The Dreamlands - (Exploring the Cthulhu Mythos)
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- Опубліковано 2 тра 2019
- Today we have another Cthulhu Mythos video focusing on the dreamlands, an alternative universe that can be entered through ones dreams.
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The Dreamlands are, I think, my favorite part of Lovecraft's work. I have been trying to organize a D&D campaign that would take place largely in The Dreamlands.
Count me in!!
Don't know if you even made the game because it's so much later but I suggest you look at the Pathfinder adventure path called strange aeons. Much of the game is centered around traveling to the dreamlands. You also visit carcosa later on. It's a really good adventure path. Takes you from levels 1-18 I believe
You should include an experience with yidhra!
There is a Call of Cthulhu Dreamlands setting!
GURPs also probably has something.
With an extended life span I could pet all the Cats of Ulthar!
Alexander Bahn can i join you? I ❤️🐈
an extended life and all the cats to pet.. what else could a person want?!
They breed and die too fast
@@AThousandYoung
I would form the Greatest Cat Army!
Alexander Bahn aThousand young at six at a time that’s gonna take you a while LOL
For y'all that are wondering the arabic at 6:19 translates to "....death*Azathoth, sultan of demons*God of chaos upon his throne in..."
Cool, thx! I have always loved Arabic and wish I knew it,but hear it's very hard to learn.☹️ Beautiful language.❤️
The Dreamlands have not been the same since King DeDeDe took over.
Quite a few of the dreamland stories were featured in the anthology book I read. Among them "Through the Gate of the Silver Key" and "Dreamquest for Unknown Kadath". The Dreamlands, speaking from the way they are described, always struck me as a rather tropical place with deep jungles and wide rivers. Ironically the land of dreams appears to be rather sunny.
*_I never knew Kirby was actually an H.P. Lovecraft's creature in Dreamland._*
Was it not obvious?
Candy coloured cosmic horror?
I never thaught about it but he does eat adorable creatures Alive
Whats a H.P?
@@Aboriginal_American_Hebrew h.p. stands for Howard Phillips he's the author who wrote these books.
I recall the spider god Atlach-Nacha trying to weave a bridge between our world and the Dreamlands, which would mean the end of the world.
Woah, dick move
I remember reading historical accounts few centuries back, of people being attacked by giant man-eating spiders.
That's just par for the course of the eldritch great old ones.
If Azathoth's dreaming is what we know as the Known Universe...Isn't _everything_ the Dreamlands?
I believe that azohoth dreams bring him to a diffent plain amoung the stars because he is able to adjust space and time in his sleep. But it was conjector
Just Some Guy with a Mustache
No,we are the dream that Azohoth has, and Dreamland is the World "we" dreamed up,so whatever exist in dreamland is out of reach for azathot because he only dreams ouer universe,but he dosen t dream "ouer dreams",and then theiy is the concept of the Dark multiverse....that is also connectet to the dreamland via the fact that it itself is just a bunch of nightmares.
LARS Liljeberg so on that note couldn’t the human race somewhat escape Azathoth’s mind by living inside the dreamland?
@@ethanrajczak3041 Well you see the Dark Multiverse has many worlds wich only exist because someones "fear" manifest in dreamland while that person dreams, yet taking the Batman who laughs for exampel,he and all his friends would have stopped existing alltogether if theiy weren t extractet from theiy normal "universe" while the person in qestion was "waking up" wich means it dosen t matter if theiy were dreaming themselfs at that moment or not,theiy do have still just "vanished" as if theiy never had been there to begin with.in a sense this shows the connection "live" has to azathot because ouer dreams atleast for ouer nightmares stop being a thing upon waking up,same as ouer universe would stop being a thing if azathot wakes up. of course neither azathot or the real batman know what the Batman who laughs dreamed in his life before he went insane or what he dreams after being insane,his dreams are for him alone to know,so unless humanity literaly finds a way to
"break reality" and go beyond the barrier that seperates awake-peopel from the dreamland,and then can travel there and live there,just as Batman who laughs tryed to do,we can t escape azathot at all, basically think of it like this: whatever a comic character doas he still is in a comic,so unless he somehow finds a way to literaly leave his page that the writter gave him,and go to a different comic alltoghether,he won t escape the writters influence even if the writter dosen t necessarly know about his creations dreams.
