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pre-1912 cosmology.

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Dreams Found Near Each Other

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Where are the Archetypes of Dreams Found?

Source image from Post-Mortem Pathology by Dr. Henry W. Cattell, 1905.

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All-in-One Academic Dream Archive

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Spring 1902 Catalogue of Dream Seeds

Spring 1902 Catalogue of Dream Seeds

and Historical Dream Data and Facts,

and Beautiful Visions

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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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