Exploring the Cthulhu Mythos: The Dreamlands

[@sheldonbuchanan9484]

Heres an theory I have about the dreamlands and the great ones: the dreamlands are the dreams of the great ones made manifest. a world created from the mindscapes of the great ones and linked together in a fusion of their collective conciousness. Nyarlathotep protects the great ones, dispite his distaste for them, to maintain the dreamlands themselves. Perhaps to enjoy them himself or to use them to some nefarious purpose not yet realized, or even using the dreamlands to essentially beta-test his various machinations and abominations. Perhaps, like the multiverse itself would if Azathoth were to awaken, should the great ones ever wake the dreamlands fade away into nothingness... And so Nyarlathotep must keep the great ones in their slumber indefinitely, protecting them from harm by enslaving them in their sleep for his own gain. This may also explain why the great ones appear to be so weak whilst humans entering the dreamlands have such power... The great ones use much of their power maintaining the dreamlands itself, having little left over to manipulate the word they sustain. Humans entering the dream, on the other hand, dont have to expend power in maintaining the world itself and can devote all their energy to manipulating the dream around them.

[@TheExploringSeries]

This is a good comment.

[@sheldonbuchanan9484]

ManggMangg thank you. I try.

[@tmacco2428]

Sheldon Buchanan Great theory. it totallyholds up in the Mythos. perhaps you should write some mythos stories.

[@darkenergy8318]

Poor Nyrathoteps ; guarding 2 dreams ...Why so ? Boredom ? Life purpose or something ? .What do you guys think ?

[@legojay14]

King Of Reality - Atheistic Khan . Who's to say some powerful entities in the mythos don't simply want a place to relax. I mean it's a rule they aren't evil. Just weird. So I find it very possible they view it like we do. A fantastic place that they can go when they don't really feel like doing their usual plans or need to wait for something

[@TheExploringSeries]

Totally forgot to put a quote at the end, I must really be slipping. It would've been "Is all our life then but a dream, seen faintly in the golden gleam?"

[@vanjosh7763]

The dream world you speak of Ive seen the toad like creatures and the shadow entities. I hated them especially the dark ones. They freaking chase you in the dark, maybe I should've not had spun during dreaming although it made it longer even more vivid and longer, anyways I also dreamed one time where I was in an ancient old city filled with people of old and numerous races of demihumans. I used the spinning again although It made the dream longer. I roam the city. It felt long. I suppressed my emotions so that I wouldn't wake up early. I made experiments within that time. Negative emotions lead to nightmares and wont give you control in the dream. Too good emotions will wake you up. Neutral emotions will make you remain longer. I then went to a bayside in the dream. Saw the sky dark and stormy approaching. I suspected to be stressing at that time, so I breathe in and out calmly. The storm disappeared. I experimented again. I force change the reality and it worked. Made the city fly

[@vanjosh7763]

I also changed the horizon into futuristic civilization (like in the tomorrow land movie) while behind me was still the same ancient civilization. It was so cool to change the entire dream. I also change the structures of buildings and the sky I made look like the galaxy filled with stars, planets, etc. I wish I could dream like that again. I woke up when I was so happy in changing the dream world I was in. :)

[@qualivia]

+Van JoshElanium say no to drugs kid

[@vanjosh7763]

no dude it isn't drugs and never took in my entire life. It was all real I've tried dreaming techniques and it really worked. All you need is a broad imagination, strong will, and a strong self awareness within the dream land.

[@m35926]

Thank you for putting these up bud. Very well done. Sub'd

[@rockah12]

You know what would be an interesting game? A game where you journey through the Dreamlands, interacting with (and potentially defending yourself from, fleeing from, or hiding from) the various species that reside in the Dreamlands. Sort of like a Lovecraftian take on a Elder Scrolls game.

[@willmiester4051]

That actually sounds like a fantastic idea for a video game, someone should probably be taking notes on this.

[@arturocrespo3699]

rockah12 do you mean bloodboorne

[@joshvan5784]

That would be amazing but by defending yourself you should be able to make them flee but never kill them because nothing can kill nayarlethotep

[@jamesrobinson4026]

You need to play Bloodborne

[@fatherpucci-madeinheaven362]

Kirby: Return to Dreamland

[@Chinaboatman]

I always took Nyarlathotep's protection of 'the Old Ones' as being akin to the 'protection' a gangster might give to a local businessman or perhaps the 'protection' a jailer gives to his prisoner.

