Inconvenience - Metamorphoses of Nightmares 1

This inconvenience writer recommends interpreting every nightmare, or night terror, as a possible source for future dream trauma.

Metamorphoses of Nightmares 1

Almost every kind of nocturnal attack forms an interesting case.

The solitary fright or terror, for instance, forms the food

of possibility,

each feast having its own special

prey diner!

Source text: On the Origin & Metamorphosis of Insects by Sir John Lubbock, published in 1890

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Translate the Idea of a Complete Cure 20

This convenience writer reminds her readers that people live through a variety of experiences, no matter how much we may wish for universal answers to the mysteries of life.

Translate the Idea of a Complete Cure

What does it mean?

The spirit and the heart of the young dreamer

may ask in vain

for a universal definition.

Time measures our rapid journey,

and the every-varying landscapes

call attention to a beautiful variation of voyages.

Source document: The Conclusion of a Voyage Round the World by Beauvoir, Stephenson, and Stephenson, published in 1872

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Qualities that Form Dreams 29

Qualities That Form Dreams 29

Decide always in favor of originality,

it is a source of wealth.

Discern the illusion of cowardly contemplation;

our body, our soul, our intellect must face tests.

Resolution:

Plunge into the realm of the imagination.

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Dream Flow During the Open Season 6

This writer encourages her readers to give dreams time to grow as it may take time to see change.She has used the 1907 Determination of Stream Flow During the Frozen Season by Harold Barrows as her source document.

Dream Flow During the Open Season 6

Do not contemplate especially the fluctuations in daily gages.

Every woman her own dream gardener: let seeds grow.

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The Cool Gaze - Creative Dream Omnibus

This convenience writer shares her observations that both body and mind may reflect changes in creativity.

The Cool Gaze

sees and shares

the evolution of the creative dream omnibus.

Illustrations in the mind and body.

 

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Dream Season 89

Dream Season 89

Practicability of Rare and Beautiful Dreams, &c.

The conditions of beauty are considerable

and generous

and determined by independent observation—

by each mind's eye, understanding, imagination, and heart.

Munificence is supported

[and] is encouraged

For her source, this convenience writer uses the 1907 Determination of Stream Flow During the Frozen Season by Harold Kilbrith Barrows 

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Committee Requests Dream Pump

June, 1869

Your committee requests a dream pump

with improvements.

I beg leave to decline

& I want to do away

with the pressure

of dreaming.

The general plan could be to adopt

ease and elegance

rather than pressure.

Source text: Report of Samuel Risley, Esq., 1869.

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Inconvenience - Adulteration of a Dream 28

This inconvenience writer uses the 1822 A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons by Friedrich Christian Accum for her source document.

Adulteration of a Dream 28

To materially impair a dream:

mix a small quantity of cold

commentary into the compound

dream.

Often there is nothing else to do

and often the solution is necessary,

pleasing, and satisfying.

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Public Dream Report Volume XIII

For her source text, this convenience writer has used an 1898 publication entitled Amendments to Quarantine Regulations.

Public Dream Report

Volume XIII   October 28, 1898   No. 43.

Amendments to Inspection of  certain

Dream baggage on and after April 1 until November 15.

                                                                                         [signed] Dreamery Department, October 22, 1898.

Since the last issue of the Public Dream Reports, the Dream Poison has

declined, and fewer reveries have been reported infected.

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Inspection service has been abolished

at most of the Cognitive Borders.

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The Earliest Dreams in the World

This writer uses the 1904 Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog for her source text.

Seeking a Safe and Speedy Dream Treatment?

Lightning Express: The Earliest Dreams in the World

Read to use for good results.

Few dream seeds will yield larger dreams.

Seed is very scarce this season,

but we have what you want.

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Inconvenience - 98 Stained Dreams

98 Stained Dreams

Defacing dream effects

[activities or events that deface dreams]

promise division

& ample digression and shock.

They are so fertile and refreshing.

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Number 5 - A Year's Campaign Against Nightmares

Here, again, is the writer using an 1883 publication published by the North Carolina State Board of Health for her source text, the text called A Year's Campaign Against Dirt: Suggestions To Citizens Of Cities, Towns, Villages And Hamlets, How to Keep Their Streets and Homes in a Healthful Condition.

Number 5 - A Year's Campaign Against Nightmares

Ascertain the character of the mind

before filling it

with ideas.

Notice the margins

of dreams in

and

about your yearning.

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Dreamer's Invitation

Dreamer's Invitation

Listen:

here and now we may trace the workings of our Liminal Self.

We experience instinct or presentiment.

We know not whence it comes or how;

We act upon it sometimes.

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Audacity in Dreamers

This convenience writer uses the 1890 Audacity in Women Novelists by George Parsons Lathrop as her source document.

Audacity in Dreamers

The Dream: declare it, see what it is, and then circulate it.

The more open the detail, the better to encourage all persons concerned;

Meanwhile, do not wait for abstract theories or concrete regulations.

Seek to secure and maintain an experiment in dreams and reality.

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Number 4 - A Year's Campaign Against Nightmares

This convenience was written by the same writer who wrote the number 9 campaign.Again, the writer has used an 1883 publication published by the North Carolina State Board of Health for her source text, the text called A Year's Campaign Against Dirt: Suggestions To Citizens Of Cities, Towns, Villages And Hamlets, How to Keep Their Streets and Homes in a Healthful Condition.

A Year's Campaign Against Nightmares Number 4

The time to baffle some dreams can be in the midst of a night-mare.

A skilled practitioner may make it possible to avert dream pestilence by a talismanic act.

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Dream Bath Cabinet

A Dream Bath Cabinet

will cure insomnia—will remove nightmares

and will remove impurities from the mind

We sell the genuine —$10.00 each

Send for Booklet

Sidgwick & Co.

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Number 9 - A Year's Campaign Against Nightmares

This writer has used an 1883 publication published by the North Carolina State Board of Health for her source text, the text called A Year's Campaign Against Dirt: Suggestions To Citizens Of Cities, Towns, Villages And Hamlets, How to Keep Their Streets and Homes in a Healthful Condition.

Number 9 - A Year's Campaign Against Nightmares

Attention to the Cultivation of Dreams

Most all minds have a few often-frequented anxious thoughts

upon which nearly all the attention of the dream scavengers is bestowed

leaving subconscious states to the chances, or awaiting miraculous release.

An Antidote:

Welcome it all into the body & trust its wisdom.

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Stained Dream 26

This inconvenience writer tells her students to use any means of disrupting visions.The wrute has used a page from the 1910 Stained glass tours in England by Charles Sherrill for her text, and has included an image from the 1905 The visionary, and other poems by Christine Swayne.

Stained Dream 26

The small, constantly recurring, and cunning chance

to refute any kind of visionary

glisten and glitter.

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What is a Collection 1

From the Convenience Philosopher Tradition:

What is a collection?

What is not?

When are people's inner lives & thoughts not collated and edited?

How impossible that would be.

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Inconvenience - Dissociation of a Dream

For the Dissociation of a Dream

Please Encourage

The Development of Schism in Reverie

A person in whom several incompatible dreams have become developed

may become transformed and altered for worse —

from order to chaos*

*How lovely

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