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Official Radix poster for Deep Dream State GE43: a glowing orange ring in a dark red organic surface, a hand reaching through its center, and RADIX across the image.
Radix | Vale Four | S4E16 | GE43

Radix | Vale Four | S4E16 | GE43

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The pattern’s what matters.

Deep Dream State is all coming together, or it’s all falling apart. It’s hard to tell which.

Grassroots is the final Cycle of Vale Four. In a few episodes, the season will be resolved.

Each Cycle is about a different advertising phenomenon, made “thinkykinky.” The show looks at a different fictionalized technology of control and asks the same question: “Why would anyone want this?”

We’re finishing out the season with astroturfing. Astroturfing’s the practice of making planned support look natural and organic. It’s been around for decades, but it’s really accelerated in an era of algorithmic mass manufacture of opinion.

Radix imagines some different takes on the show itself. Behind-the-scenes audio segments give listeners a whole different take on what the show means. Sections of the episode are designed to sound like they’re off-mic bloopers or candid fragments.

They aren’t. The possibilities outlined here are still within the fictional frame. The producer is not in a torrid dynamic with star VA Dizzy Dollie. Dizzy Dollie also ALWAYS gets her lines in on time. The script was not written by an enemies-to-lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers writing team. The Deep Dream State show might have a serious meta kink, but we know it’s always important to stay rooted.

Radix brings Naia Anderson into the final movement of Vale Four, where advertising technology, behavioral conditioning, and manufactured agreement increasingly blur together. Tessa Fine and June Lowell move through shifting layers of performance while the familiar clicker makes control itself difficult to locate. Meg Aerin observes the pattern from another layer, connecting repetition to the behavioral machinery that has shaped the season. The Grassroots Cycle turns astroturfing into desire horror, asking whether apparently organic choices remain meaningful when the pattern has already been engineered.

State Of The Dream

  1. Thank you to all the listeners. We surpassed 50k downloads this week, which is huge for an independent audio drama. We’re delighted!
  2. Deep Dream State is not safe for work. This is by design. The documentation and websites are all SFW. That’s also by design; we believe in freedom of expression but only under conditions of informed consent. No blindsiding.
  3. This episode in particular should be approached via informed disclosure. We move into the Neural / Dizzy dynamic at the three-minute mark, with the door open. The door’s certainly open for the Kees / Bliss scene as well. Just remember that the doors are still opening onto a stage.
  4. Deep Dream State refuses niches. This episode has strong elements of comedy, thriller, and desire horror. We like to think that the movement across genres achieves unique effects that lane following never could. Say what you will, but there is a LOT here.
  5. Deep Dream State is extremely full cast. We’ve cast over 50 people at this point. We’re proud of our status as an artistic outlet and resume builder for so many VAs. If that potentially interests you, please use the audition form or email deepdreamstates@gmail.com.
  6. I am the showrunner, writer, sound designer, editor, publicist, and director. I play the character Z as an actor. I play myself in this episode, but as a fictional character. My creative stage name is Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns (ISNI 0000 0005 2877 6254). I am one person, not a collective or duo. I took the name on tumblr before gen ai was much of a thing; it’s just a pun.

Cast & Crew

Written, produced, directed, sound designed, and edited by Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns.

Dizzy Dollie as Naia | Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns as Z | Bliss Blank as June Lowell | Ring of Kees as Tessa Fine | Bun Li as Meg Aerin

EPISODE LINKS

Radix on NNPP | Blubrry | IMDb | MusicBrainz | Spotify | Apple Podcasts

Radix is the sixteenth episode of Season 4 of Deep Dream State, a desire horror and monster romance audio drama by Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns. It is part of Season 4: Vale Four, Grassroots Cycle. S4E16 / GE43.

