The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stage 5 (FULL ALBUM)

Everywhere at the end of time - Stage 5
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Stage 5
Post-Awareness Stage 5 confusions and horror. More extreme entanglements, repetition and rupture can give way to calmer moments. The unfamiliar may sound and feel familiar. Time is often spent only in the moment.
00:00:00 - K1 - Stage 5 Advanced plaque entanglements
00:22:36 - L1 - Stage 5 Advanced plaque entanglements
00:45:24 - M1 - Stage 5 Synapse retrogenesis
01:06:12 - N1 - Stage 5 Sudden time regression into isolation
Artwork by Ivan Seal
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[@PaulBenjaminJenkins]

Man, talk about an album that makes you appreciate your own sanity...

[@neptuniamonnaanarchus]

or cry about the decline of your own

[@cocostarfish5018]

@@neptuniamonnaanarchus ya. I'm sorry.

[@HuseinHamzah]

Man, we should be grateful whenever we still be able to think!

[@jiesus2596]

This

[@Pinkus_]

Paul! We were supposed to go play on the swings! Where did you go?

[@lizzyk.3306]

3:56 a brief moment of bliss, before falling back into the abyss.

[@bradwashington420]

A whole 28 & 1/2 seconds.... If someone told you that you had 28.5 seconds before you forgot everyone and everything you knew, you better have came up with some amazing last words!

[@TunaminV1]

There’s another temporary bliss state at 5:57. It also lasts 28.5 seconds.

[@galleyboy]

"I see you"

[@b0ltun0]

that makes me so sad

[@adama.composer5288]

Its a very slowed down and distorted sample of Dick Powell's "Was it a dream?"

[@pansexualdoofus3202]

Me: touches something kinda gross My entire nervous system:

[@mun7731]

kinda not the right place for memes tho

[@restfulflames9855]

@@mun7731 i agree

[@ioutra6121]

Not the place man

[@justsomelurkerrr]

gotta cope somehow

[@truebagel8368]

Not the time for memes

[@Max16032]

One of the tricks of the human mind is that once a certain noise is heard constantly and repeatedly, our consciousness starts to force it down into a "silence" that can easily be ignored or at the very least be tolerable. The lack of sudden jumps and aural surprises in this stage compared to the previous one is both natural and terrifying, because while we finally reach a state of stillness, the aural ocean of fog is washing and erasing all our memories, like waves on a shore. We're not grieving anymore. Just fading away.

[@donnaquixote7538]

Well said. :) As English is not my first language, I had to google the word "aural" and it apparently relates to hearing and ears. I suggest "aural surprise" as the alternative, more pleasant expression for "ear rape"? Because moving on to Stage 4 from the last relatively coherent song in Stage 3 begins with a kind of an "ear rape".

[@callmefox630]

Hmmm, That actually made me wonder. I don't really "Get" The Caretaker as a album. I've theorized that my ADHD meant I need to focus more intensely on melodies to notice them and static seems to much less likely to disappear into the background. I actually do wonder if me having rather severe ADHD caused me to experience this song in a different way.

[@aleccenta2049]

Yeah, not gonna lie I forgot I was listening to music, then out of nowhere 19:14 hit and I actually jumped

[@anrylstudios]

"We're not grieving anymore. Just fading away." Perfect summarization. This will scare me for months to come.

[@belsesuso1407]

Yeah you are right. I've gotten tinnitus when I was 17 due to loud noise exposure, and the first year was terrifying but over the time my mind gotten used to it and now (21) I barely notice it before I go to sleep. I almost forgot that I have tinnitus.

[@blackraptormoses6838]

The mind has lost its ability to process neural information in any coherent way, and the result is a cacophony of unfamiliar fragments of thought. There is no ability to make a conscious decision anymore. The only feeling left is a deep confusion. You are forgetting how to think.

[@Rokiotop900]

I dont want age

[@Pinkus_]

I missed you J-.... Jas-... ...Who are you?

[@villainjohn]

That just sounds like my first panic attack. I guess dementia must be a panic attack that never ends

[@mUbase]

@@villainjohn except you lose ALL of your cognitive and physical functioning and return to the state of a baby.

[@user-qe8go6ur8w]

@@mUbase not even a baby, they forget who they are

[@royps6687]

Probably the worst part of this (as in morbid and depressing) is that you can still hear glimpses of voices

[@ratewcropolix]

i feel like they add to the confusion because it feels like its a voice, but then you listen more and realise its an instrument

[@cozzy124]

@@ratewcropolix wait whaaat

[@ratewcropolix]

@@cozzy124 stage 5 distort instrument; instrument sound like voice

[@Anyo92]

@@ratewcropolix not always, for example the mandolin solo clearly has a voice at the start of it, thats moreso stage 4, with stage 5 there seems to be actual traces of voices in it

[@thebrownmantapesthenewchan2206]

"Wæw."

[@StateOfTheMind11225]

6:40 the person remembers one thing, BRUH.

[@redface583]

lmaooo

[@gnalkhere]

now that is one HELL of a Bruh moment

[@kattman4605]

Good that they can still BRUH MOMENT in the mist. :]

[@GDNashit]

Zoomers with dementia in 2090

[@Pazinfinity94]

I heard "brah"

[@unrecognized8683]

14:23 the “hell siren” from stage 4

[@PorcelainSubmarine]

when can the siren first be heard in stage 4 ?

[@unrecognized8683]

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[@PorcelainSubmarine]

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[@FiorelloEAzura]

Wow!

[@b0ltun0]

I DID NOT NOTICE THAT BEFORE BRUH

[@ManyManyPandas]

19:14 "This selection will be a mandolin solo by Mister James Fitzgerald."

[@gnalkhere]

It's so much clearer when you hear it from your phone

[@user-qe8go6ur8w]

I actually thought the scratchy static was part of the dementia effects, but I realised thats how the song actually sounds after seeing the samples

[@jaydawg3241]

doesn't the static represent brain plaques tho? seen it in another comment somewhere on the original track. i think kirby does add them and increases as the album went further

[@Dirtbag10417]

The fact that the album introduces actual human duologue instead of music was creepy considering all we had before was music samples. It could be a sign of how overtime we misremember events/people

[@flixtocicgaming3576]

@@user-qe8go6ur8w hello again

[@luckyotter623]

One of the many EATEOT discussions on KZbin floated an interesting theory about what really happens in stage 5 (actually stage 6 in the caregiving/medical community) and what it feels like to the patient. Rather than being lost in an empty void like we think, the patient at this stage is actually still quite aware, just extremely confused and very likely terrified. The problem isn't so much that the person is no longer there, it is that the person can't make their thoughts, feelings or needs known because their memories and thoughts are too broken and fragmented and communication between the mind and body is spotty at best due to broken synapses (this is also why they stop being able to walk or move well at this point, or control their bowels and bladder). An example would be a nursing home patient who spends most of their time speaking gibberish and doing strange things like "mindlessly" picking at a blanket or ripping up paper, but who when presented with a food they dislike, suddenly said very clearly and coherently, "No, I don't want to eat that." They may suddenly remember your name after months of seemingly not remembering who you were. They often have other episodes of clarity and coherence, and The Caretaker shows this beautifully in the sudden emergence of "Was It A Dream" a few minutes into Advanced Plaque Entanglements. There are other moments of clarity too, such as the mandolin solo. This is evidence that the person is still there, hasn't gone anywhere, but is simply "trapped" inside their broken mind. The "mindless" actions such as ripping paper or picking at the skin are the person attempting to calm or distract themselves, since the normal chaotic state of the mind at this stage is intolerable to the patient and causes them intense anxiety or even terror. The gibberish they speak (when they speak at all) is the person attempting to communicate, but due to the inability of the brain to communicate effectively with the body, in this case the ability to form words, makes them seem like they are "crazy" or out of touch with reality. That's not to say they don't have psychotic episodes due to hallucinations and delusions, but most of the time they simply can't effectively communicate their needs. Stage 5 (and also stage 4 and to a lesser extent, stage 3) patients seem to disappear into the void as a kind of escape mechanism. It's not that their minds are empty, it's that the constant noise and terrifying chaos of their tangled, fragmented thoughts and memories become so intolerable, their brain goes into shutdown mode and the person can't be reached and seems unaware of everything around them. These episodes may be the "empty bliss" The Caretaker often refers to. The emptiness, rather than being terrifying, is blissful and calming to the patient, who otherwise would be in a state very much like a neverending bad acid trip. Schizophrenics also have catatonic episodes similar to the void states of a dementia patient, though the brain chemistry and psychology behind these is probably very different. Synapse Retrogenesis (which literally refers to the fact a dementia patient "ages backward" and regresses back to an infantile state by the end of this stage) is a long escape into the bliss of the void (to me, this is the Temporary Bliss State of Stage 5), but the second half of this song is a return of the chaos, and it sounds to me like synapses getting fried and splitting apart. In the last song, Sudden Time Regression Into Isolation, the chaos is much worse and more violent than it has been up to this point, because the last memories and thoughts are being destroyed all at once. By the end of this stage, the person really has become a catatonic near vegetable, as there is very little brain activity left and as a result they can only spend time in the present. All memory (or means to access them) is gone. The end of this stage is peaceful and quiet, but not in the same way it was before. This time the silence is because the person's mind is destroyed and is transitioning to stage 6. But it isn't until the end of Stage 5 this happens. During the first half of this stage , the person is still very much aware, but just not able to express their confusion and terror or their needs in a coherent way. The reason why occasional moments of clarity and snippets of memory can still occur even in stage 6 (actually stage 7) is because there are still residual parts of the brain that may be unaffected, though no one really has a good explanation for the terminal lucidity phenomenon, which could be a function of the person's soul, rather than their mind. Or perhaps memories never really get destroyed at all, just the means by which the person can access them.

