I feel like one of the scarier things in the Violence District is one encounter of a woman standing next to the street. She's just there alone under a street lamp, minding her own business. She seems like the only living person in the place so you go up to her, seemingly a light in the darkness. Then its revealed to be a ruse, the woman's head just popping off as she speedily approaches. This, whatever it is, then catches you, ending your dream and putting it into the lower downers as if your character woke up from a horrible nightmare.
Wow talk about a blast from the past. Back in 2009, I stumbled across a small channel called Mikennemonic and his play through got me into the lore. I always wanted to give LSD a try but I could never figure out how to run Japanese ROMs. Now that there's a tutorial, I might give it another go for nostalgia.
Yooo!!! Finally! I love LSD! I always found LSD: Dream Emulator as an game that was different from others, it is mysterious, it has some scary and dark secrets, and it has Violence District.
@@Zabrixis1919 Sure, anything can be addictive. But psychedelics in general do not cause physical addiction. As a matter of fact, they ironically help people get off of addictions which is a pro. A con would be the potential intensity of an experience, a reason why people choose to micro-dose and why you wouldn't be actively seeking it out like you would with nicotine or alcohol. You simply don't get such compulsions to trip again like you would to drink or smoke again. That's silly.
According to the Wiki page, most emulators can't render the water correctly. If you do decide to make more videos on this, it seems like the "DuckStation" emulator renders it correctly.
@@HEXoslav this isnt true, duckstation is more stable and at the same time contains all sorts of graphics improvements like pgxp or proper 16x9 rendering
@@HEXoslav duckstation is far more optimized and stable on modern hardware. Its more accurate, it has more rendering options, its easier to use, and contains all kinds of great enhancement features.
I've actually been typing out my dreams lately in a word document as soon as I wake up from one. Reading some of them back can be an extremely weird experience, especially if it's a dream I've progressively forgotten over the span of the day.
I've been logging my own dreams for some like two decades now, filling several books. The more I did it, the more vivid and memorable most of my dreams became; and the better I remembered them. It's an essential part of training your mind. In my case, it's got to the point for some years now that I repeatedly have not just recurring dreams... Now it's like I visit a couple of persistent worlds in my dreams, which are persistent the way an intricate RPG game has it's own autonomous world with AI going about daily business. There's characters I 'meet' regularly on my 'visits', I have a home, I do things and pick up conversations from where I've left off; and it's all _so_ real that engages pretty much all my senses to the point of being literally indistinguishable from reality. Not just during these dreams (which are lucid, sort of) but in my memory too after waking, they're as vivid and regular as any memory from reality; with nothing I could look back on that's odd or impossible etc that would prove the events were a dream. It's now to the point where the only clue-ins that X event or conversation isn't or didn't happen in reality is the fact that they start and end with me in bed. It is seriously like visiting another closely-related dimension, just in my sleep. These dream 'worlds' are so real that when I'm in them; it's like I'm lucid and aware my body is asleep elsewhere, but my powers of lucidity end there (I can't fly, or make anything else odd happen). It's literally like my self/soul/consciousness somehow entered a close parallel world (like in String theory), very similar to our world and obeying the same laws of physics etc. As noted these worlds are persistent with familiar people and places in them; but they're not static either, there are slow changes here and there, people age, things happen over time. There's also no "weird dream stuff"; the continuity of time and place are always maintained: Usually in dreams there's always random changes of place, people/things appearing/disappearing, jumps in time, everything constantly changing and breaking laws of physics and logic constantly. None of that happens in these experiences; the difference between them and 'normal' dreams is day/night, both during and in memory after. It's as big as the difference between waking and dreaming period, for most people. I can't read or tell time in normal dreams. In these experiences, I can do either easily. Normal dreams might be realistic sometimes, but they don't engage my senses. In these experiences, I hear, smell, taste, physically feel everything... I cannot emphasize enough that they are completely indistinguishable from waking reality, and how different they are from even realistic 'normal' dreams both during and in memory after waking. And I still have 'normal' dreams too sometimes; I'd say the ratio about 40/60. If any of this makes sense at all, and I don't just sound like a nutcase. It's hard to explain. Point is, it was the journalling that led to (most of) my dreaming becoming more and more real and lucid, and memories of them more and more clear and complete. Also regardless of what/how you dream, writing them all down is invaluable as a sort of window into the subconscious.* *I'm a big skeptic and not into mystical anything, and consider myself rational. But given the seriously literally perfect realism/clarity/persistence of these dream experiences of mine vs. my "normal" random dreams.... I am half convinced that for the former, I am indeed doing some form of soul travel or astral projection or whatever you want to call it into other parallel worlds or dimensions while I sleep. We can't even define consciousness after all; nor how it relates the concept of the self/soul, and have no idea whether it's generated by the brain, or whether the brain is just a conduit for it. String theory et al. say there's likely infinite parallel worlds out there (and we can barely define reality let alone its boundaries either). I find it perfectly plausible that one's soul or self can leave the body and enter such other worlds. These sleep experiences are just too real, too intricate and persistent over too many years, and too perfectly logical, and with nothing impossible or nonsensical in my memory to 'give them away' as having been a dream; whereas all normal dreams no matter how real they seem during, will always upon waking examination be revealed as impossible, illogical, random weirdness. As I said, the difference between these experiences and normal style of dreams, even the vivid ones, is night/day. Were it not for the fact that they start and end with me in my bed at home, they'd be indistinguishable from reality. It's like... I have a couple other entire lives that I've been living in my sleep the last couple decades; complete with complex relationships. Or maybe I'm just nuts lol.
ive had so many non memorable dreams recently (probably like 1 every other night) and idk why because usually i dont have this many dreams that i cant remember or i would only remember specific moments from them
Something about the dark figure is extremely unnerving. Just the chance to spawn in anywhere at any time at a rare chance. everything in the game is surreal and facinating and oddly chill. Until you see the shrouded figure and you realise you are not safe here, they are stalking you wherever you go. and the scary thing is that its only sometimes spawned in which induces paranoia
In the future humor will be randomly generated - veggietales. Everything i find in this age like this game is all some twisted gamble. Just randomness that generates emotion.
Agreed. Since I first saw gameplay of it a couple years ago, I initially thought it was one of those games made to look like a PS1 title but had released recently rather than one that actually came out for the PS1 in the 90s. It's concept feels so modern, especially with it's similarities to current stuff like dreamcore and liminal spaces.
Back in 99 a guy I know picked this up at a local Japanese pop culture store near where we went to school. A local club, where we were regulars, would allow people to play stuff on their projection screen. On trance and experimental Electronica nights they would let us play this on their screen. Good times.
If you haven’t already played it, Yume Nikki would be a good game to check out. It would be a bit different from your usual stuff since it’s 2d, not first person, but in its presentation and themes it’s definitely right up your alley. (It’s also free to play!)
I love this kind of videos. Please also like a part 2&3! It just gives me good vibes. I love liminal stuff like this. Would love to hear more dreamcore/weirdcore too!
You have some of the most enticing, insightful commentary out of practically anyone else doing this type of thing on UA-cam. Please never stop making videos
When he first entered the violence district i saw the street lamps and concrete floor and almost had a heart attack. I have this nightmare every once in awhile, its rare but when I do see it I immediately want to wake back up, its where I'm in an endless parking lot under a starless night sky with streetlamps dotting it, no cars, no building for the parking lot to lead up to, just an endless concrete hell. I always felt like I was being chased or watched, but no matter where I looked or how far into the dream I was I never saw anything, I could walk for miles and never see anything other than an endless ocean of concrete and streetlamps, it always devolves into me curling up on the ground and crying, when I wake up my face is soaked with tears and my hands are shaking like they're playing the maracas, but the strangest part about the dream is that I always forget about it until something shows up and makes me remember it or if I have it again, the second the violence district showed up the memories came flooding back.
