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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 Earliest Dreams in the World

This writer uses the 1904 Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog for her source text.

Seeking a Safe and Speedy Dream Treatment?

Lightning Express: The Earliest Dreams in the World

Read to use for good results.

Few dream seeds will yield larger dreams.

Seed is very scarce this season,

but we have what you want.

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Roy's Dreaming Powder

Here is another Convenience advertisement attempting to persuade potential buyers that dreams can be created or changed using a commercial product.If only it were that easy. Or is it?

The Best Dreams Come From Roy's!

Roy's Dreaming Powder is the greatest of time and labor savers to the dreamer.

Seasoned with Roy's Dreaming Powder, visions are superlatively light,

sweet, tender, soothing, and wholesome.

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Sweet Dreams Medicine 1

The creator of this convenience relies totally on the potential client's visual sense, as there is no text attached to the image.Each reader is left to scan the image for meaning, without clues.The creator seems to suggest that there is a medicinal (or, perhaps, magic) potion that can be prescribed to a client for sweet dreams.There are certainly some convenience practitioners supporting this idea.Most, however, argue that some work is also required.

Sweet Dreams

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Cosmopolitan Dream Book

This is an advertisement for dream patterns.Convenience scholars believe it raises fundamental philosophical questions about life:

Where do ideas and dreams originate?

And how might ideas and dreams be implemented?

Cosmopolitan Dreams

Book of 80 Sophisticated Styles

The Very Best and Latest; All Fully Illustrated.

JUST THINK OF IT

I can send you this big book of 80 dream ideas

for only 40 cents,

peruse it carefully and consider it candidly.

And Then!!

You'll have the privilege of buying any dream pattern for only 6¢ each postpaid.

Look for the Miasma Book-stall in the Bazaar.

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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.

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The Treatment of the Large Dream

Here is a practitioner using a convenience advertisement to solicit business for herself.The text speaks for itself; the writer believes (and/or attempts to make others believe) that professional help is needed to treat large dreams.She offers her own services to remedy any large dream difficulties.

The Treatment of the Large Dream

Come Over and See Me

Dreaming Difficulties Solved.

Expert Answers to Amateurs' Questions

While it is a simple matter to shape up a small dream,

it becomes another matter when large dreams are in question.

Here it requires experience to get out of the muddle.

If you have not had the necessary experience,

it would not be safe to do the work without expert advice.

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Commercial Convenience 3 - An Invigorating Dream Beverage

This dream advertisement appears to have been created around the turn of the 20th century.Convenience scholars have estimated this date based on the composition and the content of the ad.The style of the advertising copy matches the early-twentieth century advertising style.The boxed dream product tells scholars that the ad creator was living near the end of the industrial revolution when commercial food and drink packaging was in full development.

An Invigorating Dream Beverage

—a real part of the solution, not merely something to drink with hope—

Diversi-Tea

If you feel stuck

There's a reason

If something interferes with your dreams,

use this powerful drink.

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Convenience Ad - Eclipse Dream Remover

Here is another dream advertisement. I'm going to go ahead and categorize it as both an advertisement and a renegade convenience.In dream work, there is (of course) the possibility of a placebo effect, and I cannot categorically claim that this paste did not work for someone, somewhere.Other convenience scholars agree, although some convenience practitioners believe we are being unnecessarily pedantic in bestowing any kind of legitimacy to products such as the No 1 "Eclipse" Dream Remover.Pedantic or not, here it is. 

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It holds everything that was found, blacked out, scribbled over, finished, unfinished, discarded. It all counts.

Come back next week to see more ephemera.