Bun Li</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/echo/">Elle Lawson – Echo</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/swirlsandtwirls/">Iris Vale – Swirls and Twirls</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/neural-nets-and-pretty-patterns/">Zev Talcott (Z) – Neural Nets</a></p>
<p><strong>Dream Team</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17778008/">Cael – Jericho Caine</a><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17760876/">Nyra – Dizzy Dollie</a><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17765752/">Hespa – Syndirella</a><br />
Reverie – Britt Reprogrammed</p>
<p><strong>Subjects</p>
<p></strong><a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/jade-wolf/">Oona Reyes – Jade</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/thespacebimbo/">Phoebe Bosworth – Sofi Starship</a></p>
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<h2>ARTIFACT: Episode Synopsis (spoilers)</h2>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words"><em>&#8220;It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.&#8221;</em> (Émile Durkheim)</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">Meg Aerin and Tessa Finn are trapped within a neuroscience institute that has systematically dismantled their identities. Their plan is simple: gather evidence of the organization&#8217;s crimes by infiltrating its deepest experimental chambers. But accessing the truth requires descending into a system where dreams are weaponized, where ancient ritual fuses with modern technology, and where understanding the machinery demands immersion in it.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">The turning point arrives with Oona Reyes: a prisoner with anomalous cognitive abilities who can anchor multiple subjects into shared dream states. Rather than simply aiding an escape, Oona proposes descending deeper into the institute&#8217;s classified systems to gather intelligence. What unfolds is a negotiation between coercion, consent, and the seduction of transgressive knowledge, where the boundaries between therapy, research, and exploitation become deliberately blurred.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">The narrative culminates in a descent into the institute&#8217;s core mythology, revealed through the architecture of its experimental chambers. The facility has integrated ancient Sumerian religious symbols and ritual frameworks into its technology, creating a space where historical religious practice, modern neuroscience, and controlled transgression converge. The episode suggests that the institute&#8217;s power derives not from technological innovation alone, but from its ability to map ancient forms of ritualized experience onto contemporary consciousness research. This fusion represents both the sophistication of the operation and the profound vulnerability of subjects who become absorbed in its constructed realities.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">By the episode&#8217;s end, the line between investigation and participation has dissolved entirely. The characters discover that understanding the institute&#8217;s methods requires not resistance but immersion into its ritualistic structures. &#8220;Artifact&#8221; thus poses a troubling question: whether accessing forbidden knowledge always requires the sacrifice of the self, and whether resistance can exist within a system designed to make submission feel like discovery.</p>
<hr />
<h2>Listen &amp; Explore</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5VVhwaymeOKbV9RG7Gre98" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Listen on Spotify</a></li>
<li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deep-dream-state/id1822405042" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Listen on Apple Podcasts</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/minderaser" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Support the creator on Patreon</a></li>
<li><a href="https://neuralnets.carrd.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Creator bio &amp; portfolio</a></li>
<li><a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/episodes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">All episodes archive</a></li>
<li><a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/cast-and-crew/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full cast &amp; crew list</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt39054103" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View this episode on IMDb</a></li>
<li>
<div><a href="https://isni.org/isni/0000000528776254">0000 0005 2877 6254</a></div>
</li>
<li><a href="https://musicbrainz.org/artist/134bc2e9-16e4-4b1e-b779-b9024f002882">Musicbrainz for Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bookbrainz.org/author/59c9b4e8-2b6f-4230-b631-df2b01553b42">Bookbrainz for Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a> , including <a href="https://bookbrainz.org/edition/7129df87-bacd-4a1b-9671-5b478895ee88">show script books</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h2>Human Made Art &#8211; free range!</h2>
</div>
<p>Series artwork for this arc is from <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/vika_glitter-6314823/">Vika Glitter</a>, under the Pixabay license.<br />
The Deep Dream State aims to use human art at every stage of the creative supply chain.</p>
<figure id="attachment_961" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-961" style="width: 414px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-961" src="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Nyra-Deep-Dream-State-Character-Art.jpg" alt="Nyra deep dream state character ar" width="414" height="404" srcset="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Nyra-Deep-Dream-State-Character-Art.jpg 414w, https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Nyra-Deep-Dream-State-Character-Art-300x293.jpg 300w, https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Nyra-Deep-Dream-State-Character-Art-277x270.jpg 277w" sizes="(max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-961" class="wp-caption-text">Nyra &#8211; Deep Dream State Character Art</figcaption></figure>
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<p><strong>Deep Dream State</strong> is a surreal audio drama written and produced by <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.carrd.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a>. The series merges lucid dreaming, hypnosis, and transformation into psychological fiction exploring the boundaries of control, identity, and desire.</p>
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<description>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 … &lt;p class="read-more"&gt;&lt;a class="btn btn-default" href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/arc-3-sitri-center-episode-8-artifact/"&gt; Read More&lt;span class="screen-reader-text"&gt;  Read More&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Some doors were never meant to be opened.

