Reliquary

What's all this, then?

A reliquary is a container for religious artifacts. Similarly, this page serves to point toward and categorize ("contain" in an informational sense) all media which I felt to be relevant to the Dreamlands Visions, but which I did not create myself. There are three tiers of "relics," based on how related they seemed to the Dreamlands. A Tier-I relic is any piece of media which invoked the Dreamlands so strongly that it either induced a Vision or caused a strong sense of familiarity, to the point of there being no rational explanation for the feeling of the media being so close to that of the Dreamlands. A Tier-II relic is any media which invoked the feeling of the Dreamlands in a less awe-inspiring manner, typically having some reasonable explanation for why it felt similarly. Lastly, a Tier-III relic is any media which simply reminds me of the Dreamlands without actually calling them to mind beyond that. Some "relics" invoke all of the Dreamlands, while others invoke only the Steel Eden, only the Knotted Suburbia, only the Between, or some combination of two of these.

Tier-I Relics

• The album Loveless by My Bloody Valentine, which invoked the Steel Eden so strongly that it caused the First Vision, before all others.
• The album Ideation Deluxe by Graham Kartna, which invokes the Steel Eden
• The album An Empty Bliss Beyond This World by The Caretaker, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The album Geogaddi by Boards of Canada, which invoked the Knotted Suburbia
• The song Jynweythek by Aphex Twin, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The video SpangleBlab Has a Manic Episode by OriginalName, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The video Spingebill Reaches the End of Aquatic Eternity by OriginalName, which invoked the Steel Eden
• Many photographs and videos of Kowloon Walled City, which invoke the Steel Eden

Tier-II Relics

• The album Quark by Jun Fukamachi, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The album Lamp Gensou by Lamp, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The album Selected Ambient Works II by Aphex Twin, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The song Promise (Reprise) from the Silent Hill 2 OST by Akira Yamaoka, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The song Night Running by Shin Sakiura, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The song In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel, which invoked the Dreamlands generally
• The song Little Uneasy by Fazerdaze, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The song Boredom from the Death Note OST by Yoshihisa Hirano and Hideki Taniuchi, which invoked the Between
• The song Define Dancing from the Wall-E OST by Thomas Newman, which invoked the Knotted Suburbia
• The video Spingebill Finds the Michigan Blue Hell by OriginalName, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The video Spingebill Faces Final Judgement by OriginalName, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The video Arthur's No Good, Very Bad Day by OriginalName, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The video I Voiceovered and Sound Designed Over 200+ Weirdcore Images by Polygon Donut, which invoked the Steel Eden and the Knotted Suburbia
• The 2015 videogame SOMA, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The novel Factotum by Charles Bukowski, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The novel Blindsight by Peter Watts, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The general interior setup and design of IKEA, which invoked the Steel Eden

Tier-III Relics

• The album Treasure by Cocteau Twins, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The song 180db_[130] by Aphex Twin, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The song Lithium Flower by Scott Matthew, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The song Cherry-Coloured Funk by Cocteau Twins, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The in-game version of the song Semi-Sacred Geometry from the 2017 game Prey by Mae Whitman, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The song Mind Games from the 2017 Prey OST by Raphael Colantonio and Matt Piersall, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The song True Dreams of Wichita by Soul Coughing, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The song Beyond the Sea by Bobby Darin, which invoked the Knotted Suburbia
• The song We'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The song Sullen Girl by Fiona Apple, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The song Exploration from the Coraline OST by Bruno Coulais, which invoked the Knotted Suburbia
• The song Wybie from the Coraline OST by Bruno Coulais, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The video Malfunction by Cyriak, which invoked the Knotted Suburbia
• The video series ENA by Joel G, which invoked the Knotted Suburbia and the Steel Eden
• The 2022 movie Skinamarink by Kyle Edward Ball, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The 2019 videogame Control, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The 2008 videogame Dead Space, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The 2003 visual novel Saya No Uta by Gen Urobuchi, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The 2017 videogame Prey, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The 2007 videogame Bioshock, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The novel Storm Thief by Chris Wooding, which invoked the Knotted Suburbia
• The novel Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, which invoked the Dreamlands generally
• The manga Blame! by Tsutomu Nihei, which invoked the Steel Eden
• The etching series Carceri d'Invenzione by Giovanni Piranesi, which invoked the Steel Eden

Links

• Go back to the Home page.
• For works based on these experiences, see the Hymns.
• For hypotheses and explanations about these experiences, see the Exegesis.
• For everything else about these experiences, see the Miscellany.
• For info on me, see the About page.