I found it funny how a lot of people were disappointed about learning the Nowhere is another realm, but in my opinion, that adds a new layer of horror. Firstly, imagine the parents POV. You're kid has been having strange nightmares, and one morning, their bed is empty. The horror of your child simply disappearing and never knowing how or where they went. Secondly, with the exception of kids possibly building their own homes, there's no adults to save them. There's no place for children to find comfort other than other kids... if they can even find another. And thirdly, it adds so much mystery as to "Who" is in charge? Is it the eyes? Thinman? Ferryman? What if the Ferryman is simply one of the many monsters?
@@beeman2434 at first, they come back. But when they cross the "Treshold" with the Ferryman, they dissapear forever and are stuck in the Nowhere permanently. We don't know if it's possible to escape back into the "real" world. We might find out in the third game.
Who’s in charge isn’t the right question. It’s who’s in control. The Lady rules the Maw because she provides food for all and then consumes everyone on board, The Thin Man rules that dreary city because all creatures live in fear and awe of his power. Theirs no Order in Nowhere, none that matters anyways. The “Rulers” of Nowhere stand at a supreme point of power none can challenge like Parents standing over their Children. Theirs nothing enforcing their authority than how they provide and the internalized logic of following them.
Im delighted by the use of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, it’s such a clever way to break down the meaning of every part of Nowhere. I find it refreshing to see this part of psychology applied to a story (since most things about psychology seem to be on the more biology side)
This is actually something I've been wondering about since it was revealed the games are in a literal nightmare realm, and more or less matches my own conclusion. I figured parts of the world manifest as a direct result of the needs/desires of the children who end up in Nowhere. Not the protagonists specifically, any given child would do. The themes of escapism have been quite blatant since 2, meaning their desires taking on physical form works perfectly. On that particular note, I like the fact that, by this reasoning, the Signal Tower is still something truly other, even in a nightmare realm. It's likely the reason the Viewers look the way they do, and potentially so much other weird stuff is how it is in the Pale City. Not to mention all the potential time-space weirdness suggested by the time paradox Mono is trapped in. I wonder if the Mall could have similar potential. I doubt we'll ever know.
Love this idea! I remember when I first heard the Sounds of Nightmares, I wasn’t too thrilled when I learned that it was a sort of ‘dream state’ rather than being a real place. Overtime though it’s grown on me through others theories like these as there could be deeper reasons behind it. I await more of your theories! You have earned a new subscriber
Insanity is defined as the process of repeating the same actions, expecting a different result. Repeating over, and over, and over again. Getting nowhere. Getting…INTO Nowhere, perhaps..?
Wouldn’t entertainment be a cognitive need? Doing the same task over and over can actually rot the brain. Entertainment allows the mind to flex and grow. With the bad twist being escapism.
..... wouldn't the signal tower be the cognitive need? i know the phrase "TV rots your brain" implies the opposite, but mental stimulation is still stimulation
you earned my sub, little nightmares is my favourite game series of all time and I'm very impatiently waiting for a release date for the third since its nearly been 7 months since they announced it
This is so good. At very few points you lost me a bit, but I have no problem listening more attentively. You could work on not rushing it, but the video can't be an hour long. You are the best one at explaining this. And you don't have to apply any of this. If you keep doing this good, then it's better than listening to that one person and applying it. That can make it worse.
That does make a lot of sense. Sort of reminds me of my own theory about how it functions (with the kids growing or turning into nomes or adults). My theory is that it's incredibly dependant on memories and how forgetting makes them grow up meantime having them stolen nomes them.
I love how far the game actually got from a small and silly little horror game to a 4 part series with a podcast and a dlc + a huge community that theorises and realy goes in depth with the lore awesome game with a cool community
Because little nightmares three is a cash grab. That's why there was no proper DLC for part 2. We have seen smaller companies.do this a million times and you're not gonna get any real answers in little nightmares 3 because they want to keep it going forever. I could not stop laughing at the baby.In part three it looks ridiculous and the color palate of the world does not look interesting. Part three is a cash grab most likely and I will not buy it until it has been well reviewed.
@@lancenatsim2720 Think what you want. The audio books that were given literally explain everything the games bring into question, so why make a 3rd one if that lure is gone? The reason is passion. You didn't find the giant baby scary. Ok, I did. You find the color pallete bland, I like how different it looks for each area showcased, and it always looks drab! You call it a cash grab, yet it looks better than both prior games.
@@lancenatsim2720 "I personally didn't like what little we've seen of the game so far so blatantly it's just a low-effort cash grab." Careful, your ego is showing.
This is such a good video. I always were curious about the meanings and Themes in Little Nightmares but I have never found good lore videos about it. This channel sparked my curiosity again. I will keep an eye on your uploads!
