Here are the rules for creating Sometimes in My Dreams Poems using the seed words:
1. Look at the seed words. Let your eyes wander over them until you notice yourself looking at one of them more often than the others. Don’t be self conscious about it, just do it. If one of them isn’t sticking out slightly, look away quickly, then look back. Do it several times. The word your eyes keep going back to is the one with the most power. Forget about the others.
2. Don’t get serious. You should be light-hearted, happy-go-lucky just like a daredevil. Just keep your eyes on the power word, because you’re going to have a good time with it–the time of your life, if you want to know the truth.
3. Start out writing with the words Sometimes in my dreams, I . . . , and then connect “I” to the power word. Don’t worry how, or what words you are going to use. Your imagination will take care of all that. Don’t think. Just allow your imagination say what it wants.
4. Then, when you pause (because you don’t know where to go), let your eyes jump immediately to another seed word in the list and use a new word to advance the story.
5. When you pause again, let your eyes jump to another word and keep going until you’ve used up all the words or the story simply stops. Either way, you’ll know when the poem is finished because you’ll feel the poem simply stop inside you.