Neville receives a doubled dream of the invisible grandfather

A year ago last Christmas Neville dreamed of a mansion where three generations spoke of an invisible grandfather who stood on a vacant lot and painted a word picture of what he desired there; he woke a little after three, wrote it out in detail on a long yellow page, went back to bed and re-dreamed it — this time being the grandfather himself — and took the doubled dream as God's instruction to go and tell it to the world.
Date (happened)
c. 25 December 1961
probable
  1. c. 25 December 1961 conclusion · probable
    Why dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
    Reasoning All 2 claims agree on c. 1961-12-25: passage:544116; passage:544116.
  2. c. 25 December 1961 stated · probable · preferred
    Source Incubate the Dream ¶8"It was a year ago last Christmas", told in Incubate the Dream (nid 1780)
  3. c. 1961 estimated · probable
    Source Incubate the Dream ¶8
    Reasoning Passage 544116 dates the doubled dream by the idiom 'a year ago last Christmas'. Against node 1780's independently corroborated 1963-05-10 delivery, this refers to the Christmas season one year before the most recent Christmas, hence 1961. The phrase is idiomatic and a named holiday supplies no packet-internal month or day, so only the year is recorded and confidence is capped at probable.
Place
Los Angeles
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 10 May 1963 conclusion
    Why dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
    Reasoning 1 claim, no conflict: 1963-05-10 (node:1780).
  2. 10 May 1963 stated
    Source Incubate the DreamIncubate the Dream (nid 1780), telling 1780-0, told 1963-05-10
Sources

Source

  • Incubate the Dream ¶8 (It was a year ago last Christmas, when I found myself in a mansion. There were three generations present but one invisible. The invisible one dominated the visible state. He was called grandfather.)
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1963-05-10 [exact/certain/final] Incubate the Dream Well now, let me share with you my doubled dream. I’ve told it before, and maybe everyone present heard it. Well, this is the technique by which you can induce a dream and make it something that is intentional. It was a year ago last Christmas, when I found myself in a mansion. There were three generations present but one invisible. The invisible one dominated the visible state. He was called grandfather. They were telling the story of grandfather: The grandfather would stand on a vacant lot and grandfather would say, “I remember when this was a vacant lot,” and then he would paint a word… 544116