This actually goes back to Dunsany, one of Lovecraft's influences.
It's explained there that Mana Yod Sushai dreamt everything. If Mana Yod Sushai wakes, everything ends.
Lovecraft had the idea that his Azatoth was kind of an expy of Mana Yod Sushai and probably at one point somewhat implied that Azatoth (and it's surroundings) itself was a dreamer that was dreamt by another dreamer.
Like something out of the movie Inception.
Love the Jeremy Soule/Skyrim music playing in the background.
Craig Fulco I may be mistaken, but I do believe this music is actually taken from a Dark Souls OST, my friend
Nikolaj Lindelsberg U r mistaken. It’s ‘Secunda’ from Skyrim’s OST
Nikolaj Lindelsberg I hope you’re trolling because it is for sure skyrim
welp i was wrong too.. i thought it was from the first fable game ×D
@@avery7690 shiiieet, i thought it was Starfox 64
Dreamlands is one of my favorite little things from the mythos that don't get as much attention as the other stuff, it's so bizarre but relatable with how HPL describes the dreams setting like it was a dream journal, thus it works. It almost feels tangible with all the rules to get in and the lore behind it makes it feel truly like an old and dangerous place that it is. It would honestly make a great TV show if they wanted to, they have a good cast from these stories!
In what "century" is cthulhu mythos set on?
@@gandalfthepurple9529 most stories take place in the 20th century, sometimes 18th and 19th depending (or transitioning to 20th).
@@ORLY911 thanks
Welcome Home Good Hunter.
I got that reference
I was looking for a bloodborne reference 😁
We are borne of the blood,made men by the blood , undone by the blood, our eyes have yet to open, FEAR THE OLD BLOOD
- Master Willem
@@Grimfaxe Same
Glad to see you a few Bloodborne fans here
Yeah if I were living in the Cthulhu Mythos I would definitely try to physically enter the Dreamlands, not only would I get an extended lifespan but so far the Dreamlands seems like the only place where one would be safe from the innumerable madness inducing Eldritch Abominations.
Well there's the south fantastic area, seems to be a bit scary
You should do a video talking about the connections between Lovecraft Lore and the Mythos of Conan the Barbarian. I've heard that they are both set in same universe.
H.P. Lovecraft wrote to other authors encouraging them to use his mythos. He corresponded with Robert E. Howard the creator of Conan the Barbarian and Howard did include a Great old one in one of his stories.
IIRC Clarke Ashton Smith, another of Lovecraft's contemporaries who also shared some content originated the Serpent men that feature in the prehistroy of Conan's Hyborian Age.
Getting some beer for that if he does it lol
One of the god's is named Yog in Conan universe, which truly looks eldrich chtonian entity.
@The Gray Ghost the dreaming God Dagoth is one of pillar men
I have a theory that the Dreamlands used to be part of the waking world, but somehow got split off some long-forgotten ages in the past. That’s why some locations, like the plateau of Leng and Kadath, seem to be in both. Need to reread Lovecraft’s complete works to try and find more evidence.
DrFranklynAnderson Maybe that's why Atlach-Nacha weaves her massive web across the void; to bridge the gap between the Dreamlands and the Waking realm, to make them one, once again.
At the beginning of Celephais, Kadath dreams of a “great stone house covered with ivy” and at the end of the story SPOILERS the physical body of Kadath washes up by Innsmouth against “Ivy covered Trevor Towers”. Perhaps there is a link between these locations.
