I love your multiple tracks of awarenesses, like a audacity with waves on top of each other, distinct from each other yet connected in time.
Allows you to have simultaneous self-control while also experiencing the fear reactions as well as the specialfx as well as the anxiety catastrophizing
As someone who goes through similar processes in my day-to-day life (although I’ll have to look up hypnogagic – I think i know what it means not sure) – that multi-layered self-awareness while experiencing and narrating and understanding thing is very familiar