The fact that the violence district itself was created based on the dream journals of the creator and someone he knew adds to how creepy your account of it is. Just the idea that multiple people have gone to that place in their dreams... scary as hell.
I just thought of this and it makes so much sense. When you see a liminal space image and feel weird or nostalgic it happens cause you are seeing a memory just not your own memory but a memory many people have had. Each person had seen the same thing but aren’t the same exact thing. Like a memory that isn’t your own
I worded that very badly so I will make a reply explaining it better. A memory created when experiencing something. Have you ever been to a place like Chuck E. Cheese? Or something similar? Then any liminal space image with a place that has some similarities to a kids pizzeria or other party centered restaurant for kids will make you nostalgic for the memories of going to a place like that but you don’t remember the memory just feel the nostalgia from the memory you can’t recall. A memory that isn’t your own but you still feel it as if it was? Or Something like that
Yes love this game so much! Really hope you do some more videos on it given how due to its RNG style random nature its always different and unique every time you play it. Can often get pretty spooky and strange too, very much an early lineal game
I would LOVE to explore in a IRL dream the place at 15:50 ! This ambience, the moon, everything feels so unique but also soooo familiar. That's weird, one of my dreams is now to dream, that's definetely weird
You have no idea how excited I was when I saw this in my feed. I've got plenty of fond memories watching people play this 9-10 years ago, simpler times.
If you want more games like LSD Dream Emulator, and specifically more games based on the creators' dreams like you said in the video, you should check out the LSDJAM 2020 and 2021 over on itch. They've got a bunch of cool stuff inspired by LSD Dream Emulator, and some were indeed made off of their makers' dreams. I've actually covered a ton of the games from both years on my channel, so if you'd like I could also recommend some of the best ones. (Trying this one more time... Sorry for the multiple comments, I imagine you have link blocking turned on so my others weren't getting through.)
I am so excited to watch this! I have this game so much, it inspired so many creatives and indie games that exist now. It's rough, but that's because its the first of its kind. Thanks for playing it XD
Dude, I think I know what game your talking about, the museum one. It was listed in some underrated spooky children's games recently. If I recall there was like a dead body jumpscare hidden deep, deep into the game. Of course I could just be wrong, but it had some vibes like this.
@@bugpocket Wasn't it actually just a pig? Granted, the compression made it as clear as an ebaum's world video from 2002. *EDIT* Honestly, it kinda looks like it has hooves? Like a lower deer half? Ironically, the artifacting was still clearer than mid/early 2000s videos, better than I expected! God streaming Internet videos used to suuuck. Waiting 10 min to watch a 1 min 144p video only to misclick on 1 of 20 ads on that page and lose that progress. fuuuuug Dx. No one's gonna find this irrelevant tangent lul
Ooooh, yay! I just start watching you barely a week ago and you play one of my favorite games ever, this is a win for me! :D An awesome personality, mixed with interesting content? Talk about lucky! :D Woah, you got the Kanji textures, nice! Here's a translation of the Text Dream you got, took it from the wiki: '"I'm being chased." I'm being chased by something. Something like an organisation. The old, retired master of the small dressmaker shop is covering for me. However, I will continue to be chased by my enemies.' Fun fact: In The Natural World, that grassy expanse with the giant fish, if you look into the water under that large bridge you crossed, can see what seems to be the Violence District beneath the water! You'll wanna look from land, though. There are also maps of The Natural World, so if you wanna find certain events or places then check the wiki page for them, it's VERY helpful. You should, if you return to this game, make a video focused around The Natural World. It has 25 objects/events to se, so you WILL need those maps If yuo want those maps but don't wanna see any screenshots of events, I can link the images directly. There's also objects that Link you to Static/Set locations instead of Dyamic/Random ones and I'll list them in a reply to this comment. :3 I'd watch you do a full playthrough of all 365 days! (There's also an fanmade English patch that you can download! It came out in 2020 I think :D)
UPDATE: Finally edited it, lol. (Static Link spots will be at the bottom of this comment, as well a button function) ~DAY 001, DREAM~ -Bright Moon Cottage -Kyoto -The Natural World ~DAY 002, TEXT DREAM~ -Spday01f, "I'm being chased" ~DAY 003, DREAM~ -Bright Moon Cottage -The Natural World ~DAY 004, DREAM~ -The Natural World -Happy Town -Bright Moon Cottage -The Natural World (If you pause when the bridge is mostly in view you can see the Violence District beneath it) -Pit & Temple ~DAY 005, DREAM~ -Moonlight Tower ~DAY 006, DREAM~ -Kyoto (Yay, you got the Kitsune event! :D) -Temple Dojo -Kyoto -Happy Town ~DAY 007, CLIP DREAM~ - SPDAY02B, Counting Sheep ~DAY 008, DREAM~ -The Natural World -Monument Park (You nailed the name hehe) -Violence District ~DAY 009, DREAM~ -The Natural World -Long Hallway ~DAY 010, DREAM~ -Temple Dojo -Kyoto -Happy Town -Kyoto -The Natural World -Happy Town -Violence District ~DAY 011-012, DREAM~ (Note: From this day until day 21, you can see the Kanji textures in various areas) -The Natural World (Kanji textures) (also, nice use of the green sky for a good gag XD) -Violence District (If you do another video on this in the future, run under every streetlight.) -The Natural World (Kanji textures again) -Pit & Temple (Kanji textures) ~DAY 013, DREAM~ -Temple Dojo (Kanji textures) NOTE: The Gray Man can appear everywhere but Sun Faces Heave, Bright Moon Cottage, The Natural World, Pit & Temple, Black Space, Flesh Tunnels, and in the Long Hallway. Also, surprised you ran into him in Monument Park, that's where he has the lowest spawn chance. ~~~STATIC LINKS~~~ -Touching the Sky painting on the second floor or Bright Moon Cottage links you to the Long Hallway as do the walls around the painting. -Touching the graffiti on the walls in the Violence District links you to the Clockwork Machines, as do touching the guard fences and construction vehicle near the hole. -Touching the wall directly behind the Orrery* will link you to the Violence District. -Touching the Bunny in Happy Town links you to the Moonlight Tower. -Touching the base of the Ferris Wheel in Happy Town links you to Sun Faces Heave. -Touching the Giant Head in Bright Moon Cottage links you to the Violence District. -There is a building in yoyo that has a pagoda on top, entering it and touching the back wall links you to Moonlight Tower. *The Orrery appears in the Clockwork Machines. Also, if you can directly touch the Gunman, you will also be linked to the Clockwork Machines. You need to know him how to do this, which I think can only be done with the O button. ~~~O BUTTON TRIGGERS~~~ -Make the Gunman fall. -"Kill" the Black Wolf. (Appears in the Temple Dojo, will either end your dream or send you to Sun Faces Heave.) -Fly up on the Ferris Wheel in Happy Town. -Ride the Train in Happy Town. -Move towards the Winged Minotaur in the Moonlight Tower. That's all I got for now. Sorry for the insanely long comment, it's like 1:30 in the mornin' and I ramble when I'm tired and I always get hyped up when I see this game lmao. Imma sleep now. :3
I know that dinosaur game! Dinosaur adventure 3D, I still have the box and disc. I remember there being also some kind of museum, in which I was certain there would some secret passageways for some reason. I think that was because the instruction was saying something about "discovering secrets of it", which is of course just another way of telling a kid to go see the exhibits, but back then it enticed me to try to find actual hidden secrets.
