Deep Dream State is a full-cast dystopian sci-fi 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. While conventional horror positions you against a threat, desire horror implicates you in it. The horror emerges from recognition: the realization of why characters stay, and why surrender feels like relief. Since 2017, the show has used research in dream science, surveillance studies, behavioral economics, and advertising technology to examine systems of control through immersive sound design and full-cast performance.
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Deep Dream State is a full-cast dystopian sci-fi 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. While conventional horror positions you against a threat, desire horror implicates you in it. The horror emerges from recognition: the realization of why characters stay, and why surrender feels like relief. Since 2017, the show has used research in dream science, surveillance studies, behavioral economics, and advertising technology to examine systems of control through immersive sound design and full-cast performance.
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July 18, 2026
Quintessence | Vale Four | S4E12 | GE39
<p><strong>We see you scrying.</strong></p> <p>The <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/">Deep Dream State</a>‘s built for some fast lane changes. Whatever it’s got for handling is on display here; each scene’s drastically different.</p> <p>It’s all unified by <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#snarecraft">the game</a>. An augmented reality game for commercial deployment’s being used to hunt down the game designers. That’s dark. Every scene blends that darkness with high fantasy elements, but the mixes come out much different. That – and some love for live play podcasts – is why there’s a die roll in each scene transition.</p> <p>It opens comic. The <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#muppettes">Muppettes</a>, observers who always watch the action, put on their sorceress robes and get to incanting. Even though it’s funny, there are some real secrets uncovered here, including the real origin of the name <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#meridian-a">Meridian A</a>.</p> <p>It gets dark. When <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#z-dr-zev-talcott">Z</a> sees the Muppettes <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#scry">scrying</a>, he puts his hunting team of <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#team-leash">wolfgirls</a> through the paces. Prior subjects <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#gia">Gia</a> (played by <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm18304235/">Valentina Vallay</a>), <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#celeste">Celeste</a>, and <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#clara">Clara</a> have found a new place at <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/arcs/vale-four/">Vale Four</a>. The writer isn’t barely disguising anything here. The Muppettes are horrified; Z clearly delights in freaking out the audience – listeners included. (The Deep Dream State is NSFW thinkykinky material. This scene should be flagged as high spice level.)</p> <p>It shifts to unsettling. <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#team-flowers">Team Flowers</a> and <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#team-alchemy">Team Alchemy</a> navigate their way through <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#hespa-apate">Hespa’s</a> map. They find their way through raging floodwaters, their own unspoken desires, and the medieval origins of <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#midstream">the worst sports podcast</a> of any epoch.</p> <p>They arrive soaked and breathless to <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#hidden-library">a secret</a> they were told didn’t exist.</p> <hr /> <h2><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Cast & Crew</span></h2> <p><strong>Cast</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#astoria">Astoria</a> : <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/cast/#performer-dakota-dream">Dakota Dream</a><br /> Leads the Muppettes’ ritual, uncovers the force behind Meridian A, discovers that the thing she is watching can watch back.</li> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#hilton">Hilton</a> : <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/cast/#performer-tickled-panda">Tickled Panda</a><br /> The nervous novice whose questions keep the ritual grounded until one word opens Team Leash.</li> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#tessa-finn">Tessa</a> : <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17839622/">Ring of Kees</a><br /> The queen of <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#team-thorns">Team Thorns</a>, discipline dressed in finery.</li> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#laura">Laura</a> : <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/cast/#performer-lux-peralta">Lux Peralta</a><br /> Returns as part of the hunting party Astoria watches moving through Snarecraft.</li> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#z-dr-zev-talcott">Z</a> : <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17755189/">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a><br /> Catches the Muppettes scrying, turns the gaze back on them, and trains his wolfgirls to hunt by scent.</li> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#june-lowell">June</a> : <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17754818/">Bliss Blank</a><br /> Part of the hunt Astoria observes as the teams move through Hespa’s map.</li> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#porsche">Porsche</a> : <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17822436/">Princess Ella</a><br /> Trusts Elle’s route, accidentally summons Midstream, and reaches the marker for a library that shouldn’t exist.</li> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#elle-lawson">Elle</a> : <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17822435/">Echo Doll</a><br /> Follows what she believes is Hespa’s pattern, gets stranded in the river, and accepts a deeply dubious rescue.</li> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#meg-aerin">Meg</a> : <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17796355/">Bun Li</a><br /> Reads traps as systems and Leandra as badly, then confronts a map that refuses to stay legible.