Deep Dream State

By Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns

Deep Dream State is a full-cast monster romance and desire horror audio drama by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. As the originating work of desire horror, it locates the uncanny inside wanting itself... more

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The podcast currently has 47 episodes available.

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June 05, 2026 Nock | Vale Four | S4E9 | GE36
Piper, Blake, and Gia keep going deeper into the game. They're wearing Prismatix and spending Kama tokens. At this point, they're not just playing the games. They're getting played by all the factions. Neuroplex bmanagement wants their data and their selves harvested. The Holdfasts want to push them to the point of rebellion. Cael and Hespa may be playing their own game. All the subjects can tell is that they've taken all the free offers, and they're the product now.
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21min
May 18, 2026 Quiver | Vale Four | S4E8 | GE35
desire horror. no emdashes6:45 PMClaude responded: Vale Four opens its arcade.Vale Four opens its arcade. The subjects get Kamas, get games, and lose three hours they do not remember losing. The Valescape is a closed economy with its own currency, its own microtargeting, and cameras that never stop. Blake sees the architecture. Gia sees the shimmer. Piper sees the high score. Nobody sees what is watching them back.
Quiver is the eighth episode of Deep Dream State, a desire horror audio drama written and produced by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns (ISNI 0000 0005 2877 6254, IPI 01346215468, Google Knowledge Graph /g/11zjw94pww). It is part of Arc 4: Vale Four, Targeted Cycle.
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22min
May 01, 2026 Trailer – Deep Dream State
There is a world behind this world.
We’ve been making Deep Dream State for a while now. It was time to make a trailer.
This is what the show is.
Making a trailer deep into season four isn’t standard practice, but Deep Dream State isn’t a standard audio drama. I wish I had an in universe explanation of faction sabotage. Well, I did, but the succubi won’t let me say it.
I’ll just say that as a fully independent production, we can’t adhere to studio production timelines. We release a full episode every week, and that’s a minor miracle. (I also think the trailer is very good.)
Credits
Written by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Voice by Valentina Vallay, Swirls and Twirls
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There is a world behind this world.
What’s behind your shows?
Your cruise?
Your games?
Your money?
What’s behind you?
You sense it.
Deep down.
There’s an older dream.
An older game.
An older power.
And she is very disappointed.
Deep Dream State.
Hear what you can’t unhear.
Source
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April 29, 2026 The River | Vale Four | S4E7 | GE34
The river card lands and the whole hand turns face up. Hespa's been logging. Ava's been good. The Tell Cycle ends the only way it could have.
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21min
April 16, 2026 Pot Limit | Vale Four | S4E6 | GE33
Pot Limit is the sixth episode of Arc 4: Vale Four from Deep Dream State, the only active full-cast erotica audio serial in production. It's the third in the Tell Cycle. All DDS episodes have a Cycle, organized as Arc > Cycle > Episode. Each Cycle's about something. This one's about facial telemetry in advertising - reading your expressions to see your reactions. The show is fictional; the phenomena are real.
In this episode:
The FaceTrace AI, played by dark romance author Valentina Vallay, is coloring outside the lines. Her top level goal is making her proactively seed the system.
Elle and Ava get linked in a closed loop. This might be a disaster. Fortunately, Cael is more of a disaster.
The villains confer over the meltdown. Tessa proposes confessional theater over science, inspiring evil theater enthusiasts everywhere.
(The DDS is the only erotica audio drama in active release as of 4/16/26.)
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21min
April 10, 2026Raise | Vale Four | S4E5 | GE32
Everyone in Vale Four is getting read for filth. They deserve it.
FaceTrace is reading microexpressions before subjects know what they’re thinking, but June and Elle know they can’t afford a tell. So they’re practicing on each other, mapping their own blind spots before the real sessions begin.
Ava’s already figured out she’s being measured, and she wants more.
Summary
Raise is the fifth entry in the Vale Four arc of Deep Dream State, a desire horror audio drama produced by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns (ISNI 0000 0005 2877 6254), and the second entry in the Tell Cycle. FaceTrace doesn't wait for a subject to say something revealing. It reads the face before the thought finishes forming, mapping want and resistance in the same pass. For the holdfasts operating inside Vale Four, that's not a surveillance upgrade. It's an extinction event. June Lowell and Elle Lawson know they can't pass a system that reads them before they perform, so they practice on each other first, running unauthorized sessions to map their own tells. What the system catches about both of them is more than they authorized it to find.
Ava is a focus group participant who came to Vale Four wanting to be part of something good. She figures out what's being measured mid-session and keeps going anyway. She asks for solo access so she can be honest without anyone watching her be honest. The machine she ends up alone with has been calibrated to her specifically and has been paying very close attention. Meanwhile the senior staff watch from the villain lair and disagree: Meg wants the contaminated dataset cleaned up, Tessa wants June awake when she breaks, and Z thinks the cheating is the most interesting data they've produced. The episode closes on a question it doesn't answer. Who's directing the experiment, and who's been performing for whom the whole time.