Apparently I'm a great one, maybe? I can access the dreamlands when awake, and almost always dream within them, despite never once remembering having seen the gatekeepers. I have felt the great shock of a dream death any time I "die" in the dreamlands, but I can always reform, and do in the same dream sometimes, and always in a place I can choose. I have absurd levels of godly power (Flight, telekinesis, shapeshifting, basically any magical effect I desire, (fire, lasers, lightning, healing, creation of matter, whatever) and once repelled a monstrously titanic devourer of worlds by focusing a massive beam of force up to it. I seem to have even greater power when awake and focusing on the dreamlands than when dreaming.
I like those dreamland stories... they show a "lighter side" of Lovecraft. Not in every stories, but in some.
That's why it feels so familiar, freaking skyrim theme
Ugh this was PERFECT. Bite sized, but filling information for a bedridden ding dong of a writer who is building her latest character on Lovecraftian style and background. Well done, and thank you!
The third Johannes Cabal book mostly takes place in the Dreamlands. Definitely a recommended read if you like dark humour and adventure. Might want to read the first two books in the story though.
One of, if not THE richest, most colorful, interesting, compelling, original, fascinating fictional worlds ever imagined.
You need to talk about The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath!
That's a very interesting way to fantasize and imagine dreams. Dreams IRL often seem like places that can be revisited where time isn't constant. Sadly, it's the only place I "see" my parents and other lost loved ones or "visit" times long gone. Dreams may mean little to nothing, but inspire so much.
My favorite fantasy scape personally, I too wish I could fall asleep and enter a fantastic world
I wish you had a podcast so I can leave you open and up while I drift off. Leaving UA-cam up while I sleep eats at my data. 😔 But honestly I love listening to the stories and hearing your voice! It relaxes me.
Heaven Leigh yup. I fall to sleep listening a lot.
The Dreamlands series by Brian Lumley is fantastic. It tries into his Titus Crow series and Primal Land series' respectively .
"Dreams are my reality
The only kind of real fantasy,
Illusions are a common thing
I try to live in dreams
It seems as if it's meant to be."
WOW! I never knew about this! Love Craft had such an amazing imagination! This is so interesting!
His imagination was great, search up how creative the name of his cat is.
@@damianalexander4274 wow I have definitely never heard that about lovecraft before, I am so offended. Thank you for warning me about these horrible nasty words.
M Wellnow Lovecraft was a racist even for his time. That or you can blame his crippling fear over anything that wasn’t a white, rich, and New England person. Even for simple country folk he wrote many stories using them as incest hillbillies who’d sex fish for money. He got better before his early death, even wanting to destroy his early works.
@@ethanrajczak3041 I was being sarcastic, mocking the fact that this is a very very well known fact about Lovecraft and trying to express how tired I am of hearing this over and over again (as someone who frequents Lovecraft circles regularly and wants to hear more original discussion). It's the whole reason I clicked on the Dreamland video in the first place.
@@mwellnow5016 yeah I'm sick of the virtue signaling myself.
The depth of the man's stories can't be explored by those who are so hung up on bullshit like his IRL racism.
I’m currently halfway through Lovecraft’s Dreamlands works, so this video is absolutely fascinating. And that map is stunning.
I’ve visited this place before and It’s everything and nothing you could possibly imagine. I remember speaking with a being made of eternal darkness. It spoke in a strange language that was completely incomprehensible, yet I understood every word. From what I remember, it kept calling me ‘The Great Dreamer’. It has stuck with me my entire life and now I finally understand.
After the recent Smite update, and watching through some of your Egyptian pantheon videos and one being mentioned quite often, i would very much love a video on Horus and Set, especially Set. Pretty please?
Ive actually been here. To these dreamlands. Ive been searching the net for 6 years now for some explanation of what I dreamt about and I find it here. Wth.
Marko Babic Same.
