The Psychology of Dreamcore Explained

[@katking9574]

love that i recognize the footage from The Librarian. www.youtube.com/@TheLibrarianYT

[@Jimmy-3294]

I was gonna say, that footage looked so familiar.

[@WHYISEVERYHANDLEALREADYTAKEN9]

Which video was it?

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

Dreamcore often plays with familiar objects or settings that are slightly altered or distorted. This can evoke the uncanny valley effect, where something is almost human-like or familiar but not quite right, leading to feelings of discomfort.

[@Liminality-Png]

Glad to see someone as interested and even making content for Liminal spaces/Weirdcore/Dreamcore etc. I can’t usually explain why I love these things. It’s not something I can just share with my friends or family either, I truly feel alone when it comes to enjoying these aesthetics but I’m glad to always see a community around it.

[@trmancad7060]

absolutely i can relate to that !!! (and A LOT)

[@Blu3b3rrymuffinn]

Me too!!

[@berniasd012]

felt the same, but what actually helped me was just askin questions, like "why" do i like this particular one? and kept asking why, and came to a short summary of what the dreamcores are, also studied media so that helped interpreting the data my precious little eyes recieved. And after a while I could explain it shortly and effectively to my friends and even raise interest in said genre.

[@imacookiedonotbiteme7906]

For some reason, I actually wish that the back rooms were real

[@Nextyxzc]

@@imacookiedonotbiteme7906thought i was the only one

[@aubreykimsel8747]

i love dreamcore its very fascinating

[@WEIRDpoi]

me 2 jadyn

[@Misfitslover]

Same

[@rolandopoz2620]

Same👁️‍🗨️

[@FallenAngel2881]

YOUR CORE

[@xFizz._.Here.]

Same

[@jander2684]

Dreamcore feels so calming and i just want to stay there forever

[@Weirdcore-kiddo307]

Same.

[@Strosvwys]

Be careful of what u wish for

[@robertbozic467]

I feel like I've been to many of these types of places when I was 3 years old...

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

Dreamcore can touch on existential questions about reality, identity, and perception. This can provoke anxiety or discomfort as it challenges our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

[@crantumcreature3949]

immediatly new favourite youtuber, i have FINALLY found a youtuber who makes well documented liminal space, weirdcore AND dreamcore videos, thank you so much!! Carry this on and ill bet you'll have over 50k in no time!!!

[@KyeOwlery]

These videos are so relaxing 💜 thanks for another great analysis

[@WEIRDpoi]

oooh i like that purple heart

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

Dreamcore can touch on existential questions

[@JustTwoSpaces]

The funny thing about dream core is that although the images seem familiar, I’ve never seen any of them in my dreams before

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

Cognitive Dissonance

[@MightyCaullie]

13:24 about this part on escapism, when I'm lucid dreaming I escape reality in terms of the boring logical and realistic landscape but I have one rule. I don't make people who are mundane to me IRL like me Because I need to remind myself that making them like me in my dream is a fantasy and nothing changes outside that, it's up to me to change reality by becoming more likeable and making them into REAL friends in REALITY

[@Misfitslover]

Is lucid dreaming dangerous? I want to try it and if or when I do, what would you recommend I do as a beginner?

[@MightyCaullie]

@@Misfitslover there are many techniques to doing it but it takes practice and different ways work for different people as far as I know Lucid dreaming isn't dangerous at all there's many tutorials out there that can help you as well :)

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

Many dreamcore visuals depict solitary figures or empty spaces, which can evoke feelings of isolation. This sense of loneliness can be unsettling, especially when combined with surreal or distorted elements.

[@Lanayrulian]

Love these videos man, especially your scripting! These aesthetics are some of my favorites to consume in media, so I'm always down for some amazing video essays on em

[@venusgxcha]

I have anxiety and I experience derealization, sometimes it’s wanted sometimes it’s horrifying especially in the morning. it’s less scary at night : updated I started taking my meds and I’m better it happens less often

[@intellibi4254]

What did you start taking? I have similar issues

[@venusgxcha]

I think it’s called celexa! It might not work for everyone tho

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

The juxtaposition of familiar and strange elements can create cognitive dissonance, where our brains struggle to reconcile conflicting information. This can lead to feelings of confusion and discomfort.

