Neville hears Hugh Downs describe a dream on television

Last Tuesday morning, unsure his always-slow watch was right, Neville turned on Channel 4 at about five to eight to get the time and caught Hugh Downs on the Today show telling a dream in which he watched a tape of a show that had not yet been taped.
Date (happened)
7 March 1967
certain
  1. 7 March 1967 conclusion
    Why dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
    Reasoning All 4 claims agree on 1967-03-07: passage:543456; passage:535261; passage:543456; passage:535261.
  2. 7 March 1967 stated · preferred
    Source He Dreams in Me ¶1"last Tuesday morning", told in He Dreams in Me (nid 1762)
  3. c. 7 March 1967 estimated
    Reasoning Passage 535261 opens the lecture with Neville's own direct address: 'what happened to me last Tuesday morning... I switched on the television to the Today Show.' Unhedged, anchored to the moment of speaking, not to any earlier undated telling. Lecture nid=1266 has delivery date 1967-03-13, corroborated by two independent sources in-packet (legacy catalog #347 and an independently-read chrome banner, matching, no conflicting claim present), so its confidence is genuinely certain, not a lone unreviewed label. 1967-03-13 is a Monday, verified two ways (Zeller's congruence; manual day-count from 1967-01-01=Sunday); 'last Tuesday' relative to a Monday is unambiguously the Tuesday of the preceding week, 1967-03-07 (also confirmed Tuesday both ways). Weakest link is the anchor itself, which is strong; the phrase has no hedging language, so confidence is capped at, and reaches, the anchor's certain strength. Qualifier circa per this lane's convention for a computed relative-day reference that never names an explicit calendar day itself.
  4. 7 March 1967 estimated · probable
    Source He Dreams in Me ¶1passage 543456 (lecture nid 1762), 'one that happened last Tuesday morning'
    Reasoning The lecture's delivery date, 1967-03-13, is certain (independent catalogue and chrome-dateline claims agree) and was a Monday; 'last Tuesday' relative to a Monday telling is the Tuesday six days earlier, 1967-03-07.
  5. 7 March 1967 stated
    Source "last Tuesday morning", told in He Dreams in Me (nid 1266)
Place
Los Angeles
Persons
Neville Goddard
Hugh Downs
Told / reported
  1. 13 March 1967 conclusion
    Why dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
    Reasoning All 3 claims agree on 1967-03-13: node:1762; node:1762; node:1266.
  2. 13 March 1967 stated
    Source He Dreams in MeHe Dreams in Me (nid 1762), telling 1762-0, told 1967-03-13
  3. 13 March 1967 estimated
    Source He Dreams in Medelivery claims on lecture nid 1762, 'He Dreams in Me': catalogue claim and independent chrome byline dateline, both 1967-03-13
    Reasoning The anecdote is recounted within this lecture, whose delivery date of 1967-03-13 rests on two agreeing, independently sourced claims at certain confidence; the telling date equals it.
  4. 13 March 1967 stated
    Source He Dreams in Me (nid 1266), telling 1266-0, told 1967-03-13
Sources

Source

  • He Dreams in Me ¶1 (It was around eight and I wasn’t quite sure that my watch was right, in fact, it’s always losing time, and so I thought I’d better set it.)
  • He Dreams in Me ¶0 (Let me begin by telling you what happened to me last Tuesday morning. Early in the morning, desiring to check the time I switched on the television to the “Today Show.”)