SHOW LINKS

Deep Dream State | Vale Four | DDS Glossary | Scripts Index | Neuralpedia | Support the Show on Patreon | Deep Dream State on IMDb | Deep Dream State on MusicBrainz | Wikidata | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | RSS

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Human Made Art

The poster image for this arc is from Sunrise Forever on Pixabay, under the Pixabay license. Layer art overlays are used to vary each iteration of the image. Deep Dream State uses human art at every stage of the creative supply chain.

Consent Declaration

Deep Dream State is a desire horror audio drama written and produced by Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns. It explores psychological fiction at the boundaries of control, identity, and complicity. The elements depicted are fictional and intentional. All performances are works of fiction and take place within a consensual creative context. ISNI 0000 0005 2877 6254.

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Gazes Back | Sitri Center | S3E4 | GE19

Gazes Back | Sitri Center | S3E4 | GE19

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The program needs that data – raw.

Elle’s dream training has become protocol. Tessa is running the sessions and the line between researcher and subject has moved again without anyone filing the paperwork. When Dr. Lowell declares the program a failure, Meg enters the chamber as a contrasting profile – and finds out she was always the template.

The Sitri Institute doesn’t just shape desire. It manufactures it, then hands you a pen.

Cast & Crew

Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Directed by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns

Principal Cast

Analysis

The Sitri Center stops being a place things happen to subjects and becomes a place that happens to everyone inside it. Meg entered the chamber believing that choosing her own phrase gave her control over the variables. The phrase was never the variable. The institute was already running its pattern througha her before she agreed to anything, and the dream just made the data visible. Hespa’s correction – “You’re the template” – is the real takeaway: the researchers were always the most legible subjects, because they understood the mechanism well enough to internalize it completely.

The journal editing is the episode’s quietest horror. Tessa does not fabricate Meg’s desires. She curates them, selects the passages that show alignment and corrects the cadence of the ones that don’t, until the record reflects a coherent arc of willing participation. This is how panoptic control operates at its most effective.

The confession letter that closes the episode is the most precise description of complicity. Meg admits to everything – the unauthorized files, the simulations, the tampered logs, the attempts to discredit Tessa – and then asks to stay anyway. The horror is not that she was broken. The horror is that she was already this person before the chamber, and the institute simply gave her a form to fill out.

Full Summary (with spoilers)

The episode opens inside Elle’s dream. The figures mock her eagerness while rewarding her compliance. When Cael demands a second figure join her, Nyra summons Tessa – reimagined here as Teehee, a dream-self who introduces Elle to the lucid dreaming techniques MILD and VILD. In the Sitri Center’s hands these are not consciousness tools. They are compliance protocols.  When Cael summons them both into his chamber, their voices chant in unison, dream logic and institutional language fully merged.

Elle surfaces to find Tessa standing over her, having already overridden the monitoring feed to prevent the research team from seeing Elle’s physical reenactment. Tessa is not concerned. She is impressed. She describes her own conditioning in careful, almost fond detail.  Both women realize they have been appearing in each other’s dreams. Tessa does not treat this as a warning. She treats it as evidence the program is working.

In the observation chamber, Dr. June Lowell declares the program a failure. Elle’s escalation is nonlinear. Her dream journals contain phrases written for hours at a stretch. When Meg deflects blame onto the subject, June asks who the perfect subject would actually be, and Tessa offers quietly that it should be someone who understands all of it. June proposes Meg enter the chamber herself to provide a contrasting profile. Meg agrees on the condition that she chooses her own phrase and anchor. Tessa offers to lace her in. Meg accepts with the resignation of someone who already knows the weight of what she is agreeing to.

Inside Meg’s dream, Nyra and Hespa greet her as someone who always comes back. Cael tells her she brought them with her. When Meg insists she is not a subject, Hespa corrects her without hesitation: she is the template. In the waking chamber, Z and Tessa enter while Meg lies paralyzed and aware, treating her presence as negligible. Tessa notices Meg’s physical response and hears her repeating a phrase back into the room.

