Incubator ventures into sleep paralysis, succubi, and the blurred line between myth and science. Elle Lawson’s dream 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 neurocompliance.  Inside the dream, Elle meets Nyra and Hespa, voices who warn and guide her toward the figure already inside.  When Cael appears, the script shifts.

Awake, Elle confesses the terror and thrill of her paralysis dreams.  Meg prescribes mnemonic and visual induction techniques, but Elle senses the danger.  Journals become confessions, and dreams bleed into logs.  Meg’s own entries betray her complicity and her submission.
By the time June interrupts, Elle’s gasping dream-voice is indistinguishable from the staff’s ambitions.

The Sitri Center thrives on that overlap and so do the dream figures that hold you down.

Cast & Crew

Staff

Dr. June Lowell – Bliss Blank
Dr. Tessa Finn – Ring Of Keys
Dr. Meg Aerin – Bun Li
Zev Talcott (Z) – Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Cael (dream team) – Jericho Caine
Nyra (dream team) – Dizzy Dollie
Reverie (dream team) – Britt Reprogrammed
Hespa – Syndirella
Iris Vale – Swirls and Twirls

Subjects

Elle Lawson – Echo
Lyra Crosswell – Flux
Oona Reyes – Jade
Phoebe Bosworth – Sofi Starship

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ARTWORK (human, not AI gen)

Series artwork is for this arc is from Vika Glitter, under the Pixabay license.

The Deep Dream State aims to use human art at every stage of the creative supply chain.

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