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Through The Gate Of Dreams: Based on the Dream Journals of Basha Edelman and Lamont Corazon
Have you ever considered where you go when you dream? What if it is really true that when we dream, we could live another life? What price would you pay to go through the gate of dreams into that other life? Two teens travel to a dream world of awesome beauty and deadly peril. For Lamont Corazon, a 15-year-old novice dreamer, going through the gate is a chance to discover his true destiny. He is the opener of the gate and the obstacle to be overcome. Lamont witnessed how a young man went through the gate of dreams leaving behind a distraught young lady. But is it really true to fulfill that destiny and reunite the other two young lovers he has unexpectedly gotten involved with? Does he really have only two choices. Must he either relinquish his body or become a blood sacrifice? Lamont may not live to realize his true destiny and power, all because a dead god dreams of vengeance. This dead god is manipulating their dreams in order to get Lamont’s friend Basha, an 18-year-old Jewess and Reclaiming Witch, to open the Gate of Dreams.
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September 12, 2022
This is the beginning of my YA Fantasy series set in San Francisco from 1979-1980 and a variant of Lovecraft's Dreamland.
How did it all start? I’m glad you asked…
Do you realize that we spend about a third of our lives asleep and in dreams? When we dream, we enter a tangibly real world of fantasy that we create. Most of us don’t even try to remember our dreams. We thus lose touch with this third of our life. How we live within that fantastic other world. With a skill that can be learned called Lucid Dreaming, you can learn to consciously and deliberately interact and explore that fantasy world of dreams. This reality has always intrigued me. We live two lives, one in the ordinary realm of Waking with its responsibilities and the other in the extraordinary world of dreams that lacks such burdens.
Within that mix, when you examine how young adults live on the margins of the Waking world and don’t quite partake of the responsibilities and issues of adulthood, they seem to be the most susceptible to the pull of that marginal realm, the fantastic that is found in their dreams. What if they were pulled into that world more completely? How would that affect their lives in the other two-thirds that they spend awake?
This is what brought me to my fantasy series. To explore dreams and the potential real fantasy world we have access to.
My characters are a 15-year-old Hispanic, Lamont Corazon, and an 18-year-old Jewish, Basha Edelman, both living in 1979 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The villain, a dead god, Tezcatlipoca, who seeks revenge and freedom from imprisonment, tries to lure Lamont and Basha into opening the gate of dreams and thus give Him/Her release from their prison and brought back to power in the Waking World.
The first novel in the series explores that plot line and the ‘Romeo-Juliet’ situation of my two heroes who deal with the seemingly unbridgeable age gap created by their High School. The novel chronicles their intertwined lives, how they come to learn and respect each other, need each other, and thus ultimately fall in love.
The second novel has a subtext plot line of what happens to gods who are forgotten. The previous villain, the dead god, Tezcatlipoca, discovers that her life has become enmeshed with the two people she previously tried to trap and deceive. Tezcatlipoca realizes that by creating the land of Dreams, it became imprisoned and that only with the aid and assistance of Lamont and Basha can Tezcatlipoca hope to be redeemed, fulfill the purpose behind the land of Dreams, and ultimately be helped by learning to help others and to regain worshipers.
Lurking behind my novels as another subtext is the world of Dreams itself. It was inspired by the fantasy writing of H. P. Lovecraft and his own Dream cycle of stores. Lovecraft may have created this world, but he never fleshed it out and considered how it worked. Other authors over the years have also used this setting, but they never considered how the world of dreams would interact with the Waking World and how this Dreamland could actually work. This is what I do in my novels.
How did it all start? I’m glad you asked…
Do you realize that we spend about a third of our lives asleep and in dreams? When we dream, we enter a tangibly real world of fantasy that we create. Most of us don’t even try to remember our dreams. We thus lose touch with this third of our life. How we live within that fantastic other world. With a skill that can be learned called Lucid Dreaming, you can learn to consciously and deliberately interact and explore that fantasy world of dreams. This reality has always intrigued me. We live two lives, one in the ordinary realm of Waking with its responsibilities and the other in the extraordinary world of dreams that lacks such burdens.
Within that mix, when you examine how young adults live on the margins of the Waking world and don’t quite partake of