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

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.

The Illusion of Theories

This convenience writer shows her bias toward relativism by telling readers that thoughts do not necessarily reflect truth.She asserts that theories are created by thoughts which are created by experience. She would say that people notice the thoughts that meet expectations that have already been formed.For this writer, theories are metaphors for truth. They are possibilities.

The Possible Illusion of Theories

Thoughts are an echo of causes and judgments

& can be inspired representations of truth.

Investigate the metaphor.

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.

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?

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Inconvenience - Smith's Effective Modern Formula for Poison Dreams

Here is more information from the shadowy and shady realm of practitioners.This Inconvenience advertises a poison dream formula, and its text includes a testimonial.The formula has been found to effectively poison dreams for any length of time from one day to forever, the ultimate goal.

Smith's Effective, Module Formula for Poison Dreams

A Testimonial

In the day, he complained of pain.

He said his dreams were bad all Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday,

and then, as far as could be ascertained,

Forever!

No. 2 Theory of Colour Dreaming

This is another convenience from a writer privileging the personal experience above external explanations and expectations.Note the use of the word qualitatively. This word asserts the importance of quality over quantity; quality can be a personal metric.

No. 2 Theory of Colour Dreaming

Investigators and dream workers have long felt

the power of colour and of sensation qualitatively described;

for colour is a set of conditions, a position,

an experience.

Adventure Vocabulary from Bizarre Book-stall

There is no narrative in this mid-19th-century convenience. This client has chosen a list of words that evoke adventure for her.Practitioners work with clients to uncover new dreams, but it is always a pleasure to work with clients who are motivated to independently define their own senses of how dreams might appear.Much of the work is individualized in any case; what is desirable for one client may be the exact wrong choice for another client.Note the use of the word Bizarre. The words bazaar and bizarre are interchangeable within the convenience tradition.

Center for Convenience Advertisement

Research facilities for Convenience practitioners have always existed. Here is a late-19th-century advertisement for one such facility.Notice the lack of an address; the facilities' locations were shared only among practitioners.The advertisement urges visitors to select any topic of intense interest. The Centers were and are well-known for the breadth and depth of their materials

Going to The Center for Convenience?

Choose an itinerary of deep interest.

For example,

the entire sixth floor is exclusively for research.

There are modern resources and historic texts

as well as many other convenience clues

which mean so much for our profession.

Contact Anna for further information.

Dreaming and Plain Facts

This convenience comes from the Positionality tradition. I personally love this tradition for its insistence on valuing different viewpoints and different dreams.Positionality theory posits that no two people share an identical understanding for any given word or phrase.Though practitioners fully recognize that words are fundamental, many also recognize that the words are placeholders for meaning.

Dreaming and Plain Facts

Verily, plain meaning is an illusion.

Different life-contexts, different mental worlds repudiate the principle.

The critical domain is figurative and symbolic;

what each means is likely different in some way.

How could it be otherwise?

Detail and Dream Finish

This convenience writer warns against becoming obsessed with details.My academic work on this piece makes the case that the text is addressing perfectionism.I argue that the writer encourages a childlike, natural curiosity, and that she believes that this state of mind will deliver the kind and benevolent dreams sought by clients.When she references the mother tongue, she is intimating that we each have a mother tongue, that is, a natural language that we immediately recognize and understand. This writer believes that the best dreams are delivered in that language.The text derives from The Theory of Effect by John Bengo and C. T. Hinckley, published in 1850, and the image is from How to Make a Vegetable Garden by Edith Fullerton, 1905.

Detail and Dream Finish

Detail is useless, it is mischievous,

it dissipates the attention, drawing it from the principal point.

Benevolent dreams express what is natural to the mind,

the curious and attentive mind,

in the tone of the mother tongue.

The Best Case

This convenience is from the philosophy tradition.Its writer asks her clients to consider what might be a welcoming influence, and to ponder how much access the clients are willing to cede for new dreams.

The Best Case

The most essential threshold:

effort is wanted when the border is open to genial influences

(obviously).

But, what is genial?

And how far open?

Audacity in Women

Convenience scholars believe this piece was created between 1905 and 1920.The convenience writer explicitly defends women's spirits and capabilities.Researchers have found that the image of the plowing woman comes from How to Make a Vegetable Garden by Edith Fullerton, 1905, and that the background has been cut from a1906 Sears and Roebuck Wallpaper Samples book.

Audacity in Women

Since words have power,

care should be taken to warn against

the old idea that women are delicate.

Women have great strength.

Women are venturesome.