Kitchen Dreams

This Convenience is an ode to the everyday, to the common, to the plain.I love this message for its support of the workaday world, and its assertion that not all dreams need to be fanciful and spectacular.The text uses the metaphor of a kitchen to deliver its meaning, for it is kitchens of all sorts that deliver nourishment.

The Cool Gaze

Kitchen Dreams

The kitchen dream is essential;

it is everyday, is elemental.

The practical side of dreaming is nourishing and needs no defense.

It is important because it affirms the plain statement

and describes the Book of the Workaday.

Re-Union

This Convenience writer welcomes all aspects of life into dreams. She invites the pleasant experiences and the [stereotypically] less pleasant experiences to reunite.She suggests that all emotions, thoughts, and states dance together to form better dreams.Her inference is that people are more whole[some] when they embrace both the light and dark parts of themselves.The date on the invitation places this convenience in 1868.

Re-Union

Feelings Joy Love and Pride

Fear Shame Boredom

Thoughts Serenity and Contemplation creativity Anxiety

comprehension Grace and Truth Meanness Harmony

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are respectfully invited to attend the

Seventh Annual Meeting, on Friday, Dec. 4, 1868.

Dancing to commence at 7 p.m.

Presented by the Committee for Better Dreams

No RSVP necessary

Basic Condition of Dream Life

This Convenience presents another argument for the relativity of dream work. The writer asserts that dreams are connected to other dreams, and that they, and experiences, are not linear manifestations.They are events that form, un-form, and re-form constantly.Convenience scholars have located the original text for this piece in The Psychology of Attention, published by Ribot in 1890. The image of the clock comes from Electrical Clocks and Clockwork by Henry Dent Gardner, 1879.

The Basic Condition of Dream Life

namely, change, is not a chain, a series.

It is a mobile aggregate which is being incessantly formed, unformed, and re-formed.

More than once it happens that a dream evokes another dream

because there is a common emotional fact which unites them,

given time.

No. 2 Theory of Colour Dreaming

This is another convenience from a writer privileging the personal experience above external explanations and expectations.Note the use of the word qualitatively. This word asserts the importance of quality over quantity; quality can be a personal metric.

No. 2 Theory of Colour Dreaming

Investigators and dream workers have long felt

the power of colour and of sensation qualitatively described;

for colour is a set of conditions, a position,

an experience.

Adventure Vocabulary from Bizarre Book-stall

There is no narrative in this mid-19th-century convenience. This client has chosen a list of words that evoke adventure for her.Practitioners work with clients to uncover new dreams, but it is always a pleasure to work with clients who are motivated to independently define their own senses of how dreams might appear.Much of the work is individualized in any case; what is desirable for one client may be the exact wrong choice for another client.Note the use of the word Bizarre. The words bazaar and bizarre are interchangeable within the convenience tradition.

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.

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?

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?

Audacity in Women

Convenience scholars believe this piece was created between 1905 and 1920.The convenience writer explicitly defends women's spirits and capabilities.Researchers have found that the image of the plowing woman comes from How to Make a Vegetable Garden by Edith Fullerton, 1905, and that the background has been cut from a1906 Sears and Roebuck Wallpaper Samples book.

Audacity in Women

Since words have power,

care should be taken to warn against

the old idea that women are delicate.

Women have great strength.

Women are venturesome.

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.

Seek to Make the Surface Solid

Here is a farm convenience giving practitioners a small set of basic admonitions.I, and other convenience scholars, particularly appreciate the emphasis on curiosity.In this convenience, curiosity is more than a suggestion; it is the central core value for both client and practitioner.

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Seek to Make

the surface solid and firm.

In addition, there should be a central core of

Curiosity.

Persons are Gifted

This writer has used the 1897 edition of Pastures and Pasture Plants by William Toogood to create her Convenience.Her hand coloring adds interest and emphasis to the piece.I love this convenience for its insistence that virtues are not rare, and that they can be found in many people, if the time is taken to get to know the individual(s).Convenience scholars have classified this convenience as one of the Egalitarian Conveniences. This subgenre of conveniences supports the idea that truth does not belong to any one individual or any one group.Virtue is not rare.

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Persons are gifted with NOT-rare virtues.

Watch carefully.

The best plan that we have heard of, or have tried,

is seeing underneath.

The Cool Gaze: The Living Dream

Here's another convenience from the practitioner who uses the Boston Cooking School Magazine as her primary source.For this convenience, she's cut out letters from the magazine title and has pasted them into the page she wanted to use for content.She urges her readers to see the possibilities around them in the entire atmosphere, and to practice living in the present.

The Cool Gaze: The Living-Dream

The living-dream centers in the entire atmosphere.

Its chief characteristic is a present sense

of realizing knowledge and comfort.

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.

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.

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.

A Convenience for Anytime 1

The conveniences have had their campaigners throughout the years and centuries, those writers who encourage other to do good deeds.Convenience scholars do not dismiss these writings because of their activist messaging, but the texts are considered a specific subgenre of conveniences.

A Convenience for Any Time

The comfort which derives from service is quite free

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

Place Unbroken Grace

The culinarily-inclined may recognize this title and text from Beadle's Dime Cookbook, published in 1864 and written by Mrs. Victor.This would have been a text that was common and easily acquired. As such, it has been used by many convenience writers.The convenience writer emphasizes grace, and stresses the need for authenticity by warning against too much performance.

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Place unbroken grace in the heart

The art lies in not too much performance

and having even goodness

What is Luck in a Dream?

Convenience scholars believe that this convenience was created in rebuttal to some of the convenience philosophers.Readers may note that many conveniences are somewhat ephemeral, providing hints rather than direct instructions.The writer of this convenience does not want hints or philosophy; she asks for directness and [what she considers to be] realism.Realism was, and is, one of the styles of conveniences, and has cycled into and out of favor over the years.

What is Luck in a Dream?

Not in abstract philosophical controversy

but in a sort of common-sense meaning.