[@caretakerfanprojectsextend2454]

What an interesting comment. I hope this gets attention.

[@ortherner]

This makes it even scarier.

[@mUbase]

Terrified and unable to communicate I can understand. I had sepsis and went into septic shock in dec 2018. I had to be put into a coma and when i woke up after the frankly terrifying living dream that was actual septic cytokine induced delerium I didnt know where I was, the hospital staff were all "evil" and going to try to kill me and I couldnt talk, let alone walk, I was on a cathetere and hooked up to an NG tube so couldnt escape which I desperately wanted to do. . It took 8 weeks to get through it. Absolutely terrifying. I feel for dementia suffererers in the state you so very accurately describe.

[@luckyotter623]

@@mUbase That sounds like absolute hell.

[@DZodiark10]

My grandpa had dementia. I was a teenager dealing with mental issues of my own at the time. When I saw him revert into the state of a child, I went from confused indifference to frustration. He was a navy SEAL. I couldn’t understand why he became so “pathetic”, he lashed out at people and yelled like a brat throwing a tantrum. Although I would sit beside him and hold his hand, I had no idea how to feel about him. To me, dementia was just memory loss, I didn’t understand why he was so difficult. He had already been a paranoid person in life, always afraid of people hurting him or his family, I can’t imagine what he was going through after the dementia. I wish I had known. Maybe if I had been more tender, it could have made him feel a little less afraid.

[@Fakan]

I know it's about dementia, but the series also makes me think of my own panic attacks, when they used to be at their worst: a subtle, gradual buildup of discomfort, unwelcome thoughts popping up that I dismiss, again and again as an invisible horror rises like a vibration inside of me, strengthening, strengthening, until the unwelcome thoughts come faster, faster, repeating, running away with themselves, impossible to shut out as my body shakes like an earthquake and the world becomes smaller but also impossibly huge with myself as the focal point, stronger and stronger until I collapse. I'm mostly better these days, but, like I said, that's what this series has made me think of.

[@b0ltun0]

that really works too and it makes sense to me as well

[@milesium-487]

@Cihan you must be a really supportive friend.

[@avosmash2121]

I have panic attacks too. I actually just fought off an encroaching small one that happened for barely no reason at all just now. This description really suits it and has actually made me feel better. Thank you.

[@milesium-487]

@Cihan I can tell you're under the age of 18. go back to binge-watching pkrussl's cringe videos or something.

[@jermfanaccount]

i have aspergers, and the beginning of stage 5 reminds me of overstimulation. its sounds combobulated, mashed up. all the sounds just mix in with eachother as your brain tries desperately to keep it together and to process everything without melting down. its pure terror for anyone on the spectrum to experience anything like this. its uncontrollable horror and it feels as though no one understands or cares when they ask about it. i like to think about it like... oo! innovation labs! if youve ever played it, youll know that it has a core and you can turn the fans off and watch it melt down and explode over time. think that your body is the facility, and your brain is the core. if it takes in too much heat then it begins to melt down, and you need something to cool it down before it explodes. if that fan doesnt turn on though, everything just goes out of control and its a spiral of destruction, but in your brain. its terrible.

[@ippy9269]

all moments of clarity,aka a moment where music is very hearable,in stage 5 3:56 - 4:25 ~ 6:00 - ~ 6:25 19:14 - 22:41 38:23,arguable as "very" clear 1:19:47

[@rainverrev2307]

That piano in 1:19:47 is probably the clearest part in EATEOT imo. Even stage 1 had a little distortion to the instruments.

[@argonize]

@@rainverrev2307 It's really beautiful too

[@nightshiftts]

Hi! I make video edits for your fav songs/movies and would appreciate any feedback i can get! ~ :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZS6mZRroZiFobM

[@kattman4605]

@@nightshiftts !!?? plz stop sneaking up on me. -_-

[@generationhome7005]

Ngl something like this would've been better for stage four, but in this insanity it's an empty bliss much appreciated.

[@MattyMMW]

This is horrific and makes me want to go cry in a corner

[@user-vb6gi7dh9b]

Good

[@dizzee6089]

Bad

[@b0ltun0]

same

[@herxinkys]

good, bad, same *KoMeNtS*

[@Batkhuyag1300]

@@herxinkys good,bad,same,koments hail satan

[@Walnut_Whip972]

Stage 5 Interesting Moments 0:00 voices 3:56 moment of clarity 1 5:58 moment of clarity 2 7:00 mockingbird sample 8:52 beginning of stage 4 9:04 temporary bliss state 9:27 WTF 9:38 post awareness confusions 2 11:33 OH NO 13:46 Similar to the end of stage 4 14:22 hell sirens 15:10 quiet internal rebellions 16:00 acceptance of confusion 16:49 An Empty Everywhere 18:22 trumpet drones 18:53 mournful camaraderie 19:14 mandolin solo 22:38 return of confusion 25:19 drifting time misplaced 26:09 false memory syndrome 38:24 all that follows is true 45:24 moment of clarity 3 50:14 mournful camaraderie 53:30 weird howling 58:00 heartaches

[@holyfeline715]

I'm adding this comment so i can find this later

[@watersofmarch4244]

"Trumpet Sound" is "All That Follows is True"

[@PartyRockerOG]

Thank you bro

[@osdwa]

18:53 is Grand Fantasia by Paul Whiteman, not Mournful Camraderie

[@fwutig1121]

‘WTF’ always sounded like a whale to me

[@signbear999]

1:19:47. The last fragment of a memory in this person's life. This moment is where the mind is emptied of all it contains... except for this memory. Like a vacuum cleaner being emptied into the trash can. It now sits hollow and dusty. 1:20:04. The memory is played again. Weaker, but still recognizable. It is slipping away. 1:20:09. The final memory is sinking deeper into the unforgiving abyss. There is nothing that can be done. 1:20:14. A few futile grasps are made at the only souvenir left from the days of sentience. The memory cannot be rescued. It is finished. ---------------------- Dementia has done its work. The sun is setting in this victim's life. And the moon of death shall take its place.

[@dill5315]

Wow, thats heavy

[@Dummys_Revenger1]

yeah why don't you become a poet

[@theepicjack0543]

You can hear it faintly at 6:49

[@ludicrousfalcon413]

And to think there's still all of stage 6 after this

[@Kellogster_Music]

...

[@izyccor]

3:56 this reminded me abt a bbc report abt a azhimers elderly lady that was a ballerina when she was younger; she looked very absent, but at soon as she listed to classical music, she remembered the moves from the dance.

