"The Manor of Sleep"

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This is an in-game document found within Fatal Frame III. For information on the actual Manor of Sleep, see Manor of Sleep.


"The Manor of Sleep"


Kanji 都市伝説「眠りの家」
とし でんせつ 「ねむり の いえ」
Game Fatal Frame III: The Tormented
Author Yuu Asou
Chapter Hour IX: The Unleashing
Located at Yuu's Room
Obtained In desk (not his bookcase as the description says)
Description An old folklore book found in Yuu's bookcase. It is about "The Manor of Sleep".
Additional Description There is a notebook that says "The Manor of Sleep" in the drawer. Perhaps it could be useful for something...
Related Notes "The Sleeping Priestess", On the Urban Legend

"The Manor of Sleep" is an urban legend that was whispered among those in psychiatry, about hospitalized patients suddenly disappearing.

There are several stages to it and it progresses like a sickness.

1. Having the same dream

The patients (who later go missing) first see the same dream every day, usually about dead lovers or family.


2. Dreaming of the Manor

Next the patients dream about wandering into a large manor.
It is a huge, snowy, Japanese-style house.
It is laid out haphazardly, as though many extensions were added.
Then, deep in the manor, one discovers their dearly departed.


3. Proceeding deeper into the Manor

Patients follow the dead deeper into the Manor. Most patients find the same scenes and phenomena along the way. For example, "hearing a lullaby", "seeing a masked funeral march" or "being pursued by a tattooed woman."


4. Hallucinations while awake

At this stage, the patient complains of abnormalities of the body while awake. The symptoms are common to all patients and when they wake they feel a sharp pain and see a growing blue bruise or snake-like tattoo.


5. Decrease in waking hours

At this stage, the patient's response to external stimulation grows weaker. The time spent in sleep also slowly increases. From a medical viewpoint, this is a "defensive reaction to pain," so if the patients are actually in pain, it is a normal response.


6. Missing, vanishing
 
Then, 1 to 2 months after the first stage, the patient goes "missing."

"Missing" is the official term. It is said the patient actually "vanishes leaving only a black soot-like mark."

The above mentioned is the original "The Manor of Sleep" urban legend, but the popular legend is more story-like and includes the following elements:

1. Strong feelings for the dead summon the first nightmare.

2. Once you follow the deceased in the dream, you can no longer return.

3. If the sleeping person dreams of a lover or friend, it will beckon that person into sleep. The Manor of Sleep "disease" spreads thusly.

4. Deep in the Manor of Sleep is the world of the dead and if you make it you can meet the deceased there.

「眠りの家」の都市伝説

「眠りの家」とは、古くは主に精神医学関
係者の間で囁かれていた都市伝説であり、
入院している患者が突然消えてしまう、と
いうものである。


それには何段階かのステップがあり、病状
のように進展していく。

一、同じ夢を見る

患者(後に失踪する)はまず、毎日同じ夢
を見る。それは、主に死んだ恋人や家族の
夢である。


二、屋敷の夢を見る

患者は次に、巨大な屋敷に迷い込む夢を見
るようになる。そこは雪が降る巨大な日本
家屋で、何度も増築したような複雑な構造
をしている。
そして、その奥に、自分に近しい死者の姿
を発見する。


三、屋敷の奥へ進む

患者は死者の後を追って屋敷の奥へと進む。
その道すがら見る光景や現象も、多くの患
者に共通するものである。
例えば「子守唄を聞く」「顔を隠した葬列
を見る」「刺青を入れた女に追われる」等。


四、覚醒時の幻覚症状

次の段階へ進むと、患者は覚醒時に身体の
異常を訴えるようになる。その症状も共通
のもので、目が覚めると全身に激痛が走り、
体中に青い痣、蛇などの刺青の模様が浮か
び上がり、広がっていく、と言う。


五、覚醒時間の減少

更に段階を進むと、患者は次第に外部から
の刺激に反応が弱くなる。そして徐々に眠
っている時間が長くなっていく。
これは精神医学の見地から見ると「痛みに
対する防御行動」とされるもので、本当に
痛みがあるとすれば、正常な反応でもある。


六、失踪、消失

そして、一の段階からおよそ一、二ヶ月で
患者は「失踪」する。しかし「失踪」は表
向きの発表であり、本当は「黒い煤のよう
な跡を残して消える」と言われている。


以上が本来の「眠りの家」の都市伝説であ
るが、一般に広まっている「眠りの家」の
都市伝説はもう少し物語化されており、以
下のような要素が加わっている。


一、死者に対する強い想いが、最初の悪夢
  を呼び寄せる。

二、夢で死者を見たとき、後を追うと二度
  と戻れなくなる。

三、眠りに落ちた人が恋人や友人の夢を見
  たら、その人を眠りに誘ってしまう。
  眠りの家の悪夢は伝染し広がっていく。


四、眠りの家の奥には死者の世界があり、
  そこまで辿りつくと、死者に逢うこと
  ができる。

Data
Legend of Song - Tattoo Folklore - Master and Snake - Rituals and Statues - Bones found in Well - Skewered Dolls - Many Bones Found - Buried Mummies - Shrine Carpenters - Carpenters Spirited Away - Missing in Minakami - Land Surveyors Missing - Twin Deification - The Rope Priestess - Rescued Woman, Gone - Patient Disappears - Vanishings - Radio Transmissions - The "Spirit World" - The Camera Obscura
Texts
Manor of Sleep Tomes - The "Other World" - Tattooed Diary - Calico Notebook - Moriya Tomes - Red Diary - Blue Diary - Green Diary - Gray Diary - Purple Diary - Folklore Notes - Crimson Diary - Crimson Sacrifice - Twin Shrine Maidens
Other
Kei's Research Notes - Map with a Mark - Scrap of Paper - Burnt Passport - Yoshino Takigawa's Diary - The Crawling Woman - Yoshino Takigawa - Abandoned House - Letters from Kei - Memo in Shaky Hand - On the Urban Legend - "The Manor of Sleep" - "The Sleeping Priestess" - Red Notebook - Basic Operation - Combat I - Combat II - Hiding Moves - The Purifying Light - "Flash" - "The Sacred Stone" - "Double"
Photos
Camera Obscura - Babe in Arms? - Blood-stained Platform - Ceremony Room Buddha - Cloth on Pedestal - Courtyard Graves - Crawling Woman - Crouching Woman - Four Shadows - Hammering Girls - Hiding Girl - Kei Lookalike - Man In Corridor - Men in white - Miku with Man - Mirror Stand - Mother and Daughter - Old Projector - Peephole - Photo of Kei - Photo of Mio - Picture of Yuu - Seated Twins - Shrine Maiden - Skewered Dolls - Stains on Wall - Standing Girl - The Altar Tattoo - The Closet Woman - Under the stairs - Weeping Woman - Woman at Well - Wounded man - Yoshino's Photo - Yoshino Takigawa
Tapes
Tape "Manor of Sleep" - Tape "The Same Dream" - Old Tape "Ototsuki" - Old Tape "Sleeping Priestess"