A LARGE MARGE surprise appearance! I loved everything about this - both the game and gameplay! I think this game is such a neat idea and I wish there was more like it out there. I’d love to create something like it with my own dream journal if I could. So cool. Plus I can’t believe how many times you ran into The Grey Man during this playthrough! Unlucky! Or, perhaps lucky since you wanted to see the Violence District? Would watch hours of this tbh
Anyways, I'd LOVE to see more LSD from you! It's so awesome when someone plays this thing and actually gets what it's about, and your insights into it so far are fascinating.
Ah, LSD Dream Emulator! Such an interesting, quirky game. The soundtrack may be bizarre, but TV River (one track from a music album that came with the game) kinda slaps!
pretty dope of you playing this game, i used to play the shit out of it way back when i was younger, would stay up super late and play this. was a trip especially when youre half asleep lol
I used to play this game on the train during my commute for about a month. Even by the end of the month, I was still discovering new things in this game.
Another Playstation 1 game I can recommend you to maybe have a look at is "Germs: Nerawareta Machi" (Germs: The Targeted Town). It's an open world, horror/action/adventure game with a whole city to walk and/or drive around, buildings to explore, people to talk to and strange things to find. The game is in Japanese though, so actually progressing the story is difficult since you have to complete missions your given.
Holy shit. My reaction time when clicking this video was like a Gale force. My body is ready for this Masterpiece of a game. I still have the *Original* PS1 CD. The original game did come in English, however I believe it was European.
The original game was only released in NTSC-J format, so only the Japanese got to truly appreciate this masterpiece upon it's original release. If you do legitimately have an authentic copy of LSD, I would keep a hold of it; the games selling upwards of £1000 on most places I've seen and it's only going to get more valuable. I considered the purchase when It was only around £400, but now it's quite out of reach.
@@quadrooffive Yeah, I actually bought it with my own $20 at Bills Flea Market in Georgia, after I cut a Neighbor's lawn. I thought it was cool, and the First time i played the Manticore looking creatures scared the life out of me. It was for sure a Legitimate English Copy, and I remember the Front Cover Vividly. It had the more Cleaner version of the Games Graph. Not the blocky Graph, The rounded type was the main front cover image. The Normal LSD logo was above it, however lacked several features such as color, and shading. It looked oddly similar to the 20th anniversary art format wise. The rounded creature however, Lacked it's body. I'll see if I can get to my Storage Unit, Sometime by next month. I'll update you then.
I contest. I was there for the 90s (and 80s) and there was plenty of Weird Shit (TM) to be had in both games and tv. Triple A games as we know them barely existed and there are piles of weird, cheap, and ultimately forgotten games out there, many of which never left Japan. As for TV and Twin Peaks please consider: The Muppet Show was still airing on syndication, as was The Twilight Zone. The X-Files reigned supreme as did a little show called Northern Exposure (aka twin peaks lite). Kids programming reached new levels of weird with Gumby, PeeWees Playhouse, all of pre-2000s Nickelodeon. And of course the entity of early MTV. People were already deep into surreality and meta long before the internet reached its awkward teen years.
I remember discovering this being played by a currently dormant twitch streamer and youtuber called AzuriteReaction around 13 years ago. It's sad he's stopped uploading videos, especially since I think this liminal space thing might vibe with him. I've been watching the remake, LSD: Revamped, for years. I even produced music for it. all in all, It's one of the most interesting games I've ever experienced.
LSD dream emulator is a classic, but it always makes me feel so uncomfortable. It has a sort of uncanny valley quality to it that I find hard to describe, also coupled with the narrow field of view you have, it always makes me feel as if there could be something weird or disturbing just outsider your peripheral vision, and I’m pretty sure that can actually be the case sometimes.
all the areas in the game are linked together. they are not just random. The outdoorsy area has links to every location you can get to through various tunnels.
There's a few other games made by an artist who worked on this called "Tong-Nou" and "Chu-Teng" both are pretty weird but have more of a story. I've never played them so idk how easily accessible they are but I think it's worth looking into.
after hearing how you feel and interpret dreams, id say you should give psychedelics a shot, they can be just as insightful and make you feel random connections to objects that you cant explain to anyone else but in a waking state
I got plenty of dream-like material to suggest--especially for this channel, if you're interested. 13:45 But plenty of weird things existed in the 90s on tv. MTV was popular. Heck, even Adult Swim started airing in the 90s I think. I'm guessing you mean less "weird" but moreso "surreal" tho. If you're as curious about the past as I am, I'd suggest checking out r/obscuremedia (a slightly niche subreddit that I like). Fair bit of surreal lost media from the past. You mentioned a more modern retake for dream-like games like LSD. Radiohead's Kid A Mnesia Exhibition might be just your thing. It's fairly small, and it's free too! I don't listen to Radiohead or anything like it, and even I thought it was great. Very surreal experience. And y'know what's also funny and dream-logic-like? AI DUNGEON. Neural-network generated stories based on your input. Check it out! It's also free! (can pay for deeper settings) Also, you ever consider keeping a dream journal? A streamer I know, Vinny from Vinesauce, started a dream journal a few years ago and sometimes, at the start of a stream or whenever there's downtime, will read them aloud. They were pretty funny and disjointed, unusual. I figure for your slowly descriptive way of telling stories, it's a good fit. Simply keep a dream journal/phone near you, and when you wake up, immediately jot details before you forget, then afterwards about how it made you feel.
I do advise looking up and down at the various things you encounter, it can unlock a _lot_ of special interactions with objects. Things come to life, aircraft give you special scenes, you can nope the Grey Man by walking through him whilst looking up... Edit: Your starting location depends on your most recent dream's placement on the Chart. Edit x2: The Grey Man prevents you from flashing back to anything that's present at the time that he gets you. Edit x3: The flash-disappear thing _is_ the Grey Man's 'attack.' If you see that, he got you.
I think the closest thing we have to a dream emulator game in the vein of LSD Dream Emulator would probably be 0°N 0°W, or ZERONORTHZEROWEST. It's not randomly generated for the most part but it's the closest I can think of in terms of games whose style matches LSD:DE.
23:40 I think I might know what you're talking about. I don't even know if it was a game, but there was this weird interactive game of sorts that was on an old power mac I had back in 2000-2001 I think it was a mac 6300. The game involved some kind of green reptilian humanoid creature that would talk and explain various aspects about these dinosaurs that were in some exhibit. It had a creepy robotic voice, but I can't remember any more than this. It might not be what you're thinking of at all, but maybe it is.
I can definitely say one thing: the locations of the game are interconnected, you can reach the area of a conventional Japanese villagw from this dark port, so, yeah.
Fun Fact: the game uses procedural generation to determine where you'll end up each time you hit a wall. It takes into account what you did & where you went to decide what happens next. It's kinda impressive
I just remembered about this game less than a week ago how the hell... I haven't heard about it for years and the one time I remember this game, someone I watch regularly plays it not too long after? creepy...
