Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
What is the shadow that haunts our dreams? And why is he wearing a hat these days? | Visit https://angelarium.shop/ and use my code 'Curious20' for 20% off anything that you find there!
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0:00 The Monster that Appears in Everyone's Dreams
0:47 "Meet the Hat Man..."
1:38 Into the Dream Realm
3:14 Pareidolia
4:15 Sensory Deprivation Demons
6:02 Hello 'The Crungus!'
8:11 Entering the Collective Unconscious
10:51 "Have You Seen This Man?"
12:42 The Dark Internet Theory
14:56 The Monster I Saw Myself
17:30 The Bottom of the Well
20:07 The Monster's True Face
21:00 An Opposing Light [The Angelarium]
Media Shown: Dreamcore, Little Nightmares II, Reanimal, The Babadook, Nosferatu, Nosferatu (2024), Subliminal, Stranger Things, Shadow People, A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, SCP: Secret Laboratory, The Night Walker, Evil, The Nightmare, The Twilight Zone, Hereditary, Lights Out, Come True, Toys, Alice in Wonderland, Spongebob, The Simpsons, Dracula, The Invisible Man, The Mummy, Onibaba, The Old Dark House, Vampyre, Poltergeist, Altered States, Local58TV, High Strange TV, _Boisvert
♫ Music licensed from Epidemic Sound
Sources:
"Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet," (2018) by Will Hunt
"Who is the Hat Man? ‘Shadow people’ and sleep paralysis" (2025) by The Week Staff
"Are the Faces We See in Dreams Borrowed From Real Life?" (2025) by Madison Dapcevich
"Non-Self Characters in Lucid Dreams" (2016) by Patrick McNamara
"A journey inside our unimaginable future" (2022) by Ange Lavoipierre
"AI Dreamed Up a Bizarre Nightmare Creature That Doesn’t Actually Exist… We Hope" (2022) by Noor Al-Sibai
"Hypnagogic Hallucinations" (2022) by Cleaveland Clinic
"DeepDream: How Alexander Mordvintsev Excavated the Computer’s Hidden Layers" (2022) by Arthur I. Miller
"Why Humans See Faces in Everyday Objects (Pareidolia)" (2021) by Jennifer Ouellette
What is the shadow that haunts our dreams? And why is he wearing a hat these days? | Visit https://angelarium.shop/ and use my code 'Curious20' for 20% off anything that you find there!
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0:00 The Monster that Appears in Everyone's Dreams
0:47 "Meet the Hat Man..."
1:38 Into the Dream Realm
3:14 Pareidolia
4:15 Sensory Deprivation Demons
6:02 Hello 'The Crungus!'
8:11 Entering the Collective Unconscious
10:51 "Have You Seen This Man?"
12:42 The Dark Internet Theory
14:56 The Monster I Saw Myself
17:30 The Bottom of the Well
20:07 The Monster's True Face
21:00 An Opposing Light [The Angelarium]
Media Shown: Dreamcore, Little Nightmares II, Reanimal, The Babadook, Nosferatu, Nosferatu (2024), Subliminal, Stranger Things, Shadow People, A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, SCP: Secret Laboratory, The Night Walker, Evil, The Nightmare, The Twilight Zone, Hereditary, Lights Out, Come True, Toys, Alice in Wonderland, Spongebob, The Simpsons, Dracula, The Invisible Man, The Mummy, Onibaba, The Old Dark House, Vampyre, Poltergeist, Altered States, Local58TV, High Strange TV, _Boisvert
♫ Music licensed from Epidemic Sound
Sources:
"Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet," (2018) by Will Hunt
"Who is the Hat Man? ‘Shadow people’ and sleep paralysis" (2025) by The Week Staff
"Are the Faces We See in Dreams Borrowed From Real Life?" (2025) by Madison Dapcevich
"Non-Self Characters in Lucid Dreams" (2016) by Patrick McNamara
"A journey inside our unimaginable future" (2022) by Ange Lavoipierre
"AI Dreamed Up a Bizarre Nightmare Creature That Doesn’t Actually Exist… We Hope" (2022) by Noor Al-Sibai
"Hypnagogic Hallucinations" (2022) by Cleaveland Clinic
"DeepDream: How Alexander Mordvintsev Excavated the Computer’s Hidden Layers" (2022) by Arthur I. Miller
"Why Humans See Faces in Everyday Objects (Pareidolia)" (2021) by Jennifer Ouellette
