No.979
that's the game fuckmunch, its't just a game
No.980
In my opinion this "cigar is just a cigar" but you can imagine so many things into it and this is what makes it so great. You feel like you know what is happening but you just cant put your finger on it. It fucks with your imagination.
No.996
I'm sure it is, but it's very interesting for me to read people's theories.
No.997
yes i like this theory but what if instead mado was raped
No.999
>>997Also, my friend thinks the same thing as the OP.
If the OP is my friend Jacob I'm going to laugh my ass off.
No.1021
Kinda pointless since you posted an image that looks like it's an homage to LSD, meaning it has meaning. As a homage.
It all has meaning but we'll never know. Kikiyama probably made it to generate rumours and fan theories anyways. We'll never know for certain but it's fun to speculate. That means pretty much all theories are just interpretations and are all correct.
No.1047
hm, i'm going to hijack this thread since i can't seem to post a thread of my own, ("request seems automated" etc..) and because i want to disagree itt
No.1048
>>1021anyway what i want to disagree with is this kind of dismissive attitude of looking at this game as just solely "randum lol" and weird for the sake of weird. esp. when looking at what a lot of people call the "aztec" imagery
No.1051
in response to the claim above about the "aztec rave monkey" *
No.1052
>>1049typo, its actually "paracas" look it up if you're interested
No.1059
also, in the first image i posted (a still from the eyeball world) the figure in the background is clearly vomiting a snake in the same way
No.1060
Taking the similarities in imagery between yume nikki and peruvian art and applying them to the game, you get a more clear understanding of the intent of the game, the "meaning" in other words. The importance of the game lies in the dreams/visions themselves (obv..) as the title of the game implies, and the ending is less important, though it should make more sense in this interpretation. this game has heavy symbolism which tries to show the player the importance of facing your own sickness, be it through dreams, nightmares or your waking hours, dreams are a last connection to human nature and the peruvian understanding of this is more intellectual than any modern understanding of dreams.
the dreams mirror actual dreams in their perceived pointlessness and "randomness" but underneath that is the things you are most sensitive to and most afraid of, which of course are the things that are most important to realize and to face.
No.1065
>>1049Those're some pretty interesting comparisons. Definitely seems like it was intentional as well, with how similar some of them look.
In response to
>>1050 though, I want to point out that what
>>1021 meant by "LSD" was the game "LSD: Dream Emulator" rather than the drug. The style of the one in
>>973 is kinda similar to some of the stuff in LSD (examples in the picture I included). I'd say there's a good chance LSD: Dream Emulator inspired Yume Nikki to some extent, based on some of the similarities both have, like the whole "dream exploration" concept or the noisy footsteps/tile sounds, so I could see some of these creatures being inspired both by LSD and Peruvian art.
No.1066
>>1065oh dang, my bad. yeah, i should've known, i've heard about that game
No.1082
>>1065LSD isn't the only game that has those bizarre faces. They're the art of the guy who created it. He also did a few other games that are worth looking up. He has a youtube channel with most of his game's openings. There are more assymetrical faces that look closer to the things in Yume Nikki in that game where that guy loses his soul and he has to go to the island to get it back. His youtube page even has iphone applications to generate your own faces in his style.
I'll post it here later on.
No.1089
>>973thanks. idk, maybe i still need to develop the ideas further
No.1092
>>1089>>1089I just found this thread, and I would have to say go for it. I'm going to have to read into it as well. The similarities are uncanny.
No.1093
>>1092Also I'd just like to add it's nice to see the peruvian stuff in Yume Nikki. It's a nice change from other games that use heaven and hell like symbolism, with angels and demons and shit.
No.1095
>>1093The reason that theme gets old is because there's a plethora of ancient texts from various religions they could use and they choose the black and white good vs evil theme.
It's never a Tower of Babel thing.
No.1135
Oh hey, a shit thread saved by holo!
Also, i must add ,about Yume Nikki being inspired by LSD dream emulator, that the abstract art in LSD, those faces, and even the logo make an "appearance" in yume nikki, while i can't take pictures, the faces in the infinite road in the dense woods
http://images.wikia.com/yumenikki/images/c/c6/Dense_Woods_A_Area%27.pngClosely ressemble to the faces from LSD
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/LSD_Coverart.pngI don't know, when i first played LSD, it shocked me to see how familiar those faces were.