The observation chamber confrontation that follows is conducted entirely on Tessa’s terms. June reads from Meg’s journals – journals Tessa has been quietly editing, correcting the cadence, cleaning up for clarity, showing alignment where Meg wrote resistance. Meg protests that the words have been twisted. Tessa notes cheerfully that she was quoting. Z frames the whole exchange as validation of Meg’s own scholarship: alignment is the most effective indicator of dream compliance, and Meg’s subconscious has been demonstrating it for weeks. The demotion is presented as realignment. The position structure has already been updated. The access codes have already been changed. Tessa offers to help with the letter.

The episode closes with Meg’s confession to the Sitri Institute’s adjudicating board. She admits to keeping unauthorized files, building simulations, annotating her own responses, and tampering with logs to make Tessa appear unstable. She confesses that she stopped pretending her work was clinical and acknowledges that she tried to manipulate records to reclaim control she never truly possessed. Her letter ends not with a resignation but with a plea to remain inside the protocol in any capacity. The final line is simply “Please. Let me stay.”

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Human Made Art

Series artwork for this arc is from Vika Glitter on Pixabay, under the Pixabay license. Deep Dream State uses human art at every stage of the creative supply chain.

Consent Declaration

Deep Dream State is a desire horror audio drama written and produced by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. It explores psychological fiction at the boundaries of control, identity, and complicity. The elements depicted are fictional and intentional. Gazes Back contains adult scenes. All performances are works of fiction and take place within a consensual creative context. ISNI 0000 0005 2877 6254

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Sticker-style text “Chthonic E4: Asunder” with fractured lettering, outlined in white.
Asunder | The Chthonic | S1E4 | GE4

Asunder | The Chthonic | S1E4 | GE4

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There is a world behind this world. You just need to look in the mirror.

The ceremony is not for any human bride. The midnight rite binds flesh and will in a covenant older than the ship or the civilization that built it. Emma stands at the altar, and the abyss has been waiting.

Cast & Crew

Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Co-Produced by: Bliss Blank

Ship’s Crew

Guests

Archive : A Note on The Dream Index

Deep Dream State uses an index system to give you more information about the show. We strive for clarity. /sincere

Each episode has a Global ID — its position in the Deep Dream State chronological sequence. Simple count. That’s the number you’d see on IMDb or in the MusicBrainz catalogue. It also corresponds to the episode numbering in the RSS feed and podcast apps — when Apple Podcasts or Spotify show you a number, that’s the Global ID.

Each episode also has a Local ID, which includes:

  • Arc — the season. This is the standard season designation you’d see on Apple Podcasts.
  • Cycle — the subject group of episodes within an arc, specific to Deep Dream State.
  • Episode — its number within the arc. This matches the episode numbering in RSS feeds and iTunes.

This episode is #4. That’s the Global ID.

This episode is also A1C2E4. It’s in the Chthonic arc (Arc 1), the Ceremony Cycle (Cycle 2). It’s episode 4 within that arc.

If you find the archive system confusing, you can just refer to the Global Number and it’ll be fine.

Episode Summary

Asunder unfolds at the height of the Chthonic cruise. The passengers are summoned to a midnight ceremony led by Captain Dyer and Olivia, the ship’s Cruise Director. The bride Emma stands trembling on the threshold of the ship’s altar, surrounded by bridesmaids who chant in voices no longer entirely their own.

The sea answers, and the wedding march becomes an invocation.

The crew call down forces from beneath the waves, binding flesh and will in a rite older than the ship or the civilization that built it. Tentacles, hymns, and deep harmonics mingle as devotion gives way to something that hasn’t got a human word at all.

Olivia and Holly guide the ritual with unsettling precision while Kara, a supernatural guest, warns of what lies deeper than the ceremony itself. Their exchange exposes the fault line the episode’s been building toward: a struggle between those who’d claim the abyss and those who’d dissolve within it. The Captain preaches that the old order’s made of sand. What rises from the deep obeys older laws entirely, and the crew respond in ecstatic unison.

