Dream Nostalgia

 Original Text: Rainfall, Flow of Streams and Storage by Desmond Fitzgerald, Desmond, 1892 

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Flow of Dreams from Possibility

 Original Text: Flow of Steam from Nozzles by John Perry, 1903.

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Proposal for Dream Research

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Protect the Perimeter of a Dream

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Imagination as a Shield

Source Text: Osmotic Pressure of Solutions of Cane-Sugar by William Lee Kennon, 1906.

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Dream Self-Defense

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Art of Weaving Dreams 1

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Dreamers Gravitate to the Shores of the Imagination

Source: Haunts of Collectors, 1883, The Art Amateur.

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Delusional-Dream Disease

The writer of this Convenience tells her readers that delusional thinking is inherent in being human, that it is a persistent state, and that many people are frequently trying different methods to rid themselves of their delusions.Source text: The Potato Disease by Royal College of Surgeons of England, publication date 1845.

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Excess Baggage Costs

Excess Baggage Costs

Anxiety and undue mental exercise are not carried free on the path o' dreams,

but are experienced as problematic excess baggage—

whether the dreamer has other beneficial luggage or not.

It is not an impossible journey,

for which of us has not known melancholy?

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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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Deep Transformation in the Gifted Dream

Report Upon Deep Transformations in the Gifted* Dream

Many novel and interesting questions inhabit this zone.

The floor of this area is fertile; it is, in fact, composed entirely of the remains

of thoughts and experiences now living on its surface.

Possibilities are abundant

and comprise the *gift.

Source Text: Report Upon Deep Sea Dredgings in the Gulf Stream, Publication date 1870.

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Make Old Dreams Look New

Make Old Dreams Look New

The ability to make old dreams look almost new is a desirable skill.

Suppose that it is wished to convert a half-asleep experience.

The first thing to be done is to consider the question of

form.

Source text: How Mary Kept Up With the Joneses by Adjustable Dress Form Co. of Canada, 1919.

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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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