They said there’s ’no craftsman’ in nowhere so the entity creates all the objects but I think it can only create what the kids minds show it hence why it’s all traumatic and childlike, the school with the bullies, the nest , the doctor (we know noone has doctor trauma so others could too) and the factory with the sweets possibly a consequence of one of the children Otto has pushed into nowhere referencing the possibly narcotic sweets he gives the kids
This is an incredible video and one of the most interesting Little Nightmares Analysis that ive seen! I actually viewed this a while ago but have decided to comment now as this viewpoint of Nowhere has inspired a lot of how I see Little Nightmares since. Great work!
I have another idea based on the theory the nowhere is based on unmet needs: it's designed to keep its inhabitants there by both giving and taking away accessibility to a need. The Maw satisfies hunger, but makes it so the guests cannot be full. It eases and causes hunger, making its guests need to stay there because there might not be food anywhere else. At another angle: it satisfies the need for more food, but it still has the emotions of the distressed dreamer; who is being denied food. Maybe out of the dreamers fear they can never be full based on whatever circumstances. But at least here, the hungry dreamer has a chance at survival, so they stay. Six's hunger is born AND satisfied in the maw during her time there. The circus kids earn respect AND get denied agency.
Will you do mostly little nightmares now or are there other games that picque your interest? Other games that are very interesting to talk about are hyper light drifter, rain world, outer wilds, blasphemous, grime, the last faith, death's gambit, ghost song, chants of sennaar, penumbra, amnesia, INSIDE or any fromsoft game. I'd watch any of these topics because i love your video format, and even though i'm far from the biggest little nightmares fan i still watch these as your videos ar very well made. I discovered your channel through the afterimage video and then binged all your ender lillies content as well. I've yet to play signalis but i'll gladly check out that video after i have
For the next little while I'll be prioritizing LN, but I'm definitely planning to cover more games! I want the channel to have a diverse spread, and several of the titles you listed are are on my list of potential topics 😁
Entertainment can be placed in Cognitive imo, since it's mental stimulation in some way. We need entertainment to maintain a semblance of enjoyment and, to a degree, sanity.
I would argue that each location represents a fear which has a need associated to it. For example, to give into your physiological needs, would be to give into your fear of privation, which would make you fall into the Maw's trap. To overcome that fear would be to overcome that need, which is seemingly what Six achieves in LN 1. Which is also, in turn, superhuman. Similarly, the need for escapism could be associated to a fear or distrust of human connection/love. Therefore The Pale City, which is known to represent escapism, could also be related to the need for Love and Belonging.
As a fellow theorist and theorist debunker, I LOVE the logic and the science you took while compiling this Theory. However, you touch on topics that describe what could or could NOT be the meanings of the placement of entities like the Teacher, Doctor, etc, but you never really touch on the topic of the Pretender, and all of the entities in Very Little Nightmares in particular, and what kind of plain on your scale they represent, like for instance what you said about the Doctor, "He makes patients to achieve perfection that he will never get". Where, in that aspect would it place the creatures of VLN? What would that say about the Butler and Doll maker? Would they just simply be there to cater to the needs of the Pretender, as in this world children wouldn't normally get such treatment (ie the bullies from the school), or is there some kind of unfinished achievement they're lurking toward but never getting? I also find interesting that you bring up the nest as a home, and things like the pretender to be a "sibling" or "supposed to be sibling" even though the world of Little nightmares is based on trauma as confirmed by the podcast makers. Which trauma would she then represent, seeing as how she is the main big bad of VLN. You also say that Six finds her iconic coat in the Pale City, which while that IS true, she initially pulled it from the water after the coat's original owner perished after her showdown with the pretender in VLN before losing it, and finding it again in the Pale City. So what happened during that Six initially pulled it from the water, and how could it have ended up in the Pale city? unless Six has been there before and LOST it there. As shown in the trailer for LN 3, The Nowhere may be entire separate regions created by the mind, but it's not necessarily hard to get to, especially if you claim the school and the hospital in LN 2 are regions themselves even though they are located within the Pale City. Otherwise, how did Six get from the Nest, to the Wilderness to travel with Mono through the Pale City and betray him, JUST to end up on the Maw miraculously, and especially if she's crossed the threshold permanently? The only ones we know of with these kinds of powers thus far is Mono with T.V.s, and Low with Mirrors. Six only has the hunger, but only recieves it after her showdown with the Lady. But she leaves the Maw, and that's the last we see Six, Unlike Mono who is forever trapped in a timeloop, and forced to stay in the tower until released again by his, for lack of better term, better half. In the podcast, Noone travels from region to region, yes, but that was only because she didn't cross over fully. So how would Low, being fully stuck for according to creators "a long time", without his powers or before getting