[@mad1s0n36]

I love these videos. This is how I got into Dreamcore and other aesthetics.

[@arowidck12]

Weirdcore portrayal of trauma is pretty accurate you summed it all pretty good. A simplistic area with parents arguing is pretty affective.

[@yaronlotta1126]

Dreamcore touches me personally deeply in my memories for a special and curious reason: when I was a little kid, I would use my mom's petite laptop every day after school classes spending hours in an old and maybe a bit forgotten program called Google SketchUp, which has a particular liminal appearance with that endless territory divided in a non tangible green ground and a massive grey white roof. Downloading 3D models of buildings of all kinds (parks, monuments, houses, etc) and also adding animals, humans and creatures with the purpose of creating my own scenarios where you could visit the Great Chinese Wall and then go to the Empire State, was one of my biggest joys back then. The feeling of solitude seeing all those models put together and floating in that dreamlike space amazed me in ways I just can't explain, and when I observe all these images and videos of non-existing places that look like my SketchUp worlds I'm taken back to those times when I was so happy with a simple design program I played as a game. ❤ Great video! Thanks for describing a bit of the psychology behind these precious aesthetics.

[@chimkenchef]

This video gave me a sense of satisfaction, its so hard explaining that super comforting isolation of dreamcore to someone, because im the only one whos so deeply into it, longing the feeling of wanting the vintage, comforting isolation, games with dreamcore or photos just dont help, i want to physically be there, live there, feel how it is, experience the comforting isolation that i want so badly, im the type of person who often gets lots of dreams with dreamcore photos and dreamcore aura, i mean a lot, and honestly, i hate waking up from them, it really does feel surreal, thank you so much for this. :)

[@Strike-t7l]

I feel the same way! As much as I love the games and pictures I want to really LIVE these weird worlds. I especially want to visit the poolrooms the most

[@chimkenchef]

@ omggg same tho!! I loveeee the poolroomssss💜💜💜

[@Strike-t7l]

@@chimkenchef If I ever become a billionaire I’m building an irl poolrooms 🤣

[@chimkenchef]

@ LMAOOO thats the best idea ever!! Im coming to visit😂😂😂

[@Strike-t7l]

@@chimkenchef you’ll be welcome anytime 👍

[@GalliumYttriumThespian]

Man, you have a very relaxing voice! Great video, dreamcore is possibly the *most* fascinating aesthetic imo!

[@sleepy_cat5005]

i’m doing a whole art project on surrealism in dream-core and this video really helped me put my ideas into words . it’s such a strange but comforting feeling but i think my generation (gen z) are among those who really understand what dream core has to offer

[@Swamp_Thing_4487]

These images are telling us: Come back to this place now, you need to be here now, your memory is telling you to escape what you have now and go back to a simple time as an escape from the stress and reality you live as an adult and come back to what you once knew where time wont exist and you will not have to stress about a thing and you can take your time here as much as you need

[@Backroomslord747]

I was caught in a dream like that,i lucid dream,this time I couldn’t,it was a scary feeling to be trapped in something like this

[@spookiloowee4773]

this art style is so incredibly beautiful to me. i cant pinpoint it in simple terms. the complexity of this analysis seems to do a better job than i ever could. thank you for this.

[@acherontia7417]

I love that you have put a song Deep Swim to the chapter about escapism. Whenever I hear this song I imagine myself jumping into the sea and swimming underwater on a hot summer day, not worrying about anything. It is so relaxing and comforting. My little escape.

[@c4binet_man]

You are so underrated! Let’s hope you manage to climb up the ranks of dream/Weirdcore

[@dreamxcoree]

it's weird but amazing how dreamcore can be so calming, nostalgic and happy but also unsettling and creepy

[@kanopaysano]

Personally I appreciate how well the topic discussed coheres to the video of gameplay on display, talking about these concepts that all make sense the more you go thru these liminal spaces...while I was listening, it's 3:00 AM and I caught myself looking at a wall that wasn't the right shape and just seeing it as "simply the architecture of this building" and somehow not "wow, that is not how walls look in a hotel, with a diagonal facing 90 degree in it, is that wall broken?" which is another part of the whole escapism of liminal spaces and dreamcore as a whole. We are all safe here, in a world that exists only as much as it doesn't exist.

