This Convenience Commentary writer advocates leaving aside too many old beliefs (superstition) and too many expectations (reverence).
The writer is from the convenience tradition that privileges the current moment as the only sure source for dream validity.
She adheres to one of that tradition’s primary tenets: the theory that a selectively-remembered past, and an imagined future (both impossible to avoid), present us with counterfeited impressions of possibility.
Seeing Dreams with a Clear Eye
I believe counterfeiting dreams hath done mischief.
I fear reverence and superstition to be a narrow compass.
The results of this combination are injurious.