Yeah this isn't a "game" in any conventional sense, other than looking sort of like one and following a game-like structure in it's presentation. But it has no real progression, no score, no levels (in a conventional sense), no goals, and you can't really die, let alone win or lose. It's an interactive art experience.... Which I guess could be said of many actual games too, but you know what I mean. I like the concept of this game, but very few of my dreams are even slightly abstract impossibilities like this. 90% of my dreams are mundane, everyday stuff that takes place in very realistic cities, where I do relatively normal stuff and have conversations and whatnot. Time flows normally and all the laws of physics and such are obeyed (eg; no flying around, no special powers, no impossible changes of architecture and location...) Basically while some of them are very odd and even disconcerting if not outright nightmares, almost all are set in places that might or could exist in reality; and in and in situations and such that might be strange but are at least possible. My other "dreams" are so experiences so real as to involve all my sense and be literally indistinguishable from reality; other than the fact they start & end with me in bed. Otherwise they are as real as real, and even after I wake, the memories are perfectly vivid and contiguous as any memory of anything from waking reality; unlike my normal dream memories whcih tend to be hazy, incomplete, and where the obvious weirdness/physical impossibilities of the dream become apparent. In these "dreams" though, there's a couple persistent and autonomous worlds I visit, wherein there are consistent places and people and such; as if I have a couple separate lives I've been living in shifts in my sleep over a couple decades now at least, complete with homes, friends, associates, etc. I'm not into mystic stuff at all and am generally skeptical and rational, but it long ago reached the point with the realism and persistent places/people/etc in these "dreams" that I have given very serious credence to the whole concept of other String Theory, parallel worlds and other dimensions... And the concepts of astral projection; well more the general idea of the self or soul (or whatever you want to call your conscious self essence) becoming untethered from the physical body in sleep and able to enter other dimensions or planes of existence. The utter perfect realism of these "dreams", and my memories of them have pretty much convinced me. The difference between these "dream" experiences, and what I'll call normal dreams, are like night and day; or as big as the difference between dreaming and waking -- for normal dreams may seem more or less real while you're having them, but become obvious nonsense upon waking consideration. These "dream" experiences still seem to have been 100% real even after I wake, the memories don't fade, and they remain indistinguishable from real experiences. Sometimes I'll even have to seriously consider whether I did something in waking life or in one of these experiences, that's how real they are. So yeah. Consciousness, the self/soul, and other worlds are certainly mysteries... (I am sane, have no mental disorders, don't use any drugs, and am not epileptic nor have any brain tumors, nor have I ever hallucinated or anything while awake. Apparently either my dreams are either more real than 99.999999% of other people's, or I am somehow projecting my soul/self/whatever into other dimensions in my sleep.
If you like exploration based, strange dream-like games like this, Yume Nikki (meaning "Dream Diary") and possibly even one of its many fangames are a good place to check out. It's free and was made on the RPG Maker engine, so it is Pixel Art 2D rather than 90s 3D. Yume Nikki itself doesn't feature dialogue, just written UI like LSD:DE.
I often have dreams, but I like my dreams are odd. Like not the big mushroom valleys or anything but like not like other peoples dreams, like I can describe my dreams to the fullest like I once had a dream where I was at a zoo and there was an elephant trapped under a log basically was a killer elephant and tried to get me to eat some cheese. I know it sounds insane. Odd but that’s where my dreams and I could literally specifically remember the city skyline and like where the highest house skyscraper next to the zoo was it was so weird I don’t remember driving like some fancy car around that city. Once this is like the main cities up all my dreams tend to happen and it’s kind of weird but I just named it new Josh city because my middle name is Josh Josh.
Of But course surrealism didn’t start in the internet age. Just check out underground comix of the 1960s and early 1970s, then back to the trippiest Max Fleischer animations, then back to surrealist art, then to Dada, then back to Bruegel and Bosch and the utterly off the wall art of the alchemists.
Maybe i am different from most, and i think it may be my lack of internal monologue (i don’t have an internal voice i use to talk to myself) my dreams are always stories. I jump around the timeline of the stories adding to the details all night, but they are always a set of places, people and actions that i create and play like a first person puppet show. Also, there is no topic more boring than someone else’s dreams which to me seems a strange truth.
i remember enjoying the game and then feeling total body fear when i see the grey man... like i didn't even want to know i just shut it off. i built up so much fear of seeing this figure. lol
At 3:20 I like to think that's just some otherworldly deity unforeseen by the human eye that decided nah I don't feel like doing anything with too big of consequences I just wanna try practicing drums
If you ever plan on making another video on LSD: Dream Emulator, I suggest you play the PC port. It's made by some talented people and uploaded (free of charge) on Itch.
I feel like one of the scarier things in the Violence District is one encounter of a woman standing next to the street. She's just there alone under a street lamp, minding her own business. She seems like the only living person in the place so you go up to her, seemingly a light in the darkness. Then its revealed to be a ruse, the woman's head just popping off as she speedily approaches. This, whatever it is, then catches you, ending your dream and putting it into the lower downers as if your character woke up from a horrible nightmare.
Wow talk about a blast from the past. Back in 2009, I stumbled across a small channel called Mikennemonic and his play through got me into the lore. I always wanted to give LSD a try but I could never figure out how to run Japanese ROMs. Now that there's a tutorial, I might give it another go for nostalgia.
Boy I kindof miss hanging in Mike's streams hope the guy is doing alright for himself
dude you just reminded me of another youtuber called azuritereaction, i got introduced to lsd dream emulator and ao oni by him.
yeah i also wanna try LSD, though i can't get in contact with my dealer
*Comedy Gold*
I used to watch Mutahar from SomeOrdinaryGamers play it back in the day. That series was real fun to sit back and relax to
Mike's playthrough is so so much better than listening to this nerdy ass guy talk about twin peaks while playing, jesus
Yooo!!! Finally!
I love LSD!
I always found LSD: Dream Emulator as an game that was different from others, it is mysterious, it has some scary and dark secrets, and it has Violence District.
You love LSD? Please go to rehab
@@Gta4isgarbage you can’t be addicted to LSD…
@@trym2766 why not?
@@Zabrixis1919 Sure, anything can be addictive. But psychedelics in general do not cause physical addiction. As a matter of fact, they ironically help people get off of addictions which is a pro. A con would be the potential intensity of an experience, a reason why people choose to micro-dose and why you wouldn't be actively seeking it out like you would with nicotine or alcohol. You simply don't get such compulsions to trip again like you would to drink or smoke again. That's silly.
@@Gta4isgarbage I hope you know what you are talking about.
Oh my god, YES! I always wanted to see more LSD:DE videos from you, thank you so much for making this video! :D
According to the Wiki page, most emulators can't render the water correctly. If you do decide to make more videos on this, it seems like the "DuckStation" emulator renders it correctly.
epsxe is the emulator I always used for this game and I heard that its the best emulator for it
@@HEXoslav this isnt true, duckstation is more stable and at the same time contains all sorts of graphics improvements like pgxp or proper 16x9 rendering
@@HEXoslav duckstation is far more optimized and stable on modern hardware. Its more accurate, it has more rendering options, its easier to use, and contains all kinds of great enhancement features.
Duckstation is Definitely the way to go for this game
I've actually been typing out my dreams lately in a word document as soon as I wake up from one. Reading some of them back can be an extremely weird experience, especially if it's a dream I've progressively forgotten over the span of the day.
I sometimes write down my dreams. Though, it's not consistent. I probably should start writing when I wake up.