[@ThePandemonium]

50:14 WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS MOMENT!?!?! IT SOUNDS LIKE HEARTACHES IS DROWNING

[@blase1856]

Yeah

[@lubomirkubasdQw4w9WgXcQ]

probably because there are many more interesting moments

[@DripYoshi]

it prolly is…

[@thecarebear2360]

It's crazy how clearly you can hear heartaches in 50:14

[@MOTHERFUX1113]

It’s quite short

[@blendyboi5023]

Just one?

[@pietroverardi]

Heartaches but you are testing the limits of the reverb effect

[@ortherner]

yea

[@SillyLittleHobo]

You can hear mournful camaraderie very very very clearly

[@ohseespolice7419]

I love how this stage is going from ear shredding harsh noise to pleasant silent ambient, as if the patient comes to terms of the fact his mind is slowly decaying and he doesn't resist. He doesn't care about it. He lost his ability to care and resist. And this is disturbing.

[@ratewcropolix]

the patient doesn't even know that his mind is decaying tho :v

[@hattyhattington3381]

Part of the tragedy is that often times the patient doesn't know that they are forgetting. Times like at 3:56 are the only forms of realization that they are forgetting everything, but that realization is also forgotten and you go back into the nothingness that is a person with no memory.

[@thewretchedpleb7484]

My grandmother couldn't tell what was going on when her memories started to degrade more sharply. She forgot pretty much everything about herself, best I could tell. Didn't even recognize my mom, let alone the rest of us. In her case there was a sort of twisted regression where her mind became more childlike. You could see some of what she was feeling in her face, day to day. Bewilderment at times, resentment at others, often sadness. Eventually it was like being around a kid somewhat. It was like she didn't even have a chance to come to terms with what was happening, or if she did then that memory disappeared shortly after. Only to be consigned afterward to complete erasure. The childlike element of it was particularly frightening to watch for me. For her, I dare speculate it was very much a personal hell.

[@mUbase]

@@hattyhattington3381 When you still know what you dont know is when its most frightening. When you dont know what you dont know you have less of a problem.

[@droptherapy2085]

@@hattyhattington3381 I imagine it's kind of like every time my grandma was somehow reminded of her alzheimer's in the later stages and she went on an "of course, my mom had it, my brother had it..." kind of thing for a little bit

[@argonize]

3:56, 5:58, 19:32, if you want to hear a "peaceful" part. The voice is here 19:14 (btw if you're wondering what it says it's saying 'This selection will be a mandolin solo by Mr James Fitzgerald'. 7:00 is when you can hear the Mocking Bird sample. And this is when it gets even more haunting 1:06:12. Here is when it turns to white noise 1:20:00. This is one of the best parts in this series too 1:19:47. 14:22 is where the hell sirens can be heard in this stage. If I find anything else then I'll edit this to include that, or you could put a time stamp in the replies. Thx

[@argonize]

@benali Piano

[@sarahgaming666]

@@argonize Piano

[@argonize]

@Sándor Tóth owo

[@argonize]

@Sándor Tóth I added to it

[@Pumpkin2008]

The organ at 5:58 might be from this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGe9nGV6hbaMkKc 25 seconds in

[@evolution0fself]

The first stage makes me think of a kind of naive celebration of the old. All of the songs are looping, joyful and catchy. The deterioration of the rhythms and clarity of the instruments in this stage make me think of a realisation that by glorifying times past for so long we’ve lost touch with a present. Rather than looking to create something new we just pick and choose from what has already been and create pastiches. It’s almost as if stage 5 is the first stage after understanding that the future is over

[@surreal9583]

I think it could even be that this is all thats left: distant, distorted memories a patient will cling to as thats all that makes sense. but it only worsens the confusion

[@dogf421]

i feel like in stage 5 the past is also over, everything is just the now and you cant tell the past and the present apart

[@Randomguy-sn1yz]

Synapse retrogenesis refers to the person going back to an infant like state.

[@ortherner]

I think in Stage 5 You forget everything, but you also don’t know what the future is. Your stuck in the present.

[@Rokiotop900]

40:05 At this start the complete and absolute death of brain. That lapses of white noise are so fucking scary and terrifyng

[@kosmonavt3996]

I think i can hear C1 - A losing battle is raging

[@San-ln7sp]

@@kosmonavt3996 a losing battle is raging is used only once, in c1

[@scaryjam8026]

it’s so sad how the names of songs turn into blocked out phases. comprehensible situations and days turn into blocks of time that mean nothing. all the memories are gone. everything is gone. they are nothing and no one. the only thing left is the inside of their blank mind. the grey fog.

[@progect3548]

That’s post awareness for ya. Although in stage 6, there are actual names.

[@moobethemly7865]

To the point no memorys even in there

[@alb6404]

This is a diagnosis, not a song name, someone else is making these titles, the patient cannot think for themself

[@ortherner]

I believe in Stage 4 and 5, The Patient is actually still “alive” in a sense, but they are so unimaginably confused and can’t comprehend anything going on, they just spit out garbled mess, and do crazy actions, but occasionally speak normal sentences and even have moments of lucidity where they remember a little bit, before going back into the confusing abyss. I believe Stage 6 is when the patient truly “dies”, when confusion is replaced by a empty hallow, shell, devoid of soul. When that happens, all that’s left is actual death, and a rare chance of terminal lucidity (which does happen at the end of Stage 6).

[@teddydog6229]

There’s definitely something morbid about hearing sounds through the same ears as someone in the final stages of Alzheimer’s or advanced dementia. Unfortunately the only way any of us will discover how close the Caretaker approximates it is to arrive at that state ourselves. It’s also pretty distressing to realize people most of us have known and loved were lost in this bedlam. But just like any rubbernecker at the site of a car crash I can’t look away. I await the final installment with equal parts anticipation and dread. Who knows. It may be as tranquil as a flatline beep.

[@brandonthesteele]

I don't think this is literally what people with dementia/Alzheimer's hear, I don't think this is "through their ears". This whole series is more abstract than that. It's more of a metaphor about the smeared and increasingly disorganized mind state of those with the condition. Which is a lot more worse and morbid.

[@TECfan1]

This is not what they hear, but rather it's a musical representation of what their life becomes. Think of it like the Stage 1 was the way we are normally able to hear music and that is symbolizing how people are able to live life normally, and this stage is completely distorted and unrecognizable and hard to listen to and it symbolizes what their lives becomes.

[@Runar.R]

@@brandonthesteele this sound reminded me of my acid trip. All my senses were a soup of disorganised mess and I felt like my ego or self was being gradually deleted. Terrible dreadful feeling of losing my sanity.

[@teddydog6229]

@@TECfan1 I work at a Senior Living community (not meant as a 'so I know more than you' type of brag. Just so you know where I'm coming from) and several residents are well between Stages 4 and 6. What I'm wondering is what sounds do penetrate the fog when it's old familiar big band music. In a way it's like some of the more extreme Jamaican dub. Sounds that should be there vanish and sounds generated by their minds explode with shrieking intrusions. This is an album of multiple intentions but my first impression - apart from grief bordering on despair - did make me think of King Tubby or Lee Perry gone utterly mad. It's meaning can be discussed endlessly but I do feel this is one of the best most powerful pieces of music I've ever heard. A dark jewel indeed.

[@TECfan1]

@@teddydog6229 What I mean is that those that suffer with alzheimer's don't hear music as protrayed in this album. This is meant to symbolize their terror through art. Its an allegory. But this music isn't actually what they hear. My great aunt suffered from alzheimer's and music was one of her saving graces. She would smile and relax whenever her favorite songs from her youth were played.

[@nathanielhanlon6444]

3:56 Ah... I can remember again. So, I wasn't in dementia. I'm just an old man, naturally losing his memory. Haha! That's g...gh... whhat was the word a... ...

[@dumbdannia6326]

Who read the text at the same rhythm/instrumental of that part

[@fxllenk1ngf4n]

I just vibed to the first 3 stages and then was interested while listening to the last 3 stages Should I seek medical help

[@JustAzer1]

@@fxllenk1ngf4n no you’re fine.