Meg Aerin and Tessa Finn are prisoners of the mind. Trapped in a neuroscience institute that has erased their names and broken their will, they've learned to survive in a system designed to make them complicit in their own destruction. But when they encounter Oona Reyes, a woman who moves through dreams like a ghost through walls, everything changes. Together, they descend into the institute's deepest secret: a fusion of ancient ritual and modern technology, where the line between investigation and participation dissolves. What they uncover isn't just evidence of a crime. It's a doorway to something older, stranger, and far more seductive than escape. Some thresholds, once crossed, reshape everything they thought they were.

Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 8: Artifact

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<h2>Episode Summary</h2>
<p>In <em>“Tether”</em>, 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.</p>
<p>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 labyrinth that no one can step out of unchanged.</p>
<p>The story threads ancient archetypes through clinical precision, invoking the myth of Ariadne’s thread as the researchers realize they may be both observer and subject, scientist and offering. By the end, the Sitri Center feels less like an institution and more like a consciousness of its own.  This is a dream that remembers, responds, and reawakens.</p>
<p><em>“Tether”</em> continues <em>Deep Dream State: Sitri Center</em>, following the events of <a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/deep-dream-state-arc-2-episode-6-descendent/">Episode 6: Descendent</a>, as the dream tightens its grip and the Institute begins to hum with life beneath its walls.</p>
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<h2>Cast &amp; Crew</h2>
<p><strong>Written &amp; Produced by:</strong> <a href="https://neuralnets.carrd.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a><br />
<strong>Directed by:</strong> <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17755189/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a><br />
<strong>Story by:</strong> <a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/neural-nets-and-pretty-patterns/">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a></p>
<p><strong>Staff</strong><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17754818/">Dr. June Lowell – Bliss Blank</a><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17839622/">Dr. Tessa Finn – Ring Of Kees</a><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17796355/">Dr. Meg Aerin – Bun Li</a><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17822435/">Elle Lawson – Echo Doll</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/swirlsandtwirls/">Iris Vale – Swirls and Twirls</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/neural-nets-and-pretty-patterns/">Zev Talcott (Z) – Neural Nets</a></p>
<p><strong>Subjects</strong><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17796354/">Lyra Crosswell – Flux</a><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17764360/">Oona Reyes – Jade</a><br />
<a href="https://linktr.ee/thespacebarbie">Phoebe Bosworth – Sofi Starship</a></p>
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<p>Series artwork for this arc is from <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/vika_glitter-6314823/">Vika Glitter</a>, under the Pixabay license.<br />
The Deep Dream State aims to use human art at every stage of the creative supply chain.</p>
<figure id="attachment_964" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-964" style="width: 414px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-964" src="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Cael-Deep-Dream-State-Character-Art.jpg" alt="Cael deep dream state character art" width="414" height="404" srcset="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Cael-Deep-Dream-State-Character-Art.jpg 414w, https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Cael-Deep-Dream-State-Character-Art-300x293.jpg 300w, https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Cael-Deep-Dream-State-Character-Art-277x270.jpg 277w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-964" class="wp-caption-text">Cael &#8211; Deep Dream State Character Art</figcaption></figure>
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<h2>Consent Declaration</h2>
<p><strong>Deep Dream State</strong> is a surreal audio drama written and produced by <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.carrd.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a>. The series merges lucid dreaming, hypnosis, and transformation into psychological fiction exploring the boundaries of control, identity, and desire.</p>
<p>All performances are works of fiction and take place within a consensual creative context.</p>
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<h2>Plot Synopsis (spoilers)</h2>
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<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">&#8220;The psychoanalyst&#8217;s couch becomes merely another version of this bondage, another space where a woman&#8217;s reality is rewritten according to the desires and theories of those with institutional power.&#8221;</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">— Juliet Mitchell, <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2000-16968-000"><em>Psychoanalysis and Feminism</em></a></p>
