STRAY CAT is one term which caught everyone's fancy, and has become the replacement word for the standard "Analytic Overlay" (AOL) which is used in formal training. STRAY CAT is an acronym for the "Subliminal Transfer of Recollections, Anxieties, and Yearnings to Consciously Accessible Thought". That is, as a perception come bubbling up from the subconscious, it gets all sorts of memories, fears, desires, etc. attached to it before it transfers into conscious thought.

Once the term STRAY CAT caught on, it was only a matter of time until TAME CAT took on the meaning of STRAY CAT's opposite. As explained elsewhere, a STRAY CAT happens to a viewer when a perception bubbles up from the subconscious. In a STRAY CAT case, it gets polluted by recollections, fears, desires, imagination, or any other mental or emotional reaction to the incoming perception. CRVers know all too well that "You never feed a STRAY CAT - you'll never get rid of it."

A TAME CAT, on the other hand, is an acronym standing for the "Transfer of Access Mental Energy to Consciously Accessible Thought". That is, the perception comes up from the subconscious directly, unpolluted, and pure when it reaches the surface of the conscious mind. A TAME CAT is rare in any psychic work, and CRV is no exception. However, a TAME CAT is what every psychic and CRVer works toward gaining out of a session.