Thanks for not being a stupid creepypasta youtuber trying to over-dramatize this game! It's hard to watch literally any other video covering this game without cracking up about how the youtuber pretends everything has some "hidden meaning" or doing that weird low voice.
Ugh, I hated when this game surfaced a bit more, and many youtubers were making theories about s-assault and self-harm. It's just dreams, very weird ones. The game become even better when I read the booklet "lovely sweet dreams", with added more for the real lore.
If the player taps the circle button when coming face to face with the gunman he will fall down and allegedly die... (insert footage of a low poly figure slowly falling to the side)
@atarus4159 We know, he is talking about the fact that youtubers that comment on it always use that "creepy voice" as if they were talking about some murder, not a PS1 game.
Cannot agree more, it's so infuriating when someone sees something abstract and immediately go "uhm..... this is creepy???? NIGHTMARE FYOOL!!!" The same ignoramuses will label shit like Hylics and Yume Nikki as "disturbing" for being overtly strange and abstract.
@@icypk6190 Some of the stuff in Yume Nikki has stuck with me in a way I would personally call "disturbing". But not in an "aaaa spookeeee scary:(((" way, just sort of the same way I've had dreams that have left me unsettled and thoughtful - not scared. It's very effective art. But uh yeah a lot of people just mean "disturbing" as synonymous with "scary" and that's lame lol
One thing to add is that LSD dream emulator has always been relevant. I know it's all down to semantics but I believe it's been taking the internet by storm for well over a decade I believe? First in the gaming community and quickly spreading around the internet... That's at least how I remember it. Also it's "Sato", not "Seito" as Japanese doesn't have long or short vowels like English does.
Yeah I first heard of it in 2010 and at that time it was already a known thing among people who were really into weird Japanese indie games. Having a presence on youtube spread it to a larger audience, but there was a let's play I saw that, even back then, the guy was linking to scanned copies of the journal and maps and all sorts of other stuff. I just think it's really bizarre that this dude is reading off a wiki cobbled together with the combined knowledge of years of committed fan investigations and then turns around and says that an album cover featuring a literal screenshot of the game is somehow shocking that it references LSD because it's from "a few years ago." I mean even Vinny streamed this 7 years ago, and that's about as mainstream as you can get for weird games in what passes as some form of "monoculture" post-internet.
hi i'm the iceberg creator i realize this is LONG overdue but here's some corrections: 23:21 his let's play is one of few playthroughs that actually got to day 365, hence why i put it on there 33:37 this is a misconception i accidentally spread about the silent tracks in BMA, Natural World and the Violence District. the only actual "corrupted" track is the one you mentioned 39:06 this refers to the fact that normally you cannot run while strafing or going backwards, but by doing certain things like turning around with the shoulder buttons and then running can allow you to do that 44:24 the quality of this wiki FAR surpasses the Fandom wiki. a lot of deeper knowledge of the game is located here and it has cool overhead maps of every area 45:07 this isn't a theory, Sato stated it was true in the interview you mentioned earlier 46:24 the videos this is referring to are the flash videos that used to play on the official website 53:54 these are probably just a result of the game being mainly programming by one person. if it ever gets decompiled i would imagine the game is held together with duct tape ngl 55:08 we haven't torn open the game yet, the usage of the Timer variable is just an assumption based on the manual 1:04:02 this isn't an actual theory, it was just an early, really bad Fandom article 1:07:32 a lot of people keep getting this mixed up: yes, red is good in Japan, but someone on twitter mapped out the colors that correspond to positions on the dream graph and red is toward the bottom and green/blue/pink are at the top. this is implemented in LSD Revamped btw 1:11:48 this was so deep because a LOT of people i've met thought the spy could appear anytime. i've since moved it up though
LSD Dream Emulator is my favorite surreal game I've ever played. I remember back in late middle school I would play it on a online PlayStation emulator on my school computer, and would see how many days in I could get during one free period. To this day I still have memorized different locations and where you'd be teleported to. Honestly, I bet I could speedrun the game if I would try, but of course I would have to take a couple hours free to do so.
I just found this after watching DragonBlitz play this game and he actually did get the rooftop spawn in the violence district and he did actually warp down to the alleyway when he started moving, much to his astonishment.
It doesn’t surprise me that Sato collaborated with Alt-J; it is an unexpected crossover though. Alt-J is on the more quirky and artsy side of the indie pop scene, and Sato has remained an active artist to this day and is pretty open about his art. So I’m guessing they quite enjoyed collaborating.
The Next King probably refers to The Emperor's New Clothes, an old story authored by Hans Christian Andersen. It's about a naked King and a Populus in denial (until some kid points out the absurdly obvious). Symbolically, it's about being awake enough to not get tricked by out of bounds ideologies, systems, and propaganda (which will try from time to time to get away with absurdities). Or at least, that's my interpretation. If it refers to something related to Japanese folk lore or legends though, I've got no answer. Hope it helps! 😀
i wonder what gaming would be like today if it sold really well and made its way to the US and got popular there too. maybe we would have more unique and interesting games from AAA devs.
Tbh, that sleep walk stuff is real, i once had that with Half-Life, except i was playing it to begin with. Basically i started playing, remember about 2 hours, blank, and i wake up with the game being progressed at least 3 chapters from the last location i remember. I don't wanna claim i'm the worlds first competent sleepwalk gamer, however by the time this happened, i've been playing Half-Life consistently for over 10 years, i can finish that game on autopilot.
I don't know if my eyes were open or not, but i figure you still get some visual stimuly even if your brain is down under, and your eyes are at least slightly open. Hearing my way trough would be different, lest i memorized each and every input in sequence. It could be done, i'm just not precise enough to do it, so i'll leave it to the speedruning side of the community. @@Pinkmanbutawesome
A small correction: the "kanji" textures and poems aren't all kanji. Japanese has three systems of writing: hiragana, katakana, and kanji, all three of which are used in typical writing. The poems are an example, they contain all three systems. Other than that (and some minor pronunciation issues, but honestly it's hard to find a youtuber who pronounces everything correctly anyway), great video! I really feel like I know more about this game now than I ever expected to, it's always just existed as this enigmatic *thing* to me, this software conundrum that makes no sense, but it really helps to have all this information laid out like this!