[@crisiskode]

I think this stuff resonates with me especially because my whole life ive been a lucid dreamer and it only got stronger the older ive gotten. Almost all my dreams are lucid and have been for at least 10 years now. Growing up with a traumatizing childhood meant it was often the only place where i had any control in my life. Preferred to sleep than be awake a lot as a teen because it fulfilled whatever desires i had and its not like i would ever get in trouble because none of it is real. Seeing dream like aesthetics in detail just reminds me of the bittersweet memories of my escapism, theyre lonely but theyre not sad, only sad looking back on how i miss them. But i can visit my dreams anytime and anything ive seen in them. In a way the discordant look of it all is more comforting than the all too sensical reality which was often harsh and unforgiving. Not to mention i can back to a time and a place and do certain things again like play outside as a kid with friends so that also makes it rather nostalgic. All i wanted as a kid was control over my life and my body which often acted without me (impulse control issues) and now im an adult with no more issues with that besides working on medication for the impulse control and i can still lucid dream every day but i dont need it anymore as an escape so that part of it is also nostalgic since the coping mechanism side of it is lost pretty much forever due to me moving on. Its still there just like my memories and dreams and places ive visited but its no longer what it was.

[@유니버스스톱모션]

"ruin your sleep schedule" haha i like it

[@QSBraWQ]

I kinda dont like creatures in dreamcore. Just being in a world, alone. In an unfamiliar, lonely world gives peace.

[@TheRedMonke43]

same

[@QSBraWQ]

It hurts me to read my own thoughts from past. It really was how I was, it was what I dreamed of. It's so sad. The entire world felt exactly like what I described in this. But it also had obligations, things you have to do, rules to follow. That me was a really lonely person. I am not them now, now it's such a terrifying concept to me.

[@alexeialpaka]

Listening to this while cooking seems like listening to this while the hands are cooking

[@UnderVenturer]

I entered to dreamcore the “candyland“. First, I enter the roller coaster cake and I ride it, it so very fun but it's coming a dark in end but I remember my family and I back to my real life, I say dreamcore is a fun nightmare...

[@Justafayze]

I always have the weirdest liminal space dreams - it’s these super dark like minimalist esthetic dungeon rooms with LED lights.

[@Kitty_Dude]

a good example of dreamcore is Alice in Wonderland

[@queenieqt2033]

Reminds me of times long past. Far beyond my time. Yet feels so close.

[@tarabell2678]

"A source of comfort" *screaming in the background*

[@faelosopher]

You’re so real for the in video subtitles

[@swishasweetrold]

Love The Librarian his videos make me feel like he's touring my dreams. Nice to see his zid in the background.

[@sudsbuccheegee]

I just have to say, this script is beautifully written.

[@rbnmngl]

Whats the background song for 1:56 please?? It gives me fnaf music vibes

[@bikinik1lls]

It is Fnaf, its balloras music box

[@VultureXV]

My dreams must be anomalous. I usually find myself in places where the color palette is just... different. Sky is orange, plants are pink, fruit comes in a myriad of colors. Water is chromatic. Clouds are opalescent. I can shrink or grow to whatever size is needed, if i fall i just start flying because i never hit a "backwards". One time I got to explore a never ending parking garage where each floor had different stores. Another time I explored a castle that every door just led to another room in the castle and it just kept getting bigger. Like some cheerful, pastel white and red castle.

[@Blaypopz]

I actually have derealization and I love dreamcore. I love dreamcore bc it reminds me of being a young child and it’s comforting but also unsettling. Man how I wish I was young again.. anyways thx for this vid now I understand more

[@Charlie-sh6yj]

i had a dream about being in a mix of my house, and a 80's corrupt cop horror movie? i realised it was a dream and i got a horrible headache, simulated waking up, and went right back in, to a scene of what ever it was.

[@BionksSpy101]

Bro the intro song I listen to all the time The creator of the intro song:Xori Genre they make: weirdcore Dreamcore liminal nostalgic Song: Dreamin

[@Rox_mothonpaws]

0:09 yes, when bill cipher keeps asking to make a god damn deal with me in my dreams-

[@lukamegurine838]

Hmm...I guess this isn't quite what I expected. I've never seen myself in a dream, nor do I have unsettling feelings about such.