[@enostheforthewin6191]

This album is a joke like that lol 😂

[@dumbdannia6326]

@@fxllenk1ngf4n no is fine lol

[@ZimMan26]

This stage is decidedly more distorted throughout than the last. In a strange way it makes it easier to listen to than stage 4. I guess that’s all part of the downward slope. The sadness of stage 4 comes from knowing you’re on you way down as you can still see the horizon. Stage 5 comes with an acceptance of the confusion which is very surprising to say the least. In a way it’s almost a return to the bliss of the early stages. The hardest part was crossing the threshold but now we are well beyond that.

[@donnaquixote7538]

Yup. I found Stage 4 perhaps the most difficult to listen to because of the static sounds and sudden louder and quieter sounds. Stage 5 starts sounding more like ambient mush that you sort of grow accustomed to.

[@Pinkus_]

That's my big brother! Always serious... You're really serious Who are you?

[@arandomsupra]

One thing I noticed is how in stage 3 when the distortions and stuff got really bad, it was hard to listen to. I hated the looping and repitition. When the post awareness stages hit, the distortions were scary, but they started to affect me less. Its so distorted and unrecognizable that there isnt any music to try to recognise, just noise.

[@bensfractals43]

i found stage 6 hardest there's just basically nothing

[@graciouslump9695]

14:22 listen closely and you can hear the EEEEEEEEEEAHURRHHH of stage 4s infamous hell sirens

[@acompletelynormalbobsimp8468]

Famous*

[@graciouslump9695]

infamous

[@acompletelynormalbobsimp8468]

@@graciouslump9695 welp, the Hell Sirens is the most-known section in the Post-Awareness Stages lmao

[@graciouslump9695]

@@acompletelynormalbobsimp8468 for being pretty unsettling compared to the rest, infamous because famous for being unsettling/scary

[@solarean]

@@acompletelynormalbobsimp8468 you don’t even know what infamous means

[@anthonytyler6558]

Listened to this while going for a walk at night. I don't think I've ever been that terrified before. Shadows all of a sudden began to dance around and I had an almost hyper paranoia about my surroundings. Wow. Just wow

[@datguy9408]

That reminds me of taking LSD.

[@jambyr2579]

Why would you do that to your self?

[@AtlasFox_]

I'm not a person to be scared much by ghosts or anything like that, but my god was it terrifying listening to this whole thing at 2 am. I felt like I saw shadows in the corner of my eyes trying to jump at me and I'd constantly look around the room.

[@villainjohn]

You can also play this music in a haunted house

[@lcdream4213]

why tf would anyone listen to hell sirens at night

[@ondinaskye7773]

What makes this more horrifying is that some people commenting here will probably eventually get dementia, and none of us will ever know who.

[@felton6786]

Yeah

[@Hat-Kid]

It could be me, my family has a certain gene that gives me a very high risk of alzheimers.

[@vas-poenitentiae-08]

@@Hat-Kid but it’s possible to reduce the risk of it

[@Hat-Kid]

@@vas-poenitentiae-08 true true

[@tungsten_no74]

Me too as my great grandma has Alzheimer’s and my great great grandpa died of it too but my grandpa died of lung cancer

[@Vistalgia]

Work. Work. Work. Work. Jack. Boy. Dull. Dull. Dull. I don't think at this stage, even full sentences would be formed due to the dementia that this song is emulating. It's so horrifying, yet sad.

[@FixVeronica]

yea it would be like "Hey do you wanna get the ha ha ha then you how do you?"

[@vibrantgleam]

@@FixVeronica This is just sad to see, my grandma suffered from Alzhimer's too and just imagining suffering from it just feels so heartbreaking. And also the way sentences start to become tangled and deformed is just terrifying. At this state, the paitent's brain is rotting. :(

[@San-ln7sp]

Jack. Makes. A. Play. Dull.

[@Idiotic_B_Purcell]

@@San-ln7sp That honestly sounds like the name of some novel or old 30's cartoon tbh

[@hearmth6618]

Jack boy work play dull all and

[@yitivitzen5239]

18:22 Not gonna lie, this part is really soothing

[@Autism__Together]

STAGE 5 HELL SIRENS FOUND

[@auroralennon1237]

This album is just so mentally exhausting to hear it makes everything seem to hurt and makes me feel like I can't breath. Damn, what a ride

[@lominse]

Not really lmao

[@auroralennon1237]

@@lominse depends on the person I guess

[@delishmilk8938]

I agree tbh. It's genuinely painful to listen to.

[@Pazinfinity94]

gorg floyd

[@cometcal7387]

@@Pazinfinity94 danld dnakfm idanlf turomp tirk itrmp

[@aquamidideluxe5079]

40:18 That static churning noise that becomes increasingly audible is so terrifying...it's like the sound of your memories being erased. Genius to make it go at that consistent pace too, makes it even more maddening.

[@ieatpizza5375]

Yeah that noise also takes place in Stage 4 and its annoying for me cos im tryna listen to the tunes which can be heard for a distance

[@donovanmahan2901]

It's like a bad write head scraping against a hard drive, destroying whatever it was on top of.

[@fxllenk1ngf4n]

Who else hears J1’s relaxing part there

[@MOTHERFUX1113]

40:21 I hear sudden time regression into isolation 1:06:19

[@mlgsmurb8266]

It's the slowed down static of a track named "Sebald," pulled from a previous Caretaker album made back in 2012

[@bullcheese2236]

You can feel how much the protagonist is trying to remember "Heartaches", this album is brutal

[@DanielRobertoCastro]

50:14 its when he finally remembers it, but... He forgot it again.

[@hearmth6618]

@@DanielRobertoCastro Ooh, he's trying!

[@FlamingGrenade]

yeah, I heard it 3 times in this stage so far

[@fainted9675]

Holy shit

[@Antiedison6]

I don't think he is trying to remember at this point

[@ghoulish6125]

It's the clinging that gets to me. Those pockets of something half recognizable, some semblance of a nostalgic light that you hear poking out. You want it to stay, that fading corona of miniscule bliss, but it won't and you know it. This album is trending towards apocalyptic and I shudder to think what awaits us at stage 6. I'm truly impressed by it all. What a ride.

[@progect3548]

I mean I heard a fragment of fpu (friends past reunited at 49:13

[@ortherner]

**insert unfunny coronavirus joke here**

[@Miaspeccer]

Ghynorb

[@hearmth6618]

What await us at stage 6 is without description.

[@kamilslup7743]

Stage 6 is just a mess

[@AuroraBorealis2006]

Stage 5: The subject starts to forget family member's names, has difficulty speaking and communicating, and has bladder problems. What may seem familiar could be something new. When Stage 5 starts it's very similar to Stage 4, but as it goes on it calms down. By the end, there's barely anything going on, maybe at this point, there's very little activity going on in the brain. There are times when the ballroom music comes back, but they're few and far between. You may have gotten used to the sea of incomprehensible blurs. Stage 5 is the last stage with much of anything going on before it becomes mostly white noise and ambiance. What's terrifying about this is like what's scary about Stage 4, you can no longer understand what's going on.

[@Tekstar85]

Lol no, forgetting family names was waaaay back at the end of stage 3. This is literally the subject forgetting how to speak and move

[@AtemiRaven]

I feel like this stage has more moments of calm however. Like the victim is forgetting how to even be scared or anxious anymore and just fading into their own wave of unintelligible thought. Though equally so the horror points are definitely more pronounced and usually pull the rub out quick on the calm spots.

[@Tekstar85]

@@AtemiRaven Interesting

[@Thorin-MattfromGO]

9 times out of 10, a person with dementia won’t make it to this stage, they’ll have died during 3 or 4 due to heart failure or old age. Stage 6 is almost an impossibility. A person can’t die from dementia, they’ll die from something else first.

[@hezekiah8765]

@@Thorin-MattfromGO i think of stage 5 and 6 being very short, and not the same length of the other stages (which is probably about a year)

[@donnaquixote7538]

I think I recognised the walz Ramona in Sudden time regression into isolation. It was played faintly with a piano. 1:17:34

[@Jadeite427]

Can you provide a timestamp on L&J’s piano medley? I want to be able to verify this for my samples document.

[@Jadeite427]

Nvm you’re right!