I see the steps sometimes in my dreams, but the two guardians of the gate just want to tell me jokes instead of letting me pass. Decades ago, I did get in. The enchanted wood. I was chased by werewolves through the forest. My feet didn't touch the ground as I levitated inches above the grass and hovered at great speed. I heard them mimicking human speech in the shadows, crashing through trees, snarling, funneling me toward a central clearing. I was surrounded and had no choice but to enter a house there that flowed like cloth in the wind. The walls and floor were as water save where I put my foot or hand where it instantly solidified to hold my weight. In the center of the house was a solid stone slab, immobile. And on it, slept a beautiful princess. I leaned in but instead of a kiss, I got a face full of jagged needle teeth as the thing leapt up and moved as if to attack. I was saved by a creature that had been following me. It froze the house, froze the creature in mid-air. I got a good look at its red mad eyes, it's impossibly large maw dripping with saliva. The thing that saved me chided me for making such a dumb mistake. It had no form of its own and instead looked like me, with my voice, but eyes of solid black. I was a fool, The Fool. I was not ready. So I was cast out and have not been back in, not all the way. I was a child, figuratively but also quite literally. It didn't matter; I failed the test. I may never get past the gate again.
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They want to fight me. The steps are concrete in my dream and the guardians are gypsies, not Egyptian.
The second set of steps has white shoe marks like someone stepped in paint and I was lead by someone that introduced himself as Death.
Ive been a lot in the Dreamlands,, just not lately. Ive been to Guardian Lake, Ive been to a place with pillars above water, to a desert road above a city, to a white city, to a tropical beach etc and I can describe them all in great detail.
Id love to see if my notes are the same as someone elses.
Sometimes when I dream there is a person, or animal that is interacting in my dream as someone unimportant, like actors that are acting the pedestrians in a movie. The character is there, he follows you. But if you confront him and tell him you know who he is he will let you through to the Dreamlands.
@@Jobe-13 I think everyone has their own individual dreamscape, influenced by what they read and see while they're awake.
Thank you so much, I wanted it to be the setting of a part of our new campaign dungeons and dragons, but I just couldn’t get myself to read the the Dreamquest of Kadath, because it’s written so weird!
gear machine it’s not an easy read, so I don’t blame you.
Loving the concept of D&D in Lovecraft dreamscape
If you'd prefer short ones, The White Ship, Celephais, The Doom that Came to Sarnath, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Cats of Ulthar and a few others are open to you. I highly recommend White Ship and Celephais.
Sono thank you!
@@gearmachine_4885 oh yeah Strange High House in the Mist is fantastic too, it doesn't take place IN the dreamlands but a dimensional crossroads to it. And no problem!
When I clicked on this Video I thought it was about Australian Aboriginal Dreamland mythology,and can you do a video on that mythology and fiction.
Brendan Klagu it's actually called Dreamtime or the Dreaming, not dreamland. But I absolutely agree with you that we need a video on these myths, as they are so unique and interesting.
An Emu laid an Egg whopty fricken do.
@@boulderthefat154 actually it was a giant serpent
B A ohhh no, im over americans saying things like mel-born and can-beara hahaha
@B A I'm good with the language they can't help it, but the virtue whores...
Thanks for the warnings.
Dreams of terror and death has been a wonderful introduction into the works of lovecraft for me :) And as an avid dreamer the concept of the dreamlands described in his stories are a terrifying yet amazing concept
Bloodborne was inspired by Lovecraft and the Dreamlands. The game's lore is cryptic. This video explains so much.
I appreciate the skyrim background music.
I just like how the main recurring theme of Lovecraftian stories involves dreams and sleep. Because in your dreams, there is an another vast universe or multiverse apart from the corporeal.
I've been writing a series of books that reminds me of this.
The Dream-Quest is easily my favorite of Lovecraft's stories. It was my first experience with Nyarlathotep and to this day remains one of the scariest scenes I've ever read. Such a wonderfully bizarre story with some truly horrifying moments. The High Priest in the Yellow Mask in particular stands out to me as well.
This is a quality upload - thanks a lot! Well done too - love the music you have chosen - eery and mysterious yet calming. Much like dreamlands have to be...
