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How to Choose a Dream

Here is an advertisement for a book that promises to help the reader learn how to choose a dream.

The Dream: How to Choose One

by a Professional Dreamer, Author of "The Dream: How to Master it," &c.

Contents

Why One Dream Excels Another

How to Get a Good Dream Very Cheap

Reveries, a Collection of Facts and Theories

Some Plain Words about Old Dreams

Word-eaten Illusions

Training the Mind's Eye

Power Against Nightmares

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Inconvenience - How to Excise a Dream

This Inconvenience writer asserts that cutting is an easy way to spoil and/or remove a dream.Because this is an Inconvenience, it can be inferred that it is another person's dream that is to be ruined.The writer asks her readers to consider their own applications (which may be context-dependent) of the word cut.She has chosen the 1892 text, The Surgical Diseases and Injuries of the Stomach and Intestines by Frederic Bowreman, as her primary source.

How to Excise a Dream:

Cut

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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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Inconvenience - Unparalleled Dream Vice

This Inconvenience writer has used a page from the 1891 Merrill Brothers catalog for her source.Her choices of text clearly outline her intent.

The Unparalleled Dream Vice

Place the  mind here [in the vise/vice]

[Use the] Lever

[of]

nearly-constant self consciousness, doubt, and jealousy

[to apply] Pressure

This vice is excelled by none for heavy nightmare shop work.

For a self-esteem chipping vice it is superior,

the lever being extra heavy,

it cannot be broken with simple comforting thoughts.

The screws are large, with a strong negative thread, and well fitted to the human mind.

The vice is as long as the applications are wide,

thus securing durability.

This arrangement makes dreams become injured or worn.

This is a strong, compact, and solid dream vice,

one that will last many years of daily use.

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Homestead Convenience 38 - Fasten Strong to Forlorn

This farm convenience soothes with its statement that comfort can be found in the sum of little things.Focusing on the strong and pleasant aspects of life can create incremental change, and small events can also effect transition to a better vision.The piece emphasizes that a worthy existence is made up of both good and bad.

Farm Convenience 38

Fasten the strong and pleasant to the forlorn

and declare here is a worthy existence.

Daily comfort is the sum of little things.

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Inconvenience 7 - Never Good Enough

The text of this Inconvenience urges its readers to help others be better people.Who feels entitled to speak to, and for, other people? The writer encourages this sense of entitlement.The piece explicitly acknowledges that making people feel as if they are never good enough (whatever that means) is an Inconvenience; hierarchy and assumed superiority can create nightmares.

Never—For Ever Good Enough

A new impulse, a not-to-be-resisted wish to aid the lower order of creation

Awake from sleep to define the lower order.

Improve and organize Dame Nature's children.

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Academic Convenience 36 - They are Initiated

Some Convenience academics have attempted to discern, or create, some systems of order and/or patterns in convenience and inconvenience work.The fact that this convenience is numbered tells the reader that the piece is part of an attempt at organization.Note that the writer has used the qualities of fun, appeal, and harmony to describe her practitioners.Academics have contrasting theories about why this might be so.In one theory, the writer has been very lucky and has experienced only good dreams.Another theory posits that the writer chooses to acknowledge only the good dreams.Yet another theory suggests that she seeks to describe an ideal in which it might be possible to see only harmony.

Convenience 36

From Time Unknown

they are initiated by fun

and appeal

and in harmony with all.

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Inconvenience - The Farmers' Vice for Bad Dreams

Note the conditions listed in this Inconvenience, conditions that can help ruin dreams: seeds of bereavement, sickness, sorrow, and the varied trials of life. These conditions can provide the torque that pressures good dreams into bad dreams.Also note the comments about finding a happy medium between too much torque and too little pressure.This Inconvenience notes that pressure can be increased as soon as a dream shows signs of dying.This text provides direct and deliberate directions for creating nightmares.

The Farmers' Vice for Bad Dreams

[place the original dream between the jaws of the vice]

[apply pressure using the seeds of bereavement, sickness, sorrow, and the varied trials of life]

Please Note:

To hit that happy medium between press and squeeze

(essential to the preparation of a first rate nightmare)

we must know how much pressure we are applying

and it must be increased as the original dream dies.