them go place to place to just so happen run into Alone? Just to debunk the "only children with trauma goes to the nowhere", you are right on that as creators even confirmed it with a single voiceline from the ferry man himself while talking to Otto in the final chapter, and Noone's final line before it cuts off where she states that the secret of the nowhere was to take what's broken, and create a "better you". Only difference in this twisted story of Peter pan and Wendy is that when you go to this "Neverland" to become as Noone states, it is a false hope that mangles the perception of being better, only to no longer realize that you are in actuality worse off because you no longer have humanity, one of the key sources of humans, within you. Why else would the doctor be "operating on patients", and think he's doing God's work? He lost his humanity! Same thing for the creature in the Podcast you deem as "The Collector". Noone proves this by saying, "He wasn't always like that though." And the nome showing her a lone propeller cap further proves this notion that once in this world and CONSUMED by it, you lose what was once you, and the unthinkable and unimaginable that you never consider doing becomes the possible. In other words, as a kid you'd never harm nobody mortally on purpose out of cruelty, but if you remove that sense of humanity, it goes out the window, leaving a savage husk of your former or rather "Former" self. I myself has a theory as to who Cici may be. When Noone mentions a yellow raincoat, Otto seemingly perks up at the thought. This means Cici had a yellow raincoat, and most minds would float toward Six being Cici. BUT! Six never had the coat until the girl with the braid, as she's so fondly called, in Very Little Nightmares perishes. So what if this girl with the braid IS in fact CICI? Another interesting thing I'd like to point out is that in the release image promoting LN 3, if you brighten the image and look into the black vortex in front of the mirror behind low and Alone, there is a hidden entity that looks like it depicts a skull figure with ram horns. Just a little thing I spotted, though it may just be me. Sorry this is so long, I LOVE theories I can correlate with and giving my own thoughts and debunking them. Keep it up😊!
You make a lot of great points here! I did neglect to mention the specific monsters of VLN, and probably could have spent a bit more time on that section - the Nest is definitely one of the most unique places we know of so far. And I agree that Cici being the braid girl would make a lot of sense! I'm really interested to see if LN3 continues the story of the podcast to any extent, and if we might get more hints regarding this stuff.
@@indiexplorergames I'm looking forward to it as well :). Super psyched even to see where the plot leads, especially if it works in tandem with the podcast! I hope you have yourself a wonderful day, and thank you:)
If i were design a little nightmare level. I will design a mothman who Iseed a city and turn everyone in the city into tree. The town exist because of adultry
Having arrived here just after watching your excellent Signalis videos, I am struck about how Nowhere in Little Nightmares is a children's version of the twisted reality Alina created from her nightmares. Maybe the red wasteland was Alina's portion of Nowhere?
The mystery around Little Nightmares makes it even better because we can speculate and, therefore, create a Little Nightmares world that makes sense to what we individually take from the franchise. Anonymity meeting Individual Imaginations equals happy fans. So don't Demand to know what the creator's story is, put your imagination to work & use your own ideas to build what you perceive/get out of the games into your very own story! 😊 even if the creators were to spread out their whole plan, we would still tweak it because we like to create! 🎉
I personally have never liked the idea of Nowhere being a dream realm…mostly because it just feels like the trope of “it was all a dream” with extra steps…like, why can’t the world just be naturally fucked up? Why do we need to explain why everything works, even if just talking around it like the guy in the interview seemed to be doing? Even my other favorite horror franchises, FNaF and Bendy, don’t explain how or why EVERYTHING works, as far as I know, it’s never really explained HOW remnant and spirits work in FNaF work, or HOW the ink world was created in Bendy…why can’t little nightmares be a similar situation? Show the “what” but leave the “how” and “why” up to interpretation…we’ve never seen the inner workings of the Little Nightmares world outside of the Maw and the comics, which have a rather questionable canonicity. The people of the Pale City are obviously glued to their TVs, but then where do the Doctor’s patients come from? Where do the Guests come from? What’s the day to day life of the monsters? Show elements of THAT, don’t just hand wave it as “it’s all a dream” and move on…let this be a lived in world that is just, incredibly messed up without explanation as to WHY. I understand that making this the waking world would lead to the question of “where do the children come from in a world of monsters?” But we KNOW from LN2, that children can BECOME the monsters, the same is implied in LN1, so saying that the children are all just taken from the waking world…feels lazy. I remember in the Little Nightmares comics, it showed Six being taken from a city filled with Guests TOO the Maw…THAT makes the world feel lived in, Six is still- to our eyes -an ordinary girl, but no one cares about children in this world, they have no agency, and it’s never explained WHY…I think THAT is much more interesting than “it’s a collective dream realm”
Ln does it right they dont force you to be in an alternate boring dimension for all eternity like the backrooms. When i heard them talk in sounds of nightmares, it was revolutionary.