Carter is one of my favorite HPL characters for sure.
wonderful as always...love all your videos
George R R Martin dream a considerable amount of inspiration from Lovecraft. If you read alot of the location names in the Dreamlands, K'dath, Leng, Sarnath, Ulthar, etc. Those are locations in Essos.
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i like how you use the Whiterun ambience music... thought i had left my game running for a moment
This is really cool. Please continue. They may be short, but they are interesting.
Always love your videos.
Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath was the first Lovecraft story I read. I like his Dream Cycle stories the best, as they seem more fantasy than his purely macabre stories.
Impressive new opening! And I like the Dreamlands as a concept -- different worlds one can enter through their dreams is a super cool idea. :D And the places mentioned in Lovecraft's world are pretty intriguing.
The geometry observed in the dreamlands is also compared to the strange temple in COC, where the “angles just weren’t right” and time/gravity was anomalous.
The artist who created the map shown in the video is Jason B. Thompson, whose blog can be found at mockmanpress.com
Just putting this here because I've enjoyed his work (he published a comic anthology containing his renditions of "The Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath", "The White Ship", "Celephais", and others) and thought I should share what I know.
THANKS!
You make mythology and fiction very enjoyable to learn about i would love to see a series about these things
Thanks for the vid sir.👍🏼👍🏼
U know. I'm pretty sure the Fade in Dragon age are inspired by this Dreamland. Also. I think there are other Lovecraftian elements in Dragon age too.
The concept of Mages / Wizards / Occultists go way back beyond Dragon Age and even gaming in general.
But you're certainly not wrong about Dragon Age being inspired by Lovecraftian elements.
- In Clive Barker's Undying, when attempting to open a door, it'll fly off it's hinges straight into the now exposed red sky, and you'll find yourself standing in the world of Oneiros. And later on in the same game after falling asleep I believe it was, you'll find yourself in the world of Eternal Autumn, a world created by Bethany Covenant. Highly recommend this game if only for the sudden moment when you walk from perfect normality into suddenly being in Oneiros.
An awesome video!
I love your videos!
It reads like an old Dungeons and Dragons campaign map. I love it!
This should be explored more in-depth by someone
I would read the stories
The getting locked out of dreamlands thing sounds like a story I heard on an Art Bell program where a caller could astral project into some other world but one day he was “spotted” by something saying he shouldn’t be there. He then said he could no longer access this place or project at all.
I had my kindergarten class do a play based off of the Dream Quest. They loved it.
This is extremely cool!
Great video,good use of music too (Skyrim)
Need to learn more about this, would be a good d&d world for my players to explore!
Cool video! 😎👍
Love the Oblivion music in the background
What about a video on when religion becomes mythology? Like when Norse beliefs became mythology instead of a religion. Or with Greeks and Roman beliefs.
It was mythology already back then. Herakleitos, one of the earlier Greek philosophers, scoffed at gullible women prostrating before stone idols. And the whole era of hellenism, the great Greek philosophers spawned by Pythagoras and Plato, this started with the idea that a god that goes fucking around everything that moves, and generally being a giant dickwad next to a giant adulterer, can NEVER be the one great creator, the source where everything that is good emanates from. That was the very thought that caused Plato to think up his demiurg principle. This was all a REJECTION of the whole traditional Greek polytheist religion, in favor of eastern monotheism and dualism (good vs evil concept).
So this happened 3-4 centuries before Christ, and was seen by the early Christians as proof for that scriptural statement that God was going to soften the hearts of men before the coming of the messiah.
As far as non lovecraft stories go I love Brian Lumley’s Dreamlands series. Consists of 4 books starting with Hero of Dreams. It also ties in later on with his Titus Crow series which is set in the Cthulhu Mythos.
your explanation of the dreamland matches what the pyramid texts say about the journey of a pharoah's sould after death!
There are versions that say that the story of Polaris did not actually take place in the Dreamlands, but in a prehistoric Earth, although several names hint that it may as well be in the Dreamlands.