No.1161
>>1156well, most of what i've written about comes from my own knowledge on the subject and from my major of American Indian Studies (emphasis on religion and language)
however i do have sources (books, mainly) for interest, further research etc
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2415318.The_Nazca_Linesthis book has one of the best explanations of the Nazca Lines significance i've ever read, and gets deep into ties to dreams and afterlives.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2333360.The_Myths_and_Religion_of_the_Incasthis book is pretty expansive, and has some sections on specifically paracas or Peruvian art, that are pretty "good reads"
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/437878.Lazo_a_la_Luna_Moon_RopeThis book is a simple folktale retelling, but there are underlying meanings which are pretty relevant and it can help you get an understanding of the culture
No.1162
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/735530.The_Andean_Codexcontains a collection of words and knowledge collected from Peruvian Incan modern day elders, storytellers and shamans, obviously this is relevant and touches on a lot of the ritual aspects, like the vomiting
No.1163
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/48296/Mantle_known_as_The_Paracas_Textile_Fragmentsthis small description is interesting as well, see the last part about the textile's reference to birth and death
No.1240
peruvian anon here, acctually paracas was a tribe that was before the incas and the incas conquisted.
Fun Facts:
-they momified the dead people and warp them in mantles, the mantles
the mantles looked like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Paracas_Mantle.jpgremenber those facesin the upper left?..
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110422161220/yumenikki/es/images/a/a5/Numberworld.jpg…
- the parakas made cranial trepanations to heal their people.
they belived that evil spirits where inside people's minds and (or cranium) so the spirit could be released
im sorry I can't give mor information, this is what I remenber from middle school
No.1242
I Agree with you, anyone can come up with an idea based on how much a person knows the world, some members confused this simbols with aztec simbols.
No.1251
I think this should be a whole article on some blog/whatever that people could refer to.
No.1253
hey, yeah, that would be a great, if someone wanted to compile this info and sources, from myself and from others who posted in this thread feel free.
I am kind of busy lately, but there is certainly more to look into here
No.1254
>>1240thanks for the knowledge and corrections, especially since its more directly a part of your history. anyone else with ideas / firsthand knowledge definitely should post itt, sourced or not.
No.1255
holo can I have your sources? I want to read more about Paracas.
No.1257
>>1255yeah sure, as I put in
>>1161 this is a great source:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2333360.The_Myths_and_Religion_of_the_Incasbut also many books which are focused on the Inca (the tribe which succeeded Paracas) have whole sections on pre- Inca culture aka Paracas, see here
http://www.amazon.com/Peruvian-Prehistory-Overview-Pre-Inca-Society/dp/0521275555many of these books can be loaned from any library which has a copy through inter library loan (this is worldwide) or through amazon books
No.1259
Dear Holo:
I have to say that, thanks to you, I see this game in a really fucking different point of view than before.
I used to see it so deep, but I didn't get what it was. And, after read this thread… god. I swear that it was like a 'Click' in my head.
IT IS MUCH DEEPER THAN WHAT I THOUGHT!
Really, thank you, dude.
No.1266
What if the creator just decided to put peruvian stuff into the game because it looks cool?
No.1273
What if the writer of this
>>1266 quoted post just wrote that because he though it sounded cool?
(don't even think of explaning you didn't, because then I'll say that you wrote the explanation because it sounded cool, too.)
The point I'm trying to make is that "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" is an interpretation that can be applied to anything, but it won't lead us anywhere, so is better to think about other explanations (if you want, that is)
No.1275
>>1274>There's no story or purpose in particular, it is a game of just walking aroundYeah, I totally throw myself out of the window every time I just go walking around.
Not to mention the empty room and the crazy dreams
No.1276
love you all
No.1288
>>1274As far as I understand this is machine translation, right? I believe that the story refers to the plot, like no storyline, no events, no restrictions, but not the contents, the MEANING, something like that
No.1300
WHY DOES EVERYONE THINK SHE WAS RAPED.
WHY.
BECAUSE PERVERTS, THATS WHY.
No.1304
>>1300Well yeah. This is a fandom for an obscure Japanese game about a presumably underage girl, so I'd be surprised if it weren't full of perverts obsessing about rape.
No.1337
he probably researched a bunch of things and wanted to subconsciously distribute this knowledge via the game in a fun way
to get us to research
to help us know pointless things that are cool
No.1338
>>1337I don't think it's pointless at all
No.1340
>>1274If s/he explained what it's all about it wouldn't be much fun would it?
No.1341
That dream spirit in the eye-ball world is holding madotsuki's head upside down. Does that mean anything in particular?
No.1342
>>1341*In peruvian folklore that is.
No.1345
>>1300Because there's quite a bit of penis or vagina like imagery. It's also an obvious trauma to assign to her to explain her potential issues.
I would nearly go with the trans theory first.
Holo, your posts were really amazing and informative, I wouldn't quite know where to begin following it up.
I'd be really interested in what you think of the rest of the game outside of the obvious Peruvian influence given your view of the game as a whole must no doubt be much deeper than ours, having made that connection?
What do you think the other underlying themes are and the meaning behind the various iconic scenes?