I've been logging my own dreams for some like two decades now, filling several books. The more I did it, the more vivid and memorable most of my dreams became; and the better I remembered them. It's an essential part of training your mind. In my case, it's got to the point for some years now that I repeatedly have not just recurring dreams... Now it's like I visit a couple of persistent worlds in my dreams, which are persistent the way an intricate RPG game has it's own autonomous world with AI going about daily business. There's characters I 'meet' regularly on my 'visits', I have a home, I do things and pick up conversations from where I've left off; and it's all _so_ real that engages pretty much all my senses to the point of being literally indistinguishable from reality. Not just during these dreams (which are lucid, sort of) but in my memory too after waking, they're as vivid and regular as any memory from reality; with nothing I could look back on that's odd or impossible etc that would prove the events were a dream. It's now to the point where the only clue-ins that X event or conversation isn't or didn't happen in reality is the fact that they start and end with me in bed. It is seriously like visiting another closely-related dimension, just in my sleep.
These dream 'worlds' are so real that when I'm in them; it's like I'm lucid and aware my body is asleep elsewhere, but my powers of lucidity end there (I can't fly, or make anything else odd happen). It's literally like my self/soul/consciousness somehow entered a close parallel world (like in String theory), very similar to our world and obeying the same laws of physics etc. As noted these worlds are persistent with familiar people and places in them; but they're not static either, there are slow changes here and there, people age, things happen over time. There's also no "weird dream stuff"; the continuity of time and place are always maintained: Usually in dreams there's always random changes of place, people/things appearing/disappearing, jumps in time, everything constantly changing and breaking laws of physics and logic constantly. None of that happens in these experiences; the difference between them and 'normal' dreams is day/night, both during and in memory after. It's as big as the difference between waking and dreaming period, for most people. I can't read or tell time in normal dreams. In these experiences, I can do either easily. Normal dreams might be realistic sometimes, but they don't engage my senses. In these experiences, I hear, smell, taste, physically feel everything... I cannot emphasize enough that they are completely indistinguishable from waking reality, and how different they are from even realistic 'normal' dreams both during and in memory after waking. And I still have 'normal' dreams too sometimes; I'd say the ratio about 40/60.
If any of this makes sense at all, and I don't just sound like a nutcase. It's hard to explain. Point is, it was the journalling that led to (most of) my dreaming becoming more and more real and lucid, and memories of them more and more clear and complete. Also regardless of what/how you dream, writing them all down is invaluable as a sort of window into the subconscious.*
*I'm a big skeptic and not into mystical anything, and consider myself rational. But given the seriously literally perfect realism/clarity/persistence of these dream experiences of mine vs. my "normal" random dreams.... I am half convinced that for the former, I am indeed doing some form of soul travel or astral projection or whatever you want to call it into other parallel worlds or dimensions while I sleep. We can't even define consciousness after all; nor how it relates the concept of the self/soul, and have no idea whether it's generated by the brain, or whether the brain is just a conduit for it. String theory et al. say there's likely infinite parallel worlds out there (and we can barely define reality let alone its boundaries either). I find it perfectly plausible that one's soul or self can leave the body and enter such other worlds. These sleep experiences are just too real, too intricate and persistent over too many years, and too perfectly logical, and with nothing impossible or nonsensical in my memory to 'give them away' as having been a dream; whereas all normal dreams no matter how real they seem during, will always upon waking examination be revealed as impossible, illogical, random weirdness. As I said, the difference between these experiences and normal style of dreams, even the vivid ones, is night/day. Were it not for the fact that they start and end with me in my bed at home, they'd be indistinguishable from reality. It's like... I have a couple other entire lives that I've been living in my sleep the last couple decades; complete with complex relationships. Or maybe I'm just nuts lol.
@@J.DeLaPoer I think you’re just nuts tbh
@@LilPGKinghe is not nuts, he trained his ability of remembering dreams that he is able to dream lucid, that's normal.
ive had so many non memorable dreams recently (probably like 1 every other night) and idk why because usually i dont have this many dreams that i cant remember or i would only remember specific moments from them
Something about the dark figure is extremely unnerving. Just the chance to spawn in anywhere at any time at a rare chance. everything in the game is surreal and facinating and oddly chill. Until you see the shrouded figure and you realise you are not safe here, they are stalking you wherever you go. and the scary thing is that its only sometimes spawned in which induces paranoia
LSD Dream Emulator is a game so ahead of its time, that its time still hasn't actually arrived yet
In the future humor will be randomly generated - veggietales. Everything i find in this age like this game is all some twisted gamble. Just randomness that generates emotion.
Agreed. Since I first saw gameplay of it a couple years ago, I initially thought it was one of those games made to look like a PS1 title but had released recently rather than one that actually came out for the PS1 in the 90s. It's concept feels so modern, especially with it's similarities to current stuff like dreamcore and liminal spaces.
Back in 99 a guy I know picked this up at a local Japanese pop culture store near where we went to school. A local club, where we were regulars, would allow people to play stuff on their projection screen. On trance and experimental Electronica nights they would let us play this on their screen.
Good times.
If you haven’t already played it, Yume Nikki would be a good game to check out. It would be a bit different from your usual stuff since it’s 2d, not first person, but in its presentation and themes it’s definitely right up your alley. (It’s also free to play!)
I love this kind of videos. Please also like a part 2&3! It just gives me good vibes. I love liminal stuff like this. Would love to hear more dreamcore/weirdcore too!
You have some of the most enticing, insightful commentary out of practically anyone else doing this type of thing on UA-cam. Please never stop making videos
When he first entered the violence district i saw the street lamps and concrete floor and almost had a heart attack. I have this nightmare every once in awhile, its rare but when I do see it I immediately want to wake back up, its where I'm in an endless parking lot under a starless night sky with streetlamps dotting it, no cars, no building for the parking lot to lead up to, just an endless concrete hell. I always felt like I was being chased or watched, but no matter where I looked or how far into the dream I was I never saw anything, I could walk for miles and never see anything other than an endless ocean of concrete and streetlamps, it always devolves into me curling up on the ground and crying, when I wake up my face is soaked with tears and my hands are shaking like they're playing the maracas, but the strangest part about the dream is that I always forget about it until something shows up and makes me remember it or if I have it again, the second the violence district showed up the memories came flooding back.
The fact that the violence district itself was created based on the dream journals of the creator and someone he knew adds to how creepy your account of it is. Just the idea that multiple people have gone to that place in their dreams... scary as hell.
sometimes the brain forgets purposefuly a bad memory just so it can live in peace, sometimes its best not to remember at all
I just thought of this and it makes so much sense. When you see a liminal space image and feel weird or nostalgic it happens cause you are seeing a memory just not your own memory but a memory many people have had. Each person had seen the same thing but aren’t the same exact thing. Like a memory that isn’t your own
I worded that very badly so I will make a reply explaining it better. A memory created when experiencing something. Have you ever been to a place like Chuck E. Cheese? Or something similar? Then any liminal space image with a place that has some similarities to a kids pizzeria or other party centered restaurant for kids will make you nostalgic for the memories of going to a place like that but you don’t remember the memory just feel the nostalgia from the memory you can’t recall. A memory that isn’t your own but you still feel it as if it was? Or Something like that
Yes love this game so much! Really hope you do some more videos on it given how due to its RNG style random nature its always different and unique every time you play it. Can often get pretty spooky and strange too, very much an early lineal game
i really wanna see this game come back into popularity
I would LOVE to explore in a IRL dream the place at 15:50 ! This ambience, the moon, everything feels so unique but also soooo familiar.
