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?

 

Inconvenience: A Dream Does Not Always Come to Bless

This particular Inconvenience writer's work is always based on the 1886 edition of Confessions of an Imp.Please note the aesthetic of the work. The layout and layering look similar to that in some of the conveniences of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.This Inconvenience writer nearly always uses the color blue for background and for lettering, and nearly always treats the source text with some kind of corrosive liquid, giving the paper a flawed appearance.Some Convenience historians believe the writer to have been a chemist or an artist experienced in manipulating surface appearances.It has been suggested that the writer's fondness for blue indicates a childhood spent under wide-open blue skies, or spent near a large blue body of water.The message of the Inconvenience, encouragement for creating dream agony, appears on a flawed surface: an intentional extra emphasis on the damaging content.Convenience psychologists believe this emphasis on damage reflects an underlying psychosis in the writer.I'm unconvinced.In my scholarly opinion, the choice of a source text with the word Imp in its title reveals a more deliberately playful and harmful intention. 

A Path o' Dreams of an Imp #3

A dream does not always come to bless.

I learned to tremble &

I learned wrath in my day dreams and

it has been my fate to serve a wild fury and

to encourage the agony endured during nightmares.

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

A Strong Wind is Important

Because of the chosen images, some convenience scholars theorize that this piece was created by a convenience artist familiar with transatlantic travel.Critics of this theory note that many people may have had access to the transatlantic travel literature used in this convenience.

An experienced traveler?

An armchair tourist?

In any case, the convenience references the need for a strong wind. This reference suggests that the convenience artist had some knowledge of the travel industry prior to the invention of the steamship in the late 18th century.

A Strong Wind

is Important to all leaving the old for something new;

especially for those who seek and

those who want different dreams and

those who are compelled toward Metamorphosis.

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.

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.

Some Missouri Convenience History

Here is the first example of a convenience specifically describing a piece of regional history.The text of the writing indicates that healing can sometimes, at first, feel like more trauma.The writing also indicates that this discernment can be difficult for practitioners as well.The process may, in fact, appear to be an inconvenience, but the results will reassure the seeker that this is not so.

Missouri Convenience History

Even newcomers with knowledge and experience found the learning process steep.

The beautiful convenience was simple.

The convenience designed to repair damage sometimes appeared to be an inconvenience

Reminiscences in another County

Convenience scholars believe that this convenience was written by a man who had been a soldier, or by a woman very familiar with a soldier, perhaps a wife, sweetheart, sister, or mother.Note the publication date of the original source, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes. (1897).The first sentence of the convenience references five-and-thirty years ago, which tells us that the convenience is referencing a time roughly located in the early 1860s.The language of the convenience is formal and hierarchical which does not necessarily place it within a military milieu as much of the 18th century experience was hierarchical.The style of the convenience does place it within a military context.Note that the extraneous text is not struck-through and references officers, exercises, Wellington, Napoleon, etc.Many scholars debate the reasons for leaving the extraneous text; here are some of their questions:

• Was the writer so busy he or she did not have time to strike through the text?
• Was the reader so confident that he or she did not see the need to strike through the text?
• Was the writer unfamiliar with the convenience tradition of striking through? This may indicate that the writer is new to the conveniences.
• Was the convenience dictated from a soldier to another person, one who may not have been familiar with the traditions?

In any case, the convenience certainly appeals to those who are comforted by authority and precision.

Reminiscences in Another County

They were soldiers

Five-and-thirty years ago the graduates were ambitious and not afraid of work

Memoir presents a memory:

those who were at the top of the tree of truth made up the nucleus around which trading was formed.

Their motto was serving hope with distinction

A New Year's Preface

This convenience writer considers some of her life experiences; she then describes some intentions for a new year.The original page for this convenience comes from The Theory of Color in its Relation to Art and Art-industry by Wilhelm von Bezold, 1876.Convenience scholars suggest that this writer is an older woman because of the depth of the introspection and the date of the source page.Note the use of color on a source page written about color theory. Also note the yearned-for experiences, the width and depth of their hunger, and how they metaphorically interact with the concept of color.This writer was quite prolific, and her images appear again and again across the convenience landscape.Convenience scholars have adopted the convention of calling her Anna.

A New Year's Preface

Though the author attempts to not conceal herself from herself,

the fact is that mysteries & tangled paths abound

especially among memory, distress, comfort, & release

&

it is principally intended that in this New Year

the most glorious creations are seen and heard & smelt & touched & thought and felt & imagined

and made

by continued practice & play and care & curiosity

Deadly Sin Inconvenience - Lust

The upside-down hearts tell the reader that this is an inconvenience. Its topic, lust, reveals it to be from one of the inconvenience writers focusing on the seven deadly sins.This particular inconvenience has been extensively studied by convenience scholars because of its implications.Convenience scholarship has never shown itself to be particularly prudish or unaccepting of different manifestations of physical desire.Most scholars support the passion of these words and phrases: impatient, no shame, and very natural performance.The problematic issue, to many convenience scholars, is the use of the word demanding, and the comment that it seems wrong to cut physical desire off ever.They consider the words demanding and ever to be too broad, to be potentially abusive (to the self and to others), and to be misleading.

License Lust

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

An impatient desire for the natural clasp which blooms

No shame

Be demanding

It is a very natural performance

It seems wrong to cut it off EVER

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

Seeing Dreams With a Clear Eye

This Convenience Commentary writer advocates leaving aside too many old beliefs (superstition) and too many expectations (reverence).The writer is from the convenience tradition that privileges the current moment as the only sure source for dream validity.She adheres to one of that tradition's primary tenets: the theory that a selectively-remembered past, and an imagined future (both impossible to avoid), present us with counterfeited impressions of possibility.

