Hallucinations (Lovecraftian Dark Ambient Hour)

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[@RebelWvlf]

"Their skin crawls with changing faces. Each one speaks ten lies for every truth."

[@FalsePROPH3T]

I love this comment, very eerie

[@RebelWvlf]

@@FalsePROPH3T It's audio file from Total War Warhammer 3 that plays when your army confronts army of Tzeentch, Chaos God of mutation, sorcery and evolution. And he is *very* Lovecraftian when you read his lore. The picture reminded me of how he is depicted in game.

[@FalsePROPH3T]

@@RebelWvlf thank you, I’ve never played the game but I do enjoy their audio files, I’ll definitely look into it for sure

[@Katamaricilla]

sounds like my ex

[@RebelWvlf]

@@Katamaricilla is your ex an eldritch Outer God with sharp teeth, tentacles and thousand eyes? :'D

[@Acastaigne]

This greatly aided my transformation into an Elder Thing. I'll recommend it to the Great Old Ones.

[@redacted3406]

hol up

[@fork1695]

Wish I would have seen this before, my transformation was really rough

[@themorningwaylight4462]

By the tentacles of Cthulu he's (or she cuz it says moth LADY) right!!!!! Let the metamorphosis begin!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😈😎😇

[@kamikeserpentail3778]

The worst thing about truly seeing is you do not have words to show the blind.

[@ST-ly8uf]

Instructions unclear, I became a cephalopod.

[@hiimpeterpeter]

"I wasn't seeing things in the dark, but I was the one being seen..."

[@Eric-zv9ut]

CDs nuts

[@taco884]

"These edibles ain't shit" 30 minutes later:

[@erikdahl6861]

I wanna try shrooms or acid so that i can draw/write better eldritch horror

[@gneo5524]

A steep price to pay

[@taco884]

@@gneo5524 worth it

[@AngelGarcia-lx9jz]

I saw a thousand yellow eyes staring down at me from above on a mushroom trip once.

[@hewhomakesnosound]

Ahh, then you know just how close you can get to losing your mind. Happened to me on two tabs of a mescaline trip.

[@ivanlangley635]

Shrooms made me crazy, I preferred LSD....

[@chapstick4314]

i saw billions of tiny human eyes open on my ceiling during a trip. I wasn't scared though, it was just cool

[@KlausTheArcticFox]

was it scary?

[@SOLIDSNAKE.]

Jesus

[@alexiayearty8105]

This is actually so good for my ADHD. Probably says something that the whispers of the Great Old Ones are kinder to my brain than my own thoughts.

[@twinguy9633]

lmao bro peak comment

[@alexiayearty8105]

@@twinguy9633 Thanks!

[@ddc2957]

Do you have any other imaginary conditions or just the one?

[@amberfashing1136]

It helps with my adhd as well, I listen to this for sleep.

[@tiggyvolts9076]

​@@ddc2957 You must be a kind and empathetic person

[@bustavonnutz]

Wake up, light my pipe, look at the fog roll through the redwoods, & listen to another ICA mix in dead silence. Peak ambient.

[@scvnthorpe__]

Imagine being confronted with the enormity and indifference of the crawling things in the dark, having to process how little of reality you see and how much of what you think matters is from your feeble human perspective ... and at some point, going from the heights of fear to the letting go of your ego. Finding a sense of peace, choosing to care about the things that really matter to you.

[@Algaebeetle622]

I need more dark ambient music like this, it's truly a refreshing break from most other stuff I listen to. When you listen mostly to songs that both generate and emanate pure adrenaline and bloodshed like "The Only Thing They Fear is You", it's nice to sit down and listen to something that resonates with my 3am mindset.

[@theaprentice6437]

Nothing like the wails of the damned to calm the mind from the monster that is our own psyche.

[@BladeEdge77]

Hermaeus Mora is laughing at us you know.

