OK, I think I get what you’re saying. That does sound similar, only you’re describing it in a different way from how I would, in a different framework for understanding it. For me, detaching from associations would mean getting closer to the world, not getting farther from it, and so I didn’t get that that’s what you meant by ‘depersonalization.’

The book is one I've actually just been revisiting, The Myth of Sisyphus. I doubt reading it would be of any help to you, though, in relation to what we’re talking about – or anybody else except for me in that precise moment. It was just what happened to give me the idea.

While being able to induce WILDs at will did usually result in dreams starting in familiar locations, the main reason I found more success with that type of dream was that the unfamiliar settings and characters and so on made it difficult to reconnect with my waking sense of self once I was already dreaming, but I didn’t need to figure out how to do that if I could just maintain the continuity directly from waking into sleep. The book and my experiment were a different realization – although, in retrospect, they did reveal that there were probably reasons my initial approach wasn’t working besides the unfamiliarity.