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On waking that morning Neville met his dead friend Al - who had died at 64 and who used to enjoy his company but not his teaching, preferring to play old hymns at his piano on Sunday mornings - at a r
A woman tells atheist Al that he is God dreaming
Description
Neville reads a letter received the day before from a woman in Santa Barbara, who told her niece's atheist husband Al at a family dinner that she knew who he really was — God dreaming that he was Al.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1971
Told
1971
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Nothing But God ¶1 (Let us start with the story that I got in the mail yesterday from Santa Barbara.)
Al dreams of receiving a robe and a new name
Description
In the same letter, Al recounts a dream in which a figure with Neville's face and Al's body brought him a white robe, and a lady in white then gave him a solid gold medallion inscribed with a new name Neville wanted to give him, which he woke before he could read.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 1971 (probable)
- c. 1971 (probable)
Told
1971
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Nothing But God ¶3 (“He said, ‘That night, I had a dream. I was in a mountain home, my own home, way up in the mountain. And I went to the door, and as I opened the door, there you stood. But it was only your face. It was you. It was Neville. But the body was Al.)
- Temporal reference: Nothing But God ¶1 ('the story that I got in the mail yesterday from Santa Barbara' -- dates the recounted dream close to the telling)