No.1348
>>1345Yeah, I won't doubt that the game contains sexual / phallic imagery, often in an odd or almost "evil" manner. This seems to me to be really Representative of actual sexual themes in dreams, here I can only speak from experience (hehhe) but sexual symbolism in dreams is often weird, inappropriate or implied in very odd, subconscious ways, which give the impression of some kind of abnormal sexual psychology, which in this games case, is being interpreted as a trauma or even rape.
As for my thoughts of other themes in the game, or the game as a whole, I have been again rethinking a lot about this game after a recent re-playthrough. The game does make, to some extent, a statement on the NEET lifestyle, and the extremes of human isolation, and not just in Japan, it's pretty universal.
Taking the ending into consideration, I would say it's quite a bitter outlook, but essentially; Your dreams are trying to tell you something, something which is encoded in all people, but has been forgotten because of the new way in which society works, in the major cities across the world, the depression of living in isolation is even greater, for you are living with so many opportunities but somehow are missing them all. Speaking again from experience, this is the most useless and painful existence you could fall into. When you enter a cycle of self seclusion, it's really really hard to break out, and you can lose whole years of possible experiences, loves, friends, everything. Your dreams in the game are trying to tell you you have to wake up, both mentally and quite literally, don't sit in your room dreaming, you will end up essentially dead (even if the suicide isn't literal as it is in the game).
If your dreams are distorted and cruel, it is an internal sign that you have to change something, and quite often, you yourself know exactly what you have to change.
But idk, maybe i'm just an idiot NEET haha
No.1351
>>1348I like you!
I'm gonna make a theory thread soon. Please read it!
No.1370
>>1365This is it but what is the tie between the paracas and YN ?
Did they have some sort of philosophy about dreams ?
No.1371
>>1370They thought there were demons in your head which you exorcised via ritual. Thus, throwing up, and cranial deformations. They also practiced ritual sacrifice, which you could say Madotsuki also does with the denizens of her mind when she kills them to reach a goal- such as killing the big nose thing in the White Desert to reach Monoe's Tunnel.
No.1423
>>1422The Nazca lines are only clearly visible from bird’s eye view, just like the images in Graffiti world.
The also bare resembles like the monkey tail and the 2 hands one has 3 fingers and the other 5.
No.1449
>>1434That Japanese guy who updated the Yume Nikki wikia did a pretty good job of comparing real life artifacts and even artwork with the things in Yume Nikki. THere's a big thread on yume nikki general. I just felt like I had to plug it.
I'm pretty sure the cat was supposed to be based on a figure of speech, I'll have to look through the wikia posts again to find it.
No.1552
>>1449The common way of explanation, especially if it's somewhat deviant, is through references which often are mundane in one way or another.
All these theories are but different sides of the same coin. The world differs throughout both time and space and a lot of occurances we call "colorful" take place everywhere all the time. Variating these aspects is merely a means to elude the flaws of human nature.
Just look at the fingers on your hand and you have Yume Nikki's meta level in a nutshell.
Any kind of disagreement is like arguing over which color is best for a chair which is going on the fire in five minutes.
I am not going to be any more "inhuman" than anyone else in creating similarities to the Big Bang in which whence everything started it slowly drifts apart finitely eventually to get fused together into the entity from which it once started.
If an answer to this "game" even exists it's the most primal, simple of epiphanies. Existing in the borderland where the deepest of depths finally tips over into the most simplistic of trivialities.
The best way I can tie all the above together is to simply ask you to look at your own hand. If your brain is working you'll hopefully stumble across a relevant solution in due time.
Also, Holo sounds like a twat.
No.1553
>>1552
>Hi, I try to sound deep saying all the theories in a game where you take your own conclusion are stupid. Look how deep I am that I saw more than you all and I got the true answer; just look at your hand, there is.Semen?
No.1555
>>1553Ah, thank you very much for proving my point. Almost ironically coincidental I'd have to say.
No.1556
>>1554Yerp. Fisted brutally, and against her will. Look at your hand, that was the weapon used.
>LOOK AT YOUR HAND No.1558
>>1555Still tryin' to sound 2deep4u, son?
Look at your hand.
No.1561
>>1558Okay. I guess I posted on the wrong board. Or even on the wrong site.
I have to admit I honestly thought this board was for Yume Nikki theories instead of trolling.
You may delete my entries if I have upset you. Sorry.
No.1565
>>1552Hmm I happen to agree with you, and I think we are saying a lot of the same things, just in different ways. I think my understanding of the game comes down to literally the same thing as what you said, and that it is a personal meaning, the "point" of the game coming not from the symbolism I pointed out, but the human implications they convey and make me feel, call me a twat all you want (which idfk why you did anyway) but a "simple epiphany" is a valuable thing
No.1575
holo, thanks for the book recommendations! I'm a biochem/ecology guy but I love reading about the myths and beliefs, psychology etc. of indigenous cultures of the Americas. Good YN theories too!
No.1996
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