[@mj_out]

Iron, most of your recent uploads are sheer incredible. Here I could even sleep in my break at my working place and totally disconnect from the stress. I hope you are doing well, mental health is so important in this world.

[@commenteroftruth9790]

what

[@talesofacrookedmouth]

​@@commenteroftruth9790what what

[@juliancore1089]

Maybe

[@tone868]

Iron Cthulhu Apocalypse, the channel I pray to late at night 🌙. 🐙 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@glasscannon4723]

🐙

[@Jorge_Jones]

My man tone 🌙

[@bridgetrodriguez4643]

Always 🎧

[@childishstarnino7748]

Just tonin' and bonin'

[@garyposnett7788]

@@Jorge_Jones 🙏JORGE 🙏

[@TexasArcane]

This music started to open a shining gate in the wall. It had a keyhole requiring a silver key. Many people have wandered in his dream worlds since he passed away of stomach cancer. They were that infectious. They captured the imagination of other dreamers throughout the whole previous century. H.P. Lovecraft was one of the most amazing writers to ever come out of North America. It is sad the way he died without ever knowing how big his fanbase would become some day. He thought he was a hack and a grown man who could not get a day job. He never had anybody tell him just how brilliant his work was and how it would make a unique contribution to literature in the United States. Some of the stories he didn't even bother to copyright have made others hundreds of millions of dollars from films, movies and series. Half the horror movies ever made borrow heavily from his influence.

[@macaroll]

True! I really feel sad for ol' H.P. and the life he led 😢 But I'm glad his eldritch legacy still lives on in a lot of media. Bloodborne is one of those. He has a great imagination! 💖

[@agravemisunderstanding9668]

I've been very distracted lately but this track really helped me keep my head down and finally focus on all those so sinister machinations I've been putting off

[@coredefect6134]

Really helps focus the mind, for when you wanna raise a sleeping god 😂

[@H0RR0R_HANG0VERZ]

This is so deliciously creepy!! Perfect for reading Horror books! Also, whenever you’re ready for bed give this a listen if you want to conjure up the darkest & most delightful nightmares! 😈🖤

[@karmazone1525]

Nah it gives me sweet dreams, listen to my Little pony opening theme. THAT gives nightmares!

[@H0RR0R_HANG0VERZ]

@@karmazone1525 🤣 you ain’t wrong!!!

[@edgelord6210]

Why would anyone want to have nightmares?

[@H0RR0R_HANG0VERZ]

@@edgelord6210 Entertainment…😈 it’s just like watching Horror movies while you’re awake, and Nightmares are horror movies while you’re asleep 🫠

[@Jaredthompson90]

🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@underground868]

This music is great for strange investigations and moments of unknown tension in DnD

[@eyir_blackwood]

"As you stand before the ominous statue, frozen in awe, a sudden cold breeze passes through the chamber. You can feel the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end as the temperature drops. In the next moment, it feels as if time itself has come to a stop, and all you can hear is the sound of your own heartbeat pounding in your ears. Then, in a deep abyssal snarl, a voice whispers, "You seek knowledge of the past, but what will you do with it?" The dread that fills you is palpable, and the hairs on your arms rise as the voice fades away, leaving you with an eerie silence."

[@user-ug6cx4ji9f]

Then, you remember that your mom has a history degree, and serves as a youth councillor, and juvenile spelunking associate at Arkham. You hate the snarl, but you are glad she has given up smoking. Now, if you can take care of her giant Japanese newt addiction, happy times await. And, her pet, an aging sea lion/ Elder Seal , clamors for food. And malt liquor. The linoleum unravels a little at the corners of the room. The stars shine through the chipped places. It's gonna be a long night. 27:07

[@Heckishretching]

Greatly useful in the rituals of the great prince of the great old ones.

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

A must for all "Call of Cthulhu" campaign.

[@yummy8074]

Idk about others, but for me this is actually relaxing compared to those videos labeled as "for relaxation". It isn't scary or creepy, I don't feel no weird tingling, it's just pleasant to hear ambience.

