Psychonauts

[ChopstickFox]

So... I started playing this video game and it is hilarious! The characters look like they're right from a Picasso painting and you can really see the creativity that went into it.

Basically you're this kid with psychic abilities that runs away to a psychic summer camp to learn how to develop his abilities. It's run by a complete warmonger and the first lesson in the class is for the students to astrally project themselves into his mind for an obstacle course. Now while in this guy's mind it's like a dreamscape of a chaotic battle zone. Your health is pretty much mental clarity and when you run out you get booted back to your body.

I've only played a little so far, but the characters are a riot, the design is awesome, the dialogue is having me giggle like crazy, and the plot is looking promising. I'm excited to play more! There's tons of references in it that remind me of you guys. xD Too funny!

My husband keeps laughing at me because I ran into an enemy... Freaking PSYCHIC BEARS. What the crap?!?! Seriously?! I keep yelling "Freaking PSYCHIC BEARS!" haha!

[Astralzombie]

This is a real game or an OOBE?

[ChopstickFox]

This is a real game. Yes.

http://www.psychonauts.com/

Here's a blurb I found about it

Welcome to the twisted world of Psychonauts. The hero of this game is a boy
named Razputin, or Raz. A natural psychic, Raz escaped the circus and his
abusive father to journey to a camp for psychic children: Whispering Rock
Psychic Summer Camp. At Whispering Rock, young psychics are trained to
become Psychonauts--secret agents in charge of cleaning up the world's
mental mishaps.

But, something sinister is afoot, as campers turn up missing their brains.
It's up to Raz--with a little help from an assorted cast of strange people
and even stranger creatures--to find the missing brains and restore mental
peace and order to Whispering Rock.

You control Raz through the environs of Whispering Rock--the real world--
and through the minds of various denizens of Whispering Rock--the dream
worlds. Most gameplay takes place in the dream worlds, as you use Psycho-
Portals to project your astral self into minds. If you think the real world
is strange, wait until you get a look at some of the literally twisted
dream worlds.

Each dream world is completely unique: from an orderly, cubist mind to the
varicolored world of a painter of black velvet. Each level has its own
challenges and puzzles and requires a mixture of skillful control and
strategic thinking. No two worlds are alike, and the game will in turn
challenge and amaze you.

Your health is measured in two ways: mental health and astral projection
layers. Your mental health is represented by a series of brains shown in
the upper left of your screen. Each brain represents 4 points of health,
and various enemies will remove one or more points of health on each hit.
As you progress through the game, you will increase the maximum number of
health points you have.

You also have astral projection layers, which are analogous to lives in
most games. Each time you lose all your mental health, you lose one astral
projection layer. When you lose all your mental health and you have no more
astral projection layers, the game either ends (if you are in the real
world); or, you are kicked out of the mind you were in and you must start
over again from the beginning. As you play, you can pick up additional
astral projection layers (new lives) as well as increase the number of
layers you can have at once.

[desert-rat]

I have not played this game , but it has been discussed hear before.  desert rat