So technically that means that Six had a need for food, escapism and clothes (and a few more)? I dont even want to know what she had to endure to have these needs understanding how the nowhere works makes the backstories so much more deeper and painful
How do we know any of the children we see DO grow up? Maybe they succumb to what the adults have in each game when they age to double digits/teens. Not an argument but a possible answer 😊
We see mono grow over time to become the thin man but we know he's in a loop so may not be accurate and speak for the universe as a whole. Might just be his individual story
Probably, as adults can't go to the nowhere Also we see mono grow up, and six presumably replaces the lady, I'd say it's a fair assumptiom that the other adults replaced their previous counterparts too
This is well explained in the Sounds of Nightmares podcast! Nowhere literally changes the children's brains, causing a tumor to grow in their amygdala that alters both fear response and emotional salience. This also causes physical discomfort like terrible headaches, pain that is immediately relieved whenever the child visits Nowhere. As a result, Noone describes feeling more "whole" there, and also feels wanted, special. Essentially, Nowhere manipulates children both physically and emotionally until they're ready to choose it over their normal lives.
I also wonder if any of the leaders of these nightmare regions have met each other. The janitor and the chefs or the teacher and the daughter or if like some of the monaters manifest to serve the apecific monsters. Nightmare
I don't understand why entertainement couldn't be in the cognitive needs as escapism is a need to look for something new that might change our perception or develop creativity in our everyday and sometime morose life.
Given that "biblically accurate angels" are noted for being made up of many eyes, and arguements can be made that fear devouring beings of similar nature are fallen angels within that framework.
@@indiexplorergames If you're familiar with Gnosticism, the fallen angels in that myth that once ruled mankind and are now cast into the darkness that feed off mankind are called the Watchers. That would be a good title for these beings
Not all heavenly things. We got a lot of stories in the Bible where angels show themselves and they look like man. As the Bible says any enterment angels not knowing it. Samson parents run up on a angel telling them about they child to be born. Some angels have heads of animals just like the pictures we see of ancient people showed but written in the Bible. Than there the weird animals like things like horses. We get small look into what heaven is like. A lot of other of world things. Some have lots of eyes but not all of them. It like here on earth not all things on this earth is not things there billions of different looking things. Many have seen angels even to this day. Many saving their life appearing as a normal man like the guy that was in the army. Like that guy that got lost from his unite. The guy appeared and help him appeared as a solider. When he found the guy direction he founded his unit. The guy have no record of him at all in no unit or the name the guy give him. The man realized it was supernatural how he knew where the enemy was and where his unit was. So you not reading the whole picture of the Bible like many people do these days.
@@Pulapaws Rather, you're not clearly reading my message but just looking for a reason to jump in and egotize through a religious lens. At no point did I say all angels have a single appearance. I am aware there are different classifications of Celestial beings.The quotations around "biblically accurate" are a reference to the current colloqualism going around on social media for the class of Celestials known as Seraphim or Cherubim, sometimes accompanied by the Wheels known as Ophanium. In a unfallen state the multiple eyes of such a being would be engulfed with wings, the fire of the holy presence, and occasionally a tetrad body. In a fallen state, such as the imprisoned Watchers from the Book of Enoch we were in fact discussing, not the Bible (again read before you respond), would be little more than eyes with a void, forever little more than echo of their former Divine self and forced to feed on the fears of children to survive. Try studying the mythology of your own chosen cult before claiming to be an expert in it.
Its kind of uncanny that this particular lore is similar to mine that I'm making, not that i took this lore and make it my own. Edit: i did typed this but i did not want that to be in the comments so i decided to delete it.
So then would it be plausibly the pale city was born from collective children using television for escapism and then even places inside such as the school may be born from the lollipop boy being abused and bullied by his classmates and possibly even his teacher. Maybe he noticed she had an abnormally long neck and thats why our tracher has her abilities. It would be likely then the maw was born of a child who was starved
I found it funny how a lot of people were disappointed about learning the Nowhere is another realm, but in my opinion, that adds a new layer of horror.
Firstly, imagine the parents POV. You're kid has been having strange nightmares, and one morning, their bed is empty. The horror of your child simply disappearing and never knowing how or where they went.
Secondly, with the exception of kids possibly building their own homes, there's no adults to save them. There's no place for children to find comfort other than other kids... if they can even find another.
And thirdly, it adds so much mystery as to "Who" is in charge? Is it the eyes? Thinman? Ferryman? What if the Ferryman is simply one of the many monsters?
wait so when the kids go in the dream to the nowhere and their bodys disspear are they gone forever or only until they wake up
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If they are PHYSICALLY THERE, they are forever gone
If they are DREAMING, they just disappear till they wake up.
@@beeman2434 at first, they come back. But when they cross the "Treshold" with the Ferryman, they dissapear forever and are stuck in the Nowhere permanently. We don't know if it's possible to escape back into the "real" world. We might find out in the third game.
Who’s in charge isn’t the right question. It’s who’s in control. The Lady rules the Maw because she provides food for all and then consumes everyone on board, The Thin Man rules that dreary city because all creatures live in fear and awe of his power. Theirs no Order in Nowhere, none that matters anyways. The “Rulers” of Nowhere stand at a supreme point of power none can challenge like Parents standing over their Children. Theirs nothing enforcing their authority than how they provide and the internalized logic of following them.
