An illustrated account of lucid dreams and out-of-body adventures. The blog details excerpts of selected excursions and other related events since the publication of the book An Adjacent Place.
29.06.19 Although I have asked April about Judith, over several nights she meets instead a new friend - one recommended and introduced to her by her grandmother. It is 05:08 when granny calls by our bedroom and sits gently on the edge of April's bed. She waits expectantly a while for April to awaken fully before inviting her to take her hand. Soon, they are ascending and descending rapidly in an inverted V-pattern through the early morning sunrise. After a minute or so, they both land outside an impressive structure April thinks is a church. She says she is able to draw it, and will do so after a couple more visits. There is a young man standing nearby, dressed in old-fashioned clothes. He is about five-foot eight inches tall, and speaks in accented English which she can understand without too much difficulty. They shake hands and the man gives his name as Karl Philipp Moritz. I note the unusual spelling as she dictates to me, and he says he wrote a book called Travels In England in 1782. I confess to never having heard of this author before nor his book and naturally the same is true of April. He says he passed away from our world quite young, in his thirties, of some illness contracted back in his native Germany. He is polite and handsome, and recounts how he visited England in the 18th century, enjoying the relative quiet and openness as he travelled. He quickly got lost in his wandering and the book arose out of a series of letters he wrote to a friend back home. He is fully aware of the duration since he passed away, although clearly his frame of reference is different from ours. He wants to recommend his book to us, and I am delighted to find later that it is accessible through the Project Gutenberg. I resolve to start reading it immediately. The structure in front of them in fact formed the cover of the first edition, although a name for this place is not yet forthcoming, and it was Karl himself who completed the artwork. He is clearly something of a polymath. So far, I have been unable to locate a similar cover online and later editions have different images. April has more to say about her encounter, and we decide to include further details in a later post.