[@ryanmatthews3609]

or his manipulating them to his his bidding

[@EastsideShowSCP]

from what I am to understand Lovecraft and Giger were inspired from their dreams to create their works. So is it really a dream? Or a gateway to more surreal realities?

[@joshuakusuma5953]

Eastside Show SCP Well... Lovecraft had night terrors as a kid. I guess they continued to his adult age.

[@lianhector9546]

Well.. The thing with LSD... Do you know 9M9H9E9 ? If not google it and read the stories/ paragraphs Its not really a story.. Its hard to explain.. Please find out yourself its amazing, horrible and wonderfully scary

[@blackcapchannel9553]

I didn't know the Foundation had this on their radar

[@awakenow7147]

lian hector Hmm I checked it out. Hard to say...how much truth is in his words. Hes a good writer regardless. From what I've researched in regards to Jungian psychology, some theorize that its possible to get in touch with a very deep part of the subconscious...or even the collective subconscious. Thats what I'm thinking of as I read this dude's "crazy" stories. But who knows at this point..

[@Self-replicating_whatnot]

Depends on what you mean by "reality". Is virtual reality a reality? Are dreams reality? My metric is - "if it can kill you, consider it real enough".

[@DaveyLuvGravy]

I think 'The Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath' is one of my favorite Lovecraft books. It is just incredibly imaginative and has given me many great nights of dreaming as I descend the 770 steps to the Gate of Deeper Slumber.

[@iamkocka6457]

"Horrible toads with tentacles instead of eyes that deal in slave trade." Ah yes, just like Alice in Wonderland.

[@AnotherOfChososLittleSibs]

WHAT

[@lonesomewendigo]

And another land has been added to the dreamlands : Yarnham :)

[@theblocksays]

They say you can be whatever you want to be there, so I, Patches, became a spider!

[@REX-gq6ur]

I wanted riches, so I became a Tinapay.

[@monsieurfred3617]

oh shit that actually makes a lot of sense why have I never seen that theory before??

[@zaroko8105]

"Tinapay" so a bread

[@danteletsrock2796]

Nightmare of Mensis

[@timesweeper9778]

What I like to think is that you enter the dreamlands when you sleep. When you have a nightmare you are simply in a bad part of the dreamlands. When you're a kid you tend to get a lot of nightmares, and eventually die in the dreamlands, you stop dreaming.

[@strpe9701]

People dream every time they sleep tho? It’s not possible to stop dreaming it’s an irremovable part of the sleep cycle. People who “don’t dream” are actually just people who don’t remember their dreams

[@ryanwilhite]

"It's easier to enter the dimension at will at a young age, but as the ability fades with time adults can still enter the dimension with the assistance of narcotics." ...Damn. Either Lovecraft was highly skilled at transcendental meditation or this is more evidence that Alex Grey's piece titled "Painting" is an accurate portrayal of what is actually happening when artists create, and it can be applied to all forms of art.

[@Ausdrake]

Einstein's quote mirrors this concept too "Common-sense is a collection of prejudices acquired by age 18", when you're young the mind is fertile and unshackled, as you grow it becomes more rooted in our accepted perceptions of reality. Narcotics can help "think outside the box" as it were.

[@TheThreatenedSwan]

Not true at all much like the myth of children being better at learning languages though there is a optimum age where your fluid and crystallized intelligence are at an optimum and after you are less creative.

[@codyhausman2368]

Me: *accidentally steps on cats tail and then goes to comfort it and make sure it’s okay* Cats of Ulthar: So you have chosen death!

[@zaroko8105]

I had a dream when I was a kid. I was in a structure. Green all around. I see a bunch of glowing lines on walls all converting into a cube like thing coming out of the wall. next to it is a man who keeps changing

[@danielm.595]

You saw Nyarlathotep in your dreams

[@arempy5836]

You saw Proteus

[@StarSage66]

Just started getting into the cthulhu mythos and I have to say the cats of ulthar are now one of my favorite things in the setting. Alongside the mind bending horrors of nyarlathotep we also have magic sentient kitties. Knowing cats they're probably jerks too.

[@thinhvo3893]

Star Sage How don you started to read love craft? I would like to get in to it myself but I don’t know how. All the research seem confusing.

[@Dracorex13]

Lovecraft was a cat person, and thus the cats of Ulthar are mischievous, but never outright mean unless you cross them.

[@combineeliteunit8769]

Grumbles I recommend reading a Fanfic called “Mythos Effect”

[@nurgle333]

@@thinhvo3893 buy a collection of his stories, there's a good one called necronomicon that has most of the main ones

[@ayounglivelysoulinanoldtir3512]

after seeing what my brother's cats did to my once elegant, now a cesspit, lounge, im not surprised they are included among the demon- like ceatures of the cthulhu mythos!