[@tulpamedia]

Great video man, I really enjoyed this. SUBBED!

[@ghostguy_x7085]

sometimes when I dream it feels like I know that I’m in control of what I’m doing

[@azumi182]

that is a lucid dream

[@Zombiefangirl84]

I love it! Ive definitely been to all of it in my dreams! Especially the pool rooms! Many times!

[@mellowanimations7237]

I really appriciate you using the librarians gmod vr videos edit: oh someone already did it

[@vapor-sings]

I love making weirdcore pictures, as it allows me to just tap into that part of my mind that can't be expressed with normal means

[@randomcommentator4140]

Dreamcore teriffies me, i can't think about dreamcore without feeling anxious, my dream (if i remember correctpy) is somewhat normal, nothing out of the ordinary, so whenever i see peoples dream and it being like this, felt teriffying to see

[@Messier42-handle]

i said this on another video but the images of dreamcore, especially backrooms level ones or open field ones give me the same kind of discomfort as looking at pictures from mars or venus or even the moon. "its so lonely out there" and "this isnt home" are two thoughts that i think cross between the two. not to mention some of them have a lack of scale, so that little bump in the ground could be 5 cm tall or 50km tall and you cant tell. i think dreamcore was probably what got me into space imagery as well.

[@SillyTruv]

Dream core is apart of the back rooms and so is weird core they all are connected in some way you can find this out on the back rooms wiki btw I have been with the back rooms since 2024

[@ValeriaGarciaRodriguez-r1o]

every time i watch these videos I feel the derealization, I love this type of content yet hate the feeling I get afterwards as if I'm the one being watched

[@literallynothinghere9089]

Yo pls tell me where the footage of home inside the skybox room at 8:33 is

[@KarasuuX]

It looks like a Half Life mod. Maybe even gmod. I’m trying to find out what exactly it is though

[@durskeeirumi]

Can you make a list of all the songs used in this video?

[@kargaroc386]

How many people *actually seriously* have dreams like these? With the insane wacky colors and completely utterly nonsensical objects? Because when I dream, the places I visit might not make sense in the big picture, but in the moment look fine. My dreams are more "liminal space pictures" and less "LSD Dream Emulator".

[@JeiPi-08]

I find dreamcore peaceful yet a bit scary at the same time

[@Thermelani]

good explanation you are fantastic now i understand dream core better thanks ..

[@user-tp5te9pi7c]

My sleep schedule is already as messed up as possible lol

[@elizabethafton4913]

Yo once I saw this very tall man in my room and he said he would take me home and offered me his hand but i didnt take it. Later I changed my mind but he wouldnt talk to me. I wanted to go home. I started watching dreamcore videos because they reminded me of home. I dont think this was normal. I think I was hallucinating. Anyways dreamcore is great.

[@DraGonXabLe1]

In the tangible of matter, we are confined. But in the intangible of mind, we are free.

[@Awalking_shenanagin]

OMG AS SOKN AS YOU WENT IN THE GAME I SCREAMED "PEPPERS PLAYHOUSE!"

[@Hipo-m5e]

Dream core make me feel chill

[@chinchinny9060]

3:14 what is this gameplay of? It looks super interesting

[@Darren_S]

It's the Portal 2 poolrooms map.

[@Gordonfreemanblckmesa]

I love the vr gmod liminal gallery footage

[@FLOWERGIRLFORVER]

I am more of a dreamcore than a weirdcore, but i am many others i just show dreamcore more than the others

[@BurningGrass]

May i ask what the game is in the background?

[@WEIRDpoi]

GMOD footage courtesy of The Librarian

[@CryBlueofZ]

Always forward, never back

[@nyxieNo.1]

Do you mind if I ask what the song was at 13:25

[@amac_000]

I’m gonna try to lucid dream tonight because I want to experience this stuff it’s been my dream to experience this for a long time

[@windyhead7960]

My dreams don't look like these at all.