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Practical Dreamistry

Here's a Convenience advertisement promising that this book can help anyone read the past and predict future visions.As an convenience academic , I'm very dubious about the ad's claims.

Practical Dreamistry

There is no more important study than that of dreamistry.

Many people are interested in it.

This book furnishes trustworthy information

& with a little practice any person will be able

to read dreams, recall past events, and forecast future visions.

Fully Illustrated.

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Inconvenience - The Beginning of the Journey

In this written instruction, an Inconvenience practitioner describes her methods for creating followers.

Where Does the Journey Begin?

First, celebrate at the mouth of the river called Discomfort.

Ditto the Plain of Possession.

And then, travel to and through

the Plague Bazaar

with its ancient gate of sorrow.

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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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Perfectly Hardy Dream Ferns

Convenience scholars have disagreed about where to place this text within the convenience traditions.Some argue that it falls within the botanical convenience tradition, while others would categorize is as a convenience advertisement.In my professional opinion, it spans both traditions.The writer has used a page from the 1901 Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. This indicates that she had access to botanical sources and seed catalogs.But she has used the source text to advertise dream ferns, plants which she believes can protect the grower from dream infection.

Perfectly Hardy Dream Ferns

1 Rapid growing foliage

2 Very graceful

3 Proof against chance infections

4 Inspirational

5 Liked by everybody

6 We have three dream ferneries filled with these plant.

They are sure to grow like a dream.

Order in the marketplace

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Hints for the Realms of Dreaming

This convenience writer has used a Routledge and Sons booklist to craft her commentary.Convenience scholars note that she mentions an open cage, and she states that the openness is created by the wild [read natural] experience.The writer suggests that some dreamers may be caged and may not realize that the door to the enclosure is open.She also emphasizes the notion that dreams are common and freely available.The writer tells her readers that imagination and fancy may provide the desired resolution.She advocates exiting the cage and engaging with many different ideas.

Tourists' Guide Hints for the Realms of Dreaming

The wild state breeds the open cage.

How dreams ought to be managed:

Wholly know they are common objects of the ether.

Grow them with 200 different types of fancy,

with 200 illustrations of imagination.

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The Illusion of Theories

This convenience writer shows her bias toward relativism by telling readers that thoughts do not necessarily reflect truth.She asserts that theories are created by thoughts which are created by experience. She would say that people notice the thoughts that meet expectations that have already been formed.For this writer, theories are metaphors for truth. They are possibilities.

The Possible Illusion of Theories

Thoughts are an echo of causes and judgments

& can be inspired representations of truth.

Investigate the metaphor.

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Visaphos for Disordered Dreaming

Here is another advertisement for a dream aid, this one nutritional.

Visaphos

For all disorders of dreaming

Nutrition needed for happier dreams is amply supplied by Visaphos,

which is replete in nightmare-repairing and pleasure-giving constituents.

Visaphos is procurable at fixed prices from select locations throughout the world.

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Inconvenience - Dream Poison is All Around Us

This Inconvenience is self-explanatory. It speaks to shared thoughts and dreams among people, and suggests how poison dreams might be perpetuated.Scholars have found that the image used in this text comes from Condensation of Vapor as Induced by Nuclei and Ions by Carl Barus, published in 1907.

Dream Poison.

It is all around us. It has always been used. It is very common.

Shut out all questions.

Crowd together & breathe again the poisons from each other's dreams—

fall ill, and inherit disease.

CELEBRATE IT

Is it not likely that breathing bad dreams

should scatter around still more hurtful poisons?

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General Dream Conundrums

Convenience work is often expressed using metaphor.Practitioners sometimes fashion conundrums to encourage clients to think and feel in new ways, and these conundrums frequently contain metaphor.Here is a Convenience writer asking her reader to consider how the feeling of comfort may be compared to the seasons of flora.

General Dream Conundrums.

The dream conundrum generally contains a riddle.

For example, how is understanding the natural magic

of trees, plants, and seeds

like comfort?

Hint:

consider the circularity

supporting the seed and the great tree

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