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.
15.06.20 It has been a while since the last recalled clear dream, the distractions and demands of a day job diverting energy and attention. However, early this morning she is gently roused by her grandmother, who visits her just as she promised she would. We have been asleep for roughly five hours or so by the time she arrives. April tells me Granny also kindly caresses my sleeping head, although as usual I have no recollection, conscious or otherwise. Granny says she has been busy attending to many people everywhere in all manner of difficulties, and so hasn't had the chance to visit. She seems to accomplish her assistance via various means: a whispered suggestion to a receptive ear here, a piece of encouragement there, or even the arranging of some outrageous piece of synchroncitous luck. Now she sits on the corner of April's bed and says she wants to take her to another impressive building, this time in Canada. Before they depart, she shows in her left palm the image of a magnificent building. Then they ascend hand-in-hand but not so high - maybe twenty metres or so - before descending 'like a rocket' to solid ground. The journey doesn't take long - half a minute, she thinks. In front of her is an immense structure, grey-cement coloured and in an art-deco style reminiscent of the Parkview here in Singapore. Granny says this is the Old Toronto Star Building and naturally April has never even conceived of such a place. Arm-in-arm, they walk along the pavement outside the facade for thirteen minutes or so. She counts more than twenty stories, but is curiously unsure as to the depth of the building and similarly is not able to peek within. I later find that the building was demolished in 1972. But here it is somehow sustained in its splendour and the popular received notion that the clear state can only include artefacts from the dreamer's own mind is once again refuted.
