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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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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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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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All-in-One Academic Dream Archive

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Dreamer's Calendar for 1876

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Dreamer's Market Price List

Dreamer's Market Price List

1911 Summer and Autumn 1911

Reliable

Sweet Dream Bulbs

Convenience Seeds

Reveries Requisites

Implements, Etc.

Source text: Dreer's Autumn 1911 Seed Catalogue.

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Liminal Traveller

Liminal Traveller

During a visit to dreams of reality and fancy,

the metaphor of roaming the Genius of Place arose.

That living myth is a gift.

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Report of Curator 29

Alert Alert Alert

Report of Curator 29, Dreaming Department

All,—My report for donations

to the Dreamer's Museum for the last three months:

The monies seem to be missing.

Who is the thief &

where is the money?

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Dreams Caught in Eddies Quiz

Here is another warning against obsession. This writer uses the metaphor of eddies to illustrate the feelings of the intense forces around obsession. Her last line suggests that a person can accidentally fall into obsession if not careful.She has used this source text: The Ocean: A Treatise on Ocean Currents and Tides and Their Causes by William Leighton Jordan, 1885

Quiz: Dreams Caught in Eddies are

A Comfortable

 B Trustworthy

C Dangerously fanatical

The unavoidable and correct answer is C.

This is a warning to careless dreamers.

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Eddy Formation 1

Eddy Formation in the Wake of Projecting Dream Obstacles

Consider a dream moving parallel to the plane of possibility

and containing a vortex

or a vortex-pair.

What is the potential for this case?

Source text: Eddy Formation in the Wake of Projecting Obstacles by G. H. BRYAN, 1910

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Gothic Dreamwork 46

Here is an inconvenience from the Gothic tradition.This writer tells her readers that any change which is not pure can be considered Gothic, and her statement is quite problematic:

  • Pure to whom?
  • What kind of change?
  • Mysterious to whom? Are all mysteries inconvenient? (Of course not!)
  • What about Gothic Conveniences?

Gothic Dreamwork 46

That change which exhibits a state distinct from pure,

this vision is a mysterious monument.

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Liability for Interruption of a Dream

Of course questions of legality have arisen during the history of Conveniences and Inconveniences.Some people are not going to be pleased, and are going to want someone else to be liable.This convenience recommends quarantine and reassurance to counteract any dream interruption or dream rerouting.

Carriers of Dreamers—Liability for Interruption of a Dream

Quarantine the dreaming passenger

and inform her of the

momentary creative change of her journey.

No need to create panic and depression.

Source: Carriers of Passengers. Liability for Interruption of Journey, published in 1907 by The Virginia Law Register

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Good Dreamer's Damages

Read with discernment: is this a convenience or an inconvenience?

Good Dreamers

Of course good dreamer's damages receive good care.

Naturally the possession of goodness in such a case

is determined by

the usage of our own common sense

signed, The Sweet Dreams Tunnel Company

Source document: Carriers of Passengers. Liability for Interruption of Journey, 1907, published by The Virginia Law Register

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Caution for Dream Swindlers 1

This convenience warns about the limits of dream damage liability toward those dreamers who have been dishonest in any way.

Caution for Dream Swindlers and Imposters

One who, by fraudulent representations as to her intention,

procures an alternate dream ticket

will have no right to recover for injuries

received while within the dream.

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Archetype of an Inconvenience 1

This inconvenience writer uses a drawing from Joseph Maclise's 1847 Comparative Osteology for her source text.The drawing obviously suggests mortality.Convenience scholars theorize that some inconveniences are written to encourage the attitudes and behaviors of death prior to actual physical demise.This writer poses a rhetorical question about archetypes.She inquires (as have most thinking persons) about the source of suffering, or inconvenience.

What is an Archetype of an Inconvenience?

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Consider the Optical

This convenience writer comes from the holistic tradition.She believes that all aspects of a dream life are important, and that all events (internal and external) contribute to the form and meaning of  reverie.

A Necessity:

Consider the optical,

the lantern, and source,

and manufacturer, & patentee,

and accessories.

Consider the origin

and intent.

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Gothic Dreamwork 66

The reader of this convenience may understand that a convenience academic has initiated a conversation about the onset of the nineteenth-century Gothic period.More specifically, the aforementioned academic has likely stated that the Gothic era was singular due to its highly-decorated aesthetic.This convenience writer argues that each age has held and reflected its own dream flourishes, that the Gothic period was NOT singularly embellished.

Gothic Dreamwork 66

The Decorated Period.

O! No! No! No!

Which period has been without flourishes?

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

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