DeepDream.pk3 - Inside DOOM's Most Horrifying Mod

[@Midnighthalo]

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[@peashooterman3]

lol... you forgot a c in access...

[@ItsSkiido]

Cat was stolen, instructions unclear

[@spade8094]

Blud thinks he's a tool album cover

[@Raven_VII]

honestly it looks like the author of the mod ran everything through an ai with the tags dog and lsd

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

When doomguy takes pills.😂

[@yigakong1187]

“The most disturbing mod for Doom!” “Midnight, this is the seventh time you’ve showed the most disturbing Doom mod this week.”

[@Midnighthalo]

Next week will be the 8th

[@abstractdebauchery]

@@Midnighthalo Looking forward to it already!

[@Brunoki22]

This is definitely the most Doom mod of all time

[@jackalope7372]

​@@Midnighthalofirst you have to admit you have a problem, that's when the real growth starts.

[@HeathenDance]

Dude is addicted to clickbait, that's for sure. I do enjoy his videos, but some titles are just too misleading, to say the least.

[@muma-kitty1639]

this mod changes the narrative of the game from "one man army storming the depths of hell" to "guy took a little too much acid and tripped so hard he started seeing demons"

[@gamerman3434]

I have a different interpretation. It's not drugs. Human simply can't precieve the true nature of hell. The very walls can drive one to madness. But doom guy still somehow powers through it all

[@MaximusDream78]

@@gamerman3434 Doom guy is our most based main character. Powers through his insanity while goin through hell.

[@FrankFive30]

@@gamerman3434 how can we not precieve school

[@werisekk3]

So... Doom-ified Aimo Allan Koivunen? That Finnish WWII soldier that took way too much pervitin and did a whole bunch of wild shit in the ensuing two weeks of meth-fuelled trip?

[@nolan412]

That was the narrative for one Doom guy in the movie.

[@reginald_czynaski]

I remember from years ago that DeepDream was overtrained with pictures of dogs, so it would recognise dogs more than any other thing. The mountains in the sky in the first episode are huge dogs.

[@Damian-cilr2]

So thats why so many things get turned into dogs

[@smiley235]

Yeh i remember that deep dream. I submitted an image of an asteroid. Months later, it was covered in dogs.

[@chloewebb5526]

This mod is ridiculously accurate to the patterns and unnatural movement of surfaces that comes with way too much acid. This is just so spot on with a bad trip. The visuals are a bit more opaque than anything I've experienced before, but it still behaves so similar. I remember back in the day having a bad trip by myself after getting home one night from yet another rave, seeing eyes and veins all over every single surface in my living room and trying to play Shenmue on Dreamcast to chill myself out - which didn't work out at all. It took a few trips before I started having good ones again because my brain would worry and end up seeing all the same shit that freaked me out the last time.

[@orimoreau3138]

Agreed, it's incredibly accurate to a heavy LSD trip

[@mikeg2491]

⁠​⁠@@orimoreau3138is there any ELI5 explanation for why there is a link between what the brain sees in such an LSD trip and this DeepDream computer models?

[@nullvixity4500]

Honestly I like the change of Doom Eternal to original Doom wads.

[@Midnighthalo]

Im glad you do :]

[@ThornShadowWolf]

I once saw this kind of shifting machine image recognition described as "the closest visual representation we have of eldritch beings/reality" because the machine being unable to interpret what it's being shown and providing amalgamations of things that it knows (like eyes and dogs) would be very comparable to your brain being unable to comprehend an eldritch being, and trying to make sense of it through trying to recognize things that *do* make sense to your brain, constantly shifting because it's "recognizing" things that aren't there so when the smallest change happens it has to try to reinterpret what you're seeing into something you can process. When you have no point of reference to even begin understanding what your looking at, your brain tries to interpret that into something you *can* understand, but utterly fails at it, over and over again, causing distress as you can't comprehend what's around you. All the references you made to this "making your brain hurt" really drove that idea home for me.

[@laineydoodles9297]

Doom Shrooms, anyone?

[@aprillong1258]

​@Dewmguygamingyes

[@ke_wegz]

Gimme som of dat pleas *HIGH VOLUME SNIFF* *EATS IT*

[@ghost_to_a_ghost]

my thoughts exactly lol looks like a fucking acid trip 😂

[@PVPERRY]

I can't. It's morning

[@Gingermation]

*pvz explosion sound*

[@Brunoki22]

Oh man, i forgot this existed! Freaking early days image AIs were horrifying! It's even more nightmare inducing when watching a deep dream Bob Ross video. It truly can turn heaven into hell!

