Season Finale Summary All the pieces on the board. All the players revealed. One final spin. Arouse concludes the Sitri Center arc and completes Deep Dream State’s five-hour narrative exploration of control, desire, and surrender. The staff and subjects of the dream research institute finally confront the true nature of their reality and the systems …
Sync: Episode Summary At the temple’s center, succubus Nyra weaponizes lucid dreaming protocols against researchers Meg and Tessa. When they think they’ve found Ur, the dream pivots into nested false awakenings, each apparent resolution collapsing into another layer. The structure becomes the meaning: trapped in perpetual false awakenings, characters and listeners lose their footing simultaneously. …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Plot Outline Cusp explores the space between, where Lyra Crosswell’s obsession with liminal architecture becomes a recurring nightmare she cannot escape. In the observation chamber, Elle has been transformed into something bright and compliant, her intelligence stripped away by weeks of alignment. Dr. Meg Aerin and Dr. Tessa Finn monitor Lyra’s dreams of mezzanines, tunnels, …
Plot Outline Gazes Back transforms Elle’s puppet dream into systematic training, where mantras become muscle memory under the guidance of dream figures and an eager Tessa. The lucid dreaming techniques MILD and VILD shift from consciousness tools to compliance protocols, stitching phrases like “service is our purpose” into both waking and sleeping states. When Dr. …
Plot Outline Incubator ventures into sleep paralysis, succubi, and the blurred line between myth and science. Elle Lawson’s dreams are locked in the Sitri Center, where research and ritual overlap. Dr. Meg Aerin treats Elle’s immobility as data. Dr. June Lowell demands metrics, not poetry, but Meg presses forward, framing Elle’s surrender as proof of …