[@Self-replicating_whatnot]

Of all the Lovecraft's work i like Dream-quest of Unknown Kadath the best, since it has a protagonist that won't disappear over the horizon, outruning his own panic'd screeching as soon as he encounters something spoopy.

[@boxylemons7961]

1:28 "Certain Narcotics" LSD Was made in the 40s Lovecraft died in the 30s... holy shit Lovecraft predicted LSD

[@andreasbuehler1821]

Or, you know, he means all the opium the Romantic poets were on.

[@jeremejazz]

Joe Olson in the short story celephais, king Curanes was an opium addict in the waking world.

[@andrewvincent89]

Dude hallucinogenics have been around since... fucking dawn of nature

[@koboldengineering7687]

How to enter the Dreamlands: Take LSD and fall asleep

[@lesliehoey2017]

.... LSD Is not a narcotic

[@Zaberk]

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

[@MrDibara]

We're basically living in a Reality Marble, and the true surface of what's underneath is never shown.

[@DanielQualls-7777]

The Dreamlands have always been my favourite part of the Yog-Sothory, the pictures, the art of the places ive seen are amazing, and I wish it was real, its like the Lovecraftian Backrooms, but instead of dangerous creatures, theres more dangerous places.

[@WastelandSeven]

Well, why does Nyarlathotep do anything? It suits his/its twisted sense of humor.

[@nicholashurst780]

Ny Boss does what Ny Boss does because it's what Azathoth subconsciously wants done

[@PatrikStandar]

Thank you for a great video! Here is a small text about how I approach the idea of the dreamland. Dreamland Theory The first thing to notice is that the dreamlands are not the the dreams of humanity. It is earth's dreamlands and there is many other dream realms as well. To reach the “dreamlands” is in some ways to be a lucid dreamer. It is about finding either a gate in the real world or more likely a gate within your own dreams. Humanities apelike brains dream not because some magic abilities or power, it dreams as a physical response and it is way for our brain to sort things out. To find the dreamlands is to find a gate within these dreams and a “lucid” dreamer might learn how to find the gate there. It is then easy to believe that the dreamlands are not as real as the “normal world” but the truth is that the dreamlands are a dimension like every other. To call our own dimension the normal is a human centric way of describing the multiverse. Nyarlathotep is said to defend and at the same time despite the old ones of the “dreamlands”. To describe the goals of Nyarlathotep would be impossible for a human like me and my intellectual ability can not even grasp the most basic ideas of what Nyarlathotep is. But from what I have found in my studies Nyarlathotep seem to have many forms and seem to have some kind of interest in humanity. I believe that everything that deals or get close to Nyarlathotep (whatever close really means) give a part of their self to the entity. The “earth dreamlands” is no happy fantasyland instead it is a beautiful but horrible place deeply connected to Nyarlathotep and all the small pieces of animal brains on our worthless lite ball of rock (this is also why it take time for things in the dreamland to change). Great Cthulhu also “sleeps” and send his dreams to humanity but that is not the same thing as he interact with the dreamlands. Cthulhu (whatever it is) affects our animal brain and make our normal dreams part of itself. Humans or other beings that enter the dreamlands from another plane do have more power in the world basically because everything there is just a small part of something else. But do not get fooled by this. The realms is as real as any other and who knows maybe the normal dreams are just the dreams of a another being or even worse think if our “physical” universe is just a dream of a great being that might awake at any time.

[@tapioperala3010]

Holy crap! Awesome videos! I have extremely little knowledge in Cthulhu mythos, and your videos have really lit the interest in it!

[@monsterno.definablenever.3484]

In my dreams, I have consistently gone to Poltarnees, though I never knew it by that name. The surrounding Coastline and shape of mountains match perfectly.

[@chalk._.]

I absolutely LOVE the idea of the Dreamlands. I think that they'd be an awesome place to live imo.

[@zenwrx4974]

You should take this series into the Elder Scrolls.. So much lore in that world and the mythos is brilliant.

[@imperialguardsman521]

He should do Warhammer 40k since it has trillion times more lore then the Elder Scrolls.

[@pettersonystrawman9291]

Imagining happiness as a place you need to get to, but to which you can't really get, is something that leads to depression. Maybe the dreamlands are in the mythos for the purpose like that.

[@rxmirez8621]

"I should think you still have dreams? Well, next time you dream, give some thought to the hunt, and its purpose."

