1) Change verbs to  the present tense  and  begin each
verb phrase with the phrase, "I have," in the sense that  "I
have my hair cut every month." Example: "I have myself
looking at a little fuzzy yellow bird ..."
     2) Add  the phrase, "part of me"  after  every  noun  or
name. Replace pronouns with the nouns they refer to and
follow these with "part of me." Example: "I have the little
bird part of me be an  unusual  bird part of me." (After  I
get  the  hang  of it,  I  find  the abbreviation "p/m" just  as
useful as writing out "part of me.")
     3)  Add  "in   me"  or  "of   me"   when  doing   so  will
intensify your feeling that all of the dream is going on in
you at this moment, and  perhaps  continuously. Example:
"I  have  the  little  bird  part of me able to read in me and
speak in me."
     4)  Throughout,   "I"   and   "me"   remain     the    same,
representing  the  dreamer  who  watches  all  the  action
while at the same time participating.
     5) Dreamlanguage is improved with creative intuition.
For example,  phrases  in  a  dream like "it is"  and  "there
are   distance   you   from   your   dream.  Changing  such
phrases   can  bring   the   meaning  closer  to  home.  For
example, "it is stormy" becomes "I  have  myself stormy."
     In    dreamlanguage,    then,    the    little   bird   dream
becomes:
     "I have myself looking at  a  little  fuzzy  yellow bird
part of me. I have  myself  holding  in  me  in  the palms
of  my hands part of  myself.  I have this little bird part
of me be an unusual  bird  part of me.  I  have the  little
bird part of me able to read in me and speak  in  me.  I
have myself ask the little bird part  of  me  to show  me.
I  have  smudges-with-little-marks  parts  of  me  be  on
the  wall  part of  me.  I   have  the  smudges-with-little-
marks part of  me  be  the  bird—language  part  of me.
Slowly, the  way I  have  the children  parts  of  me who
I  have  learning  to read in  me sound out words parts
of  me,  I  have  the   little  bird  part  of  me  sound  out
'Friend' part of me in me."
     After  doing  this  dreamlanguage,  I  sat  quietly at the
typewriter   while  feelings  opened   up  in  me   like  the

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