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Very good question.

Personally the way I combat this is, I've built up a recognition for that excitedness. Whenever I feel that familiar excitement, I automatically calm myself down.
In waking life, the common way to calm down is to stop and breath. But here, it's really subtle, you're not really stopping anything, and you don't want to change your breathing pattern.
Instead, you continue with the transition but "let go" of the excitement. To me, the excitement feels kinda like tensing the muscles in my brain. It's like something in my mind "grips on" to something. The idea here is to let go of that grip.