[@حَسن-م3ه9ظ]

For y'all that are wondering the arabic at 4:06 translates to "....death*azathoth,the great sultan of demons*God of chaos upon his throne in..."

[@mathieuvart]

thank you!

[@DarkWarrior076]

So Lovecraft predicted Oooo from Adventure Time?

[@willmiester4051]

FenrirtheWolf For all we know, the Dreamlands may have inspired it.

[@ErikPT]

Lovecraft influenced phantasy horror in modern day.

[@Hjernespreng]

Hey, could you provide some links to the sources of all the artwork you're showing off?

[@one_man_community]

Left corner of the screen. He credits.

[@Catglittercrafts]

INTELLIGENT CAT CITY!!???? Omg Imma find a way there rn

[@mslightbulb]

If I didn’t know this was fictional I would have thought I visited them. I have dreams constantly, not lucid ones though. I usually dream in 3rd perspective or in 1st perspective as different people of all ranges and sometimes in different color palettes (though that’s probably because I’m an artist obsessed with color). The dreams happen in different locations, sometimes fantastic ones, others happen in other planets while others happen in earth. They range from different “genres” and I can die in them. Just after dying I wake up. But this is probably due to me consuming a lot of content, having no regards for my physical appearance and being able to look at a wall for 2 hours daydreaming. But it would be incredible if a place like this existed. Though I wouldn’t like to actually meet the monsters that appear on my dreams, or die as I always do. Or live an apocalypse.

[@kermunklin7704]

Love the Dreamlands. I'd like to visit Ulthar.

[@lucifermephistophilies6629]

You know something strange. As a child I've been to this place. I thought it was vivid visions and dreams of a young mind...but some of the parts described reminded me of a place I went to when I was young. Much like Alice down a rabbit hole i had to go, or sometimes a doorway not visible in our world, or sometimes a stone setting on a wall held an archway that would open if individually touched, or a word said before entering a tunnel. Either way in once there time would pass much more slowly. And it changed each time I would go back. I would end up caught in some scenario and though it would seem like hours by the time I got back the entire day would be gone when I came back through. Sometimes things didn't even make sense there but everyone would be looking at me like I was weird. Like one time I stepped through into a grand theater type place but there were all different type of species. The theater seating was like that of the star wars council of the republic. Each seating area had two individuals each and these security guards kept aaking who and what I was and someone kept answering them saying I was kid vid, representing earth. When ever someone heard that they sneer at me and wave me through. When we got to our seats I saw this guy. He seemed like a black man but his facial feature were sharp around the curves of his chin. His head had two spiral grooves horn sticking up out of his head that joined with his face at the temples and forehead. This orange red like mist was pooled around the center where the two horns met. Someone referred to him as the supreme galactic high councilor or something like that. Someone asked if I needed a tripod implant so I could see. I turned and this ratfaced guy in a bellhop like uniform was looking at me with beaded pure red eyes. We both jumped and said "Agh" simultaneously except I said rat and he said human. I think I said something about calling him Mr. Ratfink and he muttered something about a monkeys uncle. Then I left to go find the doorway I came through and as I was passing through two erasers were traveling towards each other one moving horizontally the other vertically and when they collided reality smashed like a windowpane and when I came to I was laying face first on the grass in my backyard but I don't remember how I got there from the garage doorway on the other side of the house and 8 hours had passed during that short conversation

[@TurboCraftBros]

Maybe I'm just immature but I found the "poo of night" (supposedly pool) on the right side of the map funny

[@michaelgutierrez7362]

haha you're not the only one

[@bigbaddawg101]

The "Poo of Night" is near Taco Bell.

[@danielmason2033]

Forrest Gump

[@boosie4l133]

My theories is that the Great Ones augmented reality, so maybe thousands of years ago they battled with Nyarlathotep, lots, but imprisoned not only him, but his essence in the Dream Lands. So if he rampage and destroy the dreamlands, he destroy part of himself and will be vulnerable to other beings.

[@myohmy9000]

Wait if Cthulhu sometimes talks to his followers in dreams, does this mean he enters the dream world every time?

[@DefectiveDetective420]

That one guy who sacked Constantinople I've heard that a title of Cthulu is 'The Great Dreamer' so it's possible.

[@azazelsiad3601]

My guess is that that’s his only means of communication due to the fact that he himself is sleeping. Not dead. Not to mention there are multiple worlds.