Seeing Dreams with a Clear Eye

I believe counterfeiting dreams hath done mischief.

I fear reverence and superstition to be a narrow compass.

The results of this combination are injurious.

Commercial Convenience 3 - An Invigorating Dream Beverage

This dream advertisement appears to have been created around the turn of the 20th century.Convenience scholars have estimated this date based on the composition and the content of the ad.The style of the advertising copy matches the early-twentieth century advertising style.The boxed dream product tells scholars that the ad creator was living near the end of the industrial revolution when commercial food and drink packaging was in full development.

An Invigorating Dream Beverage

—a real part of the solution, not merely something to drink with hope—

Diversi-Tea

If you feel stuck

There's a reason

If something interferes with your dreams,

use this powerful drink.

Deadly Sin Inconvenience - Sloth

Here, again, are the upside-down hearts used by this familiar Inconvenience writer.She discusses sloth in this piece, and the contents are straightforward and clear.Convenience scholars do read an important piece of evidence for discerning this writer's identity.She uses images related to gardening, which tells readers that she is familiar with the agricultural calendar.At some point in the writer's life, she has been exposed to at least one growing season in the natural world.

Deadly Sin Inconvenience - Sloth

Fully convince that work is evil

Do not try it

Do not plant

Do not hoe

Do not harvest

All is unnecessary

Homestead Convenience 37 - Break Down the Self

The writer of this homestead convenience advocates deconstruction, and the phrase break down is used as both a verb and a noun.When break down is experienced as a noun, the writer recognizes that a seeming break down may actually be a creative experience, and/or an experience full of grace.

Convenience scholars have parsed this passage and have noted that the phrase break down may denote any life experience that causes (or is caused by) stress, depression, anxiety, trauma, etc.

The scholars do NOT attempt to trivialize the physiological causes of a break down, and they do recognize professional help (if required) as contributors to insight and transformation.

When used as a verb, the convenience writer suggests that breaking down habitual ways of thinking, feeling, or behaving is useful. Breaking down is deliberate in this case.Please note that the writer speaks of necessary repairs. She advocates repair, which scholars take to mean a reassembling of thinking, feeling, and behavior.She advocates transformation.

Farm Convenience 37 - Break Down the Self

to break down one's self is to lighten experience

provided the necessary repairs render

Insight and Transformation

Commercial Convenience 90 - No Guarantees

This Convenience writer warns against the results promised by some of the convenience advertisements and convenience commercial concerns.The writer warns that a client should not expect new dreams to be forever protected, or expect the new dreams themselves to protect the individual from all possible future misfortune.The writer advocates seeking increased freedom in the present, and firmly states the belief that improving the present is a full and satisfactory result.

The End of Bad Dreams

Bonded for 20 and 10 years

Your dream is NOT protected by this 20-year bond.

You are not safeguarded against all troubles, for that guarantee is not possible.

Skillful, dependable work in the present can possibly provide a sense of freedom far beyond the current experience,

and it is enough.

Deadly Sin Inconvenience - Envy

Note the upside-down hearts at the top of the left and right margins that mark this text as an Inconvenience.This Inconvenience writer emphasizes secrecy, dissatisfaction, and discontent.The writer also comments on the infectious aspect of envy, and notes that it can be encouraged by falsehoods.

Establish Envy

The seeds of this are born in secret and should be extensively cultivated.

First attempt to sow the seed in bulk.

If the seedlings do not grow and satisfy, reach for a dissatisfied friend.

Discontent may be transferred from one to the other

Water with misleading statements.

Homestead Convenience 31 - Transmutation

Some practitioners favor the idea and act of transmutation, rather than replacement.This convenience writer believes that the energy in old, or no-longer-useful, beliefs or dreams can be changed into a new kind of experience.Please note that the writer advocates NOT beginning the transmutation until all other attempts and all other avenues have proven fruitless.This writer believes the fruitlessness to be natural and inevitable.The writer's comments about coming to the laborious tells clients that there is work to be done.The end of the tether does not mean immediate peace, but it can mean the first step in healing.

Farm Convenience 31

Transmutation

Come to the inevitable, to the natural, to the laborious.

Reach the end of the tether and

undertake sufficient care that no particle be lost.

 

Academic Appendix A - Curiosity

Curiosity has been of immense importance for convenience writers throughout the centuries.This convenience academic makes curiosity the most important appendix of her life's work.

Appendix A.

Curiosity

The invention of questions was the most important discovery

in all the world.

Direct and Clear Light Convenience

This convenience writer makes bold statements about the important of her practice. She was a prolific convenience writer, practicing in the St. Louis area between 1830 and 1894.Convenience scholars have remarked on the distinctive craft, style, and tone of her work, also noting the nineteenth-century images of St. Louis that are always included.

Direct and Clear Light Convenience

I have written this by a direct and clear light.

I writing feeling and its descriptive quality.

I work and write wonders.

 

Deadly Sin Inconvenience - Gluttony

Here is another deadly sin inconvenience, marked with an upside-down heart at the top of both the left and right margins.Somewhat curiously, there are fewer academic analyses of this inconvenience.Some convenience scholars have believed this is because there is no real need for analysis.They believe that the inconvenience itself more than adequately expresses its intent and its distress.

Grow Gluttony

Never a little bit.

Many, many, many more.

Never enough.

Much, much, much more.

To our sorrow.

Forever.