On an earlier occasion Neville found himself inside an image, was frightened by an object there, and got back by holding a fixed inanimate object and refusing to let go — a technique he says he uses to wake within a dream.
Date (happened)
years before that
unresolved
years before that
relative
before 1957
bound · possible
Reasoning
Neville calls the frightening-vision escape an earlier occasion, completed before the circa/possible telling.
Told / reported
c. September 1957
estimated · possible
Why
This is the transcript's own internal-evidence dating (Blake bicentennial, September travel plan), not a legacy 'catalog #N' claim, but the year still sits in the 1957 band this corpus has flagged as error-prone elsewhere — worth a second look if better evidence surfaces.
Reasoning
Passage 556862 is Neville, on the platform, recounting an earlier occasion when he escaped a frightening vision by holding a fixed object; the lecture carrying this telling (nid 4004) is dated circa September 1957 by its sole, weak delivery claim, so the telling inherits that same circa/possible date rather than being stated with any more confidence than the source supports.
Sources
Source
- Blake on Religion (Second Delivery) ¶17 (But once before I found myself in an image, and some object in that experience scared me, and I knew exactly how to get back, to the sense of touch, and I’d try to think, and it worked.)