About Deep Dream State

Psychological horror audio drama. Why do we like being controlled?

The Show

Deep Dream State is a psychological horror audio drama from Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. It lives inside the Neuralverse, a shared fictional universe spanning multiple audio projects. Each arc asks the same question from a different angle: why do we enjoy being controlled?

The show uses immersive sound design, intimate performance, and carefully paced scripts to put listeners somewhere between story and experience. People report disorientation. Some use episodes for meditation or dream preparation. That ambiguity is the point.

The Arcs

Chthonic follows a wedding party aboard a luxury research vessel as dream experiments dissolve the boundary between therapy and conditioning. Dr. Meg Aerin and Dr. Tessa Finn find themselves inside the system they thought they were studying.

Incognitoh drops participants into a reality competition built on surveillance. The game watches to rewrite. Memory, identity, and authenticity come apart as contestants realize they cannot trust their own perception.

Sitri Center traces a research institute that uses ancient ritual and modern neuroscience to dismantle and reconstruct human consciousness. Patterns of control repeat across centuries.

How It's Made

Scripts are written for rhythm and cadence. Performances are intimate and direct. Sound design layers silence, ambient texture, and music to deepen immersion rather than decorate it. Pauses are long on purpose. The editing is precise. The result is closer to ritual than to conventional audio drama.

Narrative branches emerge from production rather than outline. Details in one episode become entire arcs. The story finds itself as it goes.

Where to Listen

Creator

Deep Dream State is created by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns, a writer, performer, and audio producer working at the intersection of speculative fiction, immersive sound, and desire horror.