dreams now, and you want to speak the native language. After all, it is a new way of speaking, and, like all new languages, it takes some time to learn and get comfortable with it. Give it a try, keep practicing it, and be patient. After a while, it will become second nature.
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Here's a basic, one-sentence example:
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Regular speech:
I fight with my mother
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Dream language:
I have me fight with the mother part of me
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What does that mean? And how does it help us work with our dreams? If we are the ones creating our dreams, then we are the ones who are having ourselves take the actions depicted in them. We stage them. I stage the fight with my mother. "I have me" fight with my mother. But if every character in a dream is an aspect of the self, then it is not necessarily my mother at all, but perhaps my mother and also the part of myself that is motherlike as I see it, "the mother part of me."
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Sound strange? Not surprising. After all, it is a new language. Here are some of the basics to get you started translating your dream.
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Rule one: Own each part of the dream by using the phrase "part of me," as the dreamer in the foregoing example did, after every noun (except "me"). You are responsible for everything in your dreamthe objects, images, events, feelings. You created them from your unconscious. So anything that appears not only represents the people, things, and occurrences in your waking life, but also parts of you. Sometimes, you my find it useful to break down words into syllables; the background then becomes "the back part of me, ground part of me," potentially enriching the meaning and bringing more material to be interpreted. Experiment with the language, and see what rings true for you.
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Rule two: Make all pronouns personal. Do not use impersonal pronouns such as it, that, this, what, one, you. Instead, use
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