[@lamentpnw8662]

Yeah i like to think since hes sleeping what is conscious of him permanently exists in the dream world or at least uses it as a conduit to communicate with people through dreams

[@chandlerpatton5196]

Ya

[@chandlerpatton5196]

DefectiveDetective was the day I

[@RDsToys_Games]

I remember a dream from youth time and space was all broken and distorted, I tried to jump over a tall wall with or fence with those sharp spear head design, gravity was weird and I got impaled. All my friends freaked out then I just pulled myself up and hopped over. We learned we couldn’t die in the dream world where we have way to much power. Me and my friends would always play hero, then I got bored and wanted to play as god that upset a lot of people because I was locked away and prevented from entering the dream world. I got mad I got stronger I became more malicious and twisted

[@zombyjano]

Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is such a silly story, I love it.

[@mmmister_mike]

love it they should make a game from this

[@certainmisterbrick]

harbinger of borg They did. It's called Bloodborne.

[@Cheezer3089]

@@certainmisterbrick best game ever

[@astrowiz3544]

@@certainmisterbrick sad PC player here ;(

[@mgtowphantom8699]

@@astrowiz3544 The one time being a console peasant payed off.

[@MrMCassassin]

I really like these Cthulhu Mythos episodes and hope to see more of these video's based on the work of HPL. Keep up the good work! CTHULHU FHTAGN...

[@aaroncheskey6874]

Randolph Carter: -Can enter Dreamlands at will during sleep even though adult. -Talks Ghoul language -Talks Cat language -Has insane diplomatic skills -Insane Power Will -Mental sanity : don't need checks. -Not Fearless, but "anyway imma climb Mt.Thingy to see the stone visage with just a sword incase mythical creatures come" -Get captured, many times, and be like "Oh No ! Anyway... I've got 20 Charisma and bajillion lore i can surely phone my friend Pickman or the Cats to give me a hand" -Strategic Mastermind -Assembles an Army of Nightgaunts, Ghouls and convince them to follow him just cause they like him and flys to Nyarlathothep to try to impress him. -be like "DORMAMU, I'VE COME TO BARGAIN" to Nyarlathothep -Has massive balls of steel cuz he just human bro SPOILER AHEAD STOP READING : -Gets REKT (bcuz Nyarlathothep lol did you really think you can scare the "Ozymandias" of the Great Old Ones ? ) and sent to Azathoth, believing he's on his way to Kadath. -Lives somehow cuz Nodens be like "aw dude cmon lemme help you" AND WHO DAFUQ IS S'GNAC THE SENTIENT PURPLE GAS SOMEONE PLZ TELL ME

[@TheLongBallofTheLaw]

This is just a theory, but when Randolph Carter descended the steps of deeper slumber I always took that to mean that he deliberately put himself in a coma, either through drugs or some other means, to prolong his visit into the dreamlands.

[@changelingx7615]

How would someone who gets sleep paralysis fit in this? Is it like the Dreamlands splitting open for a brief period maybe?

[@awakenow7147]

I've seen some crazy shit when I would get sleep paralysis. Not exactly Lovecraftian stuff, but still terrifying to me. But yeah, I think it is kinda like your subconscious seeping through. I think everyone's subconscious is gonna be a bit different. Its important to try and improve one's mental state. That way, the subconscious will have more...pleasant characters and settings.

[@kryoruleroftheninthcircleo4151]

Awake Now I get annoyed by sleep paralysis.

[@immortalgamer2564]

I'm not a good poet but..."Thy reality is a dream and thy dream is reality for within our minds create our own reality within a land of dreams."

[@svagglaorde4387]

Now I know why Kirby got in Smash.....he created it through dreamland...

[@joelpettersson8675]

are you going to continue the cthulhu mythos series? cuz if so ill subscribe

[@TheExploringSeries]

Yes I am.

[@joelpettersson8675]

subbed

[@uxigadur]

Lord dunsany stories are one, if not the big inspiration, for the dreamlands. And it seems Lovecraft followed the tone.

[@glorytotheaprdeathtotheufl7917]

The background music sounds like the UNATCO theme from Deus Ex

[@phantomspaceman]

3:50 Careful not to dream that you are in the Poo of Night, for it is a smelly place.

[@lonestarwolfentertainment7184]

Yeah if I found myself in the Cthulhu Mythos I would try and physically enter the Dreamlands where I would be safe from beings like Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth and potentially become very powerful in my own right

[@MDLi0n]

great, love the images used, nice vids

[@Balty_Burnip]

Ironic that I got a Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ad.

