What is a Collection 1

From the Convenience Philosopher Tradition:

What is a collection?

What is not?

When are people's inner lives & thoughts not collated and edited?

How impossible that would be.

What Does Compulsion Mean?

A Convenience Writer's meditation question:

How to Choose a Dream

Here is an advertisement for a book that promises to help the reader learn how to choose a dream.

The Dream: How to Choose One

by a Professional Dreamer, Author of "The Dream: How to Master it," &c.

Contents

Why One Dream Excels Another

How to Get a Good Dream Very Cheap

Reveries, a Collection of Facts and Theories

Some Plain Words about Old Dreams

Word-eaten Illusions

Training the Mind's Eye

Power Against Nightmares

Inconvenience - How to Excise a Dream

This Inconvenience writer asserts that cutting is an easy way to spoil and/or remove a dream.Because this is an Inconvenience, it can be inferred that it is another person's dream that is to be ruined.The writer asks her readers to consider their own applications (which may be context-dependent) of the word cut.She has chosen the 1892 text, The Surgical Diseases and Injuries of the Stomach and Intestines by Frederic Bowreman, as her primary source.

How to Excise a Dream:

Cut

An Evening from a Dreamer's Note-Book

This Convenience is from the Whimsy tradition, one of my favorite traditions.

An Evening from a Dreamer's Note-Book

Locate Whimsicalities:

It is marvellous [sic] how much amusement

can be got our of tantalizingly bewitching

Ideas and Images.

Homestead Convenience 38 - Fasten Strong to Forlorn

This farm convenience soothes with its statement that comfort can be found in the sum of little things.Focusing on the strong and pleasant aspects of life can create incremental change, and small events can also effect transition to a better vision.The piece emphasizes that a worthy existence is made up of both good and bad.

Farm Convenience 38

Fasten the strong and pleasant to the forlorn

and declare here is a worthy existence.

Daily comfort is the sum of little things.

Academic Convenience 36 - They are Initiated

Some Convenience academics have attempted to discern, or create, some systems of order and/or patterns in convenience and inconvenience work.The fact that this convenience is numbered tells the reader that the piece is part of an attempt at organization.Note that the writer has used the qualities of fun, appeal, and harmony to describe her practitioners.Academics have contrasting theories about why this might be so.In one theory, the writer has been very lucky and has experienced only good dreams.Another theory posits that the writer chooses to acknowledge only the good dreams.Yet another theory suggests that she seeks to describe an ideal in which it might be possible to see only harmony.

Convenience 36

From Time Unknown

they are initiated by fun

and appeal

and in harmony with all.

Practical Dreamistry

Here's a Convenience advertisement promising that this book can help anyone read the past and predict future visions.As an convenience academic , I'm very dubious about the ad's claims.

Practical Dreamistry

There is no more important study than that of dreamistry.

Many people are interested in it.

This book furnishes trustworthy information

& with a little practice any person will be able

to read dreams, recall past events, and forecast future visions.

Fully Illustrated.

Hints for the Realms of Dreaming

This convenience writer has used a Routledge and Sons booklist to craft her commentary.Convenience scholars note that she mentions an open cage, and she states that the openness is created by the wild [read natural] experience.The writer suggests that some dreamers may be caged and may not realize that the door to the enclosure is open.She also emphasizes the notion that dreams are common and freely available.The writer tells her readers that imagination and fancy may provide the desired resolution.She advocates exiting the cage and engaging with many different ideas.

Tourists' Guide Hints for the Realms of Dreaming

The wild state breeds the open cage.

How dreams ought to be managed:

Wholly know they are common objects of the ether.

Grow them with 200 different types of fancy,

with 200 illustrations of imagination.

The Illusion of Theories

This convenience writer shows her bias toward relativism by telling readers that thoughts do not necessarily reflect truth.She asserts that theories are created by thoughts which are created by experience. She would say that people notice the thoughts that meet expectations that have already been formed.For this writer, theories are metaphors for truth. They are possibilities.

The Possible Illusion of Theories

Thoughts are an echo of causes and judgments

& can be inspired representations of truth.

Investigate the metaphor.

General Dream Conundrums

Convenience work is often expressed using metaphor.Practitioners sometimes fashion conundrums to encourage clients to think and feel in new ways, and these conundrums frequently contain metaphor.Here is a Convenience writer asking her reader to consider how the feeling of comfort may be compared to the seasons of flora.

General Dream Conundrums.

The dream conundrum generally contains a riddle.

For example, how is understanding the natural magic

of trees, plants, and seeds

like comfort?

Hint:

consider the circularity

supporting the seed and the great tree

Impeachment and Dream Witnesses

Here's another Convenience from the philosopher tradition.The writer's use of the word Impeachment does not suggest illegality; she is asking her readers to be thoughtful and precise in analysis and word usage.She asks us to consider our definitions of competency, relevancy, good, form, and nature.She would suggest that we may each hold quite different understandings of the words. She also suggests that meaning may change over time.

