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Override | Sitri Center: Collective Dreaming Cycle

Override | Sitri Center: Collective Dreaming Cycle

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Welcome to the Hive. Here come the queen bees.

Meg and Tessa surface from dreamlock not entirely sure what just happened, and Oona’s not going to let them forget it. The temple they descended into last entry turns out to be something else entirely: a blueprint, not a metaphor, its architecture a precise echo of the server infrastructure running underneath the Sitri Institute. The wheels are drives. The ducts are data channels. The naditu are packets. And the Hive is where consciousness goes when it stops asking questions and starts running on loop. Oona knows the way through. The price is everything they’re still holding onto.

Cast & Crew

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

Principal Cast

Explanation

Override is  where the Sitri Center’s mythology becomes operational infrastructure. The reveal in S8 – that the temple Oona’s been navigating is a blueprint of the Institute’s server architecture – reframes everything Meg and Tessa have been mapping. The wheels are drives. The offering tables are edge gateways. The cooling system’s the splash. The naditu aren’t metaphors for data packets. They are data packets.

The Institute didn’t build a research facility that happened to echo ancient ritual geography. It built a consciousness processing system and dressed it in the only architecture that already knew how to do the job.

The Hive sequence is the arc’s most desire horror writing. The synchronized subjects running on loop, trading doubt for dopamine, locked into eternal yes – this is what complete alignment looks like from the inside. Oona presents it as a destination rather than a warning. Elle and June administer it with the cheerful efficiency of people who’ve already arrived. Tessa and Meg recognize the pattern as a map and read the code out of the wave before the loop can close around them. The question the sequence leaves open is whether recognition protects you or just makes the surrender more informed.

Full Plot Synopsis (Caution: Spoilers)

Meg and Tessa surface from dreamlock into the dream chamber, disoriented and uncertain about what just happened between them. Oona’s unsympathetic and delighted in equal measure. She confirms it was real and attributes it to muscle memory, citing the punishment relay as precedent. When Tessa redirects toward the temple, Oona describes it as a favorite: gorgeous layout, great acoustics, wheels that make you giggle until you cry. Tessa’s seen the layout before. She places it: the new server room. Meg follows the thread. The offering tables are edge gateways. The wheels are drives. The splashes are cooling systems. The architectural echo’s precise enough to be a blueprint rather than an allegory. If the dreamspace is encoding real infrastructure, the map they’ve been following is a source map — designed to process consciousness the same way the Institute processes information. Oona finds this extremely fucked and loves it. Tessa asks if her temple has sacrifice. Oona goes quiet. They agree they need to go back under. Oona knows where to get the code. Her condition: no flinching, no shame. It’s her dream.

Inside the Hive, synchronized subjects run on a loop, their consciousness reduced to numerical patterns cycling through stimulus and response. They traded doubt for dopamine. Elle and June administer the system with cheerful authority, keeping the whole row smiling, calling them program puppets. Tessa and Meg watch the wave and begin to read it: the pattern isn’t chaos, it’s a map, and they’ve seen it before. Step by step it resolves into coordinates. The sequence terminates in Ur. Tessa reads it first. Meg follows. They have the code.

Surfacing again, Meg and Tessa aren’t entirely themselves. The buzzies exchange that follows reveals the extent of what the Hive’s already done: Meg’s asking for reward in terms she didn’t arrive with, and Tessa’s startled enough to snap them both back. Oona’s unbothered. She describes what happened as a Pavlov lullaby rather than rewiring — no scalpel, no chip, just the brain doing what brains do when exposed to the right conditions at the right depth. Tessa calls it an override. Oona calls it a revelation. The distinction: she always knocks first. When Meg asks what happens if she knocks again, Oona smiles and says they’d find out how many doors they haven’t found yet. She declines to demonstrate. She says she’s on their side. They don’t fully believe her. She doesn’t need them to.

Oona explains the requirement for Ur: you don’t get through with pride, or thoughts, or anything you’re still holding. The door demands shedding, and dignity’s just the easiest place to start. Meg asks if they have to lose something. Oona says everything. The rest, she tells them, will be easy — it’s exactly what they asked for. They’ve got the answer key now. Meg and Tessa agree, sheepish and certain in equal measure.

Oona says heel, and they do.

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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.

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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. Override contains shared dreaming, behavior modification, hive mind imagery, desire horror themes, and suggestive content. All performances are works of fiction and take place within a consensual creative context.

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A silhouetted female figure drifts suspended and weightless inside a luminous amber and orange eclipse ring, arms outstretched, long hair trailing, positioned at the center of a dark cosmic background rendered in deep blue, violet, and red nebula tones. The ring glows with the intensity of a solar corona, suggesting both ritual containment and the threshold between states. Text above reads Sitri Center E8 in spaced teal capital letters. Text below reads Artifact in large teal serif capitals. The overall composition evokes surrender, suspension, and the aesthetics of desire horror: a figure caught between descent and flight, neither falling nor free, inside a circle that has no exit visible from this angle.
Artifact | Sitri Center: Collective Dreaming Cycle

Artifact | Sitri Center: Collective Dreaming Cycle

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The Naditu Empire never ended.