@@ivon1671 It's confirmed that the boy in the third game is traveling to a certain place that could possibly take him home!
Im delighted by the use of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, it’s such a clever way to break down the meaning of every part of Nowhere. I find it refreshing to see this part of psychology applied to a story (since most things about psychology seem to be on the more biology side)
This is actually something I've been wondering about since it was revealed the games are in a literal nightmare realm, and more or less matches my own conclusion. I figured parts of the world manifest as a direct result of the needs/desires of the children who end up in Nowhere. Not the protagonists specifically, any given child would do. The themes of escapism have been quite blatant since 2, meaning their desires taking on physical form works perfectly.
On that particular note, I like the fact that, by this reasoning, the Signal Tower is still something truly other, even in a nightmare realm. It's likely the reason the Viewers look the way they do, and potentially so much other weird stuff is how it is in the Pale City. Not to mention all the potential time-space weirdness suggested by the time paradox Mono is trapped in. I wonder if the Mall could have similar potential. I doubt we'll ever know.
Love this idea!
I remember when I first heard the Sounds of Nightmares, I wasn’t too thrilled when I learned that it was a sort of ‘dream state’ rather than being a real place.
Overtime though it’s grown on me through others theories like these as there could be deeper reasons behind it.
I await more of your theories! You have earned a new subscriber
Its not really a dream state if they are physically taken at the end of it. They are basically trapped inside of the nowhere at the end
It is a real place, it's just a different dimension compared to the "normal" world
That's the interpretation I had anyway
Insanity is defined as the process of repeating the same actions, expecting a different result. Repeating over, and over, and over again. Getting nowhere. Getting…INTO Nowhere, perhaps..?
Wouldn’t entertainment be a cognitive need? Doing the same task over and over can actually rot the brain. Entertainment allows the mind to flex and grow. With the bad twist being escapism.
Yeah I think there's definitely an argument to be made for that!
I love this theory!
But the thought of something that you yearn for manifesting in a nightmarish way is heartbreaking.
..... wouldn't the signal tower be the cognitive need? i know the phrase "TV rots your brain" implies the opposite, but mental stimulation is still stimulation
you earned my sub, little nightmares is my favourite game series of all time and I'm very impatiently waiting for a release date for the third since its nearly been 7 months since they announced it
Nowhere is where Courage the Cowardly Dog lives.
5:10 nice transition 🔥
This is so good.
At very few points you lost me a bit, but I have no problem listening more attentively. You could work on not rushing it, but the video can't be an hour long. You are the best one at explaining this. And you don't have to apply any of this. If you keep doing this good, then it's better than listening to that one person and applying it. That can make it worse.
14:35
*It's been so long intensifies*
That does make a lot of sense. Sort of reminds me of my own theory about how it functions (with the kids growing or turning into nomes or adults). My theory is that it's incredibly dependant on memories and how forgetting makes them grow up meantime having them stolen nomes them.
Well done on another theory. Appreciate the work you do.
I love how far the game actually got from a small and silly little horror game to a 4 part series with a podcast and a dlc + a huge community that theorises and realy goes in depth with the lore awesome game with a cool community
by far the best theory I've heard
damn why doesn't this have more views lol
Because little nightmares three is a cash grab. That's why there was no proper DLC for part 2. We have seen smaller companies.do this a million times and you're not gonna get any real answers in little nightmares 3 because they want to keep it going forever. I could not stop laughing at the baby.In part three it looks ridiculous and the color palate of the world does not look interesting. Part three is a cash grab most likely and I will not buy it until it has been well reviewed.
@@lancenatsim2720 Damn, that's A LOT of assumptions my guy
@@lancenatsim2720 Think what you want. The audio books that were given literally explain everything the games bring into question, so why make a 3rd one if that lure is gone? The reason is passion. You didn't find the giant baby scary. Ok, I did. You find the color pallete bland, I like how different it looks for each area showcased, and it always looks drab! You call it a cash grab, yet it looks better than both prior games.
@@lancenatsim2720
"I personally didn't like what little we've seen of the game so far so blatantly it's just a low-effort cash grab."
Careful, your ego is showing.
@@lancenatsim2720what the fuck are you even talking about 😭
This is such a good video. I always were curious about the meanings and Themes in Little Nightmares but I have never found good lore videos about it. This channel sparked my curiosity again. I will keep an eye on your uploads!
Criminally underated!!
This was a very understandable video, i haven't seen anyone summarize little nightmares so linearly and clearly before
They said there’s ’no craftsman’ in nowhere so the entity creates all the objects but I think it can only create what the kids minds show it hence why it’s all traumatic and childlike, the school with the bullies, the nest , the doctor (we know noone has doctor trauma so others could too) and the factory with the sweets possibly a consequence of one of the children Otto has pushed into nowhere referencing the possibly narcotic sweets he gives the kids
This is an incredible video and one of the most interesting Little Nightmares Analysis that ive seen! I actually viewed this a while ago but have decided to comment now as this viewpoint of Nowhere has inspired a lot of how I see Little Nightmares since. Great work!
