Neville recounts an out-of-body experience from fifteen years earlier, while asleep in a Beverly Hills hotel bed: his awareness left his sleeping body and found itself inside a different, plush hotel, able to walk its corridors and pass through the space as naturally as in waking life. Meeting two women in a hallway, he told them, 'this is a dream,' recognizing exactly how the experience had begun. He then realized he was shut out of his physical body in an equally solid world of its own, and grew anxious over unfinished business back home -- a wife not adequately provided for and a daughter not yet through school -- which he needed to return to attend to.
Date (happened)
between 1952 and 1953
unresolved
between 1952 and 1953
stated · probable · preferred
Reasoning
Passage 535455 directly introduces the experience with "I think it was '52 or '53" while Neville was living on El Camino in Beverly Hills. The wording supports only a year-range claim, and the hedge "I think" keeps confidence at probable rather than certain.
c. 1955
estimated · possible
Reasoning
The lecture (nid 1036, 'The Divine Body') is dated 1970 by certain internal evidence (it twice names 1970 as the present year and speaks of Bertrand Russell's death as recent news). He introduces this vision as having happened 'Fifteen years ago in Beverly Hills', which subtracted from 1970 gives circa 1955. Written at possible rather than probable because the telling lecture's own date carries only year-level precision and 'fifteen years ago' is a round, likely-approximate figure rather than a counted interval.
c. 1954
estimated · possible
Reasoning
Neville dates the vision 'maybe ten years ago' relative to this lecture, whose only delivery claim is 1964-11-17 (catalogue backfill, certain per system flag but not independently corroborated); ten years back from that gives circa 1954. Held at possible because of his own hedge ('maybe') and the weak single-source anchor.
before 1967
bound
Reasoning
Direct temporal wording places event before telling lecture.
Told / reported
1970
estimated
Reasoning
nid 1036 carries two doubtful legacy catalog claims (1957 and 1968-05-10) already flagged by a prior lane as inconsistent with the transcript, which twice names 1970 as the present year and discusses Bertrand Russell's death (Feb 1970) as recent; that internal, certain claim is used for the told date rather than either superseded catalog claim.
17 November 1964
estimated · probable
Reasoning
The vision is recounted within lecture nid 1172, whose sole delivery claim (1964-11-17) is catalogue backfill, marked certain in the system but uncorroborated by a second independent source, so the telling date is capped at probable here.
3 April 1967
estimated
Reasoning
The event is witnessed in carrier lecture node 1272. The packet gives both a legacy catalogue claim and an independent pre-strip chrome byline for 1967-04-03, agreeing at certain confidence, so the telling date is recorded at the same ceiling.
Sources
Temporal reference
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