I want to do what regular kids want to do. I want to go to the pictures, I want to go to the beach. I want to go to the Theme Park down the beach, Luna Park, just for fun.
So, I find myself, without thinking about it, going through the window and going down the beach.
I forgot I'd left my body in the operation room.
8:29
There's the big Moon Faced entrance of Luna Park, the Australian theme park. And I go through the entrance thinking I'll go look at girls, I'll ride the trains, and rides, I won't pay for a ticket.
Then suddenly there's (?) and I'm no longer on the train I boarded. I'm sucked down into the earth and I'm welcomed by a people who are humanoid but not quite like us. They are elegant, they're very thin, they're very tall, pale, they're beautifull.
They welcome me as one of they're own.
And
I seem to spend a life as a man for maybe 90 years, among them. I become a Father, a Grandfather and an Elder of they're society.
Then my body is used up. (...) As they cremate me I float up on the smoke and feel I'm going to their afterlife but I'm drawn back into the body of a sickly 9 year old body.
And I remember this.
And it's very hard to talk about this to the adults around me in the conservative era of Australian society.
9:22
I'm from a military family, you didn't talk about this sort of thing, recklessly.
The first person I met who understood this kind of thing was an Aboriginal kid. He said, "Oh yeah." matter-of-fact like, not mystical.
"Oh, we do that. We get sick, we go to a special place with the Meme Spirits and when we get well, we come back."
That was the first explanation of what happened to me.
(...) If you have this kind of experience in childhood with no safe way of talking about it to your teachers or your parents or your family, you learn to lay-low for a while. So I was quiet about The Dreaming.
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