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Woke after five hours vaguely remembering a dream about being on a space ship. Some kids were catching a ride by hanging on to our landing gear as we went between stations, and I wondered how they did not freeze and suffocate in the airless void. I was not planning on doing any real practice since I did not sleep much last night after my excellent LD got me out of bed early and writing furiously, but since I would woken up from REM I thought I would run through some SSILD cycles just for fun... and this provoked a sleeplessness that eventually got me out of bed an hour and a half later without having fallen back asleep at all. So no dreams, but I did manage to record fragments of the hypnagogic phrases that manifested at certain points: "...the beautiful eye, and the faithful smiling hand..." "...the stress of a healthy city farm too..." "...semantic, and by the way kill the emperors..." Mostly these were just words running through my head without any corresponding imagery, but at one point I had a hypnogogic image like I was looking at a forum post (unsurprising given that I waded through almost the whole SSILD thread yesterday, a tedious enterprise at 36 pages). So this one I "read" visually rather than thought directly. My recall of first few words flickered out almost immediately, but the sentence concluded "...and the king's building in apotheosis."