Deep Dream State is a full-cast dystopian sci-fi and desire horror audio drama by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns (ISNI 0000 0005 2877 6254). It's the only ongoing serialized adult audio drama on the open web and the originating work of the desire horror genre. Across 750 interconnected productions in the Neuralverse, Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns has built a body of work that treats immersive soundscapes, psychological fiction, and haptic narrative as a single creative instrument. Deep Dream State is the flagship: four narrative arcs examining rituals, surveillance, dreams, and commerce, each one asking the same question from a different angle - why do we enjoy being controlled? The series blends full-cast performance, innovative sound design, and serialized worldbuilding into something that functions simultaneously as audio drama and as the thing the audio drama is describing. Listeners describe it as addictive, disorienting, and impossible to categorize cleanly. That's intention
