When I did this exercise the other day, I put the plate up to my face and felt my head go backward and imagined myself turning upside down. I felt like a little girl who was standing on her head, seeing the world from upside-down. This really changed my per­ception and feeling about things! I felt I was closer to the plant world and that everything in the ordinary right-side-up world seemed much more serious and linear than it needed to be. I made a very big mask. In. fact when I looked through its upside-down eyes, the mask extended upward about four feet over my head! I wore this mask and wrote the following poem:

Seeing the wortd from upside down
The top of my head, stuck in the ground
Toes reaching upward, toward the sky
Watching from lelow as the world passes by
It's another place when you're upside down
Everything looks crazy, the other way 'round
Now the blood, rushes to my mind
And that's what it's like, to step out of time.


Everyday Mask and Dream Mask Interaction

We all wear masks every day. In Process Work we call our every­day mask our primary process, our ordinary identity. Most often we don't realize we have it on! Our primary process is not totally conscious. It happens to us and becomes an automatic long-term pattern—but it is certainly not the whole of us.
Frequently, our primary process is not connected with our deeper dreaming experiences. That's why we often feel out of sync with ourselves.