[@GalagoospurmankyREALofficial]

This is like Lilith but if it was actually somewhat comprehensible, which really says something about how horrifyingly incomprehensible Lilith is.

[@DanzTheGB]

VESSEL I LOVE VESSEL

[@EngineerMonkeyBTD6]

What is Lilith?

[@kwahn106]

@@EngineerMonkeyBTD6 Lilith.pk3 is what Alzheimer's is like

[@BOKC_SkivMalarky]

That doom wad is creepy, almost forgot about it

[@EngineerMonkeyBTD6]

@@kwahn106 A-Okay-o.

[@masteryoraerasante]

Me: "why so many of the textures are puppy faces mashed together? I mean, look at those mountains, just piles of puppies!" Midnight: "Look at those mountains, look like monsters!" Me: "Oh, I'm just weird."

[@Midnighthalo]

Maybe Im the strange one

[@ramonsouza7408]

@@Midnighthalo you are i alredy knew it was an ai procesed image becase a lot of stuff looked like some thing tried to make animals but failed horably and just ended up making a molten mess insted

[@Damian-cilr2]

@@ramonsouza7408 the textures definitely look ai generated/edited.

[@KonigDesTodes]

Honestly I also thought "pile of puppies" Though more "meshed together through an AI prompt pile of puppies"

[@satisfiedghost6113]

I KNEW I WASNT THE ONLY ONE SEEING THE PUPPIES

[@bifocalpoint7330]

I was poring over this footage you made, and when you focused on the pillar, I noticed that some of the 'faces' were actually a doge meme. Upon rewatching those frames specifically, I couldn't see it at all, which implies to me that the images are purely interpretive. However, I did notice that in nearly every level, there /are/ consistencies. Dogs, in particular. Though other animals are there as well. You mentioned a frog, I spotted a few cats, and one or two other things. Very neat mod. Will have to try it out for myself.

[@VVVV___VVVV]

It’s so funny when the cacodemons just decide to turn normal for a few frames before becoming nightmares again

[@zetabrew1825]

Loving all the creepy content, hermano. Your hard work is much appreciated. Love from the US PS: the name for underwater star you're looking for is Starfish😊

[@Midnighthalo]

Im glad you have been enjoying the videos my friend!

[@wraiththedergy1134]

No doom mod hae ever gotten such a raw reaction out of me. I can't look at any of the textures for too long without getting sick to my stomach...so amazing content so far!

[@mkv2718]

the image shifting is actually one of the better depictions of the the effects of Lsd that i have seen. not the waviness, but the way the pixels shift from one image to another. it’s actually pretty uncanny

[@orimoreau3138]

Im guessing the waving is as close as the author could get to the more pulsing-like effect LSD trip gives, incredible work either way

[@bubbadoo10]

Man, I haven't thought about the Deep Dream AI Image generator in a hot minute, I remember the trippy mod for Fallout: New Vegas that ran all their textures through Deep Dream too. I wonder how they did the wavey effect to all the generated textures though

[@VideoMatoran]

This entire Doom mod is what happens when the alien parasite succeeds in assimilating all life on a planet. Ya know, the "John Carpenter's The Thing" alien.

[@player_lv430]

11:19 This scares me because of one dream I had once and only once. It's too disturbing to talk about here, but it haunts me to this day.

[@enricopaolocoronado2511]

DeepDream is basically just Doomguy going on a massive drug trip and the entire game at this point is just Doomguy's crack or LSD induced fever dream.

[@xr.3102]

Funnily enough it’s nothing like LSD and more like Penis Envy Shrooms

[@artor1309]

im literally doing a marathon of your doom wads gameplays. i love your videos atmosphere and humor dude thanks for another video im gonna watch at 3 am...

[@dr.miasmamorbius5421]

Hey Midnight, I recommended the mod POOM Miasma Massacre on your previous videos. It's quite obscure with only 300 or so downloads. It's currently just a WAD but the creators are going to release more episodes as time goes on

[@SamuraiGoth]

This makes the game so much more "Hellish". Its actually scary this time. This is one seriously freaky version of hell.

