I'd never heard of hauntological music until this comment, but I'll be diving down that rabbithole for sure now, thank you!
Weird and warped dream world is definitely the impression I get of the videogame I picture when I made this. I must admit, the game side of the jam wasn't as well defined in my mind as I've seen other people's submissions be - I think one of my first tracks that I discarded early on was starting to sound very earthbound and I never left that space.
If escapism had no chance of being threatened from the outside, we probably wouldn't need to escape.