The Crossover Garden exterior.
Ghost World (塀, Fence) is an openly-looping deeper location found by traveling through the Crossover Garden in the Sky Garden.
It is reached when Madotsuki enters the brick building's garden and interacts with one of the white flowers. Doing so shifts her between the Sky Garden and Ghost World with a bright flash. The Sky Garden music will disappear, indicating that you've been taken somewhere else.
Ghost World is a drab and dour place, a city of monotonous concrete blocks stained with decay and dereliction. The eerie soundtrack creates an incredible sense of dejection and loneliness. It is very easy to get lost in this world, so if you aren't careful, you could be here for a long time.
Points of Interest[]
- The Triangle Kerchief effect is received here, by interacting with Fleebie.
- There are three strange NPCs in this world. They are known as the Ghostmen.
Connections[]
- The Sky Garden
- Ghost World - Interact with one of the white flowers in the dark garden
Trivia[]
- In Japanese culture, white lilies are associated with death and funerals, which explains the method of reaching the area by interacting with a white flower.
Interpretation[]
The Ghost World is seemingly the 'other side', the dimension of ghosts and souls that exists parallel to the corporeal world. This could be Madotsuki's interpretation of what death or the afterlife is like. Considering other violent themes throughout Madotsuki's dreams, it is reasonable to assume she may think of the concept of death often.
It should be noted that some locations in Yume Nikki seem to parallel the afterlife, with Ghost World being one of them. The Sky Garden seems to represent Heaven, as it is peaceful in both its atmosphere and music, it lacks any harmful or teleporting NPCs, and is high up in the sky, as is often depicted with Heaven and its nature of being among the clouds. Hell seems to, obviously, represent Hell, as it is difficult to navigate through, filled with hostile Toriningen, and sports a droning soundtrack accompanied by bright red visuals. The Ghost World seems to represent a neutral landscape, as it takes elements from the two previously mentioned worlds. The area is dark and has an unsettling track playing as Madotsuki explores, yet there is nothing hostile in the area, not even NPCs that teleport Madotsuki, and is even home to a useful effect.
The NPCs found in Ghost World, known as Ghostmen by fans, highly resemble chromosomes. This resemblance is also shared with structures found in the Pink Sea and Barracks Settlement, and possibly even Buyo Buyo. This could relate to the various body themes in the dream world, particularly the abundance of strabismic characters throughout the game, with strabismus being linked to genetics.
Map[]
Map of Ghost World. The entrance is near the north-west corner of the map.