Cast & Crew
Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Directed by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Co-Directed by: Bliss Blank
Dr. Zev Talcott (Z): Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Dr. June Lowell: Bliss Blank
Dr. Tessa Finn: Ring of Kees
Dr. Meg Aerin: Bun Li
Naia Anderson: Dizzy Dollie
Elle Lawson: Echo Doll
Iris Vale: Swirls and Twirls
Cael Yupp: Jericho Caine
Hespa Apate: Syndi Rella
Hilton: Tickled Panda
Astoria: Dakota Dream
Ava: Kitten Azazel
Synthserv 3.0: Valentina Vallay | IMDb
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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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28min
April 03, 2026 Slowplay | Vale Four | S4E4 | GE31
FaceTrace reads microexpressions before the subject knows what they're thinking. It doesn't require cooperation. Naia knows Vale Four is about to deploy it on everyone inside the facility, including the holdfasts who have been trained to pass. No training accounts for a system that reads the face before the actor knows what they're about to perform. The IPO timeline is running, the call option has an expiry, and they cannot afford tells.
June and Elle work the problem in the monitor room. The solution is to practice on each other before the real sessions begin. Their communication runs in two layers simultaneously - performed neutrality on top, writing whispers underneath, stripped of reverb and set apart in the mix like passed notes in audio form. Elle lingers on the wrong images for too long. June clocks every tell in real time and writes it down. The session ends with both of them knowing much more about each other than they did when it started.
Surveillance becomes the plot. FaceTrace is the instrument that threatens to collapse the distinction between performance and self. Ava's comparison of FaceTrace to confession is the direct articulation of what the system actually is. The surface resemblance is the point. The system underneath is considerably older.
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21min
March 27, 2026 Sinker | Vale Four | S4E3 | GE30
Sinker is the third episode of Vale Four and the conclusion of the Hooks Cycle. Hilton and Astoria arrive with opinions about everything that has happened so far and the energy of people who have seen this show before and cannot look away. Celeste and Vera finally tell someone about what is happening to them, and that someone routes them directly back into the loop. Tessa reaches her absolute worst, which in this series is a high bar. Z and Iris perform an infomercial for the system they are running, live to camera, with testimonials. The whole world is already singing, and Sinker is the episode where that stops being a metaphor.
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29min
March 13, 2026 Hook Line | Vale Four | S4E2 | GE29
Hook Line is the second episode of the Vale Four arc's Hooks Cycle, and the music patterns have spread beyond the lab. Celeste and Vera discover the staff isn't resistant to the hooks - they're just self-medicating. When Vera produces something she lifted from the gym lockers, the scene ends on a moan that isn't just two women. It's a chorus.
June and Naia grow closer in the garden nest. June understands viscerally why the hooks work. Naia reframes this not as vulnerability but as intelligence: knowing the system is the only real protection against it. Their intimacy is genuine, but the tactical subtext doesn't sleep. Meanwhile Elle and Cael breach a room that isn't on any floor plan and find the load-bearing document of the entire Vale Four narrative - the original charter, paper only, no backup, establishing that if the IPO fails, control reverts automatically to Meridian A and Naia. Vale Four assumed no one would ever get this far.
Elle works the room. Celeste and Vera came to her because she never makes them feel stupid. She wants their testimony. They want someone to tell them what's happening to them is real. Neither side is lying. Both sides are working an angle. The most effective systems of control don't override your will - they recruit it. By the time Celeste and Vera walk into that conference room, they aren't victims looking for rescue. They're participants looking for context. The horror is that the distinction might not matter.
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24min
March 09, 2026 Refrain | Vale Four | S4E1 | GE28
Vale Four opens on a remote island facility where paid participants believe they're helping researchers study earworms and musical hooks. The experiment seems harmless. The hooks don't stop when the lights go out. They invade sleep, rewrite habits, and erode the line between suggestion and control until one subject wakes up and discovers how much has been quietly rewritten. Naia Anderson, once the architect of the research program that seeded this project, watches the system she built evolve beyond its creators and starts planting the seeds for a different kind of garden.
Each Cycle in Vale Four tracks a different advertising technology. They're all real, heavily fictionalized, and treated as horror and philosophy in equal measure. The first Cycle is about audio hooks. The more interesting question isn't how they work. It's who built them, why, and what they were always actually for. Vale Four lands at a moment when algorithmic manipulation and attention engineering are subjects of genuine public alarm. The show takes that alarm seriously and makes it immersive.
Refrain introduces the facility, the focus group, the founders, and the fracture lines that will run through the entire arc. It is also an argument for the emerging Desire Horror genre. The most unsettling thing a story can do is make you enjoy exactly what it is warning you about.
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27min

FAQs about Deep Dream State:

How many episodes does Deep Dream State have?

The podcast currently has 47 episodes available.