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.

Dreams and Hunger

This convenience writer advocates embracing the weird, however it may show itself.More than that, she suggests that her clients (and others) seek out the strange, resisting conformity.Even further, her chosen title suggests that the eccentric (whatever that may mean to any person or group) may satisfy [intellectual and emotional] hunger.This writer has chosen to dedicate this work to a woman named Joanne (see the top right corner).

This is not uncommon; conveniences are frequently dedicated to friends, usually indicating that the friend has inspired at least part of the convenience.

Note the style of this convenience. The writer has not erased or marked through the extra text.

This style was/is often used by a convenience mentor to provide some transparency into the convenience-writing process for a convenience student.

Dreams & Hunger

Rigid conformity should expect resistance.

Show particular attention to the work of the seemingly strange.

This is the fact to be observed – with respect to the unusual,

on the one hand, new dreams challenge,

and, on the other,

they may plant the seeds that grow and satisfy

Inconvenience - Symptomatology of Abandonment

Here's an Inconvenience describing how attachment can lead to devastating feelings of abandonment.Note that the writer tells the reader that maximum attachment is encouraged because it can lead to feelings of maximum abandonment.She clearly delineates the emotions she strives to evoke via abandonment: pain, emotional discomfort, etc.She likens attachment to a drug; this implies that the attachment addict requires every-increasing doses.

The Symptomatology of Abandonment

manifests in irritation, aches, pains, collapse,

mental and emotional discomfort.

It is correct to assert that we seek the narcotic of attachment

and then experience the maximum irritation

with maximum abandonment

On the Best Form for a Balance Dream

The writer has begun this convenience by using an 1895 text by W. C. Kernot, entitled On the Best Form for a Balance Beam.This is a smart choice, as every appearance of the word beam in the book can easily be changed to dream.This style of convenience writing has been very popular on and off through the centuries, and has been known by various names.Because this writer has used a late-nineteenth-century text, convenience scholar knows that she was writing at or after that time, and the style was known as the Rhyming Dream Convenience during that era.This writer also clearly supports Adjacency Theory: the belief that it is easier to change old dreams to somewhat similar new dreams.

On the Best Form for a Balance-Dream

Cultivating a mental adaptability will support the effort.

Arrange matters longitudinally, and in the same plane.

Form a series of ideas & visions and dreams

where effort is the fulcrum,

and fate and grace the points from which the dreams are suspended.

A Dream of Consolation 1

This convenience writer emphasizes the need for hope.She recognizes that the ability to hope may take a while to acquire, and that the path toward its acquisition may be difficult to traverse.The writer calls this hard-earned hope a pretty addition, notifying her readers of her belief in the long game.She also confirms her belief in the luckiness of the number three. This belief does not originate within the convenience community; it has been constructed and propagated throughout many cultures in history.The writer seeks to console, which presupposes some sadness or pain.

A Dream of Consolation

Hope is a pretty addition;

hope both long and steep, an addition of three aspects,

three being lucky.

The first point is imagination in dreams.

The second and third close upon revealing and residing in a transformed possible future.

Cross Right into the Strangeness

This convenience writer comes from the travel tradition and exhorts all practitioners and dreamers to embrace whatever experience might come their way.I appreciate the joy and inclusiveness of this piece.

Convenience

especially adapted for

Tourists and Travellers 1

Cross right into the strangeness and see much of interest:

the curious pushing up against the beautiful

pushing up against the turmoil

pushing up against the glorious, the muddle,

the gleaming, the balmy, and the bloom.

Something at every turn, ever ready:

things seen in dreams.

Balance Dream 1

This convenience writer uses an 1880 paper which was presented during the 1881 Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria.The writer has created several conveniences using this text; her usage has revealed to scholars her particular focus on the need for balance in dreams.In this convenience, she emphasizes authenticity, and she conflates it with a lack of pretense. 