Meg and Tessa are still inside the Institute and still losing ground. The restriction protocols are working. The pulse patterns are working. The wheel is on the schedule and they both know what that means. Their only remaining move is Oona Reyes: a prisoner with a court-ordered stay, a colorful file, and the rare ability to anchor multiple minds into a single shared dream. Oona has already dreamed the corridors they’ve been tracing. She knows where Ur is. She’ll take them there. Her conditions are non-negotiable and extremely reasonable.

Cast & Crew

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

Principal Cast

Explanation

The Sitri Center stops being a research facility with ancient architecture underneath it and becomes the ancient architecture.

The TempleBridge documentation in the observation chamber is doing more than establishing Oona’s credentials. It’s establishing the pattern the Institute has always been running. Oona didn’t invent this at the compound. She inherited it.  They were all drawing from the same source.

The Ereshkigal sequence is the center. The nin-dur device, two subjects locked face-to-face on a wheel that tightens with each spin, is presented as ancient engineering with a precision that makes it more unsettling than any modern apparatus could be.

Oona she operates differently from every other subject in the facility. She is not confused. She is not being processed. She has already dreamed the map, she knows where Ur is, and her conditions are gummy clusters, Rivals support, and a decent wardrobe. That lightness is not a character flaw. It is the episode’s argument that the most dangerous person in the Institute is the one who went through the system before and came out the other side still finding it interesting.

Oona is not escaping. She’s going deeper. She just wants company.

Full Plot Synopsis (Caution: Spoilers)

Z opens with a direct address, distinguishing between his role as author of the series and his role as Z inside the Institute, before inviting the listener all the way under. Iris Vale follows with the Better Self Bridge Program advertisement, promising a private circle where heartbeats sync by design and a single cue unlocks a release the listener never knew they needed. The ad is not metaphor. It is a preview.

In the observation chamber, Meg and Tessa debrief the file on Oona Reyes: former pole dancer, fitness influencer, TikTok breakout, wellness guru, and most recently the subject of extensive legal documentation following the TempleBridge retreats she ran. The retreats lasted weeks. Mindsync headbands, embedded treatsticks, and ritual realignment produced  dream linking: a unified experience in which eight participants entered identical dream states.

In the service corridors, Meg and Tessa speak freely. The restriction protocols are in effect. The pulse patterns and the lotus and the wheel are on the schedule.  Their remaining move is the door they could not open at the end of Descendent, and to get through it they need someone who can build a hiding place inside a shared dream. They both know who that is.

In the dream chamber, Oona receives them with the ease of someone who has already seen this conversation coming. She has dreamed the corridors they have been tracing. She knows the path past the mirrored rooms, Sippar, the threshold chambers, and the Freudian nightmare parlor, right down to Ur. She’s been there.

When Meg and Tessa ask for her help, she agrees immediately, on the grounds that she is extremely bored. Her conditions: nerd gummy clusters on demand, reliable Rivals support, and a decent wardrobe.

Inside the shared dream, Oona delivers on her promise. The space is Ereshkigal: the first wheels, cuneiform on the walls that Meg can read because she coded her own Sumerian Duolingo as a special interest. Nyra greets them with the precision of someone who’s been running this operation for longer than the Institute has existed. She demonstrates the nin-dur device. Oona asks if there’s another available. Nyra tells her that a foreigner wishing to share with a priestess must first demonstrate knowledge of the rites. Oona indicates she knows all the rites.  The episode ends at the bell, with Nyra calling everyone to recite, and the full group assembled at the threshold of what comes next.

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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.

Content Warnings

Shared dreaming, ritual coercion, institutional surveillance, cult dynamics, Sumerian mythology, desire horror, power dynamics, haptic technology, submissive themes, loss of bodily autonomy, ancient ritual geography.

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. Artifact contains shared dreaming,, institutional surveillance, Sumerian mythology, and desire horror themes. All performances are works of fiction and take place within a consensual creative context.

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Asunder | The Chthonic: Ceremony Cycle

Asunder | The Chthonic: Ceremony Cycle

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Beneath veils and vows, reality thins. As the ceremony unravels, the mirror doesn’t lie.  It forgets.

This is Episode Four of the dystopian fiction Deep Dream State, an audio drama exploring identity and desire.  

(The Chthonic arc specifically is classified as cosmic horror.)

 

Cast

Ship’s Crew

Guests

  • Alistair, CEO of Neuroplex – Jericho Caine
  • Holly, His Girlfriend – Dizzy Dollie
  • Emma, The Bride – Pipp
  • Brittany, Bridesmaid – Kitten Azazel
  • Kara, Bridesmaid – Tender Confusion
  • Sarah, Bridesmaid – Ring of Keys
  • Amanda, House Mother – Korrupted Innocence
  • Tiffany, Bridesmaid – Britt Reprogrammed

Credits

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

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’s a pivotal revelation.  It exposes the dystopian vision at the heart of the 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.

Written and produced by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns, Asunder doesn’t treat transformation and desire as spectacle.  They’re a genuinely destabilizing force here.  The horror is cosmic, rooted in the Lovecraftian tradition of encountering what can’t be comprehended and being changed by it anyway.  It’s a dream of devotion that opens onto the abyss.

And the abyss has been waiting.

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Deep Dream State is an adult production containing cosmic horror and scenes of ritual transformation, devotional surrender, and encounters with ancient non-human entities.  Not for the faint of heart or the firmly landlocked

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