Warning to Practitioners
Source Text: Methods of Sampling Cream for Testing and Their Relation to Creamery Practice, Nelson William Hepburn, 1910.
Adulteration of Dreams 1
Source text: A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons by Friedrich Christian Accum, 1820.
Stained Dreams District Council
Annual Report of The Medical Officer of Health, The Urban District Council of Staines, 1906.
Delusional-Dream Disease
The writer of this Convenience tells her readers that delusional thinking is inherent in being human, that it is a persistent state, and that many people are frequently trying different methods to rid themselves of their delusions.
Source text: The Potato Disease by Royal College of Surgeons of England, publication date 1845.
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?
Preservation of Les Rêves
Here is an advertisement for a textbook about dreams.Please note that the author has chosen Anonymous for her last name.Choosing to remain anonymous is the tradition among practitioners.It has always been this way. Convenience practitioners do not claim to be originators of knowledge or wisdom.They see themselves as conduits.
Source text: Preservation of the teeth indispensable to comfort and appearance, health and longevity by Gray, John, Publication date 1840.
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.
From Family Dreams
1890—From Family Dreams of Independent Sources
If an idea is the ancestor of the origin and use of the word family,
we must, it seems to me, account for the ancestor of the term called accident.
Our knowledge is at present limited, however,
it seems these two experiences may depart widely from a plan.
Mutual relationship must be regarded as a puzzle of life.
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
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Intermediate and advanced Courses
to be announced later
Where are the Archetypes of Dreams Found?
Source image from Post-Mortem Pathology by Dr. Henry W. Cattell, 1905.
This archival drawer holds completed work, scraps, rough edges, and ongoing mistakes.
It holds everything that was found, blacked out, scribbled over, finished, unfinished, discarded. It all counts.
Come back next week to see more ephemera.