The Art of the Best Form for Balance-Dreams

[May 13, 1880]

Some desirable properties will be found in the imagination and some in nature.

The balance-dream should be as authentic as possible.

What does authentic mean?

I don't know.

All we can do is compromise;

the less the pretense of the dream, the better will be the balance in both old and new.

The Treatment of the Large Dream

Here is a practitioner using a convenience advertisement to solicit business for herself.The text speaks for itself; the writer believes (and/or attempts to make others believe) that professional help is needed to treat large dreams.She offers her own services to remedy any large dream difficulties.

The Treatment of the Large Dream

Come Over and See Me

Dreaming Difficulties Solved.

Expert Answers to Amateurs' Questions

While it is a simple matter to shape up a small dream,

it becomes another matter when large dreams are in question.

Here it requires experience to get out of the muddle.

If you have not had the necessary experience,

it would not be safe to do the work without expert advice.

So Spins the World of Dreaming

Some convenience writers have found it easier to create their conveniences using texts about dreams.It's an understandable choice; many desired words may be found already on the pages.This particular writer has chosen to use an 1862 edition of Fontaine's Golden Wheel Fortune-Teller, and Dream Book for her original text, a smart choice.The writer's emphasis is on positionality and interpretation. She refutes the idea that something is automatically helpful or definitely unhelpful, which is not to deny that the helpful and unhelpful exist.She recommends discernment, and notes that variability is a natural state.

Dreams can fortell [sic] abundance.

Take care: sometimes it goes by contrary.

An abyss is a warning.

Be sure, as it is occasionally a good omen.

So spins the world of dreaming.

Dreamer's Oracle and Letter Writer

Here is another convenience advertisement.One of the comments throughout the convenience community has concerned written communication.Some practitioners are able to confidently and independently communicate via the written word.Other practitioners work best from example.This book purports to provide examples for those wishing to see what other practitioners had written.Note the use of the French phrase, Le Bon Reve, meaning the good dream.Some modern scholars suggest that the inclusion of this phrase is intended to provide the book with the patina of sophistication, but Le Bon Reve does more than that. It tells the reader that its contents are concerned with conveniences only; it does not address any type of inconvenience.This book has proven to be enormously popular, and rightly so.

The New York Imagination Bazar

Model Letter-Writer and Dreamers' Oracle

Price 25 cents

This book is a guide for dreamers and seekers to learn effective and sincere letter writing

& provides perfect examples of letters between practitioners and clients.

Every form of letter used in affairs of Le Bon Reve will be found in this little book.

Order from

Unlimited Publishing House

P. O. Box 1727 New York

Thanks for Teachers

Convenience scholars believe that this convenience was written by an older teacher.It clearly emphasizes and celebrates the oral and written traditions involved in sharing knowledge among practitioners.Practitioner knowledge has been passed among teachers and students for centuries.Note that the writer has cited her source (as an academic would do): the 1910 edition of Teachers Magazine.

Thanks for Teachers

Hoping that others may find me useful

and give thanks for all teachers' help.

My old friends never forget the aim of good.

This has been proved repeatedly.

Convenience for the Less Conventional

This convenience speaks to the lived experience of not being able to conform to someone else's expectations.The writer recognizes that some outsiders hold the knowledge that remaining open, watching for possibilities, and having courage and trust are beneficial.She asserts that these worldviews will lead to an awareness that the self is valuable and that all is well.

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Sometimes the less conventional cannot conform

and some of those maintain this authority:

seek to allow possibility and be open.

Have courage and trust that

"all manner of things shall be well." (Julian of Norwich)

A Dream Background of Dun and Grey

This convenience writer cautions against the belief that all dreams must be larger-than-life or must meet some particular standard of excitement.The variety of dreams is as wide and deep as the human spirit. Some seek only serenity.

Some dreams do not look for vivid colouring.

The neutral tints beckon to many imaginations and hearts.

A background of dun and grey may be preferred.

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. 

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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.