Metaphor, on the other hand, involves what the conversation topic reminds you of. If you’re hearing the same story about skiing for the third time in the same day, you might not want to talk about it again. Thus, this is a prompt for you to subtly change the topic to something that’s related or . . . not so related. If you’ve been practicing your free association, this kind of thing will come as second nature. It works as long as you can preface it with some sort of transition. That reminds me of . . .