[@follet173yearsago9]

It indeed use the walz Ramona (by Layton and Johnstone),now the night is over and the dawn come and on the edge of breakdown

[@bensfractals43]

Hello mr gradiations of arms length sample guy

[@donnaquixote7538]

@@bensfractals43 Hello, I'm more like a gal, though. 😏

[@airbusgames8288]

Stage 1: Daydream Stage 2: Must've forgotten, I'll remember next time. Stage 3: Your my mom? Stage 4: Last memories Stage 5: Endless singing Stage 6: Saying goodbye

[@RaiNIceDog]

😭😭

[@plutonium_238]

For me its like this Stage 1: Daydream Stage 2: Depression Stage 3: Denial Stage 4: Devastation Stage 5: Destroyed Stage 6: Death

[@tdimybeloved]

@@plutonium_238 You got my like

[@ortherner]

Stage 1: I feel like Something is wrong. Eh, must be me thinking things. Stage 2: Oh no, i’m going to forget everyone i love and i can’t do anything about it… Stage 3: Very Confused, but still Very Aware, up until the last few tracks. Stage 4: The Patient has forgotten pretty much everything about themselves, only a few breaks in clarity can bring any resemblance they were once that person. Stage 5: The Patient is now in a vegetative state, they need to be hooked up to a machine just to continue “living”. Sometimes clarity arrives to save them from the pain for a few moments, but then immediately the clarity burns out like a candle. Stage 6: There is nothing left, no evidence there was anything. All that remains, is death. Wait what is this? Did i wake up from a nightmare? Son! Brother! your here. Ugh, i’m weak, i’m just gonna sleep and take some rest.

[@fletchqc9900]

Heres my interpretation: Stage 1: daydreaming about the old days, melancholy. You're getting old, your days are counted. At the end of this stage, the patient comes to terms with this, acceptance. You will die in peace Stage 2: Denial. You thought you were going to die in peace, but something is... Wrong... Is it a disease? No, it can't be! Your loved ones are starting to notice you are deteriorating. "Stop saying such dumb things! I'm fine!" You say. But you know something is deeply wrong. This stage feels like grief. You've been hit with a terminal and horrible diagnosis. Stage 3: Dementia. This is where, medically, things stop being just mild cognitive impairments, and only start becoming dementia. Anger and mood swings are more frequent, but your old memory is still intact. You just can't concentrate, your train of thought is starting to get really strange, you don't remember what you had for breakfast, and you will never remember. It feels like acceptance, but really it's just dementia taking its toll. This stage is uncomfortable. Something is deeply wrong. But it only feels very uncomfortable. Stage 4: Destruction. This is where the destruction begins, but only begins. You still remember the name of the ones close to you, but you don't know what season it is, what's your address, what's your phone number, what school you attended. You start forgetting where you are. This is where confusions begin. You're still you, you can sill talk, but only in brief sentences. You can't bathe or dress. Stage 5: Delusions. This is where delusions and psychosis become very frequent. You cannot communicate very well. You don't know who you are, where you are, who this is, but you know that you're you, you know that you're here, you know that this person is very dear to you. Is this my mom? My sister? My daughter? My wife? You don't know, but you know you love her. Beer? Good! I love beer. Well, you can't think the words "i love beer", but when offered beer, you will accept in delight. At this stage, you will often wonder alone at night, walk seemingly aimlessly. In actuality, it's just to keep connection with reality, by doing at least something. Stage 6: Death. You cannot do anything anymore. You can't even walk to try and feel something. Your vocabulary is very limited, "yes, no, ouch". The only thing that remains? Your love of this music, your love of spaghetti. You will feel reassured by the presence of someone, but you can't even tell you feel reassured at this point. It just feels better. Where am I? Who are you? You don't ask yourself those questions anymore.

[@Wawawuwa]

The only timestamps you'll ever need 0:00: not mandolin solo 19:11: mandolin solo aka the best part of stage 5 22:36: sadness because mandolin solo ended.

[@TunaminV1]

New Discovery: The second song of this album is basically G1, but more static and deterioration. The left earbud is your consciousness, but in a worse state than G1. The right earbud is the confusion, growing ever more dominant than it was in G1.

[@meleepinata]

All you can remember is being confused but not even knowing what about anymore.

[@Miaspeccer]

Snohpyblu

[@TunaminV1]

I was real invested in stuff like this before September 2020.

[@dogf421]

nothing has ever made me jump harder than the transition from the relitively peaceful end of stage 4 to the chaos at the start of stage 5. i actually cried a little cause it got me that bad

[@patches3432]

Yea that one got me too the first time I heard it

[@thecarebear2360]

Those long trumpety sounding drones at 18:22 are one of my favorite parts of the entire series. It feels like you know that there is no coming back and you have to do it all alone with no one to help. Imo it's one of the last times you actually "feel" something in EATEOT and it's amazing.

[@blendyboi5023]

Acceptance?

[@urnix69]

It's my boi, the carebear

[@tCoL_corp]

whats the sample?

[@thecarebear2360]

@George Harrison woah I can't believe a beatle listened to EITBON I'm honored lmao

[@CTstardust]

@@tCoL_corp Pretty sure it’s grand Fantasia by Paul Whiteman

[@HowardSalinger]

Does anyone hear fragments of voices peripherally in the first track, or something that sounds like the fabric of voices? The fact it’s probably just mishearing an instrument since there have been no vocals up until now is super jarring.

[@maitablanco726]

Yes.

[@SirMorganD]

Now that you mentioned it, I could really hesr what they were saying, I just asumed it was voices

[@progect3548]

Eh kinda

[@Wickebein9]

I even hear some laughs in 7:20, man and women laughs, and some indistinguishable voices, but there’s definitely voices in there

[@piggyman-st8iu]

There is an actual voice somewhere in this stage that says something along the lines of "And now, a mandolin solo by...", naturally followed, of course, by a mandolin solo from hell.

[@kingcreeper298]

my earbuds messed up, making this 10x more terrifying, I could only hear it through my left ear, and every half second the audio cut out

[@xdakronikmanx9384]

stage 1;📰 stage 2; 🥀 stage 3; 🌴 stage 4; 🗣 stage 5; 🗽 stage 6; 📙

[@graceanderson8731]

And I thought that stage four was distorted... It is simply amazing how each album succeeds in out-doing the one before it. What began as cheerful nostalgia has now devolved in to a crumpled memory of a memory of an outdated tune. This still makes me curious as to what stage six will be like...complete silence? Random pops of static? I suppose we will have plenty of time to theorize over the next year and a half.

[@graceanderson8731]

Oh gosh, you're right... haha, sorry.

[@Samrojas0]

@@graceanderson8731 I guess you know now, Stage 6 is breathtaking, what a finale

[@youtubeisevil]

You predicted it.

[@maglev957]

It ended up being emptier than silence

[@ortherner]

it’s silence

[@jakehill5965]

This was the first stage I ended up listening to at night. I immediately regretted that decision. Although despite it truly terrifying me down to the core, I still find it somehow less disturbing than stage 4. It just feels somehow calming after sitting through the hellish ambience of stage 4

[@restfulflames9855]

I finished stage 4 at night and saved stage 5 for the next day, god stage 4 is an absolute nightmare

[@restfulflames9855]

I never skipped, but I remember thibking PLEASE GOD MOMENTARY BLISS I NEED YOU

[@meleepinata]

4 is a monster.

[@checkYVELLUAP]

what the hell

[@ratewcropolix]

i think everyone feels the same way about stage 4 being worse than 5

[@friendlyap8134]

1:19:48 This part is so subtle yet the saddest part of stage 5. This 4 second tune is the final clear memory before the mist fully engulfs your brain and you lose everything. I mean, the terminal lucidity part in stage 6 is actually the final moment of clarity, but this is part is the last thing you remember without the help of terminal lucidity. And some dementia patients don't experience terminal lucidity, so this could be the last memory for them.

[@thegamingfamily4344]

Also occasionally in stage 6 you will hear some notes and that's it.

[@ortherner]

ya…

[@San-ln7sp]

Whats the sample? Its so brief but beautiful

[@thegamingfamily4344]

@@San-ln7sp The Great Hidden Sea of the Unconscious

[@devlinorsomething854]

the sad thing is, you can hear it replaying until it finally disappears.