Who would've thought that someone who doesn't speak a language wouldn't be able to pronounce the words properly. Know you probably didn't intend this but you sound kinda condescending brother. Real weeb vibes.
minor correction: a leitmotif is a musical idea that represents a character, place, or idea in a non-musical context, it originally comes from opera. a purely musical idea used across multiple pieces of music would more commonly be called a motif, or theme, or a musical idea
This video is fantastic! Also some of the theories really show how out of depth Americans are when theorizing , stuff like negative things = red and positive = blue/green doesn't make sense because it's the opposite in Japan, that's why emoji(invented in japan) have this 📉(negative stock green)📈(positive stock red)
I must of used that emoji a thousand times and only now I noticed it lol never thought twice about the red stock going up, but if I can add to your comment I find colours can also have subjective meaning eg red is anger but it can also mean romantic or passion
@@_HimToo I think by that they mean that alot of American theorists are not highly familiar with Japanese culture outside of what has been brought over through foreign media like shows and movies, leaving them "out of their depth" when it comes to making assertions about symbolism and meanings. The red and green thing is a great example honestly, in our cultural context red is bad and green is good whereas in Japanese culture it has an inverse meaning, which many Americans aren't closely aware of. Due to this gap in culture and meaning, we oftentimes can't make completely accurate theories and presumptions without a proper understanding of the cultural context present, leaving us "out of our depth."
@@slushiebonez well put, and just one reason why the idea that the title is specifically referring to the drug and nothing else is silly. Japan has a very different drug culture to that of the US/West, where we strongly associate trippy visuals and psychedelia in general with LSD, the '60s, and the hippie movement. Colour psychology is interesting, though, because there seems to be some consistency across cultural boundaries. Red = blood/violence/passion and green = nature pretty universally. On top of that, in the West red is also associated with communism for instance, while in China it's been the colour of royalty much longer, but then in Europe purple has historically had that role. It's basic critical analysis to factor in cultural context along with anything else, just as you suggest. There's no reason to think popular Japanese perspectives on Western media would be any less uninformed if they also didn't analyze it in context.
Reminds me of how weird it was to play an american PS1 game where X accepts and O cancels actions, when in Japan it's O that accepts and X that cancels an action. I would press the wrong button all the time.
I think what adds to the strangeness of this game is that its in Japan and has Japanese imagery which can be strange for more American and European people Edit: I FUCKING HATE MY COMMENTS SO MUCH. IT'S THE MOST OBVIOUS TAKE YOU CAN HAVE ABOUT THIS GAME. AND HOW IT THE FUCKING TOP COMMENT.
47:33 Ooh, I do understand how these things work! It's not about putting data on the inside or outside of a disc, it's about layout optimization. Disc drives (used to, at least) buffer data instead of reading directly to memory. The "why" isn't relevant here, just keep in mind that it happens. This means that the drive can't just read stuff at blazing speeds and give it to whoever asked for it: it has to read a sequence, buffer that to its' own memory, wait for whoever asked for the data to consume it, empty the buffer, and then repeat. This takes time, and by the time the drive is ready to do this entire thing again, the position of the data it needs to read might have shifted far from where the laser actually is. So the drive needs to wait (and maybe move the laser as well) for the disc to spin to the position where it can read stuff again, and only then it can do it. So, instead of plastering a loading screen every time the game has to load stuff, some data can be laid out optimally to minimize (or even eliminate) loading times! Where do the dummy files come in? Well, you can't just leave blank spots on the disc; whatever drive or software that can read the disc could get confused, or some maliciously inclined people could use the empty space to do bad stuff... developers just generated random sequences of data, concatenated them onto a file, and disc writers took those "dummy" files into consideration and interleaved them with the real files of the game. Some devs didn't want (or didn't care) to generate data for those dummy files, which is how we get the South Park pilot episode on a Tiger Woods game disc, and this image on LSD.
37:57 yeah this happens to me sometimes, If you're super tired you'll just fall asleep but start doing random shit and wake up with no memory of it. That's probably why he woke up dazed.
Great video! Although a little game development insight about the entry around 1:12:00, this is how RNG works most of the time in video games. That's why RNG manipulation in speedrunning works. In Pokemon, for example, some of the RNG is governed by the amount of steps you take. In Kingdom Hearts 2, the pattern of your attacks dictates some RNG. It's not that there's literally a random number generator running in the background, games use variables attached to your actions to generate an output to create functional randomness.
To correct something that's slightly wrong about what I said, there is literally a random number generator in the background, but they use variables attached to things happening in the game to create the seed for the rng. sometimes this is controllable and other times it is not.
entry was more so referring to the fact that everything is based on your current position on the dream chart and cycles. actual RNG plays a minor role in the game
I'm all for alternative pronunciation of words, but in case you want to pronounce things the way most people do: kanji = kahn-jee geisha = gay-shah *bonus just in case* manga = mahn-gah pretty much the only word I can think of that's pronounced entirely differently from its Japanese origin is 'anime'.
also yume (yu-may) and Osamu Sato's name--he gets it right once but goes back to the other one... but i do appreciate him going for it instead of "ermmm i'm not even gonna TRY to pronounce that"
Im just starting this video, and I just want to say that I love videos that talk about weird aspects od this game. I'm a big fan of Sato-san's other works (the Alphabetical Orgasm being my personal favorite), and all of the weird stuff in this game can be summarized as "yep, that's Sato for you" Dude is weird, and I love him for it.
