It didn't give me any insight into James and annoyed me more than anything. This is one area in which I don't need another tactic, I guess. It felt too much like writing and not enough like an exercise.
Regardless, here it is:
The repetitions/themes are about things not being as they seem, changing, falling, up being down, lack of control, separation, abandonment/drifting. Those play strongly on James' fears and also on his career, which involves those kinds of visualizations and virtual reality settings. I selected some images from his culture of origin (Korean)—he was educated about it and feels connected to it, but wasn't raised in it—and drew on those as I wrote the dream so as not to be stuck in my Western/Canadian framework.
The Story So Far: There's a lot about this book that's been very helpful, but it's possible to have too many ways of doing one thing. I may be weak in some areas, but stream of consciousness foo is not one of them! I am all about the woo-woo writing.
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