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.

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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.

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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.

Sources of Dreams 1

This convenience writer appears to have a background in archeology, either as a professional or an inspired amateur.The writer believes that ancient legends or myths can inform dream interpretations, and may provide insight about common human narratives.She also, however, cautions against using the present as a totally representative assessment tool for the past.Present dreams may provide clues to the past; they do not provide a full interpretation.The past was shaped by its own experiences, not necessarily by those of the present.Please note that this emphasis was this particular writer's lens. Other convenience writers adopt quite a different philosophy.

Some Things I have Learned about Sources of Dreams

Archaeology is a source of information and

may supplement or correct a dream narrative.

Legend and myth are valuable for showing common dream experiences.

No definite rules about dreams.

The past must not be interpreted by the ideas of a later age.

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.

Dreams and Personality 2

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. 

A Path o' Dreams of an Imp #3

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.

The Modern Dream is More Open

Note that this convenience and the last convenience use the same page from the 1911 edition of The Meaning of Dreams by Elliott O’Donnell.This convenience was created by a woman whom scholars know to have been named Kate; they believe that Kate was in her late twenties or early thirties in 1911.Kate writes from a younger and more modern perspective than Anna. Kate revels in progress (whatever she considers that to be), and believes that the present is the source of creativity.Please know that these two women are known to have been close friends. They frequently construct different interpretations of the same primary texts.Perhaps these differing constructions were a friendly competition. Perhaps they were indeed sharing different truths.My own studies have convinced me that each woman presents a glimpse of her passing location in time, experience, geography, and culture.How could it be otherwise?

The Meaning of Dreams

The old dreams are not sacred.

It is clear that clinging to them weaves a veil that hides progress.

The modern dream is more open: less harassed and obscured.

Find a wealth of creative imagination here.

Past, Present, and Future Dreams are One

This convenience and the next convenience demonstrate how the same source text can be used to create different conveniences with quite different meanings.You may notice that both are based on the same page from the 1911 edition of The Meaning of Dreams by Elliott O'Donnell.This convenience was written by a known academic woman, writing during the last part of the 19th century and the first part of the 20th century.Convenience scholars place the creation of this convenience in 1911, and believe that the writer was in her early sixties in 1911.Her emphases on time and the relationships among past, present, and future are common themes in her writing.

Tell Me a Dream

and it will reveal the past and present and the future.

Far-back days were ascribed with visions of the present.

This modern life has sympathy with the future which receives impressions from the past

and somehow they are all one

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.

Every Part of the Rainbow is Fine

A rainbow is used as a metaphor in this Convenience.Scholars generally accept that the Convenience writer and scholar named Anna created this statement. She was writing during the early twentieth century. (She is first mentioned here).Anna was part of an early twentieth-century convenience movement to be more inclusive.The movement encouraged the belief that all benevolent dreams [emphasis mine] were part of the spectrum of possibility and should be encouraged.

In our experience,

every part of the rainbow is so fine.

The day is washed by rains, dried by the sun's heat,

and is especially favored.

It is a joy to the eye.

Some Missouri Convenience History

Here is the first example of a convenience specifically describing a piece of regional history.The text of the writing indicates that healing can sometimes, at first, feel like more trauma.The writing also indicates that this discernment can be difficult for practitioners as well.The process may, in fact, appear to be an inconvenience, but the results will reassure the seeker that this is not so.

Missouri Convenience History

Even newcomers with knowledge and experience found the learning process steep.

The beautiful convenience was simple.

The convenience designed to repair damage sometimes appeared to be an inconvenience

Reminiscences in another County

Convenience scholars believe that this convenience was written by a man who had been a soldier, or by a woman very familiar with a soldier, perhaps a wife, sweetheart, sister, or mother.Note the publication date of the original source, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes. (1897).The first sentence of the convenience references five-and-thirty years ago, which tells us that the convenience is referencing a time roughly located in the early 1860s.The language of the convenience is formal and hierarchical which does not necessarily place it within a military milieu as much of the 18th century experience was hierarchical.The style of the convenience does place it within a military context.Note that the extraneous text is not struck-through and references officers, exercises, Wellington, Napoleon, etc.Many scholars debate the reasons for leaving the extraneous text; here are some of their questions:

• Was the writer so busy he or she did not have time to strike through the text?
• Was the reader so confident that he or she did not see the need to strike through the text?
• Was the writer unfamiliar with the convenience tradition of striking through? This may indicate that the writer is new to the conveniences.
• Was the convenience dictated from a soldier to another person, one who may not have been familiar with the traditions?

In any case, the convenience certainly appeals to those who are comforted by authority and precision.