I'm glad this now receives more of the attention it deserves. 15 years ago, let's just say it was unusual to come across mention of it online, even in gaming circles, and you could pick up a copy for the low, low price of $300 from a guy who had his copy listed for years with no buyers. Anyway, Sato is easily one of the most unique and underappreciated contemporary artists, and a personal fave. One of the best eras for the industry, when other pioneers were just trying to make good games, then this madlad saw the PS1 and thought yeah, this'll do nicely for an interactive art project. Just to be that guy, some minor corrections/contributions... - Sato is pronounced roughly like "SAH-toh" (on the side, "leitmotif" is pronounced with the primary stress on the final syllable, as in "motif") - "Lucy in the Sky with Dynamites" is a reference to the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", which interestingly also caused people to suspect the title made direct reference to the drug, though unlike with Sato/DE it's been explicitly confirmed by the artist to be purely coincidental, which is fair when you consider the phrase supposedly came from the description one of the Beatles' children gave for a drawing they made (might have some of these details mistaken, but I'm 90% sure) - I don't know if Sato worked directly with alt-J, but I know they've at least met cos there's a photo of the band posing with him, presumably from when they toured Japan. TBF, the art used is something anyone with a pirated emulator copy or just running Revamped could source pretty easily, the web game would've been made by a contract company that pulled assets from the same game files, and Sato is a busy man. About the title, I think the fact that (a) LSD:DE, as with (b) the Beatles song, shares an ambiguous acronym with the drug is something the artist was well aware of in each case. As seems to be the case with (a) Sato coming up with the name, perhaps realizing D can stand for "dream" and L/S for many different things, while (b) the Beatles encountered it by chance, again originating from one band member's child. I believe both artists knew many people would dismiss it as a crude reference to the drug, (a) cos "muh trippy visuals" as the cliche goes with LSD:DE, (b) cos we all know the Beatles dropped acid even if Sato didn't. Point being, in either case it's plausible that the resulting acronym is just a convenient coincidence, except Sato chose to run with it, presumably cos it's indeed more remarkable and memorable than simply "Dream Emulator". Think about it - just like LSD:DE itself, as with the phases seen in some of the so-called cutscenes, the title can be interpreted in multiple ways, whether simultaneously or varying and iterating on itself depending on a specific aspect of the work. So, yeah, thanks for putting this together. If I didn't already give it away, I'm kinda into this thing.
I'm glad you mentioned the obvious similarity between the hatman and the spy, but it sorta seemed mischaracterized. The hatman isn't a cryptid, and there's no reason to think any inspiration is drawn from LSD:DE. The hatman is just a shadow person, which is a known deliriant hallucination, and it's only noteworthy because multiple people have seen a shadow person with a similar appearance. It's more likely that both the spy and hatman draw from the same thing, rather than one inspiring or influencing the other.
I have absolutely no clue what you're talking about when you say things like "peak of popularity." LSD is a niche thing but it has been a very well regarded and known thing within that niche for a long time, and has had a strong cult following in the west since, at the very least, 2010 or so. It is NOT an unknown quantity, it's a very specific quantity, but the sheer volume of investigation into this game that you're, y'know, writing this script using, is the product of many many years of people staring into LSD's abyss, it did not magically pop up over night less than "a few years ago." This is a game from the late 90's we're talking about here, not some brand new fad indie darling. It's an old game with history and an established following. Your personal experience with it does not account for the entire rest of the English speaking world's experience with it.
Ya know, there'sone distinct thing I consistently see people overlook or even not know.| There are tunnels that directly link between locations that you can walk through, like physical connections between areas. Not through the linking mechanic. One such tunnel is outside the brightmoon cottage, which directly links to the natural world. You can even go through the tunnel to return back to brightmoon. There's a tunnel to kyoto, a tunnel to the violence district, and a few other tunnels as well. Theorizing that the Violence District is that sunken town sorta falls apart when you discover that tunnel.
I have Narcolepsy and one cool thing that can happen sometimes is falling asleep while playing a video game and be playing it while im asleep (owned my friends at Krunker once while in class for example). It would be really cool playing this and falling asleep.
Good video overall, but... "Traditional Asian hat"? That could mean literally anything. You mean a sedge hat? Kasa? Nón lá? Caping? It doesn't even look like any of those anyway, it's just a wide-brim hat, which is really common to see paired with a trenchcoat like the one the Gray Man wears.
im glad i finally got to play this game when apple finally allowed emulators and had a decent ps1 emulator (gamma, does contain ads b4 gameplay and a small banner). i love it. its weird but super cool
The name "Lucy in the Sky with some Dynamites" is a reference to "Lucy in the Sky with some Diamonds" by the Beatles which is a reference to the Drug LSD
Personally I think if I had a long night of work, pass out and woke up with the Violence District right in front of me, I'd probably jolt outta my seat. Not at all a knock at that dude's story, that's actually pretty intriguing. Personally speaking, I'd probably freak the hell out once I realize.
I believe that guy playing LSD while asleep, as someone who used to sleep walk, you can definently do this, and he seems pretty genuine about it. Example of shit like this happening: When I was around 7 I went to my mother to ask her to help me put on a shirt, which I had taken from my drawer on my own. Also this is a pretty good video, nice work.
I disagree that the notion that objects move through dreams indicates that the dreams are real. I think that perspective contradicts everything that's implied about the game, and isn't necessarily what's being said. Maybe objects simply appear in multiple dreams or locations, without having to be actual existing entities outside of dreams
Yeah the devs definitely weren’t taking drugs, as Japan is miles more strict about drug use than the West. People caught taking drugs often commit suicide. Video game voice actors who have been caught smoking weed are punished by having their roles re-recorded by other actors and all credits are stripped from them. Any famous person using drugs is shamed and essentially forced out of a job and home, they will never work again anywhere except convenience stores. The studio would not have allowed any drug use in the making of this game, and drugs are insanely hard to come by in Japan, especially something like LSD as opposed to weed and stimulants. I don’t doubt maybe ONE person took LSD and then used the experience to inform the game, but they certainly weren’t taking drugs while making the game or anywhere near it. In Japan they even use hair testing because your hair will contain chemical traces of drugs for months and months after. It’s honestly super unfair how people are treated and even people who take ADHD meds are treated poorly because it’s a controlled substance. They do have incredibly low drug addiction and drug abuse rates though so maybe it’s not the worst thing
Hey man, nice video! But I do have a very serious critique: you need to have a flashing lights warning when you show the Ending at 16:00. I have a bad feeling that it could be super dangerous for people with photosensitivity and/or epilepsy. Thank you!
The one thing that can defeat any youtuber: Having to spend two seconds typing something into google translate and having it read the pronunciation out Truly one of this world's greatest challenges, we can only hope speedrunners find a glitch to make it possible some day
Every informational youtube video I watch has at least one or two mispronunciations, and they always seem SO obvious. Not even with words that aren't commonly spoken, but with things you reasonably should be hearing pronounced correctly every now and again. I guess it's not a huge deal, but one of the only things I ever did all that well in school with was reading and language, so it makes sense it's a pet peeve for me.
