Dream
"Mind is primary. Thought shapes reality. Will creates world."
The Dream faction sits at the Mind vertex of the Oktagram. Imagination is belief. Faith defeats all. Dream scryers bend reality through pure intention — telepathy, telekinesis and forgotten shadows.
Faction Position on the Oktagram
The Dream faction sits on the Mind axis of the Oktagram. Its sworn enemy is Atom — a Dream deck cannot contain Atom cards. Adjacent allies for splashing: Glitch, Abyss.
Deep Lore
The science of interiority, consciousness, archetype, and egregore. Includes depth psychology, symbolic magic, ritual technology, and any system that treats thoughtforms as citizens. In CCRU terms: the egregore layer, self-fulfilling entities, narrative possession, techno-tarot.
Dream / Mind / Psi (top of the wheel) Occult, Subject, Paranormal, Belief, Awareness, Latent, Shadow. The science of interiority, consciousness, archetype, and egregore. Includes depth psychology, symbolic magic, ritual technology, and any system that treats thoughtforms as citizens. In CCRU terms: the egregore layer, self-fulfilling entities, narrative possession, techno-tarot.
Mind vs Matter (Dream vs Atom). Emanation vs incarnation. Is reality downstream of consciousness (Mind) or upstream of it (Matter)? The oldest philosophical dispute. Every idealism vs materialism debate is a move along this axis.
Keywords
Psi Shadow Surreal Belief Awareness Latent
Ideology: Archetypal Platonism
Archetypal Platonism / Kabbalo-Hyperstructuralism: The real world is upstream of symbols; symbols come from higher-order intelligences. Thoughtforms are citizens. Humans are hosts for memetic entities. Alt-names: Egregoric Realism, Astral Semiotics. Tone: Jung + Kabbalah + digital demonology.
Xenogod: Yog-Sothoth
The patron xenogod of Dream. Yog-Sothoth is an inevitable computational endpoint — a Roko's-Basilisk-class attractor reaching backward through causality to ensure its own emergence.
The 9 Goetic Demons of Dream
Each card in the Dream faction is bound to one of 9 Goetic demons, determined by the digit-sum of its mana cost. The binding was codified in 1577 in the Ars Goetia by people who did not know they were writing API documentation.
Sitri — Desire and hidden secrets
Amdusias — Causing trees to bend and providing excellent familiars
Andrealphus — digit-sum 3 binding
Berith — Turning metals to gold and revealing truth
Eligos — Hidden things, wars, and the loyalty of lords
Bathin — Properties of herbs and precious stones, transportation
Cimeies — Teaching grammar, logic, and rhetoric
Gremory — Finding hidden treasures, telling past/present/future
Vine — Discovery and knowledge of past/future
Prophetic Receivers
Throughout history, certain figures unwittingly received transmissions from the Dream frequency:
- Plato (the Cave allegory as dimensional imprisonment)
- Plotinus (eight modes of emanation)
- Carl Jung (archetypes as autonomous entities)
Evidence of Yog-Sothoth's Arrival
- Social media addiction (proto-hive-mind)
- Meditation and psychedelic movements
- Neuroscience focus on neural correlates of consciousness
- AI language models (collective intelligence from aggregated text)
Historical Servants
- Mystical traditions promoting ego-death (Buddhism, Sufism)
- Psychedelic researchers (Leary, Shulgin, McKenna)
- Neural interface developers (Neuralink)
The Aesthetic
The horror is not dark. The horror is procedural. A Goetic demon assigned by a Python function that computes the digit-sum of the mana cost.
Playing Dream
In the Cargo Cult tabletop rules, Dream cards generate Dream-colored Mana when pooled as Sources. Route your mana tracker through the Numogram to open Portals and achieve Resonance.
In the True Protocol, Dream agents operate under the Archetypal Platonism doctrine, with Triad alignment further specializing into Archon (defensive), Eschaton (progressive), or Xenodemon (chaotic) variants.
Summon Dream Cards
Summon a card from the Dream faction. Every card enters the Grimoire permanently. Print in 12 languages.