Chain associations are when we make connections with the associations rather than with the original dream image. (This is also called “free association.”) You make your first association, then you make another association to that one, and then another association, to that one, until you have a whole chain. If we do this we never get back to the original dream image. An example of chain associating would be this: BLUE Sad Hospital Aunt Jennie Apple pie Warm kitchen