This game needs a sequel. Oh I have a friend who falls asleep while playing games and keeps playing them. It's normal for him, so I believe that dude who woke up playing LSD.
42:17 this is unrelated to anything but I love it when I hear this happen, shoots for videos like these can take twice as long as the video is in duration just to get everything right and editing can be a SLOG and sometimes, rarely, we let errors like retakes being left in the final cut get by. Just goes to like remind us that creators are human and have lives and energy limits and needs and all that. good stuff
LSD Dream emulator has always kinda freaked me out, I know thats the point of it but it always feels like i'm going to load in & see something gorey or the recipe for meth
If you want to download the game for PC, then here is the RUclips Tutorial link on how to do it: ruclips.net/video/dpCTm1bFNMM/видео.html ( You're welcome by the way )
What a fascinating topic. I kinda hope this name never gets fully explained because it’s one of the few things that are still truly mysterious. And of COURSE Saint is into LSDDE! He seems to be in every iceberg involving mysterious videos games
just wanted to say that i really like your videos, something about the way you talk really makes it easier to pay attention and get interested in what the video's about and the topics are always so cool too, love your channel! :]
sometimes when i’m going to bed i like to imagine i just fell off the titanic and im freezing to death of hypothermia and when i close my eyes it’ll be the final time
@@lapfoxie please, talk to someone, be it friends, family, or a therapist. I've been in the exact same place; i know it sucks more than anything else ever can, and it only sucks more alone.
Honestly Relaxer became one of my favorite albums of any artist and alt-J as a whole deserve a lot more love. "An Awesome Wave" is another of my favorites :) I also kinda consider LSD:DE to be one of the things that really got me into the "weirder" side of gaming and art in general
Where did you hear about hypnagogia being a psychotic state of sleep deprivation? Hypnagogia is just the dreamlike, surrealistic, semi-unconscious state your mind goes in right before you're about to fall asleep. Hypnopompia is the equivalent of it right after you wake up. I could see someone entering a hypnagogic state after enough sleep deprivation, but that's not exclusively what it is. You could feel hypnagogia on a totally healthy sleep schedule.
ERRRM ACTUALLY ITS PRONOUNCED KAHNJI NOT KAYUNJI
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It's pronounced CAJUN
Thanks for not being a stupid creepypasta youtuber trying to over-dramatize this game! It's hard to watch literally any other video covering this game without cracking up about how the youtuber pretends everything has some "hidden meaning" or doing that weird low voice.
Ugh, I hated when this game surfaced a bit more, and many youtubers were making theories about s-assault and self-harm. It's just dreams, very weird ones. The game become even better when I read the booklet "lovely sweet dreams", with added more for the real lore.
If the player taps the circle button when coming face to face with the gunman he will fall down and allegedly die... (insert footage of a low poly figure slowly falling to the side)
@atarus4159 We know, he is talking about the fact that youtubers that comment on it always use that "creepy voice" as if they were talking about some murder, not a PS1 game.
Cannot agree more, it's so infuriating when someone sees something abstract and immediately go "uhm..... this is creepy???? NIGHTMARE FYOOL!!!" The same ignoramuses will label shit like Hylics and Yume Nikki as "disturbing" for being overtly strange and abstract.
@@icypk6190 Some of the stuff in Yume Nikki has stuck with me in a way I would personally call "disturbing". But not in an "aaaa spookeeee scary:(((" way, just sort of the same way I've had dreams that have left me unsettled and thoughtful - not scared. It's very effective art.
But uh yeah a lot of people just mean "disturbing" as synonymous with "scary" and that's lame lol
Something that wasn't mentioned in regards to water-the "flickering" is an emulation artifact and doesn't occur on native hardware.
Can it be fixed?
@@TheFloodFourm I've heard that duckstation runs it properly
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I honestly like that. It adds to the surrealness of it all in my opinion.
One thing to add is that LSD dream emulator has always been relevant. I know it's all down to semantics but I believe it's been taking the internet by storm for well over a decade I believe? First in the gaming community and quickly spreading around the internet... That's at least how I remember it.
Also it's "Sato", not "Seito" as Japanese doesn't have long or short vowels like English does.
aye, i was playing this on my psp all the time around 2012-2013.
Yeah I first heard of it in 2010 and at that time it was already a known thing among people who were really into weird Japanese indie games. Having a presence on youtube spread it to a larger audience, but there was a let's play I saw that, even back then, the guy was linking to scanned copies of the journal and maps and all sorts of other stuff.
I just think it's really bizarre that this dude is reading off a wiki cobbled together with the combined knowledge of years of committed fan investigations and then turns around and says that an album cover featuring a literal screenshot of the game is somehow shocking that it references LSD because it's from "a few years ago." I mean even Vinny streamed this 7 years ago, and that's about as mainstream as you can get for weird games in what passes as some form of "monoculture" post-internet.
@@princessmaly ^ this.
@@princessmaly oh my god its a good youtube comment.
@@princessmaly same in 2010. followed some surreal art tumblr accounts and emulated it on a netbook. but yeah I agree
hi i'm the iceberg creator i realize this is LONG overdue but here's some corrections:
23:21 his let's play is one of few playthroughs that actually got to day 365, hence why i put it on there
33:37 this is a misconception i accidentally spread about the silent tracks in BMA, Natural World and the Violence District. the only actual "corrupted" track is the one you mentioned
39:06 this refers to the fact that normally you cannot run while strafing or going backwards, but by doing certain things like turning around with the shoulder buttons and then running can allow you to do that
44:24 the quality of this wiki FAR surpasses the Fandom wiki. a lot of deeper knowledge of the game is located here and it has cool overhead maps of every area
45:07 this isn't a theory, Sato stated it was true in the interview you mentioned earlier
46:24 the videos this is referring to are the flash videos that used to play on the official website
53:54 these are probably just a result of the game being mainly programming by one person. if it ever gets decompiled i would imagine the game is held together with duct tape ngl
55:08 we haven't torn open the game yet, the usage of the Timer variable is just an assumption based on the manual
1:04:02 this isn't an actual theory, it was just an early, really bad Fandom article
1:07:32 a lot of people keep getting this mixed up: yes, red is good in Japan, but someone on twitter mapped out the colors that correspond to positions on the dream graph and red is toward the bottom and green/blue/pink are at the top. this is implemented in LSD Revamped btw
1:11:48 this was so deep because a LOT of people i've met thought the spy could appear anytime. i've since moved it up though
LSD Dream Emulator is my favorite surreal game I've ever played. I remember back in late middle school I would play it on a online PlayStation emulator on my school computer, and would see how many days in I could get during one free period. To this day I still have memorized different locations and where you'd be teleported to. Honestly, I bet I could speedrun the game if I would try, but of course I would have to take a couple hours free to do so.
do you have any other surreal games to reccomend?
