Summary
Welcome to Episode 8 of Deep Dream State. There’s room for you inside the Lotus.
Deep Dream State enters its darkest arc with Undergloom, a desire horror descent into ritual and transcendence. Holly and Fion orchestrate a summoning during a chaotic rave as cover for corporate exploitation. Sarah, Mairead, and Emma experience genuine power breaking through the machinery designed to contain them. What they don’t know is that every moment of their transcendence has already been captured for sale.
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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.
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Content Advisory
This episode contains hypnotic themes, submissive dynamics, and psychological manipulation. Listener discretion advised.
Full Synopsis with Spoilers
Holly surfaces into full conditioning as a Naditu priestess, her consciousness partitioned into obedience. The Captain and Olivia have already decided her fate: she’ll be renamed “Dizzy,” repositioned to the spa’s observation window, forced into service performances for paying guests while her neural feeds stream live to subscribers. But Holly sees further than their calculations. She’s already turned. She reveals her knowledge to the crew: they’re going to open a door during the next union, during the rave. Chaos as cover for summoning. Holly and the Captain understand each other now. They’re partners in what’s coming.
Fion arrives conflicted, caught between objection and pragmatism. She sees what Holly has become and envies the certainty of it. Alone with Holly, she’s offered a choice that isn’t really a choice: repeat the liturgy, enter the ritual, experience the peace that comes from surrender. Holly whispers a numerical sequence and the restraints disengage. Fion steps into the device alongside her. They synchronize into pleasure and the promise of dissolution. Fion has made her trade. Obedience for relief. Complicity for peace.
In the depths, the rave unfolds. Sarah, Mairead, and Emma gather as whale-song transmissions pulse through the chaos. Selene conducts, Kara amplifies the resonance, and all three recognize what moves beneath the music: not mindless force but consciousness itself, composed through harmonic alignment. Sarah surrenders to the need for deeper entanglement, discovering that the peril she fled was only foreplay. Mairead begs for breaking, finding in her fragmentation a purity she has chased her entire life. Emma understands her function at last: she is the bride, the bridge, the hybrid bearer. She was sung into being before she had a name.
Desire horror operates here at the level of genuine choice. Sarah, Mairead, and Emma don’t resist what’s happening. They choose it. They spiral tighter together, chanting in unison. The more one feels it, the deeper it goes into the others. They are bound by flesh, voice, and purpose. Mairead laughs through tears as she breaks, finding home in the dissolution. The Old Ones draw closer. The tide moves deeper inside them. Every scream becomes song.
Selene conducts the resonance, lifting her arms as the tentacles pulse with each motion, tightening and loosening in rhythms timed to the beat. These are not victims of the machinery. They are willing offerings to what moves beneath the ship, and their ecstasy is not imposed but chosen at every breath. For one moment, the architecture of the world above cannot contain what they have become. They have stepped beyond the reach of the people who set this in motion. They have found something real in the chaos.
The rave closes around them. Holly watches from the shadows, satisfied. Fion nods. The summoning has succeeded. The door has opened. Sarah, Mairead, and Emma have transcended, and in transcending, they’ve escaped. What they don’t know is that every moment of their breaking has been recorded. Every scream, every moment of power, captured and ready to be packaged. The real horror waits in what comes next.
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