Exercise: Painting and Entering Dreams

Each partner paints or draws a dream. You take turns entering into items in your pictures, describing or acting them out. Then you switch pictures, and do the same for your partner's picture. (You should have 1 to 1 1/2 hours of uninterrupted time for this session. Step 1: Assemble paints or crayons, and a large piece of drawing paper. Keep plenty of space around you and your paper. Your partner should be far enough away that you feel you have your own big space. Play some soft music. Paint or draw your dream - take 20 minutes or so. Don't think about it too much; just paint. This seems to come naturally to everyone, even if they don't think so ahead of time. This isn't a competition, and you don't have to be an artist - just paint like a child paints. Spontaneously.

Step 2:

Decide who is partner A and who is B.

A, explain your picture to B, then choose an item from it. (This could be an object, person, animal etc, - even the sky or empty space - anything or anybody except the dreamer.)

Then become this item. Simply jump into it and speak from it's position, in the first person. Close your eyes and describe the experience of being this item. This isn't so much an imagining as a becoming - as if you were a kid becoming a tree for a school play. Take all the space in the room you need - for running, lying down, stretching, - whatever comes. It's very possible that crying, laughing etc. will happen. That's fine! Keep a box of tissues near just in case.

B is simply there and can ask questions, to help you describe more thoroughly.

Example

When you are done with the first item, choose two more items to become.

Now switch - it's B's turn to describe their picture and go into it, while A asks questions.

Step 3:

Exchange pictures. Look at your partner's painting … really let in.

Now, A will choose an article from B's painting that B has not already gone into.

A will do exactly as before, but with B's picture - becoming an item in it,

- while B asks questions. This time, do at least two items.

Then switch. B becomes an item from A's painting. Do two at least.

At the end, share together all that has happened for you - exactly what you experienced, felt, and learned. Have a hug if you like - you have just been through something very deep together.

Congratulations - you have just experienced a taste of psychic Reading! (Does that surprise you?)

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