@@mothalias start w cement mixer simulator 2003
What’s your record for how many days you could get in one period
You always deliver icebergs I didn't know I wanted but get hype as hell for when you upload them. Hype to watch this tonight!
Taken the internet by storm RECENTLY?
20 years ago is totally recent if you're like 80
The link color theory most likely isn't true. In Japanese culture, red = good, rather than bad like it is for western culture.
it is, there is a chart of which colors correspond to positions on the dream graph. bottom middle is red. i'd link it but YT would hide my comment
What color corresponds to bad in Japan?
14:30 that in the end is the mask of "El Santo" a mexican classic wrestler
Hi
This game will never die
1:07:57 "...With the scenery changing accordingly, with the scenery changing accordingly..." lol
Seeing this obscure game get covered by caddicarus years ago only for it to return into the public consciousness is a pleasure.
I just found this after watching DragonBlitz play this game and he actually did get the rooftop spawn in the violence district and he did actually warp down to the alleyway when he started moving, much to his astonishment.
It doesn’t surprise me that Sato collaborated with Alt-J; it is an unexpected crossover though. Alt-J is on the more quirky and artsy side of the indie pop scene, and Sato has remained an active artist to this day and is pretty open about his art. So I’m guessing they quite enjoyed collaborating.
7:00 the music made me think I had a youtube premiere tabbed out somewhere
This is also not related to this video either but I finished the Lego pineapple now I'm going to do a Lego watermelon
One small note about the album LSD and remixes, the art has a very characteristic square pattern like blotter paper, devs were on acid confirmed lol
this was the original cruelty squad
16:47 mount fiji? For real? You researched, wrote the script, recorded voice, and edited the video and didnt catch that? Fr?
The Next King probably refers to The Emperor's New Clothes,
an old story authored by Hans Christian Andersen. It's about
a naked King and a Populus in denial (until some kid points
out the absurdly obvious). Symbolically, it's about being
awake enough to not get tricked by out of bounds
ideologies, systems, and propaganda (which will
try from time to time to get away with absurdities).
Or at least, that's my interpretation.
If it refers to something related to
Japanese folk lore or legends
though, I've got no answer.
Hope it helps!
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21:21 Wait is that my stretching objects video??? : O
its the hat man
i wonder what gaming would be like today if it sold really well and made its way to the US and got popular there too. maybe we would have more unique and interesting games from AAA devs.
It would be a revolution, like how Shrek changed how movies interact and create humor and references.
where did you read lovely sweet dreams and followers? cant seem to find it
Bump. I looked for it too and nothing.
59:55 looks like the Backrooms
where do i read “lovely sweet dreams and followers”
This game itself isn't evidence to you that the creators were on drugs?
Some artists are capable of being this crazy off of drugs
when you get period cramps thats the fucking sumo wrestlers in the flesh tunnels going at it :/
Just airdropped this 2 everyone in a 100 mile radius this is the best comment
@@Sanitised godspeed 🫡
at least they only hold tournaments once a month. generally.
@@rg5580they skipped the tournament for my gf this month. Mustve been a snow day 🥴
@@BUFFYTHEPOWERFULthis made me giggle, thanks
If I remember correctly, an older video explained the water flashing since most emulators accidentally bug it out
I don't know if this is the exact video you're talking about, but I know Nitrorad mentioned it in (I think) one of his Echo Night videos
@@Moodyskeletonz He commented on the comment section for an old Caddicarus video.
Tbh, that sleep walk stuff is real, i once had that with Half-Life, except i was playing it to begin with. Basically i started playing, remember about 2 hours, blank, and i wake up with the game being progressed at least 3 chapters from the last location i remember. I don't wanna claim i'm the worlds first competent sleepwalk gamer, however by the time this happened, i've been playing Half-Life consistently for over 10 years, i can finish that game on autopilot.
Brains are the craziest things 😮
If no one has beaten half life blindfolded you could be the first
I don't know if my eyes were open or not, but i figure you still get some visual stimuly even if your brain is down under, and your eyes are at least slightly open. Hearing my way trough would be different, lest i memorized each and every input in sequence. It could be done, i'm just not precise enough to do it, so i'll leave it to the speedruning side of the community. @@Pinkmanbutawesome
Micro sleep is pretty common I do it alot while watching RUclips essays can be really discombobulating sometimes
Trusting you, you should compete in a half life blindfolded run, considering you went 3 chapters on autopilot you would be a god
A small correction: the "kanji" textures and poems aren't all kanji. Japanese has three systems of writing: hiragana, katakana, and kanji, all three of which are used in typical writing. The poems are an example, they contain all three systems. Other than that (and some minor pronunciation issues, but honestly it's hard to find a youtuber who pronounces everything correctly anyway), great video! I really feel like I know more about this game now than I ever expected to, it's always just existed as this enigmatic *thing* to me, this software conundrum that makes no sense, but it really helps to have all this information laid out like this!
Who would've thought that someone who doesn't speak a language wouldn't be able to pronounce the words properly. Know you probably didn't intend this but you sound kinda condescending brother. Real weeb vibes.
@@Layonayofr all these japanese weebs are so cringe
minor correction: a leitmotif is a musical idea that represents a character, place, or idea in a non-musical context, it originally comes from opera. a purely musical idea used across multiple pieces of music would more commonly be called a motif, or theme, or a musical idea
And it's pronounced light-motif and not late-motif
My friends and I always called the fetus thingies in the flesh tunnels onion boy
Bro created a whole genre just to dodge a skill issue
This video is fantastic! Also some of the theories really show how out of depth Americans are when theorizing , stuff like negative things = red and positive = blue/green doesn't make sense because it's the opposite in Japan, that's why emoji(invented in japan) have this 📉(negative stock green)📈(positive stock red)
I must of used that emoji a thousand times and only now I noticed it lol never thought twice about the red stock going up, but if I can add to your comment I find colours can also have subjective meaning eg red is anger but it can also mean romantic or passion
*That* shows "how out of depth Americans are when theorizing"??? What kinda 2+2=9 kinda logic is that?