[@meedrowh1809]

Half of this mod looks like acid trip. The other half looks like a nightmare to a person with trypophobia

[@SvendleBerries]

I remember watching a Bob Ross video that was made to look like this. It was...an experience lol Seeing the program try to turn everything into a dog was pretty fun.

[@AltF4Unavailable]

The version of the wad you play does in fact work on the latest version of GZDoom, the author only said that it has only *been tested on* 3.5.1. I went ahead and opened the file onto a Doom Complete (WADsmoosh) iwad on GZDoom 4.10.0, and it seems completely fine!

[@Cyberdemon2006]

Was about to pre-emptively call out Graf for breaking another cool experimental mod before I found this comment, it should be pinned before others get the wrong idea

[@beefyblom]

on tonight's episode of doom's most [adjective] mod, midnight travels to the immaterium without a gellar field!

[@Midnighthalo]

Nice to see a fellow 40K enjoyer.

[@josephb883]

This whole mod is like when the Lich from adventure time said, "before time, there were monsters".

[@ghost_to_a_ghost]

great episode 👍

[@danielbohorquez5018]

as an og doom fan as it was the first game I ever played on a 478 machine. your content is awesome and also as a native Spanish from Latin America your Spanish jokes are awesome. thanks for existing amigo

[@builttoscalevideos]

Someone who isn't me told me that this mod is 100% exactly like playing Doom on mushrooms.

[@kaitlynboss3497]

I love it when you translate what you say in Spanish, a lot of the time it makes it so much better. I wish I spoke Spanish so I didn't have to rely on your spotty translations because I really am interested in what you're saying in shock and awe, lol.

[@Mr.Spongecake]

About GZDoom being on your second monitor: I do remember this happening to me with GZDoom on a couple occasions. There's a command you can put into the console to get it to show up on the other monitor. In the console, type vid_listadaptors and find which one is your main one. Then type vid_adaptor . It should show up on the correct one after that but you might need to restart your client. Hope that helps.

[@koruton9925]

I swear after watching this and going to bed hours later my head was spinning and I thought my dreams were breathing. Great video!

[@SCPSPECOPS-taskforce]

I like that every dooms most mod thumbnails are just holding a pistol and having a scary thing

[@ryanmcleod383]

Finally got back into DOOM the game still slaps one of the best fps games ever

[@Midnighthalo]

It truly is my friend.

[@phonelyp]

Thank you for your videos! Keep uploading more disturbing mods. I wonder if Quake has disturbing mods like this?

[@henri_07]

Doomguy on drugs be like: see kids? DONT DO DRUGS

[@Midnighthalo]

Preach.

[@Flesh_Wizard]

Shroom Eternal

[@LimeonCandy]

I don't know if it's just me but I really enjoy this visual style. I honestly think the worst part of this mod is the wiggly effect which really isn't that bad.

[@sealedplayer608]

“Midnight this is the 5th time you’ve shown us the most terrifying doom mod”

[@Midnighthalo]

You know how I roll

[@ZoruaZorroark]

the foundation is trying to keep midnight from spreading a certain memetic found within the mod

[@cyberdoga5728]

Damn, I was expecting these lines of videos to have more narrative horror like MyHouse.WAD, but yeah damn.

[@DanGmz]

About the issue with the monitors, in the configuration you can choose which is the main screen and also change the order of the monitors instead of 1-2 to 2-1, by simply dragging the screens. 😉

[@monytontana5184]

The most accurate depiction of a bad acid trip I've ever seen recreated... After watching a while, I feel like I'm trippin' 🙃

[@DardT]

you know you're to deep into body horror/grotesque art when you're unfazed by what's been displayed here

[@SWolfFreki]

Hey Midnight, I've been following your videos, several times now (including in this one) I've seen you skip the chainsaw on E1M2. When you press that button surrounded by acid where the imp is, then go into the maze, in that hall where the lights are blinking and the two imps are is a wall that can be opened. It's hard to explain it, but it's basically the back wall. All you have to do is punch or shoot it with any gun and it will open. The staircases lead up to the room with a switch which lowers the platform with the chainsaw sitting on it. Apologies in advance if you already knew this secret. Love the videos, keep them coming!

[@bombastik_bomb]

the mod is doom on 3g of golden teachers basically. really the first thing that came into my mind lsd is more mental, and I as most of people I know cannot hallucinate nature on it, but more like thoughts, and fractals, but never seen any eyes. on high doses like 1000ug or more there were entities, but they never looked the same as on shrooms, and in this mod just a heads up

[@username5155]

Normal Doomsturbing mods: Pretty scary/unsettling/bizzare/has some sort of background This one: Hahaha trypophobia. LMAO seizures.

