ERRRM ACTUALLY ITS PRONOUNCED KAHNJI NOT KAYUNJI

when you get period cramps thats the fucking sumo wrestlers in the flesh tunnels going at it :/

Something that wasn't mentioned in regards to water-the "flickering" is an emulation artifact and doesn't occur on native hardware.

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.

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.

If I remember correctly, an older video explained the water flashing since most emulators accidentally bug it out

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

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!

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.

My friends and I always called the fetus thingies in the flesh tunnels onion boy

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)

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.

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 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.

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.

man, i remember literally a decade ago thirsting for more information on the game - there was almost nothing very wild feeling seeing this

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!

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.

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

The cover art from the soundtrack CD is designed to look like a LSD blotter with all the little perforations

The link color theory most likely isn't true. In Japanese culture, red = good, rather than bad like it is for western culture.

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.

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! :]

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'.

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.

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'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.

This is a really well edited video along with great commentary.

Taken the internet by storm RECENTLY?

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 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.

this is probably one of my favorite iceberg videos, the information is insane! new sub for you !!

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

All the wild-ass noises and strange soundtracks in the game and people bitch about the FOOTSTEPS?

I found your channel because 2 days after uploaded this I was playing the game and wondered if there was an iceberg. And there you were. Your other videos are great too.

this video was awesome, good luck on your future endeavors

Love love this video! Thanks for deep diving into this ‼️

It should be noted that the Spy bears an almost exact resemblance to the very real Hat Man.

Bro created a whole genre just to dodge a skill issue

the editing, narration and visuals were nice, first video i watched and i left a sub!

I did not know something like existed, you're awesome for making a video about this

How hard you mispronounce certain things has me baffled.

Imagine living in the real appartment and playing this game with a complete copy of the place you live in, that would be terrifying

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

Taken the internet by storm recently? This shit been talked about since like 8 years ago 😭

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

Great video! Very well done

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

8:32 Just saving my time for later! I really like the video so far, thank you for compiling this all together! this is something I’ve been interested in knowing more about recently.

i love this video, i really like the ideas of dream worlds because of how weird they are!

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.

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.

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

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great video bro

Didn't realize this game recently good popular again, I remember ppl talking about it like 10 years ago

I always thought of LSD dream emulator as yume Nikki on even more drugs

"can gee".

Nice work there, bud

good content, subscribed

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!

This game will never die

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

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.

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

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

The gray man reminds me of my dreams, I commonly am running away from things that wake me when too close

16:47 "Mt. FIJI"

This game is fascinating. I mean, there's things and mechanics that even to this day aren't know how they work

you called Mt Fuji "Mt fiji" @ 16:47

As someone that played this game once as a kid, I thought I had dreamed up this game until I saw Caddicarus play once 8 years ago.

I remember when I was younger, scrolling on KZfaq late at night on my little IPod, I saw this gameplay from 2GuysGaming, I stayed up late to watch it, rewatching it over and over and wanting to know more.

"canjee character" lmao good video tho man

The hatman is a very well documented entity in delirium experiences.

We need a new Ready or Not iceberg after 1.0! It added so much!

You need a pink transition from the grey man to bright moon cottage to trigger a landing event.

it's pretty cool that hatmans in the game

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

I watched this before bed last night and ended up in the violence district in my dream 🥴

Wow, I was lucky to get some physical copies of this game back in 2005/2006. Awesome.

14:30 that in the end is the mask of "El Santo" a mexican classic wrestler

Seeing this obscure game get covered by caddicarus years ago only for it to return into the public consciousness is a pleasure.

Honestly watching this game I’m creeped out in a way that I haven’t been creeped out in a long time, there’s just something about it that really really makes me nervous and has me on edge but I think I’m gonna give it a shot for myself later Also great video

22:10 , there is a song from the Beatles called "lucy in the sky with diamonds" from 1967 and its, like the game, often times related to drug consumption. Idk if it has anything to do with that, but the similarity of the titles can not be denied, therefor I wanted to mention it. Very good video so far! :)

Bout to listen to this while falling asleep, praying for some LSD dreams

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.

you used the siIvagunner version in Come On And's entry lol

I find it fitting that I can emulate LSD Dream Emulator

"recently" me remembering watching sog and auzuritereaction playing this back in the day

Ever since I was aware of this game a few months ago I’ve been fascinated by it.

Thanks for the iceberg

this game reminds me of another one similar to it, but instead it was third person, and you controlled a guy that didn't have animations, it was a complete static frame of him with one leg up and the other down, one arm up and the other down. i don't know if the game existed to begin with. but it just reminds me of it.

I'm so pissed that i know everything there's to know about this game. I WANT MORE, BUT I CAN'T HAVE MORE

i love the youtube stream starting music as bg music

13:47 Spoken like a true gamer

Not going to do a follow up on Wu Hu Island, I really enjoyed those videos

used to watch videos about this game when i was a kid on my cricket sliding phone

lsd dream emulator is such an interesting game i wish i could play it on the original hardware

Yo seed, butter, new June archive video released

as someone who’s friends online call me spy, this video was a very fun watch