@@_HimToo I think by that they mean that alot of American theorists are not highly familiar with Japanese culture outside of what has been brought over through foreign media like shows and movies, leaving them "out of their depth" when it comes to making assertions about symbolism and meanings. The red and green thing is a great example honestly, in our cultural context red is bad and green is good whereas in Japanese culture it has an inverse meaning, which many Americans aren't closely aware of. Due to this gap in culture and meaning, we oftentimes can't make completely accurate theories and presumptions without a proper understanding of the cultural context present, leaving us "out of our depth."
@@slushiebonez well put, and just one reason why the idea that the title is specifically referring to the drug and nothing else is silly. Japan has a very different drug culture to that of the US/West, where we strongly associate trippy visuals and psychedelia in general with LSD, the '60s, and the hippie movement.
Colour psychology is interesting, though, because there seems to be some consistency across cultural boundaries. Red = blood/violence/passion and green = nature pretty universally. On top of that, in the West red is also associated with communism for instance, while in China it's been the colour of royalty much longer, but then in Europe purple has historically had that role.
It's basic critical analysis to factor in cultural context along with anything else, just as you suggest. There's no reason to think popular Japanese perspectives on Western media would be any less uninformed if they also didn't analyze it in context.
Reminds me of how weird it was to play an american PS1 game where X accepts and O cancels actions, when in Japan it's O that accepts and X that cancels an action.
I would press the wrong button all the time.
All the wild-ass noises and strange soundtracks in the game and people bitch about the FOOTSTEPS?
I think what adds to the strangeness of this game is that its in Japan and has Japanese imagery which can be strange for more American and European people
Edit: I FUCKING HATE MY COMMENTS SO MUCH. IT'S THE MOST OBVIOUS TAKE YOU CAN HAVE ABOUT THIS GAME. AND HOW IT THE FUCKING TOP COMMENT.
The game really reminds me of serial experiment lain somehow
As does all media from another country.
Ignorant comment
WOW SO INSIGHTFUL NO ONE EVER HAD THAT THOUGHT BEFORE
@@wiwysova I seriously don't understand how my comment got over 100 likes it doesn't even make any sense it's so simple
47:33 Ooh, I do understand how these things work! It's not about putting data on the inside or outside of a disc, it's about layout optimization.
Disc drives (used to, at least) buffer data instead of reading directly to memory. The "why" isn't relevant here, just keep in mind that it happens. This means that the drive can't just read stuff at blazing speeds and give it to whoever asked for it: it has to read a sequence, buffer that to its' own memory, wait for whoever asked for the data to consume it, empty the buffer, and then repeat. This takes time, and by the time the drive is ready to do this entire thing again, the position of the data it needs to read might have shifted far from where the laser actually is. So the drive needs to wait (and maybe move the laser as well) for the disc to spin to the position where it can read stuff again, and only then it can do it.
So, instead of plastering a loading screen every time the game has to load stuff, some data can be laid out optimally to minimize (or even eliminate) loading times!
Where do the dummy files come in? Well, you can't just leave blank spots on the disc; whatever drive or software that can read the disc could get confused, or some maliciously inclined people could use the empty space to do bad stuff... developers just generated random sequences of data, concatenated them onto a file, and disc writers took those "dummy" files into consideration and interleaved them with the real files of the game.
Some devs didn't want (or didn't care) to generate data for those dummy files, which is how we get the South Park pilot episode on a Tiger Woods game disc, and this image on LSD.
Interesting! Thank you!
37:57 yeah this happens to me sometimes, If you're super tired you'll just fall asleep but start doing random shit and wake up with no memory of it. That's probably why he woke up dazed.
I once fell asleep while playing a game, and woke up hours later
I mean a full 5 or 6 hours later
How hard you mispronounce certain things has me baffled.
Do you know what an accent is?
@@amacsizbirkisi this isn't an issue of accent, it's just him mispronouncing japanese words
@@amacsizbirkisiDo you? It really seems like you don't.
@karl5758 Japanese words, yeah. Do you even hear yourself.
Oh wow how horrible it is to say a word the way his NATIVE LANGUAGE is. Imagine that.
Great video! Although a little game development insight about the entry around 1:12:00, this is how RNG works most of the time in video games. That's why RNG manipulation in speedrunning works. In Pokemon, for example, some of the RNG is governed by the amount of steps you take. In Kingdom Hearts 2, the pattern of your attacks dictates some RNG. It's not that there's literally a random number generator running in the background, games use variables attached to your actions to generate an output to create functional randomness.
To correct something that's slightly wrong about what I said, there is literally a random number generator in the background, but they use variables attached to things happening in the game to create the seed for the rng. sometimes this is controllable and other times it is not.
entry was more so referring to the fact that everything is based on your current position on the dream chart and cycles. actual RNG plays a minor role in the game
I'm all for alternative pronunciation of words, but in case you want to pronounce things the way most people do:
kanji = kahn-jee
geisha = gay-shah
*bonus just in case*
manga = mahn-gah
pretty much the only word I can think of that's pronounced entirely differently from its Japanese origin is 'anime'.
Lol I got a little peeved at that too. It's not that hard to learn how to pronounce stuff
also yume (yu-may) and Osamu Sato's name--he gets it right once but goes back to the other one... but i do appreciate him going for it instead of "ermmm i'm not even gonna TRY to pronounce that"
Nope. It’s CAN-JEE, like “Can you pass me a can, G?” :^)
man, i remember literally a decade ago thirsting for more information on the game - there was almost nothing
very wild feeling seeing this
Love your punpun pfp. That manga goes hard
The rest of humanity is slowly catching up
yes there was fool i have the pdf of the dream diary from then
Im just starting this video, and I just want to say that I love videos that talk about weird aspects od this game. I'm a big fan of Sato-san's other works (the Alphabetical Orgasm being my personal favorite), and all of the weird stuff in this game can be summarized as "yep, that's Sato for you"
Dude is weird, and I love him for it.
