Psychonauts: The Wild Places

Chapter 1: Strange Visuals

I had the strangest dream... but it was just like the previous ones I had before for nearly seven years!

It all began a long time ago when I was only three years old.

I dreamt I was standing in a beautiful pasture with many flowers growing everywhere around me, including bumblebees buzzing here and there, taking pollen and nectar from each flower.

As I sat among the flowers, I could hear a brook flowing with water near where I was, as some animals were roaming around the pasture.

It was all beautiful, and the smells coming from the flowers were amazing, including how peaceful everything was!

But... everything soon turned into a nightmare.

A loud gunshot went through the air and immediately caught my attention, causing the animals to instantly run away in panic.

After hearing the gunshot, I immediately jumped to my feet and looked around to see what was getting closer, but I couldn't see who was in my dream.

As I searched around, voices started speaking in different directions, sounding like they were coming from all around me.

The grass and flowers withered into nothing as the voices continued to speak, whispering sounds I don't even understand.

The water flow from the brook had died down too, and something red stained the ground immediately, coating the bottom of my bare feet in red as the voices instantly changed from speaking to unstoppable laughter.

Everything continued to laugh, and things turned red after being soaked until enormous shadows of humans appeared before me.

They looked down at me while I stared up at them in horror, watching as they made disgusted expressions as if they had seen a cockroach.

"Disgusting." one of them spoke after noticing me.

"What is that thing?" another human asked.

"Get it away from me!" a third human pointed. "I don't want it around me! It could infect me!"

I panicked after noticing the humans standing before me until one of them pushed them away and saw me before giving that awful smile as his eyes were a blood-red color.

"Don't worry," the human spoke as he moved his hands forward. "I'll get rid of it for you all and keep it as mine."

Instantly, I panicked after hearing that last line and turned around, running away from the human as he chased after me.

"Quick, get it, get it!" a voice shrieked in fear. "I don't want it to get into our houses!"

"EW, EW, SQUISH IT!!!" another shrieked.

"RAT!!!" another human screamed in fear.

I continued to panic as I ran for my life, running away from the chasing giant as more appeared from behind, some scientists, others with jars, knives, and other dangerous utensils.

Soon, I was cornered in a corner as they approached me, and one of them reached a hand down towards me, and then I woke up screaming.

Luckily, Mom came over to see what was wrong and heard that I had a bad dream about humans chasing me.