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

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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.

One Hindrance is Secrecy

Many convenience scholars, including myself, believe that this convenience was written by a woman living in the late nineteenth century.She considers herself to be more modern than earlier practitioners who were living, according to her interpretation, in an era that held dreams to be private.This writer has likely been influenced by some late-nineteenth century advances in women's education, and by the [limited] improvements in women's political positions at that time.She advocates openness; she's hopeful.

Dreams and Personality 1

One hindrance is the concepts of a dream as a secret,

for many ... which dates from the earlier years of the nineteenth century.

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.

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.