[@WartyFingleBlaster]

4:00 "Poo of night" on the right there... I'm such a child

[@chaosreigns7386]

i can still enter the dreamlands...when i focus my spiritual projection

[@Bergensape]

Pickman is in there too

[@kronoscamron7412]

the astral travels in the cult of Cthulhu takes place in the dreamlands . a pre-initiaton meditations which the initiate must dwell in it for sometime before he/she is initiated in the cult.

[@elgenfranord1651]

The cat world would be perfect for me

[@thewarbros8896]

Man if someone could make a video game about the dreamlands I would play it to no end

[@shizuwolf]

THEWARBROS # closest thing to that would probably be Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance

[@chalk._.]

Same lmao

[@OverlordOfEcchi]

I have a four hour audiobook of the dream quest of unknown kadath and other dream cycle stories. I like to listen to Celephias and Hypnos than dream quest of unknown kadath. Usually I fall asleep before the quest begins, and I always find myself catching different parts of the story in a hypnagogic state so that it always seems new in my imagination. It's a pretty effective alternative to lucid dreaming which I haven't had much luck with yet.

[@Т1000-м1и]

Gen Z: is this Backrooms Its 1 AM and I almost wrote Gen This

[@petertremblay3725]

We are currently recreating Dreamlands for our upcoming video game and Nyarlahotep is the main protagonist in the story! Sorry i cannot tell you more because of non disclosure agreement but stay tune for gameplay video late this summer or early fall.

[@SullivanBurke777]

Celephais is my favorite story, ngl. Unknown Kadath was pretty good, too.

[@Willem654]

I died a few times in the dream lands, I usually woke up beside my bed after falling from different things.

[@ChillaChinChiller]

As a person who is very well versed in remembering all my dreams, or well anyway a lot more than most humans, I have been on countless adventures in dreamworlds that were quite like this one but more inspired from and twisted, my hometown's cliffs and residing valley would change and bend vertically, sometimes 100 to 300 meters tall instead of its mere 50 meters plateaus and made out of granit and deserts or intense boreal forests or even just appallachian and boreal forests thicker than usual, I fought everything from eldritch horror to dystopian governments on these plateaus and cliffs, these beaches and valleys, I have seen the entirety of Québec city through the dreamlands, or well, my own version of it an yway. There is an infinity of representations of this world, twisted beyond beliefs yet in full familiarity of our own current collective reality, all situated beyond the fourth parralel, I have very good memory of these places, I can draw partial and even full maps and had I the patience to represent it, full snapshots of places I've been to and fought mystical creatures from wendigos to ghost and demons, mostly in the wilds around the city, the hills of the laurentian mountains sometimes stretching twice to twenty times the height of their usual altitudes, often englobed in dark and esotheric powers, I have full narrative adventures often ressembling entire book plots in there, sometimes for time lenghts that feel way longer than it could mortally be, from days to years, I'm also very synethetic so I can mentally see this world in an overlay over my actual perception of reality if I focus on the proper simulated thoughts. When I was younger weed helped me a lot going through these unexplained visions of other realities in my waking days, although it did make it harder for me to explain this to the world and I was interned twice in an asylum for it, once I remember a dream in the asylum, I was held in a rusty burning cage, its connecting rods encircled by flaming hooked wires with small demons with pitchforks and spears poking at my flesh while I was in a fetal position without my skin, a dark shadowy figure looking from the outside, through the entire experience which I remember fervently and vividly I would see and hear the words "2 years", to what i felt was that lenght, I woke up in the asylum, for once I was glad to be there. Of course, once you dip into these kind of realm you become a target for things that aren't tied to what we know, be they real for you or also for others, some never come back from these xperiences but I have ended up being able to tap into them easily. If you remember your dreams and train your brain spatially in the proper abstraction like I did, hopefully without as much tribulations, I bet anyone could reach this kind of visions, it is an interesting aspect of reality to say the least. Be warned though, even if it is real or not, those visions can synchronize with reality and give you weird ideas, perceptions and even dellusions, it is better to understand that you can do it as not a whole lot of the population of earth is synesthetic to this degree, it will allow you to be happier in your body really.

