Total Distortion is a 1995 full motion video adventure game for Mac and Windows, developed by Pop Rocket.
If the player failed the dream sequence it would result in a nightmare, which decreased mental energy (an important stat in the game).
Six years before the player's journey to the Distortion Dimension begins, an alien artifact is discovered, which world governments learn is a device that can teleport any object anywhere interdimensionally, which revolutionizes industries on Earth.
Present day, the player is a music video producer who is entrusted with 3 million dollars in inheritance from a dead relative.
The game starts with the player risking all this money to set out for the Distortion Dimension, named for its abundance of loud guitar noise, for new and exciting music video material which could result in even larger profits, at the risk of a financial net loss, being stranded in another dimension, or death.