This is the clearest explanation of what the Nowhere is and represents, that I have come across, thank you.
This is actually pretty similar to my theory!
Pretty neat sound of nightmares is now our basis for theory crafting now
I love this theory dude
I have another idea based on the theory the nowhere is based on unmet needs: it's designed to keep its inhabitants there by both giving and taking away accessibility to a need.
The Maw satisfies hunger, but makes it so the guests cannot be full. It eases and causes hunger, making its guests need to stay there because there might not be food anywhere else.
At another angle: it satisfies the need for more food, but it still has the emotions of the distressed dreamer; who is being denied food. Maybe out of the dreamers fear they can never be full based on whatever circumstances. But at least here, the hungry dreamer has a chance at survival, so they stay.
Six's hunger is born AND satisfied in the maw during her time there. The circus kids earn respect AND get denied agency.
ive been watching some of your videos and your analysis is genuinely incredible. thank u for this !!!!!
Will you do mostly little nightmares now or are there other games that picque your interest? Other games that are very interesting to talk about are hyper light drifter, rain world, outer wilds, blasphemous, grime, the last faith, death's gambit, ghost song, chants of sennaar, penumbra, amnesia, INSIDE or any fromsoft game. I'd watch any of these topics because i love your video format, and even though i'm far from the biggest little nightmares fan i still watch these as your videos ar very well made. I discovered your channel through the afterimage video and then binged all your ender lillies content as well. I've yet to play signalis but i'll gladly check out that video after i have
For the next little while I'll be prioritizing LN, but I'm definitely planning to cover more games! I want the channel to have a diverse spread, and several of the titles you listed are are on my list of potential topics 😁
Keep up the good work IX Bro👍🏻
This is amazing, I can’t wait for the rest of the theory
Oh I love this so much! I can’t wait to play LN3 and see how everything fits in with this.
Why is this so underrated??
Love all your LN vids and how clear they are !
All the theories have been facinating and i think this is one of the ones i listen to a lot !
👍👍👍👍
Entertainment can be placed in Cognitive imo, since it's mental stimulation in some way. We need entertainment to maintain a semblance of enjoyment and, to a degree, sanity.
It seems like all of the parts of nowhere fully succeed in providing the needs unfulfilled, though with the addition of Guilt.
I would argue that each location represents a fear which has a need associated to it. For example, to give into your physiological needs, would be to give into your fear of privation, which would make you fall into the Maw's trap. To overcome that fear would be to overcome that need, which is seemingly what Six achieves in LN 1. Which is also, in turn, superhuman. Similarly, the need for escapism could be associated to a fear or distrust of human connection/love. Therefore The Pale City, which is known to represent escapism, could also be related to the need for Love and Belonging.
As a fellow theorist and theorist debunker, I LOVE the logic and the science you took while compiling this Theory. However, you touch on topics that describe what could or could NOT be the meanings of the placement of entities like the Teacher, Doctor, etc, but you never really touch on the topic of the Pretender, and all of the entities in Very Little Nightmares in particular, and what kind of plain on your scale they represent, like for instance what you said about the Doctor, "He makes patients to achieve perfection that he will never get". Where, in that aspect would it place the creatures of VLN? What would that say about the Butler and Doll maker? Would they just simply be there to cater to the needs of the Pretender, as in this world children wouldn't normally get such treatment (ie the bullies from the school), or is there some kind of unfinished achievement they're lurking toward but never getting? I also find interesting that you bring up the nest as a home, and things like the pretender to be a "sibling" or "supposed to be sibling" even though the world of Little nightmares is based on trauma as confirmed by the podcast makers. Which trauma would she then represent, seeing as how she is the main big bad of VLN. You also say that Six finds her iconic coat in the Pale City, which while that IS true, she initially pulled it from the water after the coat's original owner perished after her showdown with the pretender in VLN before losing it, and finding it again in the Pale City. So what happened during that Six initially pulled it from the water, and how could it have ended up in the Pale city? unless Six has been there before and LOST it there. As shown in the trailer for LN 3, The Nowhere may be entire separate regions created by the mind, but it's not necessarily hard to get to, especially if you claim the school and the hospital in LN 2 are regions themselves even though they are located within the Pale City. Otherwise, how did Six get from the Nest, to the Wilderness to travel with Mono through the Pale City and betray him, JUST to end up on the Maw miraculously, and especially if she's crossed the threshold permanently? The only ones we know of with these kinds of powers thus far is Mono with T.V.s, and Low with Mirrors. Six only has the hunger, but only recieves it after her showdown with the Lady. But she leaves the Maw, and that's the last we see Six, Unlike Mono who is forever trapped in a timeloop, and forced to stay in the tower until released again by his, for lack of better term, better half. In the podcast, Noone travels from region to region, yes, but that was only because she didn't cross over fully. So how would Low, being fully stuck for according to creators "a long time", without his powers or before getting them go place to place to just so happen run into Alone? Just to debunk the "only children with trauma goes to the nowhere", you are right on that as creators even confirmed it with a single voiceline from the ferry man himself while talking to Otto in the final chapter, and Noone's final line before it cuts off where she states that the secret of the nowhere was to take what's broken, and create a "better you". Only difference in this twisted story of Peter pan and Wendy is that when you go to this "Neverland" to become as Noone states, it is a false hope that mangles the perception of being better, only to no longer realize that you are in actuality worse off because you no longer have humanity, one of the key sources of humans, within you. Why else would the doctor be "operating on patients", and think he's doing God's work? He lost his humanity! Same thing for the creature in the Podcast you deem as "The Collector". Noone proves this by saying, "He wasn't always like that though." And the nome showing her a lone propeller cap further proves this notion that once in this world and CONSUMED by it, you lose what was once you, and the unthinkable and unimaginable that you never consider doing becomes the possible. In other words, as a kid you'd never harm nobody mortally on purpose out of cruelty, but if you remove that sense of humanity, it goes out the window, leaving a savage husk of your former or rather "Former" self.