[@lochnessmobster9026]

I have a theory, but do take it with a grain of salt, as I’m a bit of a noob to the cthulhu mythos, so perhaps a more knowledgeable soul could research further. I am under the impression that the “dream lands” are actually earth, but several thousand years in the past. The main evidence comes from the story polaris, which details the dreamworld land of Lomar, and how the people living there were under attack by the Itunos, whilst also on the verge of moving southward due to the advance of the “great ice sheet.” It is worth noting that at the end of the story, the “Itunos” are compared to the Esquimaux, or Inuit, which live in the part north of north america. It also mentioned that the only place on earth where the stars described in the story could be in their position is above the arctic circle. Perhaps the events of polaris happen, not in a dream dimension, but around the time that the native americans first migrated into north america, and the “great ice sheet” may have formed the land bridge which they crossed from asia to north america, and the people of “the dreamlands” were gods and men who lived there beforehand, but those migrating there conquered and destroyed them, as is what implied happened at the end of polaris. Such violent a conquest may also be explained in the call of cthulhu, where it is seen that some esquimaux were under the influence of cthulhu. I need to do more research on this all of course.

[@tmacco2428]

oh that map is cool. do a video on the known lands there.

[@dixonbuttes]

I’m surprised to hear Dreamquest is controversial. For me, one of the most powerful and surprising lines in the whole mythos is: “Pray you do not meet me in one of my 1000 other forms. And beware for I am Nyarlathotep, the crawling chaos!” I was like “OH NO!!”

[@peteryoble9227]

As a person with narcolepsy, I've managed to cultivate the ability to experience lucid dreaming almost every night. Just discovered the Cthulhu Mythos, and I've found a lot of it to be very similar to what I experience on a nightly basis. Pretty neat to see what other people can come up with, and how alike it is to my own dreams. I'll probably be adopting some ideas/terminology into my dreaming experiences after watching this series and doing my own research.

[@renznacar3708]

Can you tackle the topic about lovectafts friends and their works? Im really a fan of your cthulhu mythos videos.

[@TheExploringSeries]

That's kind of a broad topic, and out of the purview of the series. What exactly are you interested in hearing about?

[@renznacar3708]

+ManggMangg About the deities of smith,lumley,frank belknap long, lin carter,henry kuttner.Or just a few of them.

[@TheExploringSeries]

Ah yes, I'll be covering some of my favorites of those in the Great Old One roundup.

[@justsomeguywithlasereyes9920]

But wait where is Cthullu in the dreamlands? I mean he is "currently" slumbering after all.

[@fishyperil2153]

wow for a moment I thought I just discovered something in the C'thulhu mythos that wasn't demented . not really I guess

[@jeremejazz]

fishy peril try reading "the other gods". It took place in ulthar and another place in the dreamlands. not as fantasy as you think. There's also a short film adaptation here in youtube

[@carloscontreras8431]

I'm curious, what's the music track that you used for this, it's pretty great.

[@ayounglivelysoulinanoldtir3512]

about a month ago, i had a peculiar dream, where my brother bought a submarine, & we went to explore the seabed of north wales, discoverd a huge undersea cave &, when we explored it, we met cthulhu. he was seated on a throne, in a huge chamber, as the king of the sea, being served by a court of people, dressed in medeval costumes. they asked us if we had a gift to offer their king &, when we said we haddent, they told us to leave. a few days later, i was working in the charrity store, where i worked on tuesday afternoons, bringing down books from the stockroom, priceing them at £2.50, per hardback, & putting them on shelves, when i came accross one entitled "NECRONOMICON=THE BEST WEIRD TALES OF H.P LOVECRAFT" ,it was athick, black, sinister looking book with the title in big goldcapitals &, beneath the title was a picture of cthulhu. intrigued by the book, & the fact that i had dreamed about cthulhu, only a few days earlier, i bought the book, & have been reading it every day for about 3 weeks. i am now a confirmed Lovecraft fan! dreams are very strange things!

[@SkullKingOG]

i once had a strange dream years upon years ago where in it i was much older than i was at the time (in the dream i mustve been 40s or 50s) with long hair that was graying and a big thick graying beard and i was a king clad in armor on horseback leading an army and accross the horizon was a pitch blackness that was writhing and the blackness was actually legions of some weird undescribable creatures and both sides charged at each other and mid battle i woke up. it was weird af

[@christophersmith8848]

I like this idea, I can't help but feel Lovecraft wrote it in after someone said to him, in reference to the mythos, "It can't be all bad, right?'

[@JoyeuseCurtana]

Just what I needed after beating Bloodborne, arigatou.

[@wolcamophone4783]

That one SCP that says “A Hero is Born”

[@trichila6397]

An overlooked concept of Lovecrafts work, is that everything, the gods, Dreamland and the Deep Ones, are all part of a phantasm stemming from madness, just influenced by the same rumour or myth, all our characters seem to have quite a tough time in their lives, considering this and the knowledge their mind contains, the mind wanders, and they suddenly sense powerful entities, and nightmares and then eventually suicide, the point? Your mind is your best friend yet also your nemesis

[@ArkhamReporter]

Great video!

