The protagonist is Victor Neff, a young, newly wed man who has just moved into a new apartment with his wife.

The machine then attacks Felix, putting him to sleep, and Victor enters his dreams by using the two "transmitter" and "receiver" helmets.

The Dream Machine is developed by Cockroach Inc. which is a two-man independent game studio run by Anders Gustafsson and Erik Zaring.

These were created utilising a wide variety of materials such as clay, cardboard, cotton wads, pebbles, baking paper, moss, turf, pipe cleaners, broccoli, lichen, ground coffee, carpet samples, pork chop trimmings, condoms, ping pong balls, Molton cloth, small plastic babies, insulation foam, matchsticks, aluminium foil, latex, yarn, towels, pasta, U.V.-reactive yarn, U.V.-reactive powder, bones and popsicle sticks, among many other things.

[6] The Dream Machine began as a browser-based game, but transitioned onto Steam after being nominated for an IGF award in the Visuals Arts category.