That's weird, one of my dreams is now to dream, that's definetely weird
You have no idea how excited I was when I saw this in my feed. I've got plenty of fond memories watching people play this 9-10 years ago, simpler times.
If you want more games like LSD Dream Emulator, and specifically more games based on the creators' dreams like you said in the video, you should check out the LSDJAM 2020 and 2021 over on itch. They've got a bunch of cool stuff inspired by LSD Dream Emulator, and some were indeed made off of their makers' dreams. I've actually covered a ton of the games from both years on my channel, so if you'd like I could also recommend some of the best ones.
(Trying this one more time... Sorry for the multiple comments, I imagine you have link blocking turned on so my others weren't getting through.)
Haven't seen this game in a long time. SO surprised to see it on my feed and ecstatic when I saw it was you playing it :D
I am so excited to watch this! I have this game so much, it inspired so many creatives and indie games that exist now. It's rough, but that's because its the first of its kind. Thanks for playing it XD
Dude, I think I know what game your talking about, the museum one. It was listed in some underrated spooky children's games recently. If I recall there was like a dead body jumpscare hidden deep, deep into the game. Of course I could just be wrong, but it had some vibes like this.
You might be thinking of The Museum of Anything Goes. I think the game he had in mind might've been 3D Dinosaur Adventure.
The Museum of Anything Goes, yeah. Vinny Vinesauce played it and found the dead body right at the end of the stream.
@@bugpocket Wasn't it actually just a pig? Granted, the compression made it as clear as an ebaum's world video from 2002.
*EDIT* Honestly, it kinda looks like it has hooves? Like a lower deer half? Ironically, the artifacting was still clearer than mid/early 2000s videos, better than I expected! God streaming Internet videos used to suuuck. Waiting 10 min to watch a 1 min 144p video only to misclick on 1 of 20 ads on that page and lose that progress. fuuuuug Dx. No one's gonna find this irrelevant tangent lul
Ah man, that cutscene around 22 mins. I’ve had acid with several of those designs before, jfc
Ooooh, yay! I just start watching you barely a week ago and you play one of my favorite games ever, this is a win for me! :D
An awesome personality, mixed with interesting content? Talk about lucky! :D
Woah, you got the Kanji textures, nice!
Here's a translation of the Text Dream you got, took it from the wiki:
'"I'm being chased."
I'm being chased by something. Something like an organisation.
The old, retired master of the small dressmaker shop is covering for me. However, I will continue to be chased by my enemies.'
Fun fact: In The Natural World, that grassy expanse with the giant fish, if you look into the water under that large bridge you crossed, can see what seems to be the Violence District beneath the water! You'll wanna look from land, though. There are also maps of The Natural World, so if you wanna find certain events or places then check the wiki page for them, it's VERY helpful. You should, if you return to this game, make a video focused around The Natural World. It has 25 objects/events to se, so you WILL need those maps If yuo want those maps but don't wanna see any screenshots of events, I can link the images directly. There's also objects that Link you to Static/Set locations instead of Dyamic/Random ones and I'll list them in a reply to this comment. :3
I'd watch you do a full playthrough of all 365 days! (There's also an fanmade English patch that you can download! It came out in 2020 I think :D)
UPDATE: Finally edited it, lol.
(Static Link spots will be at the bottom of this comment, as well a button function)
~DAY 001, DREAM~
-Bright Moon Cottage
-Kyoto
-The Natural World
~DAY 002, TEXT DREAM~
-Spday01f, "I'm being chased"
~DAY 003, DREAM~
-Bright Moon Cottage
-The Natural World
~DAY 004, DREAM~
-The Natural World
-Happy Town
-Bright Moon Cottage
-The Natural World (If you pause when the bridge is mostly in view you can see the Violence District beneath it)
-Pit & Temple
~DAY 005, DREAM~
-Moonlight Tower
~DAY 006, DREAM~
-Kyoto (Yay, you got the Kitsune event! :D)
-Temple Dojo
-Kyoto
-Happy Town
~DAY 007, CLIP DREAM~
- SPDAY02B, Counting Sheep
~DAY 008, DREAM~
-The Natural World
-Monument Park (You nailed the name hehe)
-Violence District
~DAY 009, DREAM~
-The Natural World
-Long Hallway
~DAY 010, DREAM~
-Temple Dojo
-Kyoto
-Happy Town
-Kyoto
-The Natural World
-Happy Town
-Violence District
~DAY 011-012, DREAM~ (Note: From this day until day 21, you can see the Kanji textures in various areas)
-The Natural World (Kanji textures) (also, nice use of the green sky for a good gag XD)
-Violence District (If you do another video on this in the future, run under every streetlight.)
-The Natural World (Kanji textures again)
-Pit & Temple (Kanji textures)
~DAY 013, DREAM~
-Temple Dojo (Kanji textures)
NOTE: The Gray Man can appear everywhere but Sun Faces Heave, Bright Moon Cottage, The Natural World, Pit & Temple, Black Space, Flesh Tunnels, and in the Long Hallway.
Also, surprised you ran into him in Monument Park, that's where he has the lowest spawn chance.
~~~STATIC LINKS~~~
-Touching the Sky painting on the second floor or Bright Moon Cottage links you to the Long Hallway as do the walls around the painting.
-Touching the graffiti on the walls in the Violence District links you to the Clockwork Machines, as do touching the guard fences and construction vehicle near the hole.
-Touching the wall directly behind the Orrery* will link you to the Violence District.
-Touching the Bunny in Happy Town links you to the Moonlight Tower.
-Touching the base of the Ferris Wheel in Happy Town links you to Sun Faces Heave.
-Touching the Giant Head in Bright Moon Cottage links you to the Violence District.
-There is a building in yoyo that has a pagoda on top, entering it and touching the back wall links you to Moonlight Tower.
*The Orrery appears in the Clockwork Machines. Also, if you can directly touch the Gunman, you will also be linked to the Clockwork Machines. You need to know him how to do this, which I think can only be done with the O button.
~~~O BUTTON TRIGGERS~~~
-Make the Gunman fall.
-"Kill" the Black Wolf. (Appears in the Temple Dojo, will either end your dream or send you to Sun Faces Heave.)
-Fly up on the Ferris Wheel in Happy Town.
-Ride the Train in Happy Town.
-Move towards the Winged Minotaur in the Moonlight Tower.
That's all I got for now. Sorry for the insanely long comment, it's like 1:30 in the mornin' and I ramble when I'm tired and I always get hyped up when I see this game lmao. Imma sleep now. :3
@@OkamiLyra You are a credit to this entire comment section! Thank you for all of this~
@@Mordecai02 You're very welcome! 😊
This just makes me miss my PS1 so much more , There's something so special about the ambient tracks from the soundtrack. It's otherworldly
I know that dinosaur game! Dinosaur adventure 3D, I still have the box and disc. I remember there being also some kind of museum, in which I was certain there would some secret passageways for some reason. I think that was because the instruction was saying something about "discovering secrets of it", which is of course just another way of telling a kid to go see the exhibits, but back then it enticed me to try to find actual hidden secrets.
