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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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,

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