friends,  they  are of great use to  one another  and to me.
DREAMTHEATER:  I  find   that  I  am  changed   by  the
very  process of  observing and dialoguing. I gain a sense
of  myself-as-a-happening in the theater of myself. I  am
the  whole show: director,  cast, set, props, audience and,
above  all, author.  It isn't that  I  feel arrogant or inflated
with self—importance,  or that I want  to take myself too
seriously.   Rather,   getting   in   touch  with   what  I  am
actually experiencing  has simply  shown me how, in fact,
I am creating my experience through the workings of my
mind  and actions,  and how this process extends  beyond
my  skin  into the world  in which I live. Daily  work  and
play  with  my dreams  and  dreamtools  is the best way  I
know of experiencing my life at the deeper levels  where
we really live.

DREAM LANGUAGE:
INSTRUCTIONS AND EXAMPLES

     Here is a method I use  for  retelling  a  dream  so that
I  feel  its message  directly, bypassing  my mental habits.
It  is  the  basic  first step I can always count on no matter
how baffling the dream appears. And while the mechanics
of   doing  dreamlanguage  occupy   the  mind,  the dream
experience is sinking in.
     Here  are  the  instructions  for  doing  dreamlanguage.
I'm including a couple of dreams so that you can see how
I use dreamlanguage with a dream.

"The Little Bird"

     I  am  looking  at  a  little fuzzy  yellow bird  held  in the
palms of my hands.  This  is  an  unusual bird.  It  can read
and speak.  I ask it to show me.  There are some smudges
with  little marks  on  them  on the wall.  This  is  the bird's
language.  Slowly,  the  way  children  who  are  learning to
read   sound—out   words,    the   little   bird   sounds   out,
"FRIEND."
     To   rewrite  this  dream  in  dreamlanguage,   I  do  the
following:

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