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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?

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Detail and Dream Finish

This convenience writer warns against becoming obsessed with details.My academic work on this piece makes the case that the text is addressing perfectionism.I argue that the writer encourages a childlike, natural curiosity, and that she believes that this state of mind will deliver the kind and benevolent dreams sought by clients.When she references the mother tongue, she is intimating that we each have a mother tongue, that is, a natural language that we immediately recognize and understand. This writer believes that the best dreams are delivered in that language.The text derives from The Theory of Effect by John Bengo and C. T. Hinckley, published in 1850, and the image is from How to Make a Vegetable Garden by Edith Fullerton, 1905.

Detail and Dream Finish

Detail is useless, it is mischievous,

it dissipates the attention, drawing it from the principal point.

Benevolent dreams express what is natural to the mind,

the curious and attentive mind,

in the tone of the mother tongue.

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The Best Case

This convenience is from the philosophy tradition.Its writer asks her clients to consider what might be a welcoming influence, and to ponder how much access the clients are willing to cede for new dreams.

The Best Case

The most essential threshold:

effort is wanted when the border is open to genial influences

(obviously).

But, what is genial?

And how far open?

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Beneath a Deposit of Time

This convenience writer believes that new dreams may be found in the remnants of earlier dreams.She recognizes the import of these dreams to a earlier imagination, and asks her clients to let those dreams fill the heart and mind once again.Many convenience scholars have theorized that this writer believes those first dreams to be among the most pure and authentic dreams.The writer has used an image from the 1879 edition of Electrical Clocks and Clockwork by Henry Dent Gardner to illustrate her emphasis on time.

On the Occurrence of Dream Artifacts Beneath a Deposit of Time

An examination of the present may reveal

the remnant of a dream of greater volume

which had, at one time, practically filled the heart.

Learn how to remember.

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Volume of Dreaming

This convenience writer comes from the wisdom tradition, and she reminds her readers that life's experiences can include many aspects: ideas, mysteries, mind, body, and shadow.Life is a comprehensive anthology.

Volume of Dreaming

Do not prevent feeling the mystery.

It is linked with shadow and concept and the mind and the body.

It is part of the universal anthology.

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The Cool Gaze: The Trained Charlatan

Here is an experienced convenience writer warning against dream charlatans. This writer calls herself The Cool Gaze, and always uses the front cover of a Boston Cooking School magazine to create her conveniences.Her words tell scholars that she comes from the wisdom convenience tradition, as she believes clients can use their own curiosity to unmask the tricks.

The Cool Gaze

The trained charlatan

seeks to conceal her fancies for old tricks.

One can see them.

Trust in thorough queries and answers

for Truth.

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Dream Walks

This convenience provides advice for women about how to walk through a dream landscape.The source text is Jane Loudon's 1852 Lady's Country Companion.Loudon herself was a contradiction. She encouraged women to embrace domesticity even as she, herself, earned a living in the professional world of writing and publishing.The writer of this convenience subverts Loudon's contradictions.The writer encourages women's dream lives, urging them to seek and serve with their own chivalry, leaving regret behind.

Book IV. Dream Walker

Examine and poetry of personal experience,

and watch the value of solitude.

Want like a female knight-errant

and wander without incurring any regret.

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When the Mind is Left at Rest

This convenience writer tells the reader that rest is needed for dreams,She recommends sleep, and also more prolonged rest periods.The rest is necessary for the imagination to flourish, and for the mind and body to create and recognize possibility.Note that the writer has cited her source, the 1886 Practical Recipes for Making Ice Cream, and has chosen to place her text inside a drawing of an ice cream churn.The churn suggests both rest and action, and presents an allegory.When an ice cream batter is chilled [rested] and then churned, it creates a rich dessert [experience].

When the Mind is Left at Rest

for a number of hours, or days or weeks,

it throws up a fantastical layer well known as Dreaming

which is simply Experience very rich in Possibility

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Dreams and Hunger

This convenience writer advocates embracing the weird, however it may show itself.More than that, she suggests that her clients (and others) seek out the strange, resisting conformity.Even further, her chosen title suggests that the eccentric (whatever that may mean to any person or group) may satisfy [intellectual and emotional] hunger.This writer has chosen to dedicate this work to a woman named Joanne (see the top right corner).

This is not uncommon; conveniences are frequently dedicated to friends, usually indicating that the friend has inspired at least part of the convenience.

Note the style of this convenience. The writer has not erased or marked through the extra text.

This style was/is often used by a convenience mentor to provide some transparency into the convenience-writing process for a convenience student.

Dreams & Hunger

Rigid conformity should expect resistance.

Show particular attention to the work of the seemingly strange.

This is the fact to be observed – with respect to the unusual,

on the one hand, new dreams challenge,

and, on the other,

they may plant the seeds that grow and satisfy

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On the Best Form for a Balance Dream

The writer has begun this convenience by using an 1895 text by W. C. Kernot, entitled On the Best Form for a Balance Beam.This is a smart choice, as every appearance of the word beam in the book can easily be changed to dream.This style of convenience writing has been very popular on and off through the centuries, and has been known by various names.Because this writer has used a late-nineteenth-century text, convenience scholar knows that she was writing at or after that time, and the style was known as the Rhyming Dream Convenience during that era.This writer also clearly supports Adjacency Theory: the belief that it is easier to change old dreams to somewhat similar new dreams.

On the Best Form for a Balance-Dream

Cultivating a mental adaptability will support the effort.

Arrange matters longitudinally, and in the same plane.