Yeah, same with The Doom that Came to Sarnath
The fact he lived in my city of Providence, Rhode Island makes it that much more amazing and interesting
Dreamlands can be a confusing topic. Good video!
True Knowledge is well received in this state and dream state
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this would make an awesome open world rpg, falling asleep and climbing the stairs would be like character creation
Awesome content! Love the knowledge you bestow to us. I was wondering if you would ever explain some of Game Of Thrones religions/magic on the channel?
Seems to be a lot of untapped potential here.
Nice use of Skyrim music! I think you should make a series on The deities of the elder scrolls maybe starting with the most lovecraftian of all, hermaeus mora. Great video
I’m currently reading Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. It was cool seeing references to other characters like Pickman an the Other Gods.
Great video. No mention really of the plains of Leng. And no, I have no idea why I'm so intrigued with it.
As far as the dreamland and stories, I've always thought that the greatest fantasy nooks ever, Robert Jordan's The Wheel Of Time took a huge note from the dreamland. In Jordan's version, which I am not gonna try to spell, you can there through dreams and some can go there physically, if you die there in the physical, you die, alot of similarities.
It's weirdly fascinating.
Sounds like an isekai anime to me
i mean............you arent WRONG
I love the Dreamlands, and I have read the entire Dream Cycle, there so much to talk about, maybe you should make more videos about it, and mention Lord Dunsany! The Dreamlands map in the video actually includes places that are not only from Lovecraft's tales, but from Dunsany as well!
The dream land of unknown kadath is my favorite story of the mythos. Randolph Carter is awesome.
Reminds me of the realm in the book in skyrim and the fade of dragon age.
I’m currently listening to Lovecrafts works on Audible and it’s interesting to hear how many of them are tied together with this subject.
I'm seeing a lot of parallels between the dream lands and The Elder Scrolls. I think there was a lot of inspiration with Vivic and some other stuff too. Lovecraft would in awe by his legacy.
Foul xenos I've called in the space marines to take care of these horrors and wonders.
It kinda sounds heretical too... You might need to summon an Inquisitor.
Warhammer's chaos gods are lovecratian knock off so
Calling them "daemons" or "neverborn" would be more accurate than "xenos", as they are the denizens of the Aether, not aliens of physical reality.
The most recent book I read featuring The Dreamlands was the 3rd book in a series called Johannes Cabal. The book in question is called Johannes Cabal and the Fear Institute. Great read Imo.
this place reminds me of the Abadazad books.
which were sadly discontinued when Crossgen went out of business.
Gonna Visit it in a while~
*[Morpheus has joined the chat]*
DC lore is also 👌
The best single story to get a good overview is "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath".
I like the way you pronounce Nyarlathotep as Neil Arthur Tepp :)
I love these concepts, and it's probably why I love Bloodborne so much.
Wheel of time had to have taken inspiration from this
Love the skyrim soundtrack on the background
Very kool 🌼✌️❤️
Would vacation there without a doubt. What an adventure that would be.
WoW that explains alot
Love the Skyrim music
Never realized how much the Dream lands remind me of the Shivering Isles.awh... the nostalgia.
Thnx for your channel ! I was ready to give up on you tube. Small redirections.
Kind of like the Realm of Dreams and Nightmares in our existence. Though that place is impossible to map as it is always shifting and I highly don't recommend going there outside your own dreamscape. The memory still haunts me to this day.
Fascinating, but I should not be watching this before bedtime. 😬
Dreamlands, one of many, many planes of realities. But beautiful one.
I love the beauty of dying worlds, the attention for every detail, not knowing if it is last. The plane covered by shallow salt sea, like dead sea, and fog. There is dim and dying sun. Inhabitants are walking on long poles to not touch the sea level. They are not corporal, just rags of cloth resembling humans. They are friendly. They have their tall rag-tag "houses". They are also rocks and caves. Every drop of dew is there like a miracle.
A dying world. Phantomally beautifully dying one