This is a quick write-up of the earliest phase of the game.

ANEW GAME:

You begin the game awakening in BED, and your TO-DO LIST tasks you with finding and placing 3 colored PLANTERS outside at the edge of the PATIO.  Explore your HOME at your leisure, but your first official "goal" is sorting out the plant pots.

The ghostly pink severed head of your STALKER lurks outside, and if you leave the house he will try to kill you, which will send you back to BED and cost 1 SANITY.

You may also glimpse GHOSTS of yourself and GIRL in and around your house.

If there is a POWER OUTAGE, the STALKER will be able to pursue you even indoors, because of the darkness.  You can find the electricity breaker in the furnace room in the basement; this turns the main house lights on or off.

Having found and placed your 3 PLANTERS at their respective destinations outside, DAY RETURNS before you know it, and you are "free" of the intro to proceed with the game as you see fit.