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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 14 - A Year's Campaign Against Nightmares

This convenience writer has again used the1883 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.Convenience scholars have differing opinions about the meaning of the last line: Are [public attitudes toward night terrors] public or private?I adhere to the school positing that the writer fully intended to make a statement about the damage that can be experienced when issues of mental health are considered shameful and kept hidden.

Number 14 - A Year's Campaign Against Nightmares

Examine the subconscious carefully, especially during seasons of mental fatigue.

Note the habits of the population as to the disposal

of night terrors.

Are they public or private?

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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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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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Sweet Dreams Medicine 1

The creator of this convenience relies totally on the potential client's visual sense, as there is no text attached to the image.Each reader is left to scan the image for meaning, without clues.The creator seems to suggest that there is a medicinal (or, perhaps, magic) potion that can be prescribed to a client for sweet dreams.There are certainly some convenience practitioners supporting this idea.Most, however, argue that some work is also required.

Sweet Dreams

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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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This archival drawer holds completed work, scraps, rough edges, and ongoing mistakes.

It holds everything that was found, blacked out, scribbled over, finished, unfinished, discarded. It all counts.

Come back next week to see more ephemera.