I myself has a theory as to who Cici may be. When Noone mentions a yellow raincoat, Otto seemingly perks up at the thought. This means Cici had a yellow raincoat, and most minds would float toward Six being Cici. BUT! Six never had the coat until the girl with the braid, as she's so fondly called, in Very Little Nightmares perishes. So what if this girl with the braid IS in fact CICI? Another interesting thing I'd like to point out is that in the release image promoting LN 3, if you brighten the image and look into the black vortex in front of the mirror behind low and Alone, there is a hidden entity that looks like it depicts a skull figure with ram horns. Just a little thing I spotted, though it may just be me.
Sorry this is so long, I LOVE theories I can correlate with and giving my own thoughts and debunking them. Keep it up😊!
You make a lot of great points here! I did neglect to mention the specific monsters of VLN, and probably could have spent a bit more time on that section - the Nest is definitely one of the most unique places we know of so far. And I agree that Cici being the braid girl would make a lot of sense! I'm really interested to see if LN3 continues the story of the podcast to any extent, and if we might get more hints regarding this stuff.
@@indiexplorergames I'm looking forward to it as well :). Super psyched even to see where the plot leads, especially if it works in tandem with the podcast! I hope you have yourself a wonderful day, and thank you:)
If i were design a little nightmare level. I will design a mothman who
Iseed a city and turn everyone in the city into tree.
The town exist because of adultry
Beautifully crafted theory. Wow!
Having arrived here just after watching your excellent Signalis videos, I am struck about how Nowhere in Little Nightmares is a children's version of the twisted reality Alina created from her nightmares. Maybe the red wasteland was Alina's portion of Nowhere?
Bro you need to check that podcast out, it's crazy good
The mystery around Little Nightmares makes it even better because we can speculate and, therefore, create a Little Nightmares world that makes sense to what we individually take from the franchise. Anonymity meeting Individual Imaginations equals happy fans. So don't Demand to know what the creator's story is, put your imagination to work & use your own ideas to build what you perceive/get out of the games into your very own story! 😊 even if the creators were to spread out their whole plan, we would still tweak it because we like to create! 🎉
The bathouse reminds me of that one concept art in ln1
I personally have never liked the idea of Nowhere being a dream realm…mostly because it just feels like the trope of “it was all a dream” with extra steps…like, why can’t the world just be naturally fucked up? Why do we need to explain why everything works, even if just talking around it like the guy in the interview seemed to be doing?
Even my other favorite horror franchises, FNaF and Bendy, don’t explain how or why EVERYTHING works, as far as I know, it’s never really explained HOW remnant and spirits work in FNaF work, or HOW the ink world was created in Bendy…why can’t little nightmares be a similar situation? Show the “what” but leave the “how” and “why” up to interpretation…we’ve never seen the inner workings of the Little Nightmares world outside of the Maw and the comics, which have a rather questionable canonicity. The people of the Pale City are obviously glued to their TVs, but then where do the Doctor’s patients come from? Where do the Guests come from? What’s the day to day life of the monsters? Show elements of THAT, don’t just hand wave it as “it’s all a dream” and move on…let this be a lived in world that is just, incredibly messed up without explanation as to WHY. I understand that making this the waking world would lead to the question of “where do the children come from in a world of monsters?” But we KNOW from LN2, that children can BECOME the monsters, the same is implied in LN1, so saying that the children are all just taken from the waking world…feels lazy.