[@jeanetten.s.8557]

I see I see, hey just out of curiosity, do you have anxiety?

[@yummy8074]

@@jeanetten.s.8557 not a general anxiety or an anxiety disorder, but I do deal with reactional anxiety often.

[@ottdeon]

all ambience is relaxing. the notes jus make it "dark and creepy"

[@zehansun8494]

Writing a horror novel at night while listening to this. Best way to be productive. BTW gotta change my pants brb

[@kamurek1878]

thats what im saying, i was writing a horror game idea and i keep getting shivers which is something that hadnt happend in a couple years

[@kamurek1878]

i cant take it anymore, im not even listening to this video anymore, its 2:12 am im scared shitless sitting in my chair like fort knox security and masterlocks

[@gamingoverlord8854]

Well, shit

[@Styx-rx5pr]

This actually fits. I have hallucinations of many kinds and this captures how it feels sometimes when they happen late at night. Love the work!

[@IronCthulhuApocalypse]

What kind of hallucinations do you get? I get spiders and sometimes bruises or blood on my hands.

[@Styx-rx5pr]

@@IronCthulhuApocalypse I get audio, visual, feeling hallucinations. I hear like knocking or voices just about anything. Visual I see things move out of the corner of my eye or things around me distort, it’s real freaky when it’s a face. And feeling ones the most common one is a clawed hand grabbing me but I have had stuff like spiders and thorns wrapping around me.

[@IronCthulhuApocalypse]

@@Styx-rx5pr Does anything trigger the hallucinations or do they happen at random?

[@Styx-rx5pr]

@@IronCthulhuApocalypse mostly at random but when I get stressed and paranoid they happen more often But not a guarantee they will happen at those times

[@Goutham1826]

U guys fr?

[@janetcraft]

The image reminds me of "The Legacy of Kain - Soul Reaver" video game series :) You know, when Raziel confronts the slimy mysterious benefactor who dwells in the depths of the Abyss. This music will go nicely while playing the games :)

[@soulreaver9196]

Ain't no way some1 else knows that game, I literally named myself as my first ps2 game 😂

[@PoisonedRedBerry]

@@soulreaver9196 Wild Soul Reaver fans!!

[@LordXerpentoR]

Elder God : So. I am revealed to you at last. Kain : What in the hell... Elder God : I am the origin of life, the devourer of death. I am the hub of the Wheel, the purifying cycle to which all souls must be drawn. Kain : [to himself] Had I condemned Raziel to this nightmare when I cast him into the abyss? Elder God : You may ponder the futility of your ambitions as you spend a deathless eternity beneath a mountain of rubble. You and your Soul Reaver will go equally mad as the eons pass. The Citadel of the apostates will become your living tomb. Kain : Your words are heartening. For you would not fear us, unless we could truly do you harm. Elder God : No! You are nothing! Kain : False God! This is the end... the final turn of YOUR Wheel!

[@janetcraft]

@@LordXerpentoR You sure know your Kain series :)

[@LordXerpentoR]

@@janetcraft Kain: Thirty years hence, I am presented with a dilemma... let's call it a two-sided coin. If the coin falls one way, I sacrifice myself and thus restore the Pillars... but as the last surviving vampire in Nosgoth, this would mean the annihilation of our species... Moebius made sure of that. If the coin lands on the reverse, I refuse the sacrifice and thus doom the Pillars to an eternity of collapse. Either way, the game is rigged. Raziel: We agree then that the Pillars are crucial and must be restored. Kain: Yes, Raziel, that is why we've come full-circle to this place. Raziel: So after all this, you make my case for me. To end this stalemate, you must die so that new Guardians can be born. Kain: The Pillars don't belong to them, Raziel... they belong to us. Raziel: Your arrogance is boundless, Kain. Kain: There's a third option, a monumental secret hidden in your very presence here. But it's a secret you have to discover for yourself. Unearth your destiny, Raziel. It's all laid out for you here. Raziel: You said it yourself, Kain... there are only two sides to your coin. Kain: Apparently so, but suppose you throw a coin enough times... suppose one day, it lands on its edge. The "coin landing on it's edge" struck me so deep at the time I first played this series and sealed the deal as the best game series I ever played. I wasn't aware of the Lovecraftian symbolism because I wasn't aware of Lovecraft. I was just a simple gamer kid at the time awestruck by the sheer awesomeness of these games and the story behind them. Later on, after I discovered my favorite author, Lovecraft, made this already best ever game series, legendary! No, not legendary ... Anthological !! Nothing I played before or after the Legacy of Kain measured up to this.

