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pre-1912 cosmology.
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archive of field art.
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Preservation of Les Rêves
Here is an advertisement for a textbook about dreams.Please note that the author has chosen Anonymous for her last name.Choosing to remain anonymous is the tradition among practitioners.It has always been this way. Convenience practitioners do not claim to be originators of knowledge or wisdom.They see themselves as conduits.
Source text: Preservation of the teeth indispensable to comfort and appearance, health and longevity by Gray, John, Publication date 1840.
The Cool Gaze - Bulletin of Information for Advanced Studies
The Cool Gaze January, 1904
Bulletin of Information for Advanced Studies
in Dream Teachings:
Drama and Deceptions

Report of an Operation
The Report of an Operation—of Sorts
Preface to the First Dream Edition
The post of dreamer surgeon
is one of an esteemed and mysterious service.

Stridulous Dreams
Convenience scholars tell readers that the phrase here, loss of voice, refers to an inability to express one's own thoughts, opinions, and imaginings (inability for whatever reason and however expressed).Stridulous dreams are harsh and grating.The writer is emphasizing the idea that this loss and these dreaming experiences affect different people differently.
Source text: Hoarseness, Loss of voice, and Stridulous Breathing by Morell Mackenzie, 1868.
From Family Dreams
1890—From Family Dreams of Independent Sources
If an idea is the ancestor of the origin and use of the word family,
we must, it seems to me, account for the ancestor of the term called accident.
Our knowledge is at present limited, however,
it seems these two experiences may depart widely from a plan.
Mutual relationship must be regarded as a puzzle of life.

Normal Course in Dreamery for Beginners
The 1888--9
Normal Course in Dreamery for Beginners
Semester 1: Preliminary Work in Dream Metaphor
Semester 2: Word Pictures and Dream Language &
First Steps in Noticing Liminal Geography
—
Intermediate and advanced Courses
to be announced later

Where are the Archetypes of Dreams Found?
Source image from Post-Mortem Pathology by Dr. Henry W. Cattell, 1905.
Dreamer's Market Price List
Dreamer's Market Price List
1911 Summer and Autumn 1911
Reliable
Sweet Dream Bulbs
Convenience Seeds
Reveries Requisites
Implements, Etc.
Source text: Dreer's Autumn 1911 Seed Catalogue.
Liminal Traveller
Liminal Traveller
During a visit to dreams of reality and fancy,
the metaphor of roaming the Genius of Place arose.
That living myth is a gift.

Fig. 24 Dream Autopsy Needs
Figure 24 Dream Autopsy Needs
Expert testimony and dream experts tell us
that an answer to the question
"what is illumination"
is a conspicuous advantage.

Spring 1902 Catalogue of Dream Seeds
Spring 1902 Catalogue of Dream Seeds
and Historical Dream Data and Facts,
and Beautiful Visions

Report of Curator 29
Alert Alert Alert
Report of Curator 29, Dreaming Department
All,—My report for donations
to the Dreamer's Museum for the last three months:
The monies seem to be missing.
Who is the thief &
where is the money?

Dreamer's Autumn Catalogue 1896
Source texts: The Golden Wheel Dream-Book and Fortune-Teller, by Felix Fontaine, 1862, and Dreer's Autumn 1896 Seed Catalogue.
Dreamer's 1897 Mid-Summer Catalogue
Dreamer's Mid-Summer Catalogue 1897
Start-You-Right Dream Seeds for Summer Sowing
Dreams are likely subject to change with our prize winning seed.
The very best quality and luxuriant crop.
Source text: Dreer's Autumn 1897 Seed Catalogue.
Funnel-Shaped Dreams
Here is another warning about becoming obsessed with a dream.This writer uses the metaphor of a tornado to tell her readers that an intensely moving dream can easily pull a dreamer into its orbit.
Funnel-Shaped Dreams
During the afternoon of 12 July, 1848
there appeared dreams
resembling whirlpools*
They were not ordinary visions.
The centres of the columns changed
owing to violent writhing.
Only a little song fell from any of them, and still
they pulled in listeners.
*These were nearer than I ever before saw
Source text: The Ocean by Jordan, William Leighton Publication date 1885.
Dreams Caught in Eddies Quiz
Here is another warning against obsession. This writer uses the metaphor of eddies to illustrate the feelings of the intense forces around obsession. Her last line suggests that a person can accidentally fall into obsession if not careful.She has used this source text: The Ocean: A Treatise on Ocean Currents and Tides and Their Causes by William Leighton Jordan, 1885
Quiz: Dreams Caught in Eddies are
A Comfortable
B Trustworthy
C Dangerously fanatical
The unavoidable and correct answer is C.
This is a warning to careless dreamers.

Eddy Formation 1
Eddy Formation in the Wake of Projecting Dream Obstacles
Consider a dream moving parallel to the plane of possibility
and containing a vortex
or a vortex-pair.
What is the potential for this case?
Source text: Eddy Formation in the Wake of Projecting Obstacles by G. H. BRYAN, 1910
Gothic Dreamwork 46
Here is an inconvenience from the Gothic tradition.This writer tells her readers that any change which is not pure can be considered Gothic, and her statement is quite problematic:
- Pure to whom?
- What kind of change?
- Mysterious to whom? Are all mysteries inconvenient? (Of course not!)
- What about Gothic Conveniences?
Gothic Dreamwork 46
That change which exhibits a state distinct from pure,
this vision is a mysterious monument.

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