How can I work with my dreams in my prac

Let the dream supply the image and the deck supply the position — not the other way round. A dream practice works when you never read the same dream twice with two different answers, so the deck comes in only after the dream is written down in plain fact, and only in one direction.

Two shapes of practice, and which one is yours depends on what a log shows you:

• If the same image keeps turning up across weeks — a locked door, a train that never arrives, a person you never name — that image is a fixed position. Draw one card and read it *as* that position: what the door is doing in the picture (closed from which side, who holds it), and how the card modulates it. This is the good version, because the position is anchored in something you actually dreamed rather than in your mood that morning.
• If your log shows mostly one-off plots with no recurring image, then the deck is not a dictionary for dreams. Use it in the other direction instead: the dream names a question you can't quite phrase ("am I allowed to stop?"), and one card is drawn for that question. The dream set the topic; the card sits in an ordinary position and you read it like any other spread.

Two things that break it: letting a card confirm what a dream "really" meant (then you're just reading your own projection with a picture in front of it), and free-associating until the dream becomes whatever you wanted it to be. Write the facts, stop, then read.

The step, startable tonight: keep a dream log for two weeks with three columns only — *what happened, what you did, how it ended*. No meaning column, no symbols, no interpretation. The ending column matters most; endings tell you what a dream is actually about far more reliably than images do. After two weeks you'll know which of the two shapes above you have, and the cards have something real to sit against.

One drill once the log exists: take your most repeated image, and write one sentence per card in a three-card draw describing the *same* picture each time — not three different fortunes. If the three sentences agree, the image is doing the work. If they fight each other, the log entry wasn't concrete enough, and that's worth knowing before you build anything on it.

Once you've got two weeks of rows, bring me the most repeated image and its ending, and we'll read one card properly against it.