A LARGE MARGE surprise appearance! I loved everything about this - both the game and gameplay! I think this game is such a neat idea and I wish there was more like it out there. I’d love to create something like it with my own dream journal if I could. So cool. Plus I can’t believe how many times you ran into The Grey Man during this playthrough! Unlucky! Or, perhaps lucky since you wanted to see the Violence District? Would watch hours of this tbh
Anyways, I'd LOVE to see more LSD from you! It's so awesome when someone plays this thing and actually gets what it's about, and your insights into it so far are fascinating.
Ah, LSD Dream Emulator! Such an interesting, quirky game. The soundtrack may be bizarre, but TV River (one track from a music album that came with the game) kinda slaps!
I LOVED azuritereactions play through of this game it always made me laugh and I’m glad people still play it today
Really glad to see this on the channel! I used to play this so much on my PS1 emulator, such a great game
pretty dope of you playing this game, i used to play the shit out of it way back when i was younger, would stay up super late and play this. was a trip especially when youre half asleep lol
Thank you for covering this game,this one of my all time favourites.
Yess, I love this game - and it gets funkier the more you play, I hear. Series maybe? :o
24:20 You’re talking about DK Eyewitness Dinosaur Hunter. Amazing game! My whole childhood!
37:02 I’m so glad that Pee-Wee’s Playhouse isn’t completely forgotten
I used to play this game on the train during my commute for about a month. Even by the end of the month, I was still discovering new things in this game.
I wanted you to do a play through of this for so long it’s like perfect for your Chanel . It’s liminal , creepy , has dream logic and is nostalgic 😆
Another Playstation 1 game I can recommend you to maybe have a look at is "Germs: Nerawareta Machi" (Germs: The Targeted Town). It's an open world, horror/action/adventure game with a whole city to walk and/or drive around, buildings to explore, people to talk to and strange things to find. The game is in Japanese though, so actually progressing the story is difficult since you have to complete missions your given.
Holy shit.
My reaction time when clicking this video was like a Gale force.
My body is ready for this Masterpiece of a game. I still have the *Original* PS1 CD.
The original game did come in English, however I believe it was European.
The original game was only released in NTSC-J format, so only the Japanese got to truly appreciate this masterpiece upon it's original release.
If you do legitimately have an authentic copy of LSD, I would keep a hold of it; the games selling upwards of £1000 on most places I've seen and it's only going to get more valuable.
I considered the purchase when It was only around £400, but now it's quite out of reach.
@@quadrooffive
Yeah, I actually bought it with my own $20 at Bills Flea Market in Georgia, after I cut a Neighbor's lawn.
I thought it was cool, and the First time i played the Manticore looking creatures scared the life out of me.
It was for sure a Legitimate English Copy, and I remember the Front Cover Vividly.
It had the more Cleaner version of the Games Graph. Not the blocky Graph, The rounded type was the main front cover image.
The Normal LSD logo was above it, however lacked several features such as color, and shading.
It looked oddly similar to the 20th anniversary art format wise.
The rounded creature however, Lacked it's body.
I'll see if I can get to my Storage Unit, Sometime by next month.
I'll update you then.
@@rukitomikutochi8764 I've always wanted to own a copy of the game!
Ah, man. 3D Dinosaur Adventure. The "bad end" to the "save the dinosaurs from the comet" mini-game felt SO scary at the time.
I contest. I was there for the 90s (and 80s) and there was plenty of Weird Shit (TM) to be had in both games and tv. Triple A games as we know them barely existed and there are piles of weird, cheap, and ultimately forgotten games out there, many of which never left Japan.
As for TV and Twin Peaks please consider: The Muppet Show was still airing on syndication, as was The Twilight Zone. The X-Files reigned supreme as did a little show called Northern Exposure (aka twin peaks lite). Kids programming reached new levels of weird with Gumby, PeeWees Playhouse, all of pre-2000s Nickelodeon. And of course the entity of early MTV. People were already deep into surreality and meta long before the internet reached its awkward teen years.
Grey man reminds me of rhe hat man people claim to see during sleep paralysis and nightmares
i would definitely like to see LSD revisited by you!
I remember discovering this being played by a currently dormant twitch streamer and youtuber called AzuriteReaction around 13 years ago.
It's sad he's stopped uploading videos, especially since I think this liminal space thing might vibe with him.
I've been watching the remake, LSD: Revamped, for years. I even produced music for it.
all in all, It's one of the most interesting games I've ever experienced.
Glad you covered this game. It's such a surreal gem from the PS1 era
YES! YES! YES! I love this game and it fits so well with the channel. So glad you decided to play it 😊
LSD dream emulator is a classic, but it always makes me feel so uncomfortable. It has a sort of uncanny valley quality to it that I find hard to describe, also coupled with the narrow field of view you have, it always makes me feel as if there could be something weird or disturbing just outsider your peripheral vision, and I’m pretty sure that can actually be the case sometimes.
all the areas in the game are linked together. they are not just random. The outdoorsy area has links to every location you can get to through various tunnels.
Oh man the music for this game gives me stroooooong vibes from Oliver Buckland and Graham Kartana's stuff
finally. I was waiting for you to play this. more please
There's a few other games made by an artist who worked on this called "Tong-Nou" and "Chu-Teng" both are pretty weird but have more of a story. I've never played them so idk how easily accessible they are but I think it's worth looking into.
The artist is named Osamu Sato.
after hearing how you feel and interpret dreams, id say you should give psychedelics a shot, they can be just as insightful and make you feel random connections to objects that you cant explain to anyone else but in a waking state
Im suprpised you actually played this its def a surreal af game and very creepy when you least expect it
I got plenty of dream-like material to suggest--especially for this channel, if you're interested.
13:45 But plenty of weird things existed in the 90s on tv. MTV was popular. Heck, even Adult Swim started airing in the 90s I think. I'm guessing you mean less "weird" but moreso "surreal" tho. If you're as curious about the past as I am, I'd suggest checking out r/obscuremedia (a slightly niche subreddit that I like). Fair bit of surreal lost media from the past.
You mentioned a more modern retake for dream-like games like LSD. Radiohead's Kid A Mnesia Exhibition might be just your thing. It's fairly small, and it's free too! I don't listen to Radiohead or anything like it, and even I thought it was great. Very surreal experience.
And y'know what's also funny and dream-logic-like? AI DUNGEON. Neural-network generated stories based on your input. Check it out! It's also free! (can pay for deeper settings)
Also, you ever consider keeping a dream journal? A streamer I know, Vinny from Vinesauce, started a dream journal a few years ago and sometimes, at the start of a stream or whenever there's downtime, will read them aloud. They were pretty funny and disjointed, unusual. I figure for your slowly descriptive way of telling stories, it's a good fit. Simply keep a dream journal/phone near you, and when you wake up, immediately jot details before you forget, then afterwards about how it made you feel.
I do advise looking up and down at the various things you encounter, it can unlock a _lot_ of special interactions with objects. Things come to life, aircraft give you special scenes, you can nope the Grey Man by walking through him whilst looking up...
Edit: Your starting location depends on your most recent dream's placement on the Chart.
Edit x2: The Grey Man prevents you from flashing back to anything that's present at the time that he gets you.
Edit x3: The flash-disappear thing _is_ the Grey Man's 'attack.' If you see that, he got you.
Oh, sick! I didn't expect this video today! Cheers!
25:46 oh no, i'm just gonna OpenGL 2 up in the right corner.
I think the closest thing we have to a dream emulator game in the vein of LSD Dream Emulator would probably be 0°N 0°W, or ZERONORTHZEROWEST. It's not randomly generated for the most part but it's the closest I can think of in terms of games whose style matches LSD:DE.