Impeachment of Dream Witnesses

Competency is a hopeful necessity.

Relevancy is good,

but what constitutes relevancy & what is good

when relative time and nature and form

are taken into consideration?

Truthful Analogy

This Convenience is from the Simplicity tradition.The writer believes that the work has been overly complicated, or has been presented as being too mystical or complex.She tells her readers that luck and coincidence have little to do with a good dream.A pleasant dream is whatever we (each of us or groups of us) consider to be a pleasing combination of images, meanings, etc.

In Truthful Analogy

Independent of coincidence, or fortuity of any kind,

the very ground work and basis of Dream Harmony

is simply a pleasing ensemble.

Kitchen Dreams

This Convenience is an ode to the everyday, to the common, to the plain.I love this message for its support of the workaday world, and its assertion that not all dreams need to be fanciful and spectacular.The text uses the metaphor of a kitchen to deliver its meaning, for it is kitchens of all sorts that deliver nourishment.

The Cool Gaze

Kitchen Dreams

The kitchen dream is essential;

it is everyday, is elemental.

The practical side of dreaming is nourishing and needs no defense.

It is important because it affirms the plain statement

and describes the Book of the Workaday.

Re-Union

This Convenience writer welcomes all aspects of life into dreams. She invites the pleasant experiences and the [stereotypically] less pleasant experiences to reunite.She suggests that all emotions, thoughts, and states dance together to form better dreams.Her inference is that people are more whole[some] when they embrace both the light and dark parts of themselves.The date on the invitation places this convenience in 1868.

Re-Union

Feelings Joy Love and Pride

Fear Shame Boredom

Thoughts Serenity and Contemplation creativity Anxiety

comprehension Grace and Truth Meanness Harmony

~~~~~

are respectfully invited to attend the

Seventh Annual Meeting, on Friday, Dec. 4, 1868.

Dancing to commence at 7 p.m.

Presented by the Committee for Better Dreams

No RSVP necessary

Basic Condition of Dream Life

This Convenience presents another argument for the relativity of dream work. The writer asserts that dreams are connected to other dreams, and that they, and experiences, are not linear manifestations.They are events that form, un-form, and re-form constantly.Convenience scholars have located the original text for this piece in The Psychology of Attention, published by Ribot in 1890. The image of the clock comes from Electrical Clocks and Clockwork by Henry Dent Gardner, 1879.

The Basic Condition of Dream Life

namely, change, is not a chain, a series.

It is a mobile aggregate which is being incessantly formed, unformed, and re-formed.

More than once it happens that a dream evokes another dream

because there is a common emotional fact which unites them,

given time.

No. 2 Theory of Colour Dreaming

This is another convenience from a writer privileging the personal experience above external explanations and expectations.Note the use of the word qualitatively. This word asserts the importance of quality over quantity; quality can be a personal metric.

No. 2 Theory of Colour Dreaming

Investigators and dream workers have long felt

the power of colour and of sensation qualitatively described;

for colour is a set of conditions, a position,

an experience.

Adventure Vocabulary from Bizarre Book-stall

There is no narrative in this mid-19th-century convenience. This client has chosen a list of words that evoke adventure for her.Practitioners work with clients to uncover new dreams, but it is always a pleasure to work with clients who are motivated to independently define their own senses of how dreams might appear.Much of the work is individualized in any case; what is desirable for one client may be the exact wrong choice for another client.Note the use of the word Bizarre. The words bazaar and bizarre are interchangeable within the convenience tradition.

Center for Convenience Advertisement

Research facilities for Convenience practitioners have always existed. Here is a late-19th-century advertisement for one such facility.Notice the lack of an address; the facilities' locations were shared only among practitioners.The advertisement urges visitors to select any topic of intense interest. The Centers were and are well-known for the breadth and depth of their materials

Going to The Center for Convenience?

Choose an itinerary of deep interest.

For example,

the entire sixth floor is exclusively for research.

There are modern resources and historic texts

as well as many other convenience clues

which mean so much for our profession.

Contact Anna for further information.

Dreaming and Plain Facts

This convenience comes from the Positionality tradition. I personally love this tradition for its insistence on valuing different viewpoints and different dreams.Positionality theory posits that no two people share an identical understanding for any given word or phrase.Though practitioners fully recognize that words are fundamental, many also recognize that the words are placeholders for meaning.

Dreaming and Plain Facts

Verily, plain meaning is an illusion.

Different life-contexts, different mental worlds repudiate the principle.

The critical domain is figurative and symbolic;

what each means is likely different in some way.

How could it be otherwise?