Nightmare Dream Squad
A dream worth waking up for.
Brewster Nightstrider is an owl living with narcolepsy. When his dreams begin to remember him, ordinary life opens onto something impossible.
This is Brewster
Nightstrider.
Great horned owl. Mechanical engineering graduate. Perkatory barista. Living with narcolepsy.
Narcolepsy complicates Brewster’s predawn shifts at Perkatory Coffee Company. He builds ways to stay awake, but no invention can tell him where his dreams have begun to take him.
Places remain when he stops imagining them. Mina Mothwick, a quiet guide to Dream Threads and Frames, knows more than she is ready to explain.
Meet Brewster and the squadA city with its own daily rhythm.
Before the rest of Wokeville is awake, Brewster is due at Perkatory. Even as dreams grow stranger, the coffee orders keep coming.
THE VEIL / ENVIRONMENT CONCEPTEveryone dreams.
Most people never get past their own.
The Veil is not a place on a map. It is the moment waking awareness gives way to dreaming.
Beyond one dream
lie the Etherealms.
The Etherealms are a collection of places beyond any one private dream. The Reverie is only the beginning; farther out, remembered places become wild and the maps grow less certain.
Explore the EtherealmsSomeone eventually tried to organize all of this.
L.U.C.I.D. studies the architecture of dreams and everything that refuses to fit neatly into a category. Threadkeepers go into unstable dream worlds when somebody needs help.
Unfortunately for Brewster, enrollment also involves paperwork.
Enter the field notes
INTERDREAM & DIMENSIONAL STUDIES
Someone has to go in.
Finding out what a dream is trying to tell you is often harder than facing what lives inside it.
Fear isn’t the same
thing as evil.
Some nightmares chase. Some watch. Some protect. The way through begins with the dreamer, not just the creature.
Enter the nightmare archive
Currently dreaming.
Writing, world building, and visual exploration are shaping Nightmare Dream Squad. The world is getting bigger. The nightmares are getting stranger. And Brewster still needs to get to work.
Explore the roadmap UpdatesCreated by
Tomas Quaid.
Tomas Quaid is a writer, creator, and multidisciplinary artist developing Nightmare Dream Squad as an original animated series.
About TomasStay on this side
of the Veil.
Artwork, new creatures, development notes, and occasional transmissions from somewhere they probably shouldn’t be coming from.