I remember in the Little Nightmares comics, it showed Six being taken from a city filled with Guests TOO the Maw…THAT makes the world feel lived in, Six is still- to our eyes -an ordinary girl, but no one cares about children in this world, they have no agency, and it’s never explained WHY…I think THAT is much more interesting than “it’s a collective dream realm”
Ln does it right they dont force you to be in an alternate boring dimension for all eternity like the backrooms. When i heard them talk in sounds of nightmares, it was revolutionary.
So technically that means that Six had a need for food, escapism and clothes (and a few more)? I dont even want to know what she had to endure to have these needs understanding how the nowhere works makes the backstories so much more deeper and painful
I like this theory and it makes sense!
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Solid video
Little Nightmares was a Carl Jung joint this entire time? We're going metacognition? PERSONA COLLAB?!
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Yup, already working on a trailer analysis!
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Are the adults suffering in this world the surviving children that actually got to grow up?...
How do we know any of the children we see DO grow up? Maybe they succumb to what the adults have in each game when they age to double digits/teens. Not an argument but a possible answer 😊
We see mono grow over time to become the thin man but we know he's in a loop so may not be accurate and speak for the universe as a whole. Might just be his individual story
Probably, as adults can't go to the nowhere
Also we see mono grow up, and six presumably replaces the lady, I'd say it's a fair assumptiom that the other adults replaced their previous counterparts too
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My only question is: Why would anyone _choose_ to stay in Nowhere?
This is well explained in the Sounds of Nightmares podcast! Nowhere literally changes the children's brains, causing a tumor to grow in their amygdala that alters both fear response and emotional salience. This also causes physical discomfort like terrible headaches, pain that is immediately relieved whenever the child visits Nowhere. As a result, Noone describes feeling more "whole" there, and also feels wanted, special.
Essentially, Nowhere manipulates children both physically and emotionally until they're ready to choose it over their normal lives.
I also wonder if any of the leaders of these nightmare regions have met each other. The janitor and the chefs or the teacher and the daughter or if like some of the monaters manifest to serve the apecific monsters. Nightmare
I don't understand why entertainement couldn't be in the cognitive needs as escapism is a need to look for something new that might change our perception or develop creativity in our everyday and sometime morose life.
Given that "biblically accurate angels" are noted for being made up of many eyes, and arguements can be made that fear devouring beings of similar nature are fallen angels within that framework.
Yes I thought of that as well! Glad to see I'm not the only one, TSON really opened the door for connections like this.
@@indiexplorergames If you're familiar with Gnosticism, the fallen angels in that myth that once ruled mankind and are now cast into the darkness that feed off mankind are called the Watchers. That would be a good title for these beings
Oooh I'll have to look into that! Sounds eerily similar to how Nowhere appears to work...
Not all heavenly things. We got a lot of stories in the Bible where angels show themselves and they look like man. As the Bible says any enterment angels not knowing it. Samson parents run up on a angel telling them about they child to be born. Some angels have heads of animals just like the pictures we see of ancient people showed but written in the Bible. Than there the weird animals like things like horses. We get small look into what heaven is like. A lot of other of world things. Some have lots of eyes but not all of them. It like here on earth not all things on this earth is not things there billions of different looking things. Many have seen angels even to this day. Many saving their life appearing as a normal man like the guy that was in the army. Like that guy that got lost from his unite. The guy appeared and help him appeared as a solider. When he found the guy direction he founded his unit. The guy have no record of him at all in no unit or the name the guy give him. The man realized it was supernatural how he knew where the enemy was and where his unit was.
So you not reading the whole picture of the Bible like many people do these days.
@@Pulapaws Rather, you're not clearly reading my message but just looking for a reason to jump in and egotize through a religious lens. At no point did I say all angels have a single appearance. I am aware there are different classifications of Celestial beings.The quotations around "biblically accurate" are a reference to the current colloqualism going around on social media for the class of Celestials known as Seraphim or Cherubim, sometimes accompanied by the Wheels known as Ophanium. In a unfallen state the multiple eyes of such a being would be engulfed with wings, the fire of the holy presence, and occasionally a tetrad body. In a fallen state, such as the imprisoned Watchers from the Book of Enoch we were in fact discussing, not the Bible (again read before you respond), would be little more than eyes with a void, forever little more than echo of their former Divine self and forced to feed on the fears of children to survive.
Try studying the mythology of your own chosen cult before claiming to be an expert in it.
Its kind of uncanny that this particular lore is similar to mine that I'm making, not that i took this lore and make it my own.
Edit: i did typed this but i did not want that to be in the comments so i decided to delete it.
Jesus, someone actually smart is finally talking about little nightmares
Not another Basic surface level analysis with baseless theory’s 😋😋
So then would it be plausibly the pale city was born from collective children using television for escapism and then even places inside such as the school may be born from the lollipop boy being abused and bullied by his classmates and possibly even his teacher. Maybe he noticed she had an abnormally long neck and thats why our tracher has her abilities. It would be likely then the maw was born of a child who was starved
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So... it's all in le head?
What fuck is happening😅