Dreams and Nightmares Look Different

Image source: Diseases of the Eye by Edward Nettleship and Holmes Spicer, publication date 1897.

Storage Case for Toxic Dreams

A Storage Case for Toxic Dreams

with examination of the reveries:

obsession,

constant complaints,

toxic arrogance.

Source text: Post-Mortem Pathology by Henry W. Cattell, 1905

Bulletin 4 - Widespread Poisoning in Dreamers

This inconvenience writer warns against worry or anxiety, against an anticipatory narrative.

Bulletin 4

Poisoning in Dreamers

has been very widespread.

Dream Officers express the view

that a good many more cases will be seen.

An increase in delusions

was certified

to be due to severe exposure

to anticipatory narrative.

Source: Arsenical Poisoning in Beer Drinkers by Theophilus Nicholas Kelynack, publication date 1901.

Inconvenience - Appliance for Encouraging Dreaming Wounds

Date of Application, 2nd July, 1889

Appliance for Use in Encouraging Dreaming Wounds

This invention promises to fill a mind and mouth

with pre-prepared pain

after which the whole is sewn up

with a piece of isolation.

 Source text: Appliance for Use in Dressing Wounds  by A. V. Pel, 1890.

Spring 1902 Catalogue of Dream Seeds

Spring 1902 Catalogue of Dream Seeds

and Historical Dream Data and Facts,

and Beautiful Visions

Report of Curator 29

Alert Alert Alert

Report of Curator 29, Dreaming Department

All,—My report for donations

to the Dreamer's Museum for the last three months:

The monies seem to be missing.

Who is the thief &

where is the money?

Inconvenience - Poisoning Dreamers #2

Poisoning Dreamers 2

Administer doubts

and increase the familiar to lull suspicion.

The principal effect is a wrong feeling

so the mind's familiarity may soothe.

Disease-production is apparent soon after infection

and exceptional opportunities

for every variety of greater mischief

become possible after that.

Source: Arsenical Poisoning in Beer Drinkers by Theophilus Nicholas Kelynack, publication date 1901.

Dreamer's Autumn Catalogue 1896

Source texts: The Golden Wheel Dream-Book and Fortune-Teller, by Felix Fontaine, 1862, and Dreer's Autumn 1896 Seed Catalogue.

Dreamer's 1897 Mid-Summer Catalogue

Dreamer's Mid-Summer Catalogue 1897

Start-You-Right Dream Seeds for Summer Sowing

Dreams are likely subject to change with our prize winning seed.

The very best quality and luxuriant crop.

Source text: Dreer's Autumn 1897 Seed Catalogue.

Funnel-Shaped Dreams

Here is another warning about becoming obsessed with a dream.This writer uses the metaphor of a tornado to tell her readers that an intensely moving dream can easily pull a dreamer into its orbit.

Funnel-Shaped Dreams

During the afternoon of 12 July, 1848

there appeared dreams

resembling whirlpools*

They were not ordinary visions.

The centres of the columns changed

owing to violent writhing.

Only a little song fell from any of them, and still

they pulled in listeners.

*These were nearer than I ever before saw

Source text: The Ocean by Jordan, William Leighton  Publication date 1885.

Dreams Caught in Eddies Quiz

Here is another warning against obsession. This writer uses the metaphor of eddies to illustrate the feelings of the intense forces around obsession. Her last line suggests that a person can accidentally fall into obsession if not careful.She has used this source text: The Ocean: A Treatise on Ocean Currents and Tides and Their Causes by William Leighton Jordan, 1885

Quiz: Dreams Caught in Eddies are

A Comfortable

 B Trustworthy

C Dangerously fanatical

The unavoidable and correct answer is C.

This is a warning to careless dreamers.

Autopsy of an Inconvenience - Origin

How does a woman come to be an inconvenience writer?This scribe tells her readers that a woman can be born attracted to inconvenience and/or made so by her experiences.

Autopsy of an Inconvenience

On the Question of Origin:

A morbid anatomy

may be found in both

nature and nurture.

Peculiarities of the Inconvenience Habit 3

Peculiarities of the Inconvenience Habit    3

The inconvenience drives misery.

The intention is leading her victims to excess.

A Dilemma:

before indulgence becomes addiction,

the effect is soothing and tranquillizing

and

all that is beautiful presents itself to the imagination.

Source text: The Opium Habit and Alcoholism by Frederick Heman Hubbard, 1881,

Eddy Formation 1

Eddy Formation in the Wake of Projecting Dream Obstacles

Consider a dream moving parallel to the plane of possibility

and containing a vortex

or a vortex-pair.

What is the potential for this case?

Source text: Eddy Formation in the Wake of Projecting Obstacles by G. H. BRYAN, 1910

Gothic Dreamwork 46

Here is an inconvenience from the Gothic tradition.This writer tells her readers that any change which is not pure can be considered Gothic, and her statement is quite problematic:

• Pure to whom?
• What kind of change?
• Mysterious to whom? Are all mysteries inconvenient? (Of course not!)
• What about Gothic Conveniences?

Gothic Dreamwork 46

That change which exhibits a state distinct from pure,

this vision is a mysterious monument.

Liability for Interruption of a Dream

Of course questions of legality have arisen during the history of Conveniences and Inconveniences.Some people are not going to be pleased, and are going to want someone else to be liable.This convenience recommends quarantine and reassurance to counteract any dream interruption or dream rerouting.

Carriers of Dreamers—Liability for Interruption of a Dream

Quarantine the dreaming passenger

and inform her of the

momentary creative change of her journey.

No need to create panic and depression.

Source: Carriers of Passengers. Liability for Interruption of Journey, published in 1907 by The Virginia Law Register

Good Dreamer's Damages

Read with discernment: is this a convenience or an inconvenience?

Good Dreamers

Of course good dreamer's damages receive good care.

Naturally the possession of goodness in such a case

is determined by

the usage of our own common sense

signed, The Sweet Dreams Tunnel Company

Source document: Carriers of Passengers. Liability for Interruption of Journey, 1907, published by The Virginia Law Register

Celestial Eddies

This convenience shows a page from an historical conveniences daily meditation text.The writer has used the 1897 Celestial Eddies by Lockyer for her source text.

January 14, 1897

Daily Meditation on the Threshold

What are dreams or vision but celestial eddies?

Consider the question put forward.

   

Caution for Dream Swindlers 1

This convenience warns about the limits of dream damage liability toward those dreamers who have been dishonest in any way.

Caution for Dream Swindlers and Imposters

One who, by fraudulent representations as to her intention,

procures an alternate dream ticket

will have no right to recover for injuries

received while within the dream.

Archetype of an Inconvenience 1

This inconvenience writer uses a drawing from Joseph Maclise's 1847 Comparative Osteology for her source text.The drawing obviously suggests mortality.Convenience scholars theorize that some inconveniences are written to encourage the attitudes and behaviors of death prior to actual physical demise.This writer poses a rhetorical question about archetypes.She inquires (as have most thinking persons) about the source of suffering, or inconvenience.

What is an Archetype of an Inconvenience?