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Restoring the Lost Sense – June 3, 2012

"What a beautiful dream!": an illustration from a 1902 issue of Harper's magazine.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]

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#vintage illustration #mother and child #dream #woman #vintage woman

Staring Into the Depths – May 19, 2012

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An illustration from a 1900 issue of Scribner's magazine.

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[The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]

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#vintage illustration #daydreaming

Strange Dreams – April 25, 2012

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For Geof Huth, whose poems sometimes go backwards.

If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!

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#vintage illustration #mermaid #merman #dreaming #illustration #geof huth

Staring Into the Depths – February 26, 2012

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An illustration from a 1916 issue of Century Illustrated magazine. The caption reads: "To-night her mind was too full of personal things to permit of strict attention to the text."

Dedicated to Teresa Burritt.

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[The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]

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#vintage illustration #daydreaming

Forgotten Wisdom – September 6, 2011

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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

Printed collections of Forgotten Wisdom diagrams are available: Volume I from Mindful Greetings and Volumes II, III and IV from Amazon. Selected posters are also available via Zazzle.

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#constellation #dream

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – July 23, 2011

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"Take life less seriously and dreams more so, then things will improve, then the dream can become your leader instead of, as now, going around as a garish clown in the motley shreds of our daytime memories."
—Gustav Meyrink, The White Dominican

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#dreaming #gustav meyrink

Strange Dreams – April 22, 2011

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We're so often mesmerized by rows of asterisks twinkling on pages of old books. Here's an especially dreamy example from Wilfred Montressor: or, The Secret Order of the Seven (1865).

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#vintage illustration #dream #asterisks #illustration

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – May 31, 2009

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"There's nothing beautiful and excellent left. You must dream up beauty and goodness and justice. Tell me, do you know how to dream?" —Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten

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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – April 17, 2009

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"If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke—Ay! and what then?" —Coleridge, Anima Poetae, qtd. in John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu, 1927

Image from Magic Archetypes.

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#dream #flower #coleridge

Strange Dreams – February 9, 2009

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"The function of dreams, they tell us, is to unlearn or purge the brain of unneeded connections—according to this view what goes through the mind in a dream is merely the result of a sort of neural housecleaning. They also suggest that it may be damaging to recall dreams, because doing so might strengthen mental connections that should be discarded. 'We dream in order to forget,' they write." —William Burroughs, The Western Lands

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#dreams #burroughs

Strange Dreams – October 3, 2008

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"We don't form our dreams out of just our own souls. We dream anonymously and communally, though each in his own way. The great soul, of which we are just a little piece, dreams through us so to speak, dreams in our many different ways its own eternal, secret dream—about its youth, its hope, its joy, its peace, and its bloody feast."
—Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain (a mountain of a masterpiece!)

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#dreaming #thomas mann