LSD: Dream Emulator Wiki
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Cover art for LSD.

LSD is an open world exploration game based on the Dream Journal of Hiroko Nishikawa. This game is filled with complicated mechanics and gameplay elements, which are still being researched.

With no plot or objective to the game, you simply play and explore the dreams the way you want to. Touching objects and the world will link you to different areas or trigger specific clips. This process is called linking.

After the dream ends, it is rated depending on what you did. The achieved rating will determine, where the player spawns on the following day. More information can be found on the Dream Chart page.

When progressing through the dreams, the way you choose to explore will determine how the world changes.

Controls[]

You can explore the dreamscape by using the PSX directional buttons. The X button is for running, R1 and L1 are for looking behind you, R2 and L2 are for strafing, △ is for looking up, ◻ is for looking down. There is also a pause button and buttons for quickly looking behind you, from the left or right respectively.

◯ is stated to have no purpose on the intruction booklet of the game represented by a blank description "------", but some players found it works on some interactions with objects or characters. More info on triggers page.

Explorable Dreams[]

The explorable game session in LSD: Dream Emulator is being called as a dream. Explorable dreams are available to enter almost every day with a small exception for unplayable ones. Each dream has different time for exploration, it depends on what player has seen before. Dream is considered to be long, if it lasts more than 10 minutes. In the dreams, the player can explore the dreamscape and discover new things. There are 14 different areas that the player can explore, some of them can only be accessed through linking with certain objects.

Video & Text Dreams[]

Some dreams may consist only of strange videos, such as a child eating or pigeons flying in slow motion. It's not possible to skip them, and they usually last about a minute. Video dreams can be seen only on unplayable days, or during the video reel. During uplayable days there are also text dreams possible instead of video ones. They simply show a black screen with multiple rows of vertical kanji writings, which tells the player a shortened dream note from Hiroko Nishikawa's dream diary.

Day Type[]

LSD: Dream Emulator has 6 difference types of playable days: A1, B1, A2, B2, A3 & B3. Every day, it's type is being changed to the next one, and this process is looped for the whole walkthrough. Day types control the amount / position of different objects, sometimes it influence the " rareness " of the object. Some days are unplayable, and used to show either text or video dream. More info on Day Type page.

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