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Manor of Sleep
300px-Manor of Sleep
Japanese name 眠りの家
Romaji name Nemuri no ie
Other names Kuze Shrine (real world)

Manor of the Rift (狭間ノ家)

Location(s) Dream realm, only shows up to Tattooed Curse victims
Function Residence to Tattooed Curse victims
Status Erased by Rei Kurosawa
Game Fatal Frame III: The Tormented


The Manor of Sleep is the main setting in Fatal Frame III: The Tormented.

To contain the spread of the Rift during the Unleashing, the main portion of the Kuze Shrine was sealed into the dream-world, ceasing to exist in the physical one, becoming the Manor of Sleep.

Those who have suffered the death of another will see the Manor of Sleep in their dreams. They dream they are standing outside of the snowy shrine, witnessing a multitude of the dead entering the building, and be filled with an intense certainty that, should they enter, they will be able to be reunited with the deceased once more.

Mentally strong individuals able to process their grief and loss in healthy ways are not drawn into the manor and quickly cease having the dreams.

But, those with particularly strong longings towards death may be tempted to enter. If they do, they continue to visit the manor every night while asleep, searching for their deceased loved ones, who lure them deeper and deeper into the manor with the promise of reunification and freedom from mourning and pain.

The grieving visit the Manor of Sleep nightly until they give up on reuniting, or find a new desire to live, at which time the dream visits stop.

However, in some cases, the grieving instead become obsessed and spend more and more time sleeping. The more time spent in the Manor of Sleep, and the deeper a dreamer wanders, the more a dreamer risks running into malevolent spirits also trapped in the mansion, or coming across Reika Kuze, the Tattooed Priestess.

If they are touched by the Tattooed Priestess, their fate is sealed, and they become victims of the Tattooed Curse and are eventually trapped in the Manor of Sleep.

Structure[]

The majority of the Manor of Sleep consists of the original Kuze Shrine, including its sacred areas, such as the Abyss of the Horizon and passage to the land of the dead, which now solely exist in the dream world. The original shrine was built with progressive layers of protection to act as fail safes in order to contain possible spread of the Rift.

These consist of:

Due to the dream-like nature of the Manor of Sleep, the structure is amorphous and incorporates the memories of the dreamer's most painful tragedies. Examples of this are the inclusions of parts of the Himuro Mansion and All God's Village once Miku and Mio enter the manor. This also explains modern elements found in some sections, such as electric lighting and a film projector. However, regardless of location or memory, it will always be snowing when a dreamer looks out the window.

Visitors describe the building as looking impossibly large, with numerous, haphazard additions, likely from the many dreamers. Because the Manor of Sleep is a singular location, multiple dreamers can be visiting at once, and they are all able to share the dream manor, including additions specific to other dreamers. Dreamers entering the manor do so from different points, and typically enter locations from their memories first, before going deeper and finding the original manor proper.

At this point, it is impossible to tell whether some of the rooms are from the original Kuze shrine, or if they exist due to earlier victims of the Tattooed Curse who have become trapped.

Popular legend[]

There are many urban legends about the Manor of Sleep. The popular legends are story-like and include the following elements:

  1. Strong feelings for the dead summon the first nightmare.
  2. Once the dreamer follows the deceased into the mansion, the dreamer will visit manor every night during sleep, going deeper and deeper.
  3. If a person goes in too far, one can no longer return.
  4. If the sleeping person dreams of a lover or friend, it will beckon that person into sleep. The Manor of Sleep "disease" spreads thusly.
  5. Deep in the Manor of Sleep is the world of the dead and if one finds it, they can meet the deceased there to gain closure.

Descriptions[]

Several interviews with those who have dreamed of the Manor of Sleep were recorded, all of which show similarities. The dreamer describes being cold, the presence of snow and a funeral progression, hearing a lullaby, etc.

Trivia[]

  • It is uncertain if spirits of the dead the dreamers chase into the manor are real, or after-images/ wishful thinking and the result of the Manor's cursed nature. Dreamers are never able to catch or speak with the deceased they chase, even after becoming spirits themselves, unless they are able to reach the true world of the dead at the Abyss of the Horizen. However, they are able to see and be plagued by spirits which cause them pain (for example, Miku sees and battles a rope shrine maiden) which might also be the result of the dream-like, cursed nature of the Manor, rather than the actual spirits being present in the manor.
  • It's unknown whether the Rope Man that haunts the House of Sleep is Seijiro Makabe, another Kusabi, or a nightmare after image.
  • The House of Sleep contains some rooms from Fatal Frame's Himuro Mansion (Miku Hinasaki's dreams) and Fatal Frame II's Minakami Village (Kei Amakura's dreams) though most are changed slightly, and/or go by different names. This is because the House of Sleep draws on memories and experiences of the Tattooed Curse Victims.
  • The Manor of Sleep is inspired by the ruins of an abandoned house Makoto Shibata, the director of the main games, used to play in as a child, where he saw the ghost of a woman The Manor of Sleep itself was based on an abandoned house Makoto Shibata used to play in as a child, where he saw the ghost of a woman pushing a pram. This apparition eventually became the inspiration for the Stroller Grandma.
  • The sprawling, labyrinthian structure and continuous additions of the manor resemble the real-world Winchester Mystery House. Similar to the Kuze shrine, it was thought that spirits would become confused and contained as they wandered the building, due to the continual construction.
  • There may be additional Rift Shrines. The Moriya Tomes hint that Tattooed Priestesses have awoken from their sleep to wander before, and that when this happens, the Shrine Carpenters are called to build an addition onto the shrine to trap the wandering maiden. This "Shrine of Sleep" is then cast into a dream, in order to contain her. It is very possible that such occurrences have happened before. Though, it was not until Reika Kuze that the entirety of the Kuze Shrine was lost to the dream world and the Manor of Sleep fully created.
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