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I engage Vicky Mesrie’s essay as she asks us to—experientially, focusing on the particular words she uses and their emotional impact on my response to her journey inward. Along the way I address the importance of private reverie in attempting to decode unformulated experience (ours and the patient’s) and metabolizing the accompanying intense affect so that it may be symbolized within the analytic relationship.