Neville sleeps imaginatively in Barbados during a New York snowstorm

That same snowy February night Neville went to bed in New York and slept as though he were in his mother's home in Barbados in the warm tropical air, waking to deeper snow — an imaginal act he later understood as "going and preparing the place".
Date (happened)
February 1941
unresolved
  1. February 1941 stated · preferred
    Source He Is Dreaming Now ¶42Neville identifies the night as February before the explicitly 1941 August Barbados journey.
    Reasoning Passages 554112-554114 form one chronology: the imaginal act occurred on a February publication night, followed that August by the Barbados journey explicitly dated 1941 in the adjacent account. This fixes the event to February 1941 and exposes 1970 as carrier-date contamination.
  2. February 1970 stated · refuted
    Source He Is Dreaming Now ¶42"this night in question in the month of February", told in He Is Dreaming Now (nid 2148)
    Why pm-actor-525: refuted by the M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 032): Carrier-date contamination: borrows the telling lecture's (nid 2148) approximate year rather than the month the passage itself narrates; the lecture's own May dating doesn't even match 'February', while the adjacent August-1941 Barbados chronology does.
Told / reported
  1. May 1970 stated · probable
    Source He Is Dreaming NowHe Is Dreaming Now (nid 2148), telling 2148-5, told 1970-05
Sources

Source

  • He Is Dreaming Now ¶42 (So, this night in question in the month of February I slept in Barbados, just as though I were there in the flesh. Here, I went to bed in New York City with the snow on the ground and still coming, and I assumed that I am in my Mother’s home; and here I …)