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Deep Dream State

by Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns

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.

Latest episodes

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After After | Deep Dream State | Season Five Trailer

After 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

Sep 4
2 min

Evergreen | Vale Four | S4E18 | GE45 | Season Finale

I 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 hor

Aug 28
18 min

Yield | Vale Four | S4E17 | GE44

Yield 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 m

Aug 21
15 min

Radix | Vale Four | S4E16 | GE43

The 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, a

Aug 16
23 min

Sublimate | Vale Four | S4E15 | GE42

Z 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 approa

Aug 8
25 min

Rubido | Vale Four | S4E14 | GE41

Hubris 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,

Jul 31
21 min

Sealed | Vale Four | S4E13 | GE40

Team 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 libra

Jul 25
24 min

Quintessence | Vale Four | S4E12 | GE39

We 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

Jul 18
25 min

Luna | Vale Four | S4E11 | GE38

Hespa 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

Jul 11
23 min

Bullseye | Vale Four | S4E10 | GE37

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 Ander

Jun 12
33 min

Nock | Vale Four | S4E9 | GE36

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 gett

Jun 5
20 min

Quiver | Vale Four | S4E8 | GE35

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

May 18
21 min

Trailer – Deep Dream State

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

May 1
1 min

The River | Vale Four | S4E7 | GE34

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. C

Apr 29
20 min

Pot Limit | Vale Four | S4E6 | GE33

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

Apr 16
20 min

Raise | Vale Four | S4E5 | GE32

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 kno

Apr 10
27 min

Slowplay | Vale Four | S4E4 | GE31

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

Apr 3
20 min

Sinker | Vale Four | S4E3 | GE30

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

Mar 27
28 min

Hook Line | Vale Four | S4E2 | GE29

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 au

Mar 13
23 min

Refrain (Premiere) | Vale Four | S4E1 | GE28

“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 storytellin

Mar 9
26 min

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#75
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5
days in the top 100 since Jun 2025

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#168 ▲ 8 Science Fiction US

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