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Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 7: Tether

By Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns | November 3, 2025

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 experiment into a living labyrinth that no one can step out of unchanged.

The story threads ancient archetypes through clinical precision, invoking the myth of Ariadne’s thread as the researchers realize they may be both observer and subject, scientist and offering. By the end, the Sitri Center feels less like an institution and more like a consciousness of its own. This is a dream that remembers, responds, and reawakens.

“Tether” continues Deep Dream State: Sitri Center, following the events of Episode 6: Descendent, as the dream tightens its grip and the Institute begins to hum with life beneath its walls.

Cast & Crew

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

Staff
Dr. June Lowell – Bliss Blank
Dr. Tessa Finn – Ring Of Kees
Dr. Meg Aerin – Bun Li
Elle Lawson – Echo Doll
Iris Vale – Swirls and Twirls
Zev Talcott (Z) – Neural Nets

Subjects
Lyra Crosswell – Flux
Oona Reyes – Jade
Phoebe Bosworth – Sofi Starship

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Human Made Art – free range!

Series artwork 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.

Consent Declaration

Deep Dream State is a surreal audio drama written and produced by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. The series merges lucid dreaming, hypnosis, and transformation into psychological fiction exploring the boundaries of control, identity, and desire.

All performances are works of fiction and take place within a consensual creative context.

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Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 6: Descendent

By Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns | October 25, 2025

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 waking life. Confessions, tapes, and memories blur; experiments become possessions. The mythic stations (Sippar, Kutha, Eanna, Ereshkigal, and Ur) resurface not as metaphors but coordinates, gateways leading downward into something that remembers them.

While Meg clings to procedure, Tessa begins to believe. Each revelation feels lived before, each door more familiar. Beneath the clinical language, their descent becomes personal, erotic, and inevitable.

“Descendent” marks the moment the researchers stop observing the dream and start serving it. The Sitri Center itself begins to awaken.