[@daerandir1459]

As someone with ADHD and GAD, I find this...very comforting and relaxing.

[@Karizmatyc]

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[@kappincupcakes]

GAD??

[@tiggyvolts9076]

I was looking for a playlist to welcome a cosmic horror into my home to. Believe I've found what I was looking for!

[@ModularLanding]

Perfect description of having a baby.

[@tiggyvolts9076]

@@ModularLanding Tiny being birthed from a miracle and nine months of pain, that exists to scream screams that can madden even the most stoic of our warriors. Sounds about right.

[@ModularLanding]

@@tiggyvolts9076 Good luck my friend!

[@mrsmarketing]

Put this in my reading playlist and listen to it whenever I'm doing a cosmic horror read :)

[@ezgannet]

Диву даюсь буквально каждый раз, когда натыкаюсь на новые творения ICA. не сравнений ради, но это идет в плейлист с атриум карцери и сварте грайнер. всегда чистые атмосферы

[@ddc2957]

The fuck is that Tundra Tongue!?

[@followersith5813]

Someone told me they looked at the drawings inspired by Lovecraftian creatures. without feeling terror, at the most disgust. They don't get the concept. If I see a tiger in a photograph, it stimulates me charm, but if I were to come face to face, I would be terrified. Now just imagine the same. It would be something unspeakable, something that will haunt you for years in your dreams. (Personally I would die on the spot.)

[@CS-hu5be]

I'd probably need to have a thousand cigarettes on the spot just to keep my heart going.

[@hewhomakesnosound]

I'd be lucky to die, but knowing me I'd probably go insane.

[@drunkpunkrat5764]

It's something worse than a tiger. You know tigers are living creatures of bone and flesh. They can attack and eat you but they are animals having their place in the ecosystem. If the great old ones, elder gods, demons etc exist then everything you believed was wrong, the world's order is different than you thought and there is no hope because the humanity as a whole is a plaything at their mercy. And you cannot do anything about it, just like an ant cannot win against a child with a magnifying glass.

[@TheRealShadowX]

This has to be my favorite out of the recent uploads. Thank you for this.

[@K-ORA]

Dude, fantastic! Great stuff as usual. I really dig the vibes here and composition!

[@basslinepromotions]

definitely one of my favorites from this channel !

[@theaprentice6437]

I think it says a lot about a person to find something like this calming. Yet, as I listen to the void I find my peace. The sound of the wind stirring the sand about me as I wander through a dark wasteland. The sound is accompanied by sirens in the distance, unfamiliar to my ear. What is there purpose? A warning? A call to come closer?In this place I continue to move forward despite the fact that I have no idea where I’m going. You could say that I am lost, but can you really be lost when you don’t have a destination in mind.?

[@cicholasnage]

same here. I find conventional calming noises like birds, oceans and forests quite intoxicating sometimes.

[@isolateddemon9438]

THIS IS AMAZING.BEEN READING LOVECRAFT WHILE LISTENING TO THIS👹

[@ivanlangley635]

ICA has really picked up the baton and ran with this soundscape. Lots of lovely dynamic details and thoughtful precision. You've set the bar high for future works and I, for one, am excited already. Nice!

