Sojourner

The meds were working. After months of unrelenting insomnia, you could finally get some well deserved shuteye. But your dreams... what the heck was going on with your dreams?

The doctor had mentioned something about a REM rebound, whatever that was supposed to be. But every night, the visions dancing behind your eyelids grew more vivid, the colors more vibrant, the sounds and sensations more vigorous. And each morning the memories stayed salient, almost beckoning you back to bed...

And now you're there. And where is there? Why, there is here of course! You've been fully incorporated inside what you thought was your own head. And in your head is... an entire world.

Lush forests, an alien yet familiar sky, watercolor oceans, non-Euclidean architecture,  geology that defies gravity, all connected by the astral aether that permeates this entire scape. There are creatures here too, many you recognize, even more that you don't.

Something is tugging at you, though. Because here feels more real than what you've always known as real. Images from your past sometimes slip through, but it's not always your past.  And you're starting to realize that you might not be entirely alone here, either.

So where has the waking world gone? Why are you here and what is this all supposed to mean? As far as you know, the only way out out of this is through it, so in search of answers, you begin your sojourn...