I finally downloaded and installed the thing — hopefully it will stop dreams about it.

On to level 55.

Having nothing to do, I went to bed earlier than usual — at 23:28. I spent that time on another WILD attempt, which I can now call semi-successful.

I started with the usual full-body relaxation, from the toes to the head, and as soon as I reached my eyes, I concentrated on the visions and stopped paying attention to both my body and external distractions. Eventually, after some hypnagogic imagery, there was a very short blackout that I don’t remember, after which I ended up not feeling anything, just moving along the road from the Gorodok shop to the Trade Center as a kind of disembodied observer.

And then TWANG! I dropped out, and suddenly weird but pleasant feelings of “electrification” started running through my entire body. I waited until they calmed down a bit, then recalled (with effort) the scene I dropped out of and continued to induce the vision. To avoid thinking about my limbs, I just imagined floating in the air on the street and pushing myself forward with force of will.

Twice along the way, I started feeling my imaginary arms — dream arms, if you will — going a bit back and forward while I could still feel lying in my bed. And both times, it once again ended in a TWANG! and weird cessation of the sensations that vocabulary lacks the words to describe. Also, there were three cases of “near-blackouts” when for a split second I thought I was about to lose my consciousness — before, that feeling rarely occurred when I was feeling sleepy after not getting enough sleep.

After that, I looked at the clock and saw that it was 00:14, and decided to just fall asleep as usual. I remember enough of the dream that followed to write it down. Which I’ll do in the next post.