[@hungrygremlin5151]

Strangely comforting. The perfect amount of variation in the drones ❤

[@bridgetrodriguez4643]

Yay so excited to see this 🥰🎧🥰 Found this at the perfect time just winding down from my day. Always look forward to ur videos🐙💖🐙💖

[@demgozellegs]

so glad this is getting more views, this is a masterpiece

[@MyStickWorld]

Imagine a half hour in, trenched in the ambience of a hollowing darkness beyond description....and old-timey jazz band music just starts up.

[@IronCthulhuApocalypse]

no were not doing that. no jazz

[@user-ug6cx4ji9f]

Lovecraftian horrors....and jazz hands.

[@willevensen7130]

Honestly sets the mood for when I need to write

[@shadowedknight66]

Thank you. I really needed this to focus on writing papers. It works so well for me.

[@jonbmosher]

Just came across this channel recently, and greatly enjoy it! Been running a cosmic horror DnD campaign, and this, amongst the stuff on their spotify, is perfect to really set the unease for the players. Thanks!

[@Zeticx_221]

Where could I add my neutral evil tiefling warlock?

[@spicyboi4823]

EY ,thank you making stuff like this helps me with my writing!

[@stevehollins2227]

Totally outstanding !! This has to be the pinnacle of dark ambient sounds.

[@unifoxicorn666]

Ahh such beautiful vibrations from this one soothes my fragment of a soul❤ beautiful work

[@user-oq1ww6vy8g]

Большое спасибо. Всегда ищу лавкрафтовский эмбиент и ты не разочаровываешь.

[@Anarchy_Commando2000]

I love this so much. It's chilling, unsettling and very slightly sickening (it's perfect). It reminds me of the first Resident Evil game on the PS1 as the music from it gives a harsh sense of loneliness and despair as you uncover what unimaginable horrors are hiding around each corner

[@ScrubbaDubDub]

This is truly beautiful. It shows a foreign beauty in my vision.

[@amori1313]

Reading 'The Luminous Dead' with this to put me in the right mindset. Amazing.

[@qahnaaringamingandreaction567]

I’m a grim dark fantasy and one of my characters is possessed by an elthrich horror. This music is perfect for the vibe

[@qahnaaringamingandreaction567]

I’m writing” sorry

[@StrongZeroPowerHour]

Legitimately great ambient!

[@Tabirus1661]

Love the artwork.

[@AveyaC2012]

Very nice. Thank you for sharing. 💞

[@Exclusivetankdrums]

so calm and so true atmosphere.... yeah cool!

[@Definietlynotarobot]

Every time I'm writing my novel I just put this on and it takes me to the zone

[@ninja7raizo-z615]

"And thus, It speaks. No truth, no lie, It just speaks in incomprehensible tongue, native to them."

[@thecuto]

Amazing, good work

[@ivanlangley635]

"I seek new perfumes, larger blossoms, pleasures still untasted." (Huysmans)

[@Zeticx_221]

H.p. Lovecraft makes the cutist entities, they're so adorable

[@sasanpourmasoumi5256]

I've been listening to the first part of this and can't help but to think of little nightmares II. outstanding work by the way

[@4thalt]

This is what I imagine being in Antarctica during the winter feels like

[@amigaworkbench720]

Mmmmm so good for focus and meditation...

[@IXLDGOLD]

another great upload brother

[@horatiocastell6665]

Amazing work bro

[@7261m]

This works so well with this crazy as scenario there was in this dnd campaign I’m in, also with this dream I had

[@unluckybystander7555]

Saving this, will be good for dnd

[@Ilgrandecigo]

Good as always! The picture remember me the form that Hermaus Mora takes in TES V Skyrim (if you have Dragonborn DLC installed).

[@ryanjulseth9918]

Like this soundtrack

[@redrumgmv161]

Perfect for my worldbuilding project.

[@adrianorocha1004]

Our eyes are yet to open

[@dauntingdarknessmusic]

Very creepy ambience! Great work!

