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Inconvenience - Poisoning Dreamers #2

Poisoning Dreamers 2

Administer doubts

and increase the familiar to lull suspicion.

The principal effect is a wrong feeling

so the mind's familiarity may soothe.

Disease-production is apparent soon after infection

and exceptional opportunities

for every variety of greater mischief

become possible after that.

Source: Arsenical Poisoning in Beer Drinkers by Theophilus Nicholas Kelynack, publication date 1901.

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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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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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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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Inconvenience - The Air Surrounding Envy

This inconvenience writer is a minimalist.She encourages the gentle act of whispering mischief and dissatisfaction to encourage envy among people.

The Air Surrounding Envy

is a fatal vapor

in many cases.

Sometimes the vapor is heavy,

but small drops

poured on the ear and mind suffice

to injure dreams.

So just whisper.

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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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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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Inconvenience - Unparalleled Dream Vice

This Inconvenience writer has used a page from the 1891 Merrill Brothers catalog for her source.Her choices of text clearly outline her intent.

The Unparalleled Dream Vice

Place the  mind here [in the vise/vice]

[Use the] Lever

[of]

nearly-constant self consciousness, doubt, and jealousy

[to apply] Pressure

This vice is excelled by none for heavy nightmare shop work.

For a self-esteem chipping vice it is superior,

the lever being extra heavy,

it cannot be broken with simple comforting thoughts.

The screws are large, with a strong negative thread, and well fitted to the human mind.

The vice is as long as the applications are wide,

thus securing durability.

This arrangement makes dreams become injured or worn.

This is a strong, compact, and solid dream vice,

one that will last many years of daily use.

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Inconvenience 7 - Never Good Enough

The text of this Inconvenience urges its readers to help others be better people.Who feels entitled to speak to, and for, other people? The writer encourages this sense of entitlement.The piece explicitly acknowledges that making people feel as if they are never good enough (whatever that means) is an Inconvenience; hierarchy and assumed superiority can create nightmares.

Never—For Ever Good Enough

A new impulse, a not-to-be-resisted wish to aid the lower order of creation

Awake from sleep to define the lower order.

Improve and organize Dame Nature's children.

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Inconvenience - The Farmers' Vice for Bad Dreams

Note the conditions listed in this Inconvenience, conditions that can help ruin dreams: seeds of bereavement, sickness, sorrow, and the varied trials of life. These conditions can provide the torque that pressures good dreams into bad dreams.Also note the comments about finding a happy medium between too much torque and too little pressure.This Inconvenience notes that pressure can be increased as soon as a dream shows signs of dying.This text provides direct and deliberate directions for creating nightmares.

The Farmers' Vice for Bad Dreams

[place the original dream between the jaws of the vice]

[apply pressure using the seeds of bereavement, sickness, sorrow, and the varied trials of life]

Please Note:

To hit that happy medium between press and squeeze

(essential to the preparation of a first rate nightmare)

we must know how much pressure we are applying

and it must be increased as the original dream dies.

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