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Roy's Dreaming Powder

Here is another Convenience advertisement attempting to persuade potential buyers that dreams can be created or changed using a commercial product.If only it were that easy. Or is it?

The Best Dreams Come From Roy's!

Roy's Dreaming Powder is the greatest of time and labor savers to the dreamer.

Seasoned with Roy's Dreaming Powder, visions are superlatively light,

sweet, tender, soothing, and wholesome.

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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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Homestead Convenience 38 - Fasten Strong to Forlorn

This farm convenience soothes with its statement that comfort can be found in the sum of little things.Focusing on the strong and pleasant aspects of life can create incremental change, and small events can also effect transition to a better vision.The piece emphasizes that a worthy existence is made up of both good and bad.

Farm Convenience 38

Fasten the strong and pleasant to the forlorn

and declare here is a worthy existence.

Daily comfort is the sum of little things.

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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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Practical Dreamistry

Here's a Convenience advertisement promising that this book can help anyone read the past and predict future visions.As an convenience academic , I'm very dubious about the ad's claims.

Practical Dreamistry

There is no more important study than that of dreamistry.

Many people are interested in it.

This book furnishes trustworthy information

& with a little practice any person will be able

to read dreams, recall past events, and forecast future visions.

Fully Illustrated.

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Inconvenience - The Beginning of the Journey

In this written instruction, an Inconvenience practitioner describes her methods for creating followers.

Where Does the Journey Begin?

First, celebrate at the mouth of the river called Discomfort.

Ditto the Plain of Possession.

And then, travel to and through

the Plague Bazaar

with its ancient gate of sorrow.

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Cosmopolitan Dream Book

This is an advertisement for dream patterns.Convenience scholars believe it raises fundamental philosophical questions about life:

Where do ideas and dreams originate?

And how might ideas and dreams be implemented?

Cosmopolitan Dreams

Book of 80 Sophisticated Styles

The Very Best and Latest; All Fully Illustrated.

JUST THINK OF IT

I can send you this big book of 80 dream ideas

for only 40 cents,

peruse it carefully and consider it candidly.

And Then!!

You'll have the privilege of buying any dream pattern for only 6¢ each postpaid.

Look for the Miasma Book-stall in the Bazaar.

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Perfectly Hardy Dream Ferns

Convenience scholars have disagreed about where to place this text within the convenience traditions.Some argue that it falls within the botanical convenience tradition, while others would categorize is as a convenience advertisement.In my professional opinion, it spans both traditions.The writer has used a page from the 1901 Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. This indicates that she had access to botanical sources and seed catalogs.But she has used the source text to advertise dream ferns, plants which she believes can protect the grower from dream infection.

Perfectly Hardy Dream Ferns

1 Rapid growing foliage

2 Very graceful

3 Proof against chance infections

4 Inspirational

5 Liked by everybody

6 We have three dream ferneries filled with these plant.

They are sure to grow like a dream.

Order in the marketplace

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Hints for the Realms of Dreaming

This convenience writer has used a Routledge and Sons booklist to craft her commentary.Convenience scholars note that she mentions an open cage, and she states that the openness is created by the wild [read natural] experience.The writer suggests that some dreamers may be caged and may not realize that the door to the enclosure is open.She also emphasizes the notion that dreams are common and freely available.The writer tells her readers that imagination and fancy may provide the desired resolution.She advocates exiting the cage and engaging with many different ideas.

Tourists' Guide Hints for the Realms of Dreaming

The wild state breeds the open cage.

How dreams ought to be managed:

Wholly know they are common objects of the ether.

Grow them with 200 different types of fancy,

with 200 illustrations of imagination.

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Visaphos for Disordered Dreaming

Here is another advertisement for a dream aid, this one nutritional.

Visaphos

For all disorders of dreaming

Nutrition needed for happier dreams is amply supplied by Visaphos,

which is replete in nightmare-repairing and pleasure-giving constituents.

Visaphos is procurable at fixed prices from select locations throughout the world.

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Inconvenience - Dream Poison is All Around Us

This Inconvenience is self-explanatory. It speaks to shared thoughts and dreams among people, and suggests how poison dreams might be perpetuated.Scholars have found that the image used in this text comes from Condensation of Vapor as Induced by Nuclei and Ions by Carl Barus, published in 1907.

Dream Poison.

It is all around us. It has always been used. It is very common.

Shut out all questions.