[@miguimigui407]

Perfecta !!! Es una obra que te sumerge en un mundo de espacio oscuro y alucinaciones , música de suspense total...con contaciones de horror ciberpunk

[@PitsOfBabel]

Thanks. This greatly helps with my constipation.

[@RamenLlama]

This right here, this is the good stuff.

[@IronCthulhuApocalypse]

ty ramenllama

[@fawnoverbrawn]

Perfect to explore my minecraft lovecraft mod 👍

[@JambonDeluxe]

Really great

[@UmbraSonax]

love the title

[@gothicsman0009]

Hermaeus Mora is you??

[@Gaelguerrero1]

Skyrim reference check

[@IvanLangley-tr6yx]

Your themes in my dreams!

[@CursedCommentaries]

Thanks for keeping azathoth asleep fren :D

[@blackskyirregular9876]

Grant us eyes!

[@ZeUberflip]

Yog-Sothoth is dropping his ass to the floor with this track 🐙🐙🐙🐙

[@danthiel8623]

Arven stood at the terminal and waited for the bus to arrive he blinked and then got a hallucinations of unnatural noises and visuals. “Wait a minute this isn’t supposed be happening to me I was supposed to be get through that terminal illness but now I’m here experiencing a terminal hallucination.”

[@MsRoshniAli]

❤thank you🙏

[@tokyo_fil]

love that song.

[@Nightroplus2341]

Great music

[@jamiesehdev2663]

Nice to play this on low with headphones.. whilst enjoying a good eldritch tale from the meister of cosmic horror.... Oh and a nice joint off coarse 😉

[@rbkommando5456]

"Oh, freaking sweet! Cosmic horrors beyond my comprehension!"

[@Resus4ur]

@8:52 when gordon ramsay sees something gross on kitchen nightmares

[@Arikansinan]

Hormaeus mora

[@WhoIsGoLDENRaTi0]

I always listen to this when reading Junji ito stories. Thanks for the vibes 👌🏾

[@IronCthulhuApocalypse]

Junji's Great

[@basededward3863]

try reading the PTSD RADIO manga with this in the background, its CREEPY ASF

[@WhoIsGoLDENRaTi0]

@@basededward3863 I'm way ahead of you brother. I might get shit for this but I think masaaki nakayama is much better at being scary than junji

[@IronCthulhuApocalypse]

I''m definitely gonna check Nakayama out. Love the art already.

[@WhoIsGoLDENRaTi0]

@@IronCthulhuApocalypse you won't be disappointed one bit. The story behind PTSD radio is literally legendary

[@Minimeister317]

I love it

[@THESIXTHEGG]

“Oh how vast that sea was, the cold black void that I stared into for months as we traversed the stars. Long forgotten were the grandeur visages of beauty and colorful miasmas of galactic design. What was left was an absolute dread, the horror of how genuinely small I was even upon such a monumental pedestal I stood upon, as Emperor.”

[@PinkFloyd448]

Boutta eat the universe with this beat 🥵🥵🥵💪💪💪🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[@Pumpkin525]

Perfect for reading NoSleep stories with

[@s-koros]

i decided to listen to this whilst home alone, and with the last message sent to me being "Call me if anything, and lock the doors." needless to say, im finding it very funny for no reason, and i dont think i would be a very good horror game protagonist LMAO

[@macaroll]

...That's enough Insight for now. I can already hear The Great Old Ones' whispers...

[@HypostaticFridge]

Im reading thr Qur'an to this but I've also been revisiting Lovecraft again recently

[@thedoctor0496]

This did NOT help my shroom trip. Great work!

[@NukaChloe76]

I actually desperately want a video like this with creepy atmosphere and audio hallucinations but everything said is really just positive reinforcement done in a spooky Addams Family style of scary. Its creepy but positive

[@joevitaliano8980]

GREAT YOG-SOTHOTH! I LOVE this! IÄ!!! IÄ!!! ;)