Form a series of ideas & visions and dreams

where effort is the fulcrum,

and fate and grace the points from which the dreams are suspended.

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Balance Dream 1

This convenience writer uses an 1880 paper which was presented during the 1881 Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria.The writer has created several conveniences using this text; her usage has revealed to scholars her particular focus on the need for balance in dreams.In this convenience, she emphasizes authenticity, and she conflates it with a lack of pretense. 

The Art of the Best Form for Balance-Dreams

[May 13, 1880]

Some desirable properties will be found in the imagination and some in nature.

The balance-dream should be as authentic as possible.

What does authentic mean?

I don't know.

All we can do is compromise;

the less the pretense of the dream, the better will be the balance in both old and new.

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So Spins the World of Dreaming

Some convenience writers have found it easier to create their conveniences using texts about dreams.It's an understandable choice; many desired words may be found already on the pages.This particular writer has chosen to use an 1862 edition of Fontaine's Golden Wheel Fortune-Teller, and Dream Book for her original text, a smart choice.The writer's emphasis is on positionality and interpretation. She refutes the idea that something is automatically helpful or definitely unhelpful, which is not to deny that the helpful and unhelpful exist.She recommends discernment, and notes that variability is a natural state.

Dreams can fortell [sic] abundance.

Take care: sometimes it goes by contrary.

An abyss is a warning.

Be sure, as it is occasionally a good omen.

So spins the world of dreaming.

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Dreamer's Oracle and Letter Writer

Here is another convenience advertisement.One of the comments throughout the convenience community has concerned written communication.Some practitioners are able to confidently and independently communicate via the written word.Other practitioners work best from example.This book purports to provide examples for those wishing to see what other practitioners had written.Note the use of the French phrase, Le Bon Reve, meaning the good dream.Some modern scholars suggest that the inclusion of this phrase is intended to provide the book with the patina of sophistication, but Le Bon Reve does more than that. It tells the reader that its contents are concerned with conveniences only; it does not address any type of inconvenience.This book has proven to be enormously popular, and rightly so.

The New York Imagination Bazar

Model Letter-Writer and Dreamers' Oracle

Price 25 cents

This book is a guide for dreamers and seekers to learn effective and sincere letter writing

& provides perfect examples of letters between practitioners and clients.

Every form of letter used in affairs of Le Bon Reve will be found in this little book.

Order from

Unlimited Publishing House

P. O. Box 1727 New York

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Convenience for the Less Conventional

This convenience speaks to the lived experience of not being able to conform to someone else's expectations.The writer recognizes that some outsiders hold the knowledge that remaining open, watching for possibilities, and having courage and trust are beneficial.She asserts that these worldviews will lead to an awareness that the self is valuable and that all is well.

Dreams and Personality 2

Sometimes the less conventional cannot conform

and some of those maintain this authority:

seek to allow possibility and be open.

Have courage and trust that

"all manner of things shall be well." (Julian of Norwich)

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A Dream Background of Dun and Grey

This convenience writer cautions against the belief that all dreams must be larger-than-life or must meet some particular standard of excitement.The variety of dreams is as wide and deep as the human spirit. Some seek only serenity.

Some dreams do not look for vivid colouring.

The neutral tints beckon to many imaginations and hearts.

A background of dun and grey may be preferred.

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A Theory of Dreaming

Here is another academic convenience.Scholars identify it as such because of its aesthetic style and the choice of colors.The primary indicator, however, is its emphasis on dream continuity and on the permeability of time.

A Theory of Dreaming

We may conceive of individual dreams which we designate by special names,

but there are echoes heard along the dream spectrum or in a dream collection.

On account of the echoes, it seems impossible to say with certainty

where my great-grandmother's dreams end and mine commence.

Or where great-grandfather's nightmares stop and mine begin.

Where shall we find the starting-point for such a standard?

 

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When I Became a Crone

Convenience scholars generally recognize this convenience as an academic text, and many scholarly papers have been written about its sentiments.It is acknowledged as an early reclaiming of the word crone because it embraces denotation and connotation of an older woman as wise and powerful.Most convenience historians theorize that an academic woman created it near, or after, the end of her teaching career.

When I Became a Crone

Life felt free and simple & Powerful

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Mystic Convenience 13 - Cut or Crooked Promises

Here is the first example of a Mystic Convenience, written in the wisdom tradition.In general, Convenience writers tend to avoid the topics of religion and politics, but do occasionally reference the mysticism or wisdom metaphors of different religious and spiritual traditions.Many Conveniences are presented in metaphorical language, and using a mystical metaphor as well sometimes presents a mystery within a mystery.This mystic convenience is more straightforward. It describes the condition of a mind and/or heart that might lead one to lie or to mislead.The convenience notes the sorrow that can arise from a person's behavior not being in harmony with that person's intentions.

Mystic Convenience 13

Cut or crooked promises are signs of poverty and want.

A breach between head and heart argues a confused sorrow.

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Every Part of the Rainbow is Fine

A rainbow is used as a metaphor in this Convenience.Scholars generally accept that the Convenience writer and scholar named Anna created this statement. She was writing during the early twentieth century. (She is first mentioned here).Anna was part of an early twentieth-century convenience movement to be more inclusive.The movement encouraged the belief that all benevolent dreams [emphasis mine] were part of the spectrum of possibility and should be encouraged.

In our experience,

every part of the rainbow is so fine.

The day is washed by rains, dried by the sun's heat,

and is especially favored.

It is a joy to the eye.

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