Necroing this too (sorry) to provide a solution to anyone that might come here from search engines:
To get past the "strawberry" / "child expressing themself through play" section, you need to move immediately after waking up from clearing the thorns, while the narration is happening. You do not want to sit still like I did while listening to the narration, you will get stuck. You need to make sure you at least get to "screen 2" (where you see the herd of animals, the mermaids, etc) before the narration ends.
If you are on the first "screen" when the dialog finishes, the trigger for "screen 3" that is supposed to happen in "screen 2" is activated and you've missed it, soft locking yourself.