Center
A3 E10: Center (GE25)
Summary
Meg and Tessa have entered the mirror chamber at the heart of the Sitri Institute’s dream architecture. Nyra is already there.
At the Center, the dream testing protocols, clock checks, finger counting, mirror reflection, stop functioning as tools the researchers use and start functioning as tools being used on them. That’s always been true, but inside Ur, they can say it out loud.
They have to take off everything. Pride, independent thought, everything.
Nyra or maybe Naia or maybe Dizzy greets them inside. She likes what she sees, and she’s happy to hold up the mirror.
She speaks what Meg and Tessa have internalized. Meg and Tessa know they’re already inscribed with the identities Sitri designed. Nyra names this as a beginning. The apparatus continues. The researchers will emerge into some truth. The question the episode leaves open is which truth.
Meet The Cast
| Dr. June Lowell | Bliss Blank | Chief Scientific Officer | IMDb |
| Dr. Tessa Finn | Ring Of Keys | Senior Researcher | IMDb |
| Dr. Meg Aerin | Bun Li | Senior Researcher | IMDb |
| Elle Lawson | Echo | Research Subject | IMDb |
| Iris Vale | Swirls and Twirls | Dream Team | IMDb |
| Zev Talcott (Z) | Neural Nets | Dream Architecture Director | IMDb |
| Cael | Jericho Caine | Dream Team | IMDb |
| Nyra | Dizzy Dollie | Dream Team | IMDb |
| Hespa | Syndi Rella | Dream Team | IMDb |
| Oona Reyes | Jade | Research Subject | IMDb |
| Lyra Crosswell | Flux Lynniegal | Research Subject | IMDb |
| Phoebe Bosworth | Sofi Starship | Research Subject | IMDb |
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Human Made Art
Deep Dream State uses human art direction and human creative decision-making throughout the visual and audio supply chain. Episode artwork is curated as part of the Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns archive.
Consent Declaration
Deep Dream State is a desire horror audio drama written and produced by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. Center contains dream testing inversion, mirror chamber imagery, ritual surrender, identity inscription, psychological control, coerced vulnerability, and stylized conditioning material.