Write all these out in detail. Treat each one as if it were a psychical story—which it is. But do not elaborate.

Split each such psychical story into its elemental parts and use each element as a stimulus idea for developing flows of free associations.

Analyze precisely as you do with dreams.

Now make a composite structure of all the ele­ments of the respective cover-memories—group all the elements of all the cover-memories into one jum­ble. Shuffle the cards, so to speak.

Next go through this aggregation of elements from all the cover-memories and arrange them in system­atic groups. If, for example, you have hair, stone, tree, black, machine, garden, and similar elements oc­curring more than once, arrange them into groups. You will probably find that certain symbols of ideas have a tendency to become repeated in these cover-memories. They will probably reflect some particu­lar sets of unconscious ideas which have a tendency to become persistent; and, when the significance of such repeating or recurring thought-symbols are revealed, you will have broken into the buried mysteries of your unconscious mental life to a very considerable extent.

Take the composite aggregation of cover-memory elements and mentally view them with intensity for a time. Take the elements which are repeaters and give them special attention. Then permit the mind to roam all over the "mixture." In doing this, try to vis­ualize the memory of each individual element as strongly as possible, and thereby try to re-create in the consciousness the various scenic influences in question.

Now try to make the mind a blank for a moment or so, and to cultivate as restful a mental attitude as possible.

Then write another word-dream. Write fast and without intellectual deliberation.

This story need not be very long, though it ought to be not less than a hundred words; and if there is a tendency for the unconscious ideas to flow more pro­fusely, let them do so.

Call this your cover-memory word-dream.

Go to work and analyze this cover-memory word-dream in the usual way. Split it up into its elemental parts just as you have done with the dreams. In analyzing these cover-memory word-dreams always be on the look-out for the significance of any juvenile memory, especially in relation to your father and mother.

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