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Deep Dream State Arc 3 Episode 5 cover — Sitri Center: Cusp by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 5: Cusp

Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 5: Cusp

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Episode Summary

Inside the Sitri Institute, control begins to fracture. “Cusp” explores the moment between awakening and surrender, where observation turns intimate and the researchers become subjects of their own experiment.

When a new assistant, Elle, joins the team, her bright eagerness only deepens the cracks in the hierarchy. Dr. Tessa Finn and Meg Aerin continue monitoring Lyra Crosswell’s dream loops, where corridors stretch forever and climax never arrives. As the team tracks her descent through stations named Sippar, Kutha, Eanna, Ereshkigal, and Ur, it becomes clear that Lyra’s paralysis is ritual, not pathology.

Outside the chamber, whispers of the Institute’s hidden corridors surface, and within them, Tessa confesses that the dream maps aren’t metaphor at all. They’re blueprints. And they lead somewhere real.

“Cusp” bridges the psychic and the physical, continuing Deep Dream State’s descent into erotic hypnosis, dream-tech, and mythic control.

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 Keys
Dr. Meg Aerin – Bun Li
Zev Talcott (Z) – Neural Nets
Cael (dream team) – Jericho Caine
Nyra (dream team) – Dizzy Dollie
Reverie (dream team) – Britt Reprogrammed
Hespa – Syndirella
Iris Vale – Swirls and Twirls
Elle Lawson – Echo

Subjects

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

Listen & Explore

Human Made Art – free range!

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.

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 4: Gazes Back

Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 4: Gazes Back

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Gazes Back starts with the soft sell and ends with a hard line.  Elle’s “puppet” routine becomes training, stitching mantras into performance.

When Meg drops, Z and Tessa step into a room that should have stayed sealed and the protocol writes them in. The fallout is administrative and intimate at once: roles adjusted, edits exposed, and the understanding that Sitri’s loop doesn’t just measure desire.

It manufactures it.

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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Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 3: Incubator

Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 3: Incubator

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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

Other Sources

Apple Podcasts
Spotify
RSS feed

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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Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 2: Adapt

Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 2: Adapt

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Adapt picks up where Drill left off. The subjects of the Sitri Center are asked to bend, to change, to let themselves be reshaped. What begins as a calm suggestion becomes a pattern they cannot refuse — each dream folding into the next, each voice reinforcing the same instruction. Adaptation is survival, but it also becomes surrender.

Content Warnings: dream manipulation, enforced conformity, group hypnosis dynamics, submissive themes

Cast:

Dr. Zev Talcott: Neural Nets

Dr. Tessa Finn: Ring Of Keys

Dr. June Lowell: Bliss Blank

Dr. Meg Aerin: Bun Li

Nyra: Dizzy Dollie

Oona Reyes: Jade

Reverie: Britt Reprogrammed

Hespa: Syndirella

Iris Vale: Swirls and Twirls

 

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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Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 1: Drill

Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 1: Drill

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This first episode introduces the high stakes world of the Sitri Center where scientists do more than study subconscious fears. They engineer them.

Dr. Tessa Finn, ambitious and eager to prove herself, deploys Construct Thirty Seven on Phoebe Bosworth, whose shame soaked dreams escalate into erotic rehearsals.

Dr. Meg Aerin counters with academic rigor, insisting Phoebe is not healing but spiraling into dependency. Chief Scientific Officer June Lowell presides with cold authority, while Zev Talcott fuels the wager: a clash that risks careers, reputations, and millions in funding.

Drill sets the stage for the Sitri arc, establishing rivalries, stakes, and the unnerving intimacy of experimental dream manipulation. If you are drawn to audio dramas or narrative experiments at the edge of science and desire, this episode is where it begins.

For fans of The Magnus Archives, Within the Wires, and The Bright Sessions, Sitri Center offers a new descent into dreams, desire, and dangerous science.

Credits

Writer: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Producers: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns, Bliss Blank
Narrative Directors: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns, Bliss Blank
Social Media Manager: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns

Cast

Cael: Jericho Caine

Dr. Meg Aerin: Bun Li

Dr. Tessa Finn: Ring Of Keys

Hespa: Syndirella

Iris Vale: Swirls and Twirls

June Lowell: Bliss Blank

Meridiana: Britt Reprogrammed

Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns

Nyra: Dizzy Dolly

Oona Spectral: Jade

Phoebe Bosworth: Sofi Starship

Zev Talcott: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns

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.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download