Crowd together & breathe again the poisons from each other's dreams—

fall ill, and inherit disease.

CELEBRATE IT

Is it not likely that breathing bad dreams

should scatter around still more hurtful poisons?

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General Dream Conundrums

Convenience work is often expressed using metaphor.Practitioners sometimes fashion conundrums to encourage clients to think and feel in new ways, and these conundrums frequently contain metaphor.Here is a Convenience writer asking her reader to consider how the feeling of comfort may be compared to the seasons of flora.

General Dream Conundrums.

The dream conundrum generally contains a riddle.

For example, how is understanding the natural magic

of trees, plants, and seeds

like comfort?

Hint:

consider the circularity

supporting the seed and the great tree

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Impeachment and Dream Witnesses

Here's another Convenience from the philosopher tradition.The writer's use of the word Impeachment does not suggest illegality; she is asking her readers to be thoughtful and precise in analysis and word usage.She asks us to consider our definitions of competency, relevancy, good, form, and nature.She would suggest that we may each hold quite different understandings of the words. She also suggests that meaning may change over time.

Impeachment of Dream Witnesses

Competency is a hopeful necessity.

Relevancy is good,

but what constitutes relevancy & what is good

when relative time and nature and form

are taken into consideration?

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Truthful Analogy

This Convenience is from the Simplicity tradition.The writer believes that the work has been overly complicated, or has been presented as being too mystical or complex.She tells her readers that luck and coincidence have little to do with a good dream.A pleasant dream is whatever we (each of us or groups of us) consider to be a pleasing combination of images, meanings, etc.

In Truthful Analogy

Independent of coincidence, or fortuity of any kind,

the very ground work and basis of Dream Harmony

is simply a pleasing ensemble.

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Inconvenience - Provisional Specification

Much Convenience and Inconvenience work involves subverting the more obvious meaning of a text or an image.In this Inconvenience, the writer uses a patent application (for a device meant to help people avoid poison) as her source.She subverts the patent's message by suggesting that poison can be inserted into the device itself, thus spreading contagion.Convenience scholars have located her source document: Improved Device for Distinguishing Bottles and the Like which Contain Poison by Eliza Cutler, published in 1902.

Provisional Specification

Improved Device for Proliferating Dreams which Contain Poison

This invention can readily and quickly form breakage, within reasonable limits.

The word "poison" moulded on the surface of the bottle

CONTAINS THE POISON.

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Kitchen Dreams

This Convenience is an ode to the everyday, to the common, to the plain.I love this message for its support of the workaday world, and its assertion that not all dreams need to be fanciful and spectacular.The text uses the metaphor of a kitchen to deliver its meaning, for it is kitchens of all sorts that deliver nourishment.

The Cool Gaze

Kitchen Dreams

The kitchen dream is essential;

it is everyday, is elemental.

The practical side of dreaming is nourishing and needs no defense.

It is important because it affirms the plain statement

and describes the Book of the Workaday.

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Re-Union

This Convenience writer welcomes all aspects of life into dreams. She invites the pleasant experiences and the [stereotypically] less pleasant experiences to reunite.She suggests that all emotions, thoughts, and states dance together to form better dreams.Her inference is that people are more whole[some] when they embrace both the light and dark parts of themselves.The date on the invitation places this convenience in 1868.

Re-Union

Feelings Joy Love and Pride

Fear Shame Boredom

Thoughts Serenity and Contemplation creativity Anxiety

comprehension Grace and Truth Meanness Harmony

~~~~~

are respectfully invited to attend the

Seventh Annual Meeting, on Friday, Dec. 4, 1868.

Dancing to commence at 7 p.m.

Presented by the Committee for Better Dreams

No RSVP necessary

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Basic Condition of Dream Life

This Convenience presents another argument for the relativity of dream work. The writer asserts that dreams are connected to other dreams, and that they, and experiences, are not linear manifestations.They are events that form, un-form, and re-form constantly.Convenience scholars have located the original text for this piece in The Psychology of Attention, published by Ribot in 1890. The image of the clock comes from Electrical Clocks and Clockwork by Henry Dent Gardner, 1879.

The Basic Condition of Dream Life

namely, change, is not a chain, a series.

It is a mobile aggregate which is being incessantly formed, unformed, and re-formed.

More than once it happens that a dream evokes another dream

because there is a common emotional fact which unites them,

given time.

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