I'm glad this now receives more of the attention it deserves. 15 years ago, let's just say it was unusual to come across mention of it online, even in gaming circles, and you could pick up a copy for the low, low price of $300 from a guy who had his copy listed for years with no buyers. Anyway, Sato is easily one of the most unique and underappreciated contemporary artists, and a personal fave. One of the best eras for the industry, when other pioneers were just trying to make good games, then this madlad saw the PS1 and thought yeah, this'll do nicely for an interactive art project.
Just to be that guy, some minor corrections/contributions...
- Sato is pronounced roughly like "SAH-toh" (on the side, "leitmotif" is pronounced with the primary stress on the final syllable, as in "motif")
- "Lucy in the Sky with Dynamites" is a reference to the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", which interestingly also caused people to suspect the title made direct reference to the drug, though unlike with Sato/DE it's been explicitly confirmed by the artist to be purely coincidental, which is fair when you consider the phrase supposedly came from the description one of the Beatles' children gave for a drawing they made (might have some of these details mistaken, but I'm 90% sure)
- I don't know if Sato worked directly with alt-J, but I know they've at least met cos there's a photo of the band posing with him, presumably from when they toured Japan. TBF, the art used is something anyone with a pirated emulator copy or just running Revamped could source pretty easily, the web game would've been made by a contract company that pulled assets from the same game files, and Sato is a busy man.
About the title, I think the fact that (a) LSD:DE, as with (b) the Beatles song, shares an ambiguous acronym with the drug is something the artist was well aware of in each case. As seems to be the case with (a) Sato coming up with the name, perhaps realizing D can stand for "dream" and L/S for many different things, while (b) the Beatles encountered it by chance, again originating from one band member's child. I believe both artists knew many people would dismiss it as a crude reference to the drug, (a) cos "muh trippy visuals" as the cliche goes with LSD:DE, (b) cos we all know the Beatles dropped acid even if Sato didn't.
Point being, in either case it's plausible that the resulting acronym is just a convenient coincidence, except Sato chose to run with it, presumably cos it's indeed more remarkable and memorable than simply "Dream Emulator". Think about it - just like LSD:DE itself, as with the phases seen in some of the so-called cutscenes, the title can be interpreted in multiple ways, whether simultaneously or varying and iterating on itself depending on a specific aspect of the work.
So, yeah, thanks for putting this together. If I didn't already give it away, I'm kinda into this thing.
I'm glad you mentioned the obvious similarity between the hatman and the spy, but it sorta seemed mischaracterized. The hatman isn't a cryptid, and there's no reason to think any inspiration is drawn from LSD:DE. The hatman is just a shadow person, which is a known deliriant hallucination, and it's only noteworthy because multiple people have seen a shadow person with a similar appearance. It's more likely that both the spy and hatman draw from the same thing, rather than one inspiring or influencing the other.
I have absolutely no clue what you're talking about when you say things like "peak of popularity." LSD is a niche thing but it has been a very well regarded and known thing within that niche for a long time, and has had a strong cult following in the west since, at the very least, 2010 or so. It is NOT an unknown quantity, it's a very specific quantity, but the sheer volume of investigation into this game that you're, y'know, writing this script using, is the product of many many years of people staring into LSD's abyss, it did not magically pop up over night less than "a few years ago." This is a game from the late 90's we're talking about here, not some brand new fad indie darling. It's an old game with history and an established following. Your personal experience with it does not account for the entire rest of the English speaking world's experience with it.
It’s not that deep
You have litterly no idea what you're talking about.
If you're this butthurt over a game, you're going to have an awful life.
Ya know, there'sone distinct thing I consistently see people overlook or even not know.|
There are tunnels that directly link between locations that you can walk through, like physical connections between areas. Not through the linking mechanic. One such tunnel is outside the brightmoon cottage, which directly links to the natural world. You can even go through the tunnel to return back to brightmoon.
There's a tunnel to kyoto, a tunnel to the violence district, and a few other tunnels as well. Theorizing that the Violence District is that sunken town sorta falls apart when you discover that tunnel.
I have Narcolepsy and one cool thing that can happen sometimes is falling asleep while playing a video game and be playing it while im asleep (owned my friends at Krunker once while in class for example).
It would be really cool playing this and falling asleep.
Good video overall, but... "Traditional Asian hat"? That could mean literally anything. You mean a sedge hat? Kasa? Nón lá? Caping? It doesn't even look like any of those anyway, it's just a wide-brim hat, which is really common to see paired with a trenchcoat like the one the Gray Man wears.
The cover art from the soundtrack CD is designed to look like a LSD blotter with all the little perforations
im glad i finally got to play this game when apple finally allowed emulators and had a decent ps1 emulator (gamma, does contain ads b4 gameplay and a small banner). i love it. its weird but super cool
The name "Lucy in the Sky with some Dynamites" is a reference to "Lucy in the Sky with some Diamonds" by the Beatles which is a reference to the Drug LSD
Some????????????????????
@@supersaxyguyBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@RUclips.Commen-tater*ONCE!*
@@manuelredgrave8348 told me
Told
Didn't realize this game recently good popular again, I remember ppl talking about it like 10 years ago
Taken the internet by storm recently? This shit been talked about since like 8 years ago 😭
it has been popular on the internet way, way longer than 8 years bud
Personally I think if I had a long night of work, pass out and woke up with the Violence District right in front of me, I'd probably jolt outta my seat.
Not at all a knock at that dude's story, that's actually pretty intriguing. Personally speaking, I'd probably freak the hell out once I realize.
my introduction to this game was watching a video of a guy playing this game after taking lsd. this is gonna be fun to watch lol
Imagine living in the real appartment and playing this game with a complete copy of the place you live in, that would be terrifying
I believe that guy playing LSD while asleep, as someone who used to sleep walk, you can definently do this, and he seems pretty genuine about it. Example of shit like this happening: When I was around 7 I went to my mother to ask her to help me put on a shirt, which I had taken from my drawer on my own. Also this is a pretty good video, nice work.
16:47 "Mt. FIJI"
Like the water brand
It should be noted that the Spy bears an almost exact resemblance to the very real Hat Man.