[@DarthSidian]

This is what it's like to meet a cosmic horror.

[@TheBang3]

Therapist: it's okay, doom on drugs can't hurt you. Doom on drugs:

[@JerryListener]

Give some of the Aliens Mods a shot! I remember them being quite atmospheric and almost genuinely frightening!

[@HeathenDance]

Looking forward to the most "TRAUMATIZING" and "REPULSIVE" Doom mods!

[@vilectro]

This mod actually makes me more calm and relaxed

[@pixelash1069]

Love the use of the Half-Life Soundtrack in your vids!

[@sklepbezschodu8102]

It is so funny how doom mod community has like the most percentage of disturbing mods

[@doot95]

This whole doom mod gives off "when you try to remember a dream" vibes.

[@Zerr0t]

boys, I'm going to be honest I don't think this was trying to replicate what dreaming looks like

[@ghost_to_a_ghost]

i heard a guy from the DEA designed this mod in hopes of turning people away from drugs. he did a good job. i'm never even touching caffeine again after playing this mod.

[@DruCart]

Ah, Cruelty Squad, my favorite- wait a minute.

[@airshow406]

Is it me or are there a lot of dogs in the imagery?

[@casebouchard2478]

There are

[@YeenMage]

My head hurts just watching it. I am normally immune to many things that can make a person dizzy such as sea sickness or roller coaster rides, but this is one of the few things that made me dizzy.

[@Yetta_]

Thicc luigi 1:34 😳

[@Facade2]

POV: You already have pretty weird dreams but You have been playing doom way too much

[@ihadnogoodideasforanamelmao]

when the tier 10 zaza hit

[@Midnighthalo]

Tier 666

[@DarklordKermit77]

Aight I'm gonna make a mod for doom where I do literally nothing except change the textures and slow down the music by 0.31% and watch midnight make a 20 minute video calling it scarier than silent hill 2.

[@johnedwards1580]

Playing this version would be even better after a few drinks 🥃

[@halo6534]

8:32 Sounded like something else was about to slip out and he stopped himself. 😂

[@thesigmaenigma9102]

This can probably be made even more cursed now with modern AI

[@OGStoneVegas]

seeing this, along with experiencing a panic attack, is what a bad mushroom trip is like

[@Landser]

Half life music goes crazy

[@Midnighthalo]

Its just too good.

[@nathanialbenton7385]

This looks like it's running Doom through Deep Dream-type image convolution, though I do not recall any animated implementation. Basically, back in 2015, Google's early work at machine learning image generation involved running the resulting algorithms "backwards" to alter images into high recognition results so as to be sure it was actually recognizing the intended features instead of weird tertiary factors. After being open-sourced, it's since become the foundation for a lot of image-to-image work like the anime-girl filters. The reason for all the eyes is because they're extremely high entropy, in information terms. Loads of edges, lot of color gradients, relative position is very important, so when you make the model force an image to be like the category of something with eyes, it will absolutely riddle it with the things because they're a huge part of how it recognizes what it's looking for (at least back then)

[@cyanbug3021]

Me after the lobotomy😂😂😂

[@sib.nutsch]

A little bit about why the game kept opening on your second monitor: Older games used to snap to the top leftmost point of your display and expand outward to the resolution of your monitor for fullscreen games. Since your second monitor was positioned at the left side of the canvas, the top left corner of your display was the top left of your second screen.

[@pyrix]

Hey Midnight, I'm a bit new to your channel so I apologize for asking if you've already seen it, but have you checked out the Augur;Zenith Doom megawad? It's a pretty damned cool Cyberpunk themed wad file, and as someone with a huge hard-on for cyberpunk in general, I found it to be one of my absolute favorite wads.

[@TheMagnumDon]

I'm just 8 minutes in and it just looks like Doom with a cool ass Psychedelic Shader Texture Pack Honestly it should've came with alternate sounds to make it feel more trippy Honestly just looks like what would happen if the Doom Slayer took LCD and strolled through Nurgle's Garden

[@felipovisky3517]

One thing I liked about this mod was the death animations. I wanted a common mod with these same animations.......

[@Midnighthalo]

Download Smooth DOOM.

