sensation, thinking, "great, it's coming, so act!". It intensified,
and now felt like waves going up and down my spine (M.R.:
no separation). A characteristic sensation, long forgotten,
went through my body. The sensation could not be considered
pleasurable in any way, and that's when I thought to myself,
"now I remember why I had stopped intentionally trying to
enter the phase." However, it was already too late to turn
back. At some moment I was lifted up, barely having time to
look back at the couch.
I soon found myself in a spacious room (M.R.: no
deepening). It was so large that the only thing that I could
see clearly was the wall next to me. There were also some
people in the room. They all wanted something from me and
kept coming up to me with stupid pretexts. I kept telling them
to "buzz off", and tried to drive them away. I had only one
thought in my head: "I've got to find my girlfriend". I tried as
hard as I could to remember where we had fallen asleep, but
my memory kept failing me. Different characters constantly
distracted me the whole time, one of them was especially
persistent. At one point, he even insisted that I help him to
open his bottle of wine with a corkscrew. I decided to help
him, and once I had opened the bottle, I thought: "Why not?
I've never tried out wine in phase," and put the bottle right to
my lips. The wine tasted really funny, more like watereddown blackberry jam with pieces of fruit floating around. The
unfinished bottle somehow was no longer in my hands, and I
continued trying to get out of that room.
The only thing I could find to deepen with was the wall
of a strange construction made of wooden planks. It was
whitewashed with what seemed to be an oil-based paint
(more than anything else, it reminded me of an outhouse). I
was about to poke my head in when an assertive type warned
that, "... it's a portal from which uninvited guests are able to
crash in..." Not eager myself to climb in there, I contented
myself with taking off a small dark mirror from the outer wall.
I played around a bit with my reflection (which did not always
want to follow when I moved my head), but those characters
milling about stuck to me like glue. I then decided to have
some fun, and began looking into the mirror together with
those companions, in pair with one at a time. However, their