HEADSPACE

SPOILER WARNING This article contains spoilers of important plot details regarding the plotline of OMORI.

HEADSPACE is one of the two primary locations in OMORI, the other being FARAWAY TOWN. It is an imaginary world comprising the areas SUNNY can visit when he sleeps. Some areas are only accessible via the OMORI ROUTE, consisting of SNOWGLOBE MOUNTAIN and THE ABYSS. All other areas can be accessed in all routes of the game.

BACKGROUND

At some point following MARI's death, SUNNY stopped going to school and became a hikikomori. He began visiting WHITE SPACE through a black-and-white doppelgänger called OMORI. He cut himself off from the outside world and lost contact with his friends, refusing to leave his house at all. With the help of OMORI, SUNNY repressed his memories of the night MARI died and instead lived in the colorful world of HEADSPACE.

HEADSPACE serves as a world full of pure imagination and colorful areas. This was also where SUNNY could escape from reality and instead relive the happier moments of his life, with younger versions of his friends still together and happy, as well as MARI still being alive. Despite his efforts to keep the truth locked away, it still haunted SUNNY in the form of SOMETHING and other ominous reminders. This endless cycle of escapism within SUNNY's dreamscape continued for about three or four years before the game's events took place.

LOCATIONS

MAIN AREAS

SUBAREAS

INSPIRATION

Each of the HEADSPACE locations can be attributed to certain places or experiences by SUNNY. The locations and their possible inspirations are listed here.

Logo	Location	Inspiration
	NEIGHBOR'S ROOM	TREEHOUSE
	VAST FOREST	HANGOUT SPOT
	OTHERWORLD	A GUIDE TO OUR SOLAR SYSTEM book
	JUNKYARD	TRASH around FARAWAY TOWN
	PYREFLY FOREST	Bug hunting photos in the PHOTO ALBUM
	SPROUT MOLE VILLAGE	SPROUT MOLE EATER minigame
	SWEETHEART'S CASTLE	SWEETHEART movies
	LAST RESORT	Blackjack minigame in SUNNY's desktop
	GHOST PARTY	Birthday parties
	UNDERWATER HIGHWAY	SUNNY's Desktop
	HUMPHREY	HUNGRY HUMPHREY book
	ORANGE OASIS	THE FOOD PYRAMID book
	RAIN TOWN	RAINY DAY Memory
	SNOWGLOBE MOUNTAIN	Vacation Souvenir
	THE ABYSS	None

GALLERY

CONCEPT ART

BETA SCREENSHOTS

EXTRA

TRIVIA

• OMOCAT mentioned that HEADSPACE is based on the concept of lucid dreaming. They also noted that it was created to be playful, whimsical, and colorful to contrast other areas of the game. The location itself is not exactly surreal, but rather a world viewed through the eyes of a child.^[1]
  • In early development, HEADSPACE was originally visualized drastically different from FARAWAY TOWN, using a surreal and nonsensical design. This was scrapped due to the following two reasons:
    • OMOCAT notes that having a world drawn entirely with crayon visually separated the characters from the setting, thus making the world less immersive. Thus, the more experimental processes were used for BLACK SPACE instead.
    • They also note that a world without structure isn't "truly random", as it still needs to be tested and implemented for the components to work together. Without proper care, a "structureless" world can feel unintentionally clumsy and contrived.
  • HEADSPACE's purpose, as mentioned by OMOCAT, is to illustrate the protagonist's idealized relationships with his childhood friends.
• HEADSPACE as a whole presumably serves as a direct nod to the first two Mother games' Magicant, a surreal dreamscape that originated and purely existed within a user's subconsciousness.
  • In Earthbound Beginnings, Magicant's existence contains a dark secret regarding Queen Mary's past, similar to how HEADSPACE was created to lock away the horrific truth of MARI's death.
  • In Earthbound, one of the plot points in Magicant involved Ness facing the essence of evil within himself, much like how SUNNY ends up facing OMORI, the embodiment of his self loathing and desire to repress the truth, within WHITE SPACE at the climax of the true route.
• There are some clues throughout the game which imply HEADSPACE might be more than just a imaginary world created by SUNNY. A few dialogue spoken by NPCs such as DADDY LONGLEGS, BRANCH CORAL, and MR. OUTBACK indicate this possibility.^[2]

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