I was trapped in a horror video game. You'd travel along a path and collect things from dungeons you could access on the way. The goal of the game was to get to the far end of the path and then return safely to where you started.

Every so often, the world would enter Nightmare Mode. While in Nightmare Mode, everything would go dark, there were mushrooms and blood everywhere, and a freaky shadow monster would chase me down. Whenever it appeared, there would be a screamer. After a while, it would revert to normal.

As the game went on, it would enter Nightmare Mode more and more often, and stay there for longer.

It was creepy ;~;

When I finally escaped, I went to a country which had 30 states. I was forced to represent one of the states -- this one had lots of tin mines -- in a swimming competition.