[@neovink6922]

Dreamcore isn’t about being actual dreams, it’s named dreamcore to mimic the experiences of dreaming not the reality of dreaming. For example the way in which dreams constantly cut from location to location, place to place, in the dream it’s not disorienting as it’s your whole reality in the moment. However dreamcore mimics this disorientation to harken back to the idea of dreams through its landscapes, by utilising nostalgic imagery and distorting them into unrealistic surreal proportions they present a familiar yet unfamiliar visual that mimics that same sense of disorientation and confusion.

[@Justafayze]

The moment he said “derealization,” I knew we were spiraling into an existential banger-I remember everyday looking in the mirror and rerealizing we’re just a bunch of space monkeys with names/titles, everyone’s faces seem bizarre, and realizing titles and egos are fake. Like, wait…what even is baseball? Or…what am I?! Haha glad I finally snapped out of that habit loop….for now 😏

[@Misfitslover]

What games are you playing in the background?

[@Fnaf_Anime_Core]

I get derealization all the time.....like.....I'm watching everything happening....like I'm in control but not at the same time.....and then everythng i hear.....feels.....strange.....fake.....

[@BeetleAmasis]

The place of forever dreams (dreamcore)

[@KyleLowe-w7w]

Aye my sleep schedule is all over the place as it is,on night i go to bed at 7.50pm and another i sleep at 2am

[@WouldYouRatherLOL1]

When I used to dream,I knew how to wake up while dreaming by breathing in my real body now I don’t remember.

[@punishedfink]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the probable prime genitor to dream core. A game called receiver.

[@Legyfr]

Dreamcore beats anything ❤️

[@JatinkumarA-zk5sl]

I am new into this but I love it😇

[@Laylapinkie]

I have finally found out my dream core.

[@Rqeuest]

Unrelated, but 12:24 scared me so bad lmao

[@vapor-sings]

Shinji jumpscare

[@Cycy-gh2gq]

I know I am late to this video but I have questions about myself. So I HATE the dark and creepy dreamcore images but I LOVE the images including houses and clouds. Why is that!?

[@FiveNightsGamerZ]

“Sir this is a McDonald’s

[@KarasuuX]

What’s the VR game he’s showing during the self reflection part?

[@EllieOscar]

Dream core is just quite bizarre

[@CLOUDRAWZ]

12:22 a source of comfort-- AHHHH

[@Blue_the_kid]

1:09 what Roblox game is that?

[@TheddeBoi]

Bro i expience derealization so fúcking often its crazy

[@ennuii6]

Everyday for me

[@TheddeBoi]

@@ennuii6 Now 2 months after this comment, i also experience it everyday as well.

[@soggybucks]

Even a year later it never left me I guess

[@ItsProbablyFaces]

Love how got called a camerahead man in skibidi toilet when I was just cosplaying a random Dreamcore character- 💀

[@EricM-112]

Maybe its empty because people dont fantasize as much....😅

[@DogEye69]

0:51 Damn you didn't have to call me out

[@latenightlogic]

I tuned out when he was describing that dream around 2:17 and the video showed nothing like what was being described.

[@wrath444]

weirdcore is disturbing/unsettling and beautiful at the same time

[@DOPEMANE21]

0:00 whats the name of the song?

[@shadw4701]

Dreaming is highly underrated

[@RaenbowBlight]

Do you have a list of credits for what games the footage clips are from?

[@kuramels]

does anyone know the name of the first background song?

[@WEIRDpoi]

snow world

[@kuramels]

@@WEIRDpoi thanks !! love your content by the way :)

[@asdlom]

can I get a list of the songs used in this? especially in the selfreflection section

[@moucha128]

I love dreamcore and weirdcore. It's just my vibee.

[@urbanocebrian6610]

I always try to lucid dream on these places, but I have never experiences it, I always lucid dream on open spaces and start flying, I really want to dream on some poolroom, I love the backrooms

[@--.Kiki.--]

I always have weird dreams, most of them are with my mom or some people that dont exist or places that dont exist like yesterday i remember that i was with my mom in our "house" when my sister came and told us that theres supernova so we went to check out and it was true, we hid for some reason when there was 100% chance we will die but we didnt, i dont remember what happend later but im sometimes terrified but also calmed by those types of dreams idk why but in my dreams theres never my dad and he is pretty much alive so idk why he is never in my dreams- 😔