Reverse messages demand that we be awake at deep levels of our being. It demands that we get on with the job of grounding our speech, both forward and reverse, and give meaning to generalizations such as metaphors and archetypes. Since reverse messages are often full of ungrounded abstractions as well as forward messages, we now have the mandate as Reverse Speech analysts to pay attention to what's meaningless and bring it down and down until it is anchored in life and in present reality. This is a challenging work as Reverse Speech is mosaic in its nature and multidementional in its characteristics. Consider not only the three levels of reversals as previously outlined, but also the reversal catagories that have been identified to date by David Oates.
Some reversals are expansive in that they add to the information of the forward speech.
Reversals can be contradictory to what the forward speech says. Other reversals can communicate to the other person. Reversals can be an i nternal dialogue, giving information or instruction to oneself. Mirror image reversals have the same meaning in both forward and reverse statements. Sentence building reversals will complete a forward statement.