[@vik8126]

Whenever the calm moment happened. Everything before then was chaos, you were no longer remembering fond memories. You were remembering what you saw on TV whenever you ate your breakfast this morning, and even that's a haze. Then, you remember something nice. You're holding your closest companion at night, in eachothers arms. It goes away, never to be seen again. You try to remember it again, but it's no more. You can only see it in the distance, slowly getting further. I cried.

[@nickmelucci]

I fell asleep listening to this on a loop and woke up from a terrible nightmare 3 hours later...anyone surprised?

[@user-vb6gi7dh9b]

No

[@demp8665]

Nope

[@checkYVELLUAP]

no

[@scrap8124]

not in the slightest

[@datguy9408]

I remember waking up before this stage happened, I’m glad but disappointed that happened.

[@Welcometotheslam5424]

14:22 This section is actually the hell sirens, but extremely distorted. At this point, even the sirens of hell are being erased.

[@urnix69]

It gets to a point where "Hell Sirens" isn't even important or even the scariest part of it all, it's only additional noise to the sheer horrific distortions of stage 5.

[@VALIANTIVY]

This album art... I can't figure it out. And that's why it's GENIUS

[@ratewcropolix]

it slightly resembles a woman in a dress walking up the stairs but if she was made from an explosion

[@VALIANTIVY]

@Poozie not the album content, the album cover. like the picture shown here

[@cendyywarlos]

@@VALIANTIVY Take a look at the album art for his other piece "Take care. It's a desert out there". This seems to be a version of that same cover, albeit lacking large swaths of detail, a very out-of-place and disoriented facsimile of it.

[@finden3362]

If you look at another paintings of Ivan Seal, you can see some woman figures holding a hand fan, the thing in Stage 5 is a human, it have a hand and a leg, a young 1900s styled adult woman. The thing in stage 5 is just one of Ivan Seal figures, but very distorted. The baillerina Tutu is actually a hand fan, very disproportinal and amalgamated in the sculpture. That probaly means that the patient probaly is a old woman thinking she is about 20/30 years old by result of dementia.

[@polterboi5041]

I remember the name of that abstract piece of art... I saw it in a comment... Eptitranxisticemestioncers descending

[@bubcentral23]

Blue vinyl ordered. My father died of dementia, a great way to experience what he must have.

[@phylippezimmermannpaquin2062]

thats an incredibly metal comment. sorry for your loss

[@metatron7515]

my condolences

[@AdvancedSoul]

I'm just a stranger but sorry for your loss

[@flngodingo9647]

I wish you peace in difficult times.

[@Thorin-MattfromGO]

Don’t know why anyone one would listen to this on a vinyl, to each his own I guess. I wish stage 1 or an empty bliss beyond this world were still available on vinyl. I too lost a relative to Alzheimer’s.

[@follet173yearsago9]

At 8:52 you can hear the beginning of stage 4 At 9:04 you can hear temporary bliss state a bit At 9:38 you can start to hear post awereness confusion 2 At 14:22 you can hear the hell sirens also from post awareness confusion 2 At 15:10 you can start to hear quiet internal rebellions a bit 19:14 ‘’this selection will be a mandolin solo by mr James Fitzgerald’’

[@whatthehell7859]

True

[@HobbesandCalvinFan]

I think it's crazy that a piece of stage 4 could be recognized in this mess. Ain't that something!

[@follet173yearsago9]

@@HobbesandCalvinFan i know! But actually a LOT of the parts in stage 4 are used in stage 5

[@exeterishere6928]

He's forgetting that he's even forgetting holy shit

[@follet173yearsago9]

@@exeterishere6928 A confusion so thick you forget forgetting

[@lostuser1094]

This is beyond what I imagined six would be... amazing work.

[@Freakyros]

Except it's 5.

[@Arsenico971]

@@FreakyrosSo what? He still thinks this is more extreme than he was expecting even part 6 to be.

[@MeMeMcsplosion]

@i change my pfp constantly ok but nobody said this was part 6

[@nicetry69420]

@@MeMeMcsplosion poor bastard still thinks he's on stage 5... He's forgotten forgetting

[@MelodiesFromTheStars]

@@Freakyros he means medical stage 6

[@Electro7596]

1:19:47 The last brief moment of bliss

[@theturnc0at]

1:20:10

[@seraphimsans191]

1:20:14

[@quadkanix]

19:14 major boards of canada vibes

[@b0ltun0]

i had the exact same thought DAMN

[@annagraham]

this whole series so far reminds me of what it must be like visiting someone in a nursing home as they begin to mentally fade further and further away from you as time goes on, and them recounting their experiences each time with less and less precision. i almost wonder if, in a not so distant future, there'll be some sort of way to record memories directly from the brain onto some sort of embedded microprocessor, in order to retrieve them later, perhaps by recalling the synaptic activity. of course, storing memories on a hard drive wouldn't cure dementia, but it could perhaps give some very real representation to the experience itself as the stages progress in (almost) real-time, much like these albums seem to be doing. incredible work on this production, as always. filled with wonder and dread regarding the final stage... 🖤

[@ford9505]

This is the stage that messed me up the most on my first listen. For one thing, the beginning startled the hell out of me, and the chaos just felt like the music was in pain. The distorted voices especially were unexpected. I started to feel genuinely sick at my stomach with dread but I was determined to listen through all 6 albums without pause. I tried painting to ease my nerves but couldn't focus on any subject so I just made smears of color with a palette knife, it really was like I couldn't think. I thought I would get bored and restless listening to 6 and a half hours straight but by Stage 4 I had periods of zoning out not registering how much time was really passing. I'm the type to get lost in a story and block everything else out, so these albums were... Really rough. Well done, Mr. Kirby.

[@hydrasmoon4488]

i would just like to say my thoughts on what i think the stage 5 album cover is. majority of people look at it literally but my analogy of this is that the stairs that are solid and sturdy are the caretakers life before the diagnosis and the second set of stairs is the caretakes lover and where it cuts of is where they are growing further apart. where the distortion starts is stage 2. it is where the patient is diagnosed with Alzheimer and there memory's are becoming more of a dream like state and the foundations are crumbling. the next part of the sculpture is stage 3 it is where the patient is trying to replay memories so they wont forget them this is shown by the lines separating different segments and these segments being repeated but with little differences in each one like how the memories are always slightly different. the human like part of the statue is representing stage 4. it looks like a person due to the caretakers experiences with there loved ones being lost in the sea of fog. the part of the sculpture that is connecting back to the second set of stairs represents the temporary bliss state. the temporary bliss state is just a song similar to the ones in stage 1 where it is liked to the lover. this is why the leg of the statue is connected to the second set of stairs which as i have previously stated represent the caretakers lover. the cloud like part symbolises stage 5. this is the stage where the patient is reduced to only the fine motor skills that are needed to survive. this is why there is not much going on in this segment other than looming fear of death that is upon them (this is why the statue is darkening). finally the cane of death (stage 6) theres nothing to see here.

[@annikamundy9619]

I don’t really like opening up but I’m gonna do it here because I feel I’ve gotten to the right stage and once I started scrolling after listening to hours of one common sad story, sharing with my mother (who expressed the anxiety it gave her, and that she didn’t need more of that) I knew I had to get some thoughts out of my head. I stumbled upon this piece of art on accident, and I’m glad I did. I’ve struggled mourning my grandfather who had come from the west coast years before to live with family as he got older. I never was as close with him as I wanted to be. He loved cars, old shows and movies of course, and putting together models to paint and display in his room. One of the best old guys who had so many stories to tell, but as I listen more, I learn maybe he couldn’t tell the stories. I think to myself maybe it was anxiety? Maybe I took my youth for granted, and didn’t truly appreciate it by spending time with someone who’s lost their own. Listening to their stories to learn wholesome morals or maybe learn something about a car, whatever it may be from their beautiful memory. No matter how organized and clear that memory is, it’s experience lived. The sooner the story is told, the clearer it will be. But that’s not the take away. The takeaway is the beauty and the polar horror of it. I love the contrast of the lively attitude that can be taken away from the earlier sounds, and the melancholy reminders heard in later moments through sudden moments of clarity. Those moments only then fade back into that static horror. I know I will cry more. Try to smile after?