23:40
I think I might know what you're talking about. I don't even know if it was a game, but there was this weird interactive game of sorts that was on an old power mac I had back in 2000-2001 I think it was a mac 6300. The game involved some kind of green reptilian humanoid creature that would talk and explain various aspects about these dinosaurs that were in some exhibit. It had a creepy robotic voice, but I can't remember any more than this. It might not be what you're thinking of at all, but maybe it is.
This game heavily reminds me of the anime Serial Experiments Lain. The trippy early computer/ video game visuals are similar
3-D Dinosaur Adventure! One of my first game experiences!
It’s interesting that this game is based of a weird artist’s(their art is trippy) dream journal
Man, I love this game. It's very surreal, but it's the best for that.
I can definitely say one thing: the locations of the game are interconnected, you can reach the area of a conventional Japanese villagw from this dark port, so, yeah.
THE LIBRARIAN PLAYING LSD DREAM EMULATOR FUCK YES
My dude still going strong 👏🏻
I hope to see more videos of this Librarian!
Fun Fact: the game uses procedural generation to determine where you'll end up each time you hit a wall.
It takes into account what you did & where you went to decide what happens next.
It's kinda impressive
atleast 24 year ago someone dreampt of a floating fish in a green river world
I'm so glad you did this game!
I just remembered about this game less than a week ago how the hell... I haven't heard about it for years and the one time I remember this game, someone I watch regularly plays it not too long after? creepy...
The kind of stuff in this game is exactly what you see on psychedelic drugs it's insane
10:00 *AN ANGRY FITTING STAR*
The fact that this game has ps1 graphics only makes it more surreal.
Yeah this isn't a "game" in any conventional sense, other than looking sort of like one and following a game-like structure in it's presentation. But it has no real progression, no score, no levels (in a conventional sense), no goals, and you can't really die, let alone win or lose. It's an interactive art experience.... Which I guess could be said of many actual games too, but you know what I mean.
I like the concept of this game, but very few of my dreams are even slightly abstract impossibilities like this. 90% of my dreams are mundane, everyday stuff that takes place in very realistic cities, where I do relatively normal stuff and have conversations and whatnot. Time flows normally and all the laws of physics and such are obeyed (eg; no flying around, no special powers, no impossible changes of architecture and location...) Basically while some of them are very odd and even disconcerting if not outright nightmares, almost all are set in places that might or could exist in reality; and in and in situations and such that might be strange but are at least possible.
My other "dreams" are so experiences so real as to involve all my sense and be literally indistinguishable from reality; other than the fact they start & end with me in bed. Otherwise they are as real as real, and even after I wake, the memories are perfectly vivid and contiguous as any memory of anything from waking reality; unlike my normal dream memories whcih tend to be hazy, incomplete, and where the obvious weirdness/physical impossibilities of the dream become apparent. In these "dreams" though, there's a couple persistent and autonomous worlds I visit, wherein there are consistent places and people and such; as if I have a couple separate lives I've been living in shifts in my sleep over a couple decades now at least, complete with homes, friends, associates, etc. I'm not into mystic stuff at all and am generally skeptical and rational, but it long ago reached the point with the realism and persistent places/people/etc in these "dreams" that I have given very serious credence to the whole concept of other String Theory, parallel worlds and other dimensions... And the concepts of astral projection; well more the general idea of the self or soul (or whatever you want to call your conscious self essence) becoming untethered from the physical body in sleep and able to enter other dimensions or planes of existence.
The utter perfect realism of these "dreams", and my memories of them have pretty much convinced me. The difference between these "dream" experiences, and what I'll call normal dreams, are like night and day; or as big as the difference between dreaming and waking -- for normal dreams may seem more or less real while you're having them, but become obvious nonsense upon waking consideration. These "dream" experiences still seem to have been 100% real even after I wake, the memories don't fade, and they remain indistinguishable from real experiences. Sometimes I'll even have to seriously consider whether I did something in waking life or in one of these experiences, that's how real they are. So yeah. Consciousness, the self/soul, and other worlds are certainly mysteries... (I am sane, have no mental disorders, don't use any drugs, and am not epileptic nor have any brain tumors, nor have I ever hallucinated or anything while awake. Apparently either my dreams are either more real than 99.999999% of other people's, or I am somehow projecting my soul/self/whatever into other dimensions in my sleep.
Gray man do not take you anywhere and do not make you see bad dreams. He aproaches you, dissappears and errases your flashbacks.
I've played this on my psvita
How!?
Anyone else watch azurite reactions play this back in the day? I feel old 😅
If you like exploration based, strange dream-like games like this, Yume Nikki (meaning "Dream Diary") and possibly even one of its many fangames are a good place to check out. It's free and was made on the RPG Maker engine, so it is Pixel Art 2D rather than 90s 3D. Yume Nikki itself doesn't feature dialogue, just written UI like LSD:DE.
I Played LSD: Dream Emulator Back Then When I Was a Kid
this game is so difficult to think about, if that makes any sense
I often have dreams, but I like my dreams are odd. Like not the big mushroom valleys or anything but like not like other peoples dreams, like I can describe my dreams to the fullest like I once had a dream where I was at a zoo and there was an elephant trapped under a log basically was a killer elephant and tried to get me to eat some cheese. I know it sounds insane. Odd but that’s where my dreams and I could literally specifically remember the city skyline and like where the highest house skyscraper next to the zoo was it was so weird I don’t remember driving like some fancy car around that city. Once this is like the main cities up all my dreams tend to happen and it’s kind of weird but I just named it new Josh city because my middle name is Josh Josh.
The flashing lights warning actually made me laugh out loud 😂
I remember this shit from when I was a kid this game is insanely expensive now
I want more LSD, guys
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But course surrealism didn’t start in the internet age. Just check out underground comix of the 1960s and early 1970s, then back to the trippiest Max Fleischer animations, then back to surrealist art, then to Dada, then back to Bruegel and Bosch and the utterly off the wall art of the alchemists.
IVE NEVER CLICKED ON A VIDEO SO FAST IM MY LIFE
I wonder if the grey man with the hat in this game is a nod to the man with the big hat lots of people (including myself) see during sleep paralysis.
Please make this at least a 2 part series where you explore a good part of the violence district
The begging feels like a ps1 version of the backrooms
Maybe i am different from most, and i think it may be my lack of internal monologue (i don’t have an internal voice i use to talk to myself) my dreams are always stories. I jump around the timeline of the stories adding to the details all night, but they are always a set of places, people and actions that i create and play like a first person puppet show. Also, there is no topic more boring than someone else’s dreams which to me seems a strange truth.
guess I'll be taking some LSD after this
Now *this* is og liminal spaces
Bro i was wondering what the whistling sound was. It was freaking me out before you explained that it was your window. Thought it was my nose
i remember enjoying the game and then feeling total body fear when i see the grey man... like i didn't even want to know i just shut it off. i built up so much fear of seeing this figure. lol
At 3:20 I like to think that's just some otherworldly deity unforeseen by the human eye that decided nah I don't feel like doing anything with too big of consequences I just wanna try practicing drums
Wow this game was hidden deep in my brain
Tbh you should check out "LSD: Revamp" it's like LSD sim but made for modern devices
If you ever plan on making another video on LSD: Dream Emulator, I suggest you play the PC port. It's made by some talented people and uploaded (free of charge) on Itch.