Reminiscences in Another County

They were soldiers

Five-and-thirty years ago the graduates were ambitious and not afraid of work

Memoir presents a memory:

those who were at the top of the tree of truth made up the nucleus around which trading was formed.

Their motto was serving hope with distinction

A New Year's Preface

This convenience writer considers some of her life experiences; she then describes some intentions for a new year.The original page for this convenience comes from The Theory of Color in its Relation to Art and Art-industry by Wilhelm von Bezold, 1876.Convenience scholars suggest that this writer is an older woman because of the depth of the introspection and the date of the source page.Note the use of color on a source page written about color theory. Also note the yearned-for experiences, the width and depth of their hunger, and how they metaphorically interact with the concept of color.This writer was quite prolific, and her images appear again and again across the convenience landscape.Convenience scholars have adopted the convention of calling her Anna.

A New Year's Preface

Though the author attempts to not conceal herself from herself,

the fact is that mysteries & tangled paths abound

especially among memory, distress, comfort, & release

&

it is principally intended that in this New Year

the most glorious creations are seen and heard & smelt & touched & thought and felt & imagined

and made

by continued practice & play and care & curiosity

To Preserve the Currant Sweet Content

This convenience comes from a well-known historical writer, which is to say she is well-known within the convenience academic and lay communities.This writer always uses cookbooks, or other culinary texts, to reflect her experiences and create her convenience messages.The literary epicure may recognize that the original page for this convenience comes from the table of contents in the 1863 edition of Beadle's Dime Cookbook; the cookbook is attributed to Mrs. Victor.Because of this convenience writer's familiarity with culinary texts, scholars theorize that she was a cook. She may have been a cook within her own family, may have worked for another household, or may have worked for or owned a commercial enterprise.Scholars also place her writing likely at the end of the 19th- or early-20th century because of the publication dates of her sources.One of the significant themes that appear in all of her conveniences is that of kindness. This writer did not hold with the more dictatorial or directive methods used by some other practitioners.Her emphasis on kindness—and softness, in this convenience—has led some scholars to believe that she had experienced (and recovered from) some kind of trauma in her earlier life.She appears to understand that some clients need to be approached with care.Note that she does not change the word currant (a berry) to the word current (a contemporary state).The word currant supports the ethic-of-kindness theory.The currant is a small and sweet (but potentially acidic) berry. The writer discerns and names the tension between these two states (sweetness and acidity) by keeping the word currant, and suggests an appropriate response.This writer always includes an image of food, in this case chocolate cream pie. More sweetness.

To Preserve the Currant Sweet Content

Make change soft and kind

 

Deadly Sin Inconvenience - Lust

The upside-down hearts tell the reader that this is an inconvenience. Its topic, lust, reveals it to be from one of the inconvenience writers focusing on the seven deadly sins.This particular inconvenience has been extensively studied by convenience scholars because of its implications.Convenience scholarship has never shown itself to be particularly prudish or unaccepting of different manifestations of physical desire.Most scholars support the passion of these words and phrases: impatient, no shame, and very natural performance.The problematic issue, to many convenience scholars, is the use of the word demanding, and the comment that it seems wrong to cut physical desire off ever.They consider the words demanding and ever to be too broad, to be potentially abusive (to the self and to others), and to be misleading.

License Lust

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

An impatient desire for the natural clasp which blooms

No shame

Be demanding

It is a very natural performance

It seems wrong to cut it off EVER

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

Seeing Dreams With a Clear Eye

This Convenience Commentary writer advocates leaving aside too many old beliefs (superstition) and too many expectations (reverence).The writer is from the convenience tradition that privileges the current moment as the only sure source for dream validity.She adheres to one of that tradition's primary tenets: the theory that a selectively-remembered past, and an imagined future (both impossible to avoid), present us with counterfeited impressions of possibility.

Seeing Dreams with a Clear Eye

I believe counterfeiting dreams hath done mischief.

I fear reverence and superstition to be a narrow compass.

The results of this combination are injurious.

Commercial Convenience 3 - An Invigorating Dream Beverage

This dream advertisement appears to have been created around the turn of the 20th century.Convenience scholars have estimated this date based on the composition and the content of the ad.The style of the advertising copy matches the early-twentieth century advertising style.The boxed dream product tells scholars that the ad creator was living near the end of the industrial revolution when commercial food and drink packaging was in full development.

An Invigorating Dream Beverage

—a real part of the solution, not merely something to drink with hope—

Diversi-Tea

If you feel stuck

There's a reason

If something interferes with your dreams,

use this powerful drink.