[@ruryumi]

this looks like as if im closing my eyes during a really really bad headache

[@seawarshark6674]

Ah hell nah, Doomguy took 50 berserk pack 💀

[@KatOwO2235]

imagine playing with the VR mod, it would be so trippy that it would trigger the vomit

[@Maelstr0mStudios]

I love your content and can’t wait for the next video, keep up the good work!

[@GlaDurDeaD]

TOOL DOOM, Play the whole game to Lateralus and Maynard kicks you in the nuts after the Spider Mastermind

[@Xaero188]

I dunno man... feeding all DooM textures and sprites to the AI network, putting it back into the game and slapping some morphing\wobble on top for good measure looks somewhat cool and trippy (for, like, the first five minutes, after which it just gives you progressively more headache), but calling it *"MOST HORRIFIC"* mod? Nah. For what it's worth, Lilith is way more impressive in that regard.

[@MikeyAwbrey]

I recognize that art style very clearly. There was a project in the very very early stages of AI image development called "Deep Dream". It would "Dream" and generate an image for you. It was very much characterized by lots of eyes, teeth, and basic architecture. The idea was that the computer was dreaming based on all the information it was given. This is basically a super unrefined AI image generator. Specifically, this mod looks like they did a "dream" of every texture, sprite, image, everything. They then took those "dreams" and put them on an animation that goes between the dream and the original image, then put on a shader to give it that wobbly aesthetic and extra variance in how the textures animate between the two versions of each image. Excellent and trippy application of this.

[@T_K7]

12:06 "To win the game, you must collect ME, John Romero!"

[@tonilarios]

Maybe it is true that everyone sees something very different cuz, I didn't think it looked that bad. It was almost satisfying to watch.

[@togeluga_the_cat]

" *Holy shit im blasting out of both ends,mah heart's a ceazin, mah lungs a weazin, the fucking walls are melting* " -Doom Guy prob

[@victoriaevelyn3953]

Thats really nausiating to watch the pinky is straight up horrifying

[@xcoder1122]

That's approx. what a very high dose of LSD looks like. Yet LSD does not only affect what you see, also what you hear (missing in the mod but could maybe be done) and how you think (of course impossible to simulate). Note that most consumers stay well below such a dose, not just to avoid the extreme visuals but also to avoid doing really stupid things (again, it also messes up with your thinking beyond certain doses).

[@Xil_Gon_Give_It_To_Ya]

Yeah, okay. The entirety of Doom's textures in this mod are just being run through one of those super early AI filters and that somehow just skyrockets the entire creep factor. I think it just plops the WAD into the uncanny valley because of the combination of things that are not supposed to have eyes looking like they have eyes for a few seconds at a time, causing you to stare at them to confirm what you saw, and a borderline sense of trypophobia (the fear or disgust of holes or patterns of holes). Like, I don't think I have trypophobia... but today, I do.

[@themadmattster9647]

I'm hooked on both this channel and Doom lately

[@MajorDumai]

It's just a texture mod, it can't hurt you. The mod: !..

[@kantez2872]

Midnight, at 16:00 this is warhammer 40k warp. No wonder people are going crazy when exposed to it:D

[@Flesh_Wizard]

I pressed the timestamp and got an ad. Terrifying 😱

[@xx_weebkiller_xx5076]

Is this what a broken pyro tf2's mask would look like?

[@bigkabooomedbam]

As someone who previously utilized ai generated images this totally was put through something like that

[@dezgasting]

Always love to see vids about creepy Doom mods.

[@DigitalApex]

Ah hell naw, Doomguy took 30 benadryls

[@srbrant5391]

Meanwhile Doomguy's just on the floor high and foaming at the mouth while demons are standing around him, wondering if they should call an ambulance.

[@orimoreau3138]

This is the most accurate depiction of LSD vision I have ever seen, amazingly close to how it looks when you're on acid

[@TheFlubber06]

I just thought to look up this mod and now that I'm watching this, I just remembered I had a dream about mushrooms last night, even though it's been quite a while.

[@trenchbat]

@4:30 reminded me i have some mushrooms in the freezer from last year and been looking for an excuse to eat them. i think this might be it

[@mr.cantillasz1912]

3:55 start of the main dish

[@braggski]

this gave me nausea because i tried staring at the very centre of the screen for a while and then looked away and my vision was distorted, many thanks

[@TheRexo-h8e]

What i like about horror mods for doom is that these mods show a more horrifying side of the demons and doomguys experience