[SPOILER] Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*

[frictionalfan]

I think the changing enviroment and later the teleportations are memory lapses or blackouts, possibly caused by his sanity quickly degrading with all he has been through. In the case of teleportations I interpret it as suddenly finding yourself somewhere and not remembering how you got there. Maybe in a similar way as to how you wake up in your bed.

My take on it is that during heavy stress Mandus' memory starts to fail heavily. Maybe, before the game starts, he was deeply scared, desperate sabotaging the machine (in a diary passage it is said that it seems that the saboteur was in a hurry) and in his desperation he started to have similar symptoms until he finally "teleports" to his bed and the game begins.

That would make sense since the whole game deals with memory loss