13:47 Spoken like a true gamer
I disagree that the notion that objects move through dreams indicates that the dreams are real. I think that perspective contradicts everything that's implied about the game, and isn't necessarily what's being said. Maybe objects simply appear in multiple dreams or locations, without having to be actual existing entities outside of dreams
Yeah the devs definitely weren’t taking drugs, as Japan is miles more strict about drug use than the West. People caught taking drugs often commit suicide. Video game voice actors who have been caught smoking weed are punished by having their roles re-recorded by other actors and all credits are stripped from them. Any famous person using drugs is shamed and essentially forced out of a job and home, they will never work again anywhere except convenience stores. The studio would not have allowed any drug use in the making of this game, and drugs are insanely hard to come by in Japan, especially something like LSD as opposed to weed and stimulants. I don’t doubt maybe ONE person took LSD and then used the experience to inform the game, but they certainly weren’t taking drugs while making the game or anywhere near it. In Japan they even use hair testing because your hair will contain chemical traces of drugs for months and months after. It’s honestly super unfair how people are treated and even people who take ADHD meds are treated poorly because it’s a controlled substance. They do have incredibly low drug addiction and drug abuse rates though so maybe it’s not the worst thing
you called Mt Fuji "Mt fiji" @ 16:47
Man, I absolutely love the video, but that mask makes you kinda look like like the electrical target from rust.
Hey man, nice video! But I do have a very serious critique: you need to have a flashing lights warning when you show the Ending at 16:00. I have a bad feeling that it could be super dangerous for people with photosensitivity and/or epilepsy. Thank you!
Cringe
@@DefineLines nice bait
@@DefineLinesembarrassing
@@marigold_____ like epileptics
"can gee".
Thank you for noticing that too. Drove me insane. 😂
Haha! It bothered me too!
The one thing that can defeat any youtuber: Having to spend two seconds typing something into google translate and having it read the pronunciation out
Truly one of this world's greatest challenges, we can only hope speedrunners find a glitch to make it possible some day
Every informational youtube video I watch has at least one or two mispronunciations, and they always seem SO obvious. Not even with words that aren't commonly spoken, but with things you reasonably should be hearing pronounced correctly every now and again. I guess it's not a huge deal, but one of the only things I ever did all that well in school with was reading and language, so it makes sense it's a pet peeve for me.
get over yourself. who cares it's a fucking word, and a foreign one at that.
I always thought of LSD dream emulator as yume Nikki on even more drugs
I'm so pissed that i know everything there's to know about this game.
I WANT MORE, BUT I CAN'T HAVE MORE
This game needs a sequel.
Oh I have a friend who falls asleep while playing games and keeps playing them. It's normal for him, so I believe that dude who woke up playing LSD.
42:17 this is unrelated to anything but I love it when I hear this happen, shoots for videos like these can take twice as long as the video is in duration just to get everything right and editing can be a SLOG and sometimes, rarely, we let errors like retakes being left in the final cut get by. Just goes to like remind us that creators are human and have lives and energy limits and needs and all that. good stuff
LSD Dream emulator has always kinda freaked me out, I know thats the point of it but it always feels like i'm going to load in & see something gorey or the recipe for meth
meth jumpscare!
soooo, every copy of LSD Dream Emulator is personalized?
how did this guy manage to mispronounce every single Japanese word, impressively bad work 😂
"CANJEE"😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@stinkystink9830wait, so how do you pronounce it then?
Like this. KON-GEE@@собака-й4м
If you want to download the game for PC, then here is the RUclips Tutorial link on how to do it: ruclips.net/video/dpCTm1bFNMM/видео.html ( You're welcome by the way )
This is a really well edited video along with great commentary.
bg music: ruclips.net/video/0mIeuUx2HFY/видео.html
Bro get rid of the mask, worst look I’ve seen all year on anyone.
The revamped LSD dream emulator allows more options, silent footsteps, head bobbing, etc.
It’s also in version 0.2
What a fascinating topic. I kinda hope this name never gets fully explained because it’s one of the few things that are still truly mysterious. And of COURSE Saint is into LSDDE! He seems to be in every iceberg involving mysterious videos games
The hatman is a very well documented entity in delirium experiences.
*Benadryl
Not just benadryl, datura psychosis too
I watched this before bed last night and ended up in the violence district in my dream 🥴
“Lovely Sweet Dream Dream Emulator”
it's pretty cool that hatmans in the game
Can you link the lsd dream emulator wiki bc i cant find it anywhere
Emulator and cd romance website
you used the siIvagunner version in Come On And's entry lol
Lucy in the sky with dynamites is a reference to "Lucy in the sky with diamonds" by the beatles which is theorized to be about lsd
The gray man reminds me of my dreams, I commonly am running away from things that wake me when too close
I'm so tired thought you said the gay man at first lmao
I find it fitting that I can emulate LSD Dream Emulator
The mask is weird, but this guy is based and gotosleep pilled
just wanted to say that i really like your videos, something about the way you talk really makes it easier to pay attention and get interested in what the video's about and the topics are always so cool too, love your channel! :]
the mask shots are akward bro.
sometimes when i’m going to bed i like to imagine i just fell off the titanic and im freezing to death of hypothermia and when i close my eyes it’ll be the final time
accurate profile picture
Are you okay, man?
@@Noodles207 no
@@lapfoxie please, talk to someone, be it friends, family, or a therapist. I've been in the exact same place; i know it sucks more than anything else ever can, and it only sucks more alone.
i feel that
lsd dream emulator is such an interesting game i wish i could play it on the original hardware
"mount fiji"
LMAO
"Yume Dicky"
Honestly Relaxer became one of my favorite albums of any artist and alt-J as a whole deserve a lot more love. "An Awesome Wave" is another of my favorites :) I also kinda consider LSD:DE to be one of the things that really got me into the "weirder" side of gaming and art in general
Hatman = benadryl
Where did you hear about hypnagogia being a psychotic state of sleep deprivation? Hypnagogia is just the dreamlike, surrealistic, semi-unconscious state your mind goes in right before you're about to fall asleep. Hypnopompia is the equivalent of it right after you wake up. I could see someone entering a hypnagogic state after enough sleep deprivation, but that's not exclusively what it is. You could feel hypnagogia on a totally healthy sleep schedule.