Wanted: A Correction

Source: Wanted: A Correspondent by Thomas Stewart Denison, 1877.

Dreamer County Council Meeting

Number 14 - A Year's Campaign Against Nightmares

This convenience writer has again used the1883 publication published by the North Carolina State Board of Health for her source text, the text called A Year's Campaign Against Dirt: Suggestions To Citizens Of Cities, Towns, Villages And Hamlets, How to Keep Their Streets and Homes in a Healthful Condition.Convenience scholars have differing opinions about the meaning of the last line: Are [public attitudes toward night terrors] public or private?I adhere to the school positing that the writer fully intended to make a statement about the damage that can be experienced when issues of mental health are considered shameful and kept hidden.

Number 14 - A Year's Campaign Against Nightmares

Examine the subconscious carefully, especially during seasons of mental fatigue.

Note the habits of the population as to the disposal

of night terrors.

Are they public or private?

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and will remove impurities from the mind

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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?

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?

The Mystic Dream Bank

Convenience writers and practitioners have come from many different traditions.Here is a piece from a Convenience Mystic writing in the wisdom tradition.She describes what she sees as the infinite and varied dream possibilities that can be accessed through a mystical/wisdom approach.

The Mystic Dream Banks:

Miscellaneous collections of creative currency,

historic auspices of possibility.

One Hindrance is Secrecy

Many convenience scholars, including myself, believe that this convenience was written by a woman living in the late nineteenth century.She considers herself to be more modern than earlier practitioners who were living, according to her interpretation, in an era that held dreams to be private.This writer has likely been influenced by some late-nineteenth century advances in women's education, and by the [limited] improvements in women's political positions at that time.She advocates openness; she's hopeful.

Dreams and Personality 1

One hindrance is the concepts of a dream as a secret,

for many ... which dates from the earlier years of the nineteenth century.

Sources of Dreams 1

This convenience writer appears to have a background in archeology, either as a professional or an inspired amateur.The writer believes that ancient legends or myths can inform dream interpretations, and may provide insight about common human narratives.She also, however, cautions against using the present as a totally representative assessment tool for the past.Present dreams may provide clues to the past; they do not provide a full interpretation.The past was shaped by its own experiences, not necessarily by those of the present.Please note that this emphasis was this particular writer's lens. Other convenience writers adopt quite a different philosophy.

Some Things I have Learned about Sources of Dreams

Archaeology is a source of information and

may supplement or correct a dream narrative.

Legend and myth are valuable for showing common dream experiences.

No definite rules about dreams.

The past must not be interpreted by the ideas of a later age.

The Modern Dream is More Open

Note that this convenience and the last convenience use the same page from the 1911 edition of The Meaning of Dreams by Elliott O’Donnell.This convenience was created by a woman whom scholars know to have been named Kate; they believe that Kate was in her late twenties or early thirties in 1911.Kate writes from a younger and more modern perspective than Anna. Kate revels in progress (whatever she considers that to be), and believes that the present is the source of creativity.Please know that these two women are known to have been close friends. They frequently construct different interpretations of the same primary texts.Perhaps these differing constructions were a friendly competition. Perhaps they were indeed sharing different truths.My own studies have convinced me that each woman presents a glimpse of her passing location in time, experience, geography, and culture.How could it be otherwise?

The Meaning of Dreams

The old dreams are not sacred.

It is clear that clinging to them weaves a veil that hides progress.

The modern dream is more open: less harassed and obscured.

Find a wealth of creative imagination here.

Past, Present, and Future Dreams are One

This convenience and the next convenience demonstrate how the same source text can be used to create different conveniences with quite different meanings.You may notice that both are based on the same page from the 1911 edition of The Meaning of Dreams by Elliott O'Donnell.This convenience was written by a known academic woman, writing during the last part of the 19th century and the first part of the 20th century.Convenience scholars place the creation of this convenience in 1911, and believe that the writer was in her early sixties in 1911.Her emphases on time and the relationships among past, present, and future are common themes in her writing.

Tell Me a Dream

and it will reveal the past and present and the future.

Far-back days were ascribed with visions of the present.

This modern life has sympathy with the future which receives impressions from the past

and somehow they are all one