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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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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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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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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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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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How to Choose a Dream

Here is an advertisement for a book that promises to help the reader learn how to choose a dream.

The Dream: How to Choose One

by a Professional Dreamer, Author of "The Dream: How to Master it," &c.

Contents

Why One Dream Excels Another

How to Get a Good Dream Very Cheap

Reveries, a Collection of Facts and Theories

Some Plain Words about Old Dreams

Word-eaten Illusions

Training the Mind's Eye

Power Against Nightmares

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Inconvenience - How to Excise a Dream

This Inconvenience writer asserts that cutting is an easy way to spoil and/or remove a dream.Because this is an Inconvenience, it can be inferred that it is another person's dream that is to be ruined.The writer asks her readers to consider their own applications (which may be context-dependent) of the word cut.She has chosen the 1892 text, The Surgical Diseases and Injuries of the Stomach and Intestines by Frederic Bowreman, as her primary source.

How to Excise a Dream:

Cut

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