</li> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#leandra">Leandra</a> : <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/cast/#performer-talithara">Talithara</a><br /> Knows the route behind the waterfall, remembers the <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#puzzlers">Puzzlers</a>, and reveals that the hidden library leads back through <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#deep-ward">Deep Ward</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#clara">Clara</a> : <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/cast/#performer-vixen-clouds">Vixen Clouds</a><br /> The newest member of Team Leash. Hides under a blanket, remembers <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#facetrace">FaceTrace</a>, and learns that pretending not to be seen is not the same as hiding.</li> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#gia">Gia</a> : <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm18304235/">Valentina Vallay</a><br /> Breaks <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#treatstick">treatstick</a> protocol, accepts correction, and is recruited to hunt by scent.</li> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#celeste">Celeste</a> : <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/cast/#performer-panda-moanium">Panda Moanium</a><br /> Performs tricks for Clara without permission, loses <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#trixie">Trixie</a> time, and joins Team Leash’s hunt.</li> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#cael">Cael</a> : <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/cast/#performer-jericho-caine">Jericho Caine</a><br /> Returns as Caellum, a medieval Midstream merchant selling ball lore, guild membership, and suspicious raft transport.</li> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#mudrick">Mudrick</a> : <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/cast/#performer-violently-passionate">Violently Passionate</a><br /> Caellum’s eager shield-mate, fascinated by every kind of ball and fully committed to the worst sports podcast of any epoch.</li> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#hespa-apate">Hespa</a> : <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17765752/">Syndi Rella</a><br /> The absent architect whose recycled maps, hidden routes, and <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#hidden-library">secret library</a> guide every team toward something they were told did not exist.</li> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#naia-anderson">Naia</a> : <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17760876/">Dizzy Dollie</a><br /> Part of the wider hunting party Astoria’s ritual observes across Snarecraft.</li> </ul> <hr /> <p>Quintessence is the twelfth episode of Season 4 of <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/">Deep Dream State</a>, a desire horror audio drama by <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a>. It is part of <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/arcs/vale-four/">Season 4: Vale Four</a>, <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#snarecraft">Snarecraft Cycle</a>.</p> <hr /> <h2><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Listen & Explore</span></h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/">Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns – Official Site</a></li> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/">Deep Dream State – Official Site</a></li> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/arcs/vale-four/">Vale Four – Season 4</a></li> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/cast/">Deep Dream State Cast</a></li> <li><a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/">Deep Dream State Glossary</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139568834">Show Wikidata</a></li> <li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5VVhwaymeOKbV9RG7Gre98">Listen on Spotify</a></li> <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deep-dream-state/id1822405042">Listen on Apple Podcasts</a></li> <li><a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/feed/podcast/">RSS Feed</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/minderaser">Support the creator on Patreon</a></li> <li><a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/">All episodes archive</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/blog/blink-blank-bliss">Canonical Tumblr Page</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38590860/">View this series on IMDb</a></li> <li><a href="https://musicbrainz.org/artist/134bc2e9-16e4-4b1e-b779-b9024f002882">MusicBrainz for Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a></li> <li><a href="https://bookbrainz.org/author/59c9b4e8-2b6f-4230-b631-df2b01553b42">BookBrainz for Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns</a>, including <a href="https://bookbrainz.org/edition/7129df87-bacd-4a1b-9671-5b478895ee88">show script books</a></li> <li><a href="https://isni.org/isni/0000000528776254">Producer ISNI: 0000 0005 2877 6254</a></li> <li>IPI: 01346215468 | 01346215566</li> <li>Google Knowledge Graph: /g/11zjw94pww</li> </ul> <hr /> <h2><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Human Made Art</span></h2> <p>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.</p> <hr /> <h2><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Consent Declaration</span></h2> <p>Deep Dream State is a <a href="https://neuralnetsandprettypatterns.com/deepdreamstate/glossary/#desire-horror">desire horror</a> 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</p> <p><a href="https://deepdreamstate.blubrry.net/quintessence-vale-four-s4e12-ge39/">Source</a></p>
July 11, 2026
Luna | Vale Four | S4E11 | GE38
Hespa and Blake have fled the island to testify, and Vale Four is sending an army of gamers after them through Snarecraft. Three teams take three different paths through the hunt: Team Thorns chooses brutality; Team Alchemy relies on calculation; Team Flowers leaves it all to chance. The maze itself was built by Hespa, so the hunters are counting on it to give her away. Listeners will find out which pack hunts best, in a game with the highest stakes yet.
June 12, 2026
Bullseye | Vale Four | S4E10 | GE37
Blake is out of Kamas, out of options, and out of runway. Hespa tells her the truth about what Vale Four is, what it costs to leave, and what it costs to stay. Naia Anderson has been waiting for someone exactly like Blake to walk through that door. The arrow was always aimed at her.
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