[@cybershowdown9078]

This would make such a great tabletop miniatures game

[@ChrissieBear]

IIRC the Dreamlands mythos is not meant to be part of the Cthulhu mythos. Lovecraft created them as separate fictional settings.

[@diegomariacardona8273]

You didn’t mention night gaunts (my favorite), still great video

[@kainebishop3970]

That map at 4:07 looks like a song of ice and fire's map.

[@ssgtslick]

Some compare the Dreamlands to Alice in Wonderland. I wonder if it is more like Narnia, or perhaps Barsoom.

[@chalk._.]

Nah this sh*t be like Alice in Wonderland. They're both like a drug trip.

[@astrowyrm6871]

0:49 bro i swear i had a dream about this exact place

[@pious83]

So is The Terrible Old Man set in the Dreamlands?

[@andrewgorra5026]

the Aboriginal people of Australia have shaman legends about these dimensions they call the dream time

[@chalk._.]

They think the bluff at Victor Harbour ( at least thats where I think it is) is a whale called Kondili

[@nihilsxiii8799]

Mi-Go will come soon ? I hope they do !

[@jasonsantos3037]

Is fascinating about the dreamlands Curious about the great ones

[@AyubuKK]

The Dreamlands are real.

[@marcusblackwell2372]

I dunno why but I find this scary for a strange reason: being "awake in a dream"

[@florencelupin9885]

**SPOILERS FOR STRANGER THINGS** I kinda have an, at best, flimsy theory about this series on Netflix, Stranger Things: could the Upside Down actually be the Dreamlands? One thing that kinda thought was that the Moon Beasts kinda look like the Demigorgan. Moon Beasts reside in dark places, and the Demigorgans are creatures that are mostly seen at night in the Upside Down throughout the series. Though, one thing that kinda throws this theory out the window is that the Moon Beasts reside on the moon and (though we know nothing about them so far) the Demigorgans seem to reside in dark forest-like areas on a world similar to Earth. But I can imagine the Duffer Brothers took some creative liberties with the Moon Beasts and created the Demigorgans as a species like the Moon Beasts, where Demigorgans can reside in the forests of the world below the moon. Plus, there's the fact that Eleven was able to use her telepathic powers to "astral project" into the Upside Down twice in the series, since going into the Dreamlands requires some sort of psychic link or dream-like projection, or something like that. And if going into the Dreamlands physically requires a portal to be made, there are several times where the characters enter the Upside Down via finding portals or being drug into the UD by the Demigorgan, who has the ability to travel between the two. Plus, at the end of the series, Will seems to have gotten some kind of power to go between the worlds, though, it could possibly be astral projection or some sort of teleportation. Like I said, the theory is flimsy, but what do you think?

[@cthulhuftagn4645]

Anyone Else Want A “Dream Quest Of Unknown Kadath” Movie?

[@lordphantosler2916]

Hey Exploring, what song did you use for this video? Also great video btw!

[@BorrisChan]

Where did you get the art in this video? Is there a collection of dreamlands pieces?

[@kingle1944]

ulthar is selling wears if Hooman eezz buying

[@willhuey4891]

actually it would be kind of awesome to explore the dreamlands i mean despite the dangers like nyarlathotep

[@davidarriaga8533]

Crazy, I once had a dream I was stuck In a very big swirling body of water. At the middle was undoubtedly a kraken. Don't know if it was a dream about cuthulu, but definitely an interesting one

[@scvnthorpe__]

Music is good shit, what is it and where can I get it?

[@lhadzyan7300]

the Dreamlands are the closest possible that Lovecraft acheived an structurated high fantasy alternate universe/realm as the ones from Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, J.K.Rowling and G.R.R.Martin. Sadly that´s a quite limited universe relying mainly on The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath and some other minor and earlier stories, yet it has a lot of potential on its own or connected with the main Cthulhu/Lovecraftian mythology.

[@BladeofmoonlightKitto]

Bethesda made so much of skyrim lore from Lovecraft. Khajits,Daedra etc

[@soporificpunk1480]

They were really inspired by him - Hermaneous Mora is a very specific example.

[@phantomspaceman]

The original developers created Arena based on their own D&D world so the links are pretty clear the further back you go. The series got really watered down with Oblivion but things like the alternate Daedra dimensions are pretty close to dream lands.

[@clitcrusader4897]

The god head is basically copied from that dreamy boi.