Neville reads out a letter received that morning from Tom C., a young former student now in New York, who woke cataleptic, found himself dreaming behind a bar with his brother Jerry, applied Neville's technique of holding a solid object to wake within the dream, and then told a lady and his cousin that the world is a dream, showing his cousin page thirty-six of her own book.
Date (happened)
30 April 1965
stated · preferred
Told
22 November 1965
stated · doubtful
22 November 1965
stated · doubtful
Why
Corrects the confidence of the told claim written by run `corpus v1 / phase3b` at delta 0 on this event; that claim is left standing per append-only. Ceiling rule #2132.
Reasoning
Confidence only; the date is not re-adjudicated and is left exactly as written. This claim is derived from the delivery claims of node 1222 and asserts `certain`, but the strongest claim that node carries is `probable`, so there is nothing for `certain` to inherit from. nid 1222 delivery claims: 1965-11-22 doubtful; 1965-5-7 probable. Walked back to `probable`, the ceiling. Whether the DATE is right is a separate question this row does not touch; if the evidence turns out to support more confidence, it will have to come from a source other than this node.
7 May 1965
estimated · probable
Why
Corrects the telling date and required type; older rows remain append-only.
Reasoning
The head dateline 5/7/65 is corroborated by the lecture's spring schedule and follows the explicitly dated April 30 dream; the conflicting 1965-11-22 catalogue claim is doubtful.
Sources
Source
- This World Is a Dream ¶3 (This morning’s mail brought a letter from a friend of mine who came here over a period of two or three years, Tom C., a young lad, maybe in his late twenties.)