[@annikamundy9619]

I feel goofy for writing this but I also feel safe in these comments for some reason. There’s a lot of emotion to be had in this series and I’m glad that The Caretaker put in the effort to create it

[@BaghNakh1]

I tried to open up on your comment and tried to pour all my thoughts regarding AD, my family and myself but I felt the thoughts were way too omminous/grim/dark so I just deleted most of the comment. I just can't handle the thought that my dad has a huge chance of getting AD since it's common on his side of the family and since I have chronic depression there is a huge chance I'm going towards that end myself (people with long lasting depression are usually big candidates to develop AD or some other form of dementia once they grow old).

[@Mrhibride]

It's okay to open up from time to time, surely I can say that I can relate to this comment more than ever, many times I have been silent about what I think or the opinions that I may have because I think they may sound stupid or something like that, and to some extent it becomes an unhealthy habit, I have already shared my experience in other videos of the album but I think I can one more time 😅 a few weeks ago I decided to finish watching bojack horseman which I had left until the fourth season, so I started to see it from the beginning to the end and it was a very good experience which left me a lot to think about and perhaps some way of reflecting on life, also taking into account other things that were happening in my personal life, I spent a couple of days like this when youtube recommended a video about the album and my curiosity got me, taking into account that I was not quite well, I decided to listen to a bit of the album and see more videos about of this and I went into a state of panic and perhaps stress for 3 days, until today I do not find the courage to see it fully but little by little it is ceasing to affect me, it also helped that I found someone with whom I can talk about these things without fear of feeling judged or something like that, that made me remember that we are not alone in this and we should not go through moments like this alone and as much as you and perhaps in an ironic way I have found security among all these comments, with different experiences from each other but that make us feel similar in some way, I hope you continue to get better and that at any bad moment you can find something that makes you feel better and helps you move forward, sorry if my english is bad, it's not my first language

[@kayleighwyatt8737]

Musical entropy.

[@charlottemartin2304]

When the caretaker finds you making fun of elders, then misplaces you in time as punishment, then calms down.

[@happygamer_18]

Unfortunately, your place in the world has already faded away.

[@_ScyIIa_]

This truly is the definition of terror. Fully aware of fighting against an unstoppable enemy, just waiting for it to arrive, slowly and with no mercy...

[@nicf1555]

am I wrong or is this the first stage with "vocals" in it?

[@dennyhamrick2552]

where at?

[@SpunkyMcGoo]

@@dennyhamrick2552 The distorted voices.

[@rats6136]

6:45 "Who are you!"

[@boxecomp1374]

I think I heard a few a stage ago in 4.

[@b0ltun0]

i feel that stage 4 also had some vocals in it, its just impossible to understand it

[@ortherner]

In this stage, you forget how to speak, how to move, and to an extent, how to think. You’ve long forgotten how to forget, but now, you’ve forgotten basic human functions.

[@alexanderbelyakov1964]

OMG I just found something new, don't know if anybody has pointed this out yet but on 26:09 you can hear a clear section of one of the older songs of The Caretaker, named False Memory Syndrome, it is from his album Persistent Repetition of Phrases that was released a very long time ago, in April 2008. So this means that the sample of False Memory Syndrome, aka Russian Rose by Joe Loss, should be included in the Everywhere at the end of time Full Samples used.

[@momyscokingmom4697]

you can hear it in stage 4 too!

[@alexanderbelyakov1964]

@@momyscokingmom4697 Really?! Could you write a time-stamp??

[@momyscokingmom4697]

@@alexanderbelyakov1964 at 6:31 into post awareness confusions 2

[@momyscokingmom4697]

@@alexanderbelyakov1964 its ALSO in stage 6 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqrLYYKfe8ySmJo 0:51 into this video

[@alexanderbelyakov1964]

@@momyscokingmom4697 It's really difficult to hear in Stage 4 but you're right! It's there!

[@clurgee4923]

okay but does anyone else think that the VERY beginning of stage 5 sounds like people wailing and crying?

[@splorgbaby]

Definitely, those distorted voices are so creepy.

[@Leo-rl7qi]

i hear: "was it a dream?" "Welp/Help" "a" "was it?-was?" "Don't!" "where im" "Don't!" (corrupted) "Wa" "whe" "where- im" "alone" "was it a dream..." "Wa" *more corrupted noices* *i hear so many voices that i give up* 3:54 A beatiful a beatifu-

[@cuentamudada389]

@@Leo-rl7qi i hear at the beginning "Era Three"

[@novisla]

0:24 rickroll

[@Foxy-eb9jf]

@@novisla *NO-*

[@dolewhip7195]

This is what remembering a dream feels like

[@caretakerfanprojectsextend2454]

You must have some truely dreadful dreams.

[@atouhoufan]

One of my dreams was peculiar. There was a mysterious shadow creature leading me up to some stairs speaking some fuzzy language. Since from that i dont remember anything, only this shadow creature. I still have to understand what it meant. Was it a warning? A sign? I can't understand it.

[@atouhoufan]

The shadow creature was completely dark (of course), and had white hands, if you wanna know what it looked like.

[@thecareneeded1873]

@@caretakerfanprojectsextend2454 lol

[@kamilslup7743]

@@atouhoufan damn that's some scary dreams Most of the ones i remember involve running

[@Niiiko895]

1:19:47 I picture this as the patient finally remembering one of their relative’s name, and shedding one last tear because of their unexpected remembrance, only to disappear, and now there’s nothing left of them, only now they are drowning in the sea of the unconscious without even knowing, their mind is all dried up…

[@jacksbackyardbbq4840]

18:23 these horns have always scared me, they just show how grim and intimidating stage 5 can get

[@anrylstudios]

what was i going to comment

[@Idras74]

no...

[@Kina1968]

Stage 7: All alone in the dark...

[@Dragonsica]

@@Kina1968 Stage 7: Death

[@user-sw1hd8yg6t]

@@Dragonsica Stage 7: Relief.

[@Yottifferent]

Stage 7: so this is the afterlife... huh Stage 7 is take care it’s a desert out there

[@luckyotter623]

Synapse retrogenesis: eerie and otherworldly, but oddly calming. The end is near, memories are nearly gone, and the nothingness (represented by the drone) embraces you as you sink back into your second infancy. This is my favorite track for this stage.

[@Meowmeow11721]

everybody is saying this album is morbid and terrifying at an existential level but i feel like if you look at it in a certain way it can be really peaceful especially during the second half of this stage, it's just about accepting the "insanity" and letting the static take you into a blissful utopia of unrecognizable noises

[@tCoL_corp]

aaawww

[@Honking_Goose]

The problem is you are lifted but straight into stage 6 into nothing you cannot find peace as you can't even think anymore

[@matheusayres5613]

The problem is that you not accept, you have no choice. Only fall into a void a accept this empty "peace"

[@Meowmeow11721]

@@Honking_Goose well see being incabable of thought is the most peaceful you can be

[@mlgsmurb8266]

Actually that's more Stage 4, a theme of giving up the fight, as memories leave you and you forget what you're fighting for. However, your subconscious fights on. Stage 5 is where your subconscious meets its end. Stage 5 has a theme of fighting a war that's already been lost, trying to salvage memories despite knowing they're all going to perish.

[@gamzee3610]

The vocals that I can some-what understand just creeps me out even more than having no words

[@tyussouthern1306]

Love how inventive and free-form this is, it's just constantly unfolding to the extent that what was just previously heard and what's to follow lose all meaning, you just have to sit in the present moment and let it happen.

[@symtransfers8596]

7:56 whistling starts 1:05:37 clarity in Too Many Eyes 1:06:33 slight break in the noise 1:08:11 tense moment followed by a break and then E6 1:13:16 panning and center piano comes in 1:17:55 everything cuts away except the piano and some stuff 1:19:47 the end of stage 5 style noise (with a clarity moment directly afterwards) 1:24:27 hello tucky playing

[@ganglians]

Listened while trying to sleep and got sleep paralysis

[@thehylian6984]

@Luis Gabriel Blanco Tuscano unkewl

[@lasagnalover1185]

My sleep paralyzes demon is the canvas from stage 6

[@Thorin-MattfromGO]

Lol

[@fxllenk1ngf4n]

Fell asleep in A1 Heart attack at K1

[@Eumanel12]

This would truthfully be a very big bruh moment

[@XPElite]

This is the most terrifying thing ive ever heard.