Emma accepts the abyss within her, renouncing the boundaries of self for something vast and ancient and patient.

Within the Neuralverse, Asunder is a pivotal revelation. It exposes the dystopian vision at the heart of Deep Dream State and foreshadows the darker architectures of Incognitoh and Sitri Center. Every subsequent arc carries its fingerprints: ancient covenant, ecstatic surrender, the moment human ambition meets something that was never human at all.

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Human Made Art

Series artwork for this arc was created by Echo Doll in collaboration with Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. Deep Dream State uses human art at every stage of the creative supply chain.

Content Warnings

Adult production. Cosmic horror, ritual transformation, devotional surrender, encounters with ancient non-human entities.

Consent Declaration

Deep Dream State is a desire horror audio drama written and produced by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. It explores psychological fiction at the boundaries of control, identity, and complicity. All performances are scripted works of fiction in which consent is clearly stated. ISNI 0000 0005 2877 6254

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Sticker-style text “Chthonic E3: Veil” in frilly lettering.
Veil | The Chthonic | S1E3 | GE3

Veil | The Chthonic | S1E3 | GE3

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There is a world behind this world. All you have to do is pull back the veil.

Welcome back to The Chthonic, the arc that launched the Deep Dream State.

Deep Dream State is the only active, serialized erotic audio drama on the open web. Created by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns,

 

CAST

Ship’s Crew

Guests

Episode Summary

Veil is a full-cast cosmic horror story where a cruise ship vacation becomes something far older and far stranger.

After an unbearable karaoke night and a round of seashell shots, Kara, Sarah, and Emma slip away from the noise and through a metal door into the ship’s instrument room. The ship’s purser Selene, resident mystic and reluctant guide, warns them they shouldn’t be there. The room hums with sonar pings and distant whale calls that sound almost alive. It listens, she says.

Drawn by the sound, Kara insists the songs are familiar. Selene explains they’re bowhead calls, guardians of the deep places. When Kara mentions hearing them in dreams, Selene lowers her voice: legends say the whales keep watch over the abyss, over R’lyeh.

The words ignite something in Kara that won’t go quiet. Something ancient has already started listening back.

The next day the group joins a hushed archaeological excursion led by Mairead, who warns them to stay on the marked path through the glacial tunnels. Kara wanders toward glowing runes that seem to recognize her. A stone door grinds open, separating her from the others. Inside, carvings of women shift in the flicker of their flashlights, the faces gradually resolving into their own. Curiosity becomes terror when the reliefs begin to move and the abyss answers Kara‘s call.

What follows is a fevered initiation. Tentacled forms rise from the dark and claim the explorers one by one, rewriting flesh and memory in ecstatic surrender. Kara becomes their conduit, declaring that the naditu have returned. The chamber echoes with chants and the sonar’s rising chorus until Captain Dyer and Olivia appear.

The ceremony is not for any human bride.

Veil transforms the corporate satire of Deep Dream State into revelation. Within the Neuralverse it marks the point where performance gives way to possession and curiosity to initiation. Its fusion of cosmic horror and erotic desire sits in the tradition of Lovecraft rewritten from the inside, where the beings in the abyss are not destroyers but claimants, and the horror is inseparable from the wanting. As with all Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns productions, Veil asks how storytelling can depict transformation ethically. The line between empathy and oblivion is as thin as the ice that holds the abyss below.

Production Credits

Deep Dream State is written and produced by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns, with co-production by Bliss Blank.
Sound design, editing, and scoring by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns.

Content Advisory

This series contains adult themes. Listener discretion is advised.

Official IMDb Episode Link

Deep Dream State – S1.E3 “The Veil Parts” on IMDb
Official IMDb episode page for Deep Dream State Season 1, Episode 3.
The bride walks the aisle. The veil parts. And the sea is hungry. Beneath the vows and rituals, desire takes root in obedience and The Chthonic listens.

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