In my novel, The UM, I recount a night dream I had. In fact, I have thought about it for so long that I don’t think it was a dream at all; I think it was a vision. It was so vivid that I can still remember the face of the Gourma man very clearly 16 years later. I have also tried to make sense of it in a short story I wrote called “The House God” (which no one has wanted to publish!) where I try to understand it from the Gourma man’s perspective.
It all came back to me because of an experience recounted by Peter Duffy, a journalist for the Chronicle Herald in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who had a vivid dream encounter and is talking to monks, spiritualists, and priests trying to make sense of his experience:
“Nocturnal visit leaves me shaken”
UPDATE: Apparently the Chronicle Herald does not leave their stories posted so the link above is dead. If I find another link I will provide an update.
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