[@lyrensutz]

But it could be worse!

[@Arsenico971]

@@lyrensutz try Stalaggh.

[@ivenssiqueira]

Try "The Visitors", by Cyclobe.

[@kutah8523]

ELVAN DYLIS It will be worse.

[@geminiripper]

lol

[@SunSign]

19:14 ...

[@Zawmbbeh]

bare lucidity

[@b0ltun0]

this gives me strong boards of canada vibes

[@NOTequinox]

@Layne Krusz how do you know it says that?

[@NOTequinox]

@Layne Krusz thank you very much

[@johark]

"this selectioj will be a mandolin solo from robert james fitzgerald"

[@royps6687]

3:55 i can kinda hear something

[@panchikofan123]

its just them remembering something then forgetting it immediately

[@dragoncaretaker94]

6:00 I'm in love with the organs here 😭

[@aegisfate117]

I love the sweeping elusive emotives that continue for a measure or two into the chaos @ 4:12

[@finden3362]

The original sample of it was, probaly, found

[@dragoncaretaker94]

@@finden3362 do you know what the sample is?

[@finden3362]

@@dragoncaretaker94 i responded you two times but KZbin keeps removing my comment with the link

[@finden3362]

A user called Hyper Sleepyy very likely found it, it's called: Priere (Suite Gothique)

[@bensfractals43]

it's strange i never see anyone talking about 1:54 it's honestly one of the most alien segments of EATEOT. The harsh scraping, the beast like growling, it all really makes you wonder how kirby even made this with samples.

[@QuidProQuo999]

All "clarity" moments: Was it a dream?: 3:56 - 4:25 I'm following you: 5:49 - 6:22 Hell Sirens 1: 14:16 - 14:30 Lead up to Mandolin Solo ig?: 17:00 - 19:14 Mandolin Solo: 19:14 - 22:36 It Looks Like Rain In Cherry Blossom Lane: 38:24 and 38:45 Mournful Camaraderie: 50:14 - 50:18 Heartaches: 58:00 - 58:03 There's Too Many Eyes That Wanna Make Eyes at Two Pretty Eyes I Love: 1:05:42 - 1:05:54 My Ohio Home: 1:19:47 - 1:20:14

[@exeterishere6928]

1:00:21 mournful camaraderie

[@vinnytheplayer5500]

1:00:16 a note from libets delay

[@anemoia6]

you forgot many clarities.

[@andrewjoslyn9835]

This is what our grandkids will be listening to in the future.

[@TheCSJones]

This is what you'll be listening to when you have grandkids, but without headphones.

[@TheDigitalZero]

@@TheCSJones but without an electronic device.

[@TheCSJones]

@@TheDigitalZero Yeah, that was what I meant, I could've phrased it better.

[@ortherner]

@@TheCSJones i hope not

[@crwth001]

Wait what

[@MaximumRosemary]

Something weird I noticed is that in the description for this video, at the very end of the description for stage 5 it says "Time is often spent only in the moment." But in the full video for Everywhere At The End Of Time it says "Time is often spent only in the moment leading to isolation."

[@potato1907]

7:43 jesus christ that brief moment of And Heart Breaks. Barely a tune. but still recognizable

[@Leo-rl7qi]

in 7:18 you can hear what does matter how my heart breaks F4 for 1 second

[@hatsofiran]

26:44

[@Thorin-MattfromGO]

Revolution 9 by The Beatles taken to the next level!

[@gnalkhere]

number niiiiIIIIIIIIIIIIII

[@johark]

number nine numner nine numbmher nine nunnunrnemrn ninie UNNUNUMNEEBENRNEB ENINEI ...nn u.. rreeb...... niii

[@hezekiah8765]

The mandolin segment is so sad, it feels so bleak, its remembering very clearly but it sounds like it doesn't have the motivation

[@TMOR99]

The last song to stage 5 has to be my favorite part of the album. The bliss state, the fact that you can hear the noise transition from chaos to sounding like stage 6 makes it a chilling twenty minutes.

[@Gy0952]

With voices it's even more creepy... holy shit

[@Gy0952]

@George Harrison pfp?

[@Gy0952]

@George Harrison Ah, it's from a movie. Alice, by Svankmajer

[@HS-bs1pv]

I don't know if this is giving me a headache or the fact that I haven't eaten yet. Anyways can we go back to when it was 40's music?

[@fxllenk1ngf4n]

If you have a headache while listening to basically memory loss... that’s not good because you get headaches while experiencing memory loss itself

[@tilsgee]

@@fxllenk1ngf4n what

[@CubicApocalypse128]

You just finished your breakfast, remember?

[@thegrandatm1844]

Yeah I got a headache as well it hurts to listen I want to go back but there’s still 1 last stage

[@Lucy1606...]

Advanced Plaque Entanglements 1 0:00 K1 - Entanglements Beyond Confusions 3:56 K2 - Dream Between Nightmares 5:49 K3 - Glimpses of Weak Hope 9:25 K4 - Distant Help Beggings 13:47 K5 - A Blinding Fear 16:50 K6 - Escalating Despair 19:11 K7 - Unrecognizable Mind Advanced Plaque Entanglements 2 22:37 L1 - Advanced Plaque Entanglements 26:50 L2 - Sublime Beyond An Empty Decline 28:40 L3 - Heart Aching for Lost Pieces. 30:33 L4 - Temporary Drifting Synapse 34:57 L5 - Deafening Isolation 37:20 L6 - Chaotic Regressions 40:05 L7 - Inmeasurable Time Sypanse Retrogenesis 45:26 M1 - Glorious Retrogenesis 53:23 M2 - Synapse Malfunctions 56:20 M3 - Fading Recognitions of Reality 1:00:08 M4 - Everywhere, An empty Mind 1:03:00 M5 - A Damaging Battle is Lost Sudden Time Regression into Isolation 1:06:12 N1 - Sudden Time Regression into Isolation 1:11:10 N2 - Brief Mind Stopping 1:13:17 N3 - Great Hidden Sea... 1:17:57 N4 - A Silent Confusion 1:19:47 N5 - ...of The Unconscious Emptiness 1:20:17 N6 - A Mind So Empty You Wont Find Anything 1:23:54 N7 - Brutal Blindness

[@Exileduh]

woah cool

[@FastFoxx82]

Mind blowing, still trying to fully process this greatness

[@baron6541]

at 1:08 I hear a voice say "Follow Me"

[@pleasantblue555]

me too, it sounds like al bowwly (original sample creator of A1)

[@scelenenyx]

bruh i feel like i'm gonna have an anxiety attack every second i listen to this, i had finished the whole album a week ago and spent 6 hours listening with minimal breaks every stage, i still can't believe i finished all stages without losing my sanity.. this was the hardest to go through, this damn stage 5.. still creeps me tf out more so that i listened to this near midnight.. and finished stage 6 at 2am.. damn..

[@TonicSoul]

20 mins is enough for me. Beyond that i start seriously slipping away

[@breathewoody7035]

one of the scariest parts about this album, to me at least is that dementia is still very real. listening to this, i found myself surfacing myself by thinking, "oh well you won't have dementia yourself." however, there is nothing guaranteeing that i won't. there's also nothing guaranteeing that you won't either. in fact, it's very possible that someone commenting on this exact video will have dementia later in life.

[@ortherner]

yea

[@lordroy88]

It’s preventable though, and we could cure it too

[@crwth001]

@@lordroy88 how?

[@kamilslup7743]

@@lordroy88 it's preventable through a healthy lifestyle, but it isn't curable. And since the 1st of 7 stages of dementia has no symptoms, you never are truly sure if it's there or not

[@Bighead_Joe]

Man I remember at school back in 2020 my mom is the principal, so she let me play whatever song I wanted of the school speaker and I played this, got grounded for a month 😂

[@that1toad64]

Giga Chad.

[@crwth001]

lol

[@its_lucky252]

she should've specified more. L mom.

[@Bighead_Joe]

@@its_lucky252 yep

[@MrBlinky10101]

Most terrifying thing I've ever heard. Wow