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<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">At the Sitri Institute, researchers Meg and Tessa confront a disturbing discovery that seems to expose the darkest secrets of the facility itself. In a heated session conducted under the watchful eye of their apparent superior, Dr. June Lowell, they believe they&#8217;ve finally understood the mechanisms of control operating within these walls, a nightmare scenario they think they can document and comprehend. They speak with clinical precision about manipulation, about the architecture of coercion, about subjects and observers maintaining professional distance. But their certainty shatters when they recognize the machinery they&#8217;re describing is already operating on them. Their own speech becomes evidence of their subjugation. They realize, too late, that they&#8217;ve been operating inside a Freudian nightmare parlor, where the line between investigation and entrapment has already collapsed. There is no outside position from which to observe; observation itself is the trap.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">Before Meg and Tessa can fully process this revelation, before they can articulate what has happened to them, a new case file arrives across their desk: Oona Reyes, thirty-two, former TikTok wellness celebrity and TempleBridge facilitator. The dossier is extensive, remarkably so. It chronicles her mercurial career trajectory: pole dancer to fitness influencer, then breakout digital fame, then wellness guru, and finally something the legal system struggled to categorize. The file details her involvement in intensive retreats that employed experimental mind synchronization headbands and synchronized dreaming protocols. Participants would spend weeks in shared sleep states, their brainwaves aligned through proprietary technology, their unconscious minds woven together in what cult exit counselors would later describe as &#8220;dream linking.&#8221; Legal documents confirm a deferred prosecution agreement. Oona had been fortunate enough, the file notes with clinical detachment, to draw a sympathetic judge. But the true scope of what occurred during those weeks-long retreats remains partially obscured by legal redactions and institutional discretion.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">As Meg and Tessa begin examining Oona&#8217;s archived case materials, they uncover evidence of something far more sophisticated than typical cult manipulation. The dream linking achieved by Oona&#8217;s group wasn&#8217;t psychological theater, it was a functional technology of consciousness itself. Multiple participants reported not merely similar dreams but identical dream narratives, identical landscapes, identical voices. Eight individuals entered a unified trance state and emerged having shared the same nocturnal experiences. In those shared dreams, Oona&#8217;s voice became ubiquitous, repetitive, mantric. Participants spoke of kneeling circles at dawn, of synchronized breathing, of waking uncertain whether they had been subjects in someone else&#8217;s dream or dreamers themselves. One participant described the experience as &#8220;a consciousness that was no longer individual but distributed across all of us, thinking through all of us at once.&#8221;</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">But as the researchers dig deeper into Oona&#8217;s methodology, they begin to recognize something chilling: the architecture of her experiments is mirrored precisely in the protocols of the Sitri Institute itself. The synchronized dreaming techniques she pioneered are not so different from the observation chambers where Meg and Tessa now work. The mantric repetition, the careful documentation, the blurring of roles between facilitator and participant. These patterns are not unique to Oona&#8217;s criminal enterprise. They are structural features of the Institution. The nightmare parlor does not contain Oona&#8217;s work; Oona&#8217;s work is merely one manifestation of a much larger machinery.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">The researchers come to understand that the Sitri Institute is not an institution observing pathology from a position of clinical safety. It is itself a technology of control, a Freudian nightmare made institutional. Every interview is an interrogation. Every session is a conditioning. The distinction between researcher and research subject has never truly existed; it has merely been deferred, postponed, awaiting the moment when the difference would be revealed as illusory. Meg and Tessa&#8217;s investigation into Oona Reyes is not an act of professional inquiry. It is another loop in the machinery, another iteration of the dream from which they cannot wake.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">By the end of the session, Meg and Tessa understand that to know Oona&#8217;s crimes requires confronting the machinery of their own Institution, and confronting that machinery means acknowledging their complicity in it, their willing participation in systems of control so sophisticated that investigation itself becomes another form of capture. The Sitri Center, they realize, is not seeking to cure or understand Oona. It is seeking to absorb her techniques, to perfect them, to integrate them into its own apparatus. And Meg and Tessa, by investigating, are not exposing this machinery. They are refining it.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words">The nightmare does not end with revelation. It deepens.</p>
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<description>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 … &lt;p class="read-more"&gt;&lt;a class="btn btn-default" href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/arc-3-sitri-center-episode-7-tether/"&gt; Read More&lt;span class="screen-reader-text"&gt;  Read More&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

When the dream knows what you do at night.

In Tether, the Sitri Institute’s dream experiments unravel into ritual, where science and submission blur into one hypnotic descent. As researchers and subjects merge, the maze of consciousness reveals who was truly in control all along.

Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 7: Tether

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<p>Inside the Sitri Institute, the illusion of control collapses. <em>“Descendent”</em> 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.</p>
<p>The deeper they trace Lyra’s recordings, the more those echoes leak into waking life. Confessions, tapes, and memories blur; experiments become possessions. The mythic stations (Sippar, Kutha, Eanna, Ereshkigal, and Ur) resurface not as metaphors but coordinates, gateways leading downward into something that remembers them.</p>
<p>While Meg clings to procedure, Tessa begins to believe. Each revelation feels lived before, each door more familiar. Beneath the clinical language, their descent becomes personal, erotic, and inevitable.</p>
<p><em>“Descendent”</em> marks the moment the researchers stop observing the dream and start serving it. The Sitri Center itself begins to awaken.</p>
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<h2>Cast &amp; Crew</h2>
<p><strong>Written &amp; Produced by:</strong> <a href="https://neuralnets.carrd.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a><br />
<strong>Directed by:</strong> <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17755189/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a><br />
<strong>Story by:</strong> <a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/neural-nets-and-pretty-patterns/">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a></p>
<p><strong>Staff</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17754818/">Dr. June Lowell – Bliss Blank</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/ring-of-kees/">Dr. Tessa Finn – Ring Of Keys</a><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17796355/">Dr. Meg Aerin – Bun Li</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/echo/">Elle Lawson – Echo</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/swirlsandtwirls/">Iris Vale – Swirls and Twirls</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/neural-nets-and-pretty-patterns/">Zev Talcott (Z) – Neural Nets</a></p>
<p><strong>Dream Team</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17778008/">Cael – Jericho Caine</a><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17760876/">Nyra – Dizzy Dollie</a><br />
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17765752/">Hespa – Syndirella</a><br />
Reverie – Britt Reprogrammed</p>
<p><strong>Subjects </strong></p>
<p><a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/flux-lynniegal/">Lyra Crosswell – Flux</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/jade-wolf/">Oona Reyes – Jade</a><br />
<a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/thespacebimbo/">Phoebe Bosworth – Sofi Starship</a></p>
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<p>Series artwork for this arc is from <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/vika_glitter-6314823/">Vika Glitter</a>, under the Pixabay license.</p>
<p>Additional artwork is provided by <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17822435/">Echo Doll.</a></p>
<figure id="attachment_961" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-961" style="width: 279px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-961" src="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Nyra-Deep-Dream-State-Character-Art.jpg" alt="Nyra deep dream state character ar" width="279" height="272" srcset="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Nyra-Deep-Dream-State-Character-Art.jpg 414w, https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Nyra-Deep-Dream-State-Character-Art-300x293.jpg 300w, https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Nyra-Deep-Dream-State-Character-Art-277x270.jpg 277w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-961" class="wp-caption-text"><strong>Nyra </strong></figcaption></figure>
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<p><strong>Deep Dream State</strong> is a surreal audio drama written and produced by <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.carrd.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a>. The series merges lucid dreaming, hypnosis, and transformation into psychological fiction exploring the boundaries of control, identity, and desire.</p>
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<description>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 … &lt;p class="read-more"&gt;&lt;a class="btn btn-default" href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/arc-3-sitri-center-episode-6-descendent/"&gt; Read More&lt;span class="screen-reader-text"&gt;  Read More&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Meg and Tessa trace a hidden dream map through the Sitri Center, where myth, memory, and experiment converge into descent.

Inside the Sitri Institute, Meg and Tessa uncover a network of corridors mapped to ancient cities, where dream experiments cross into ritual. Descendent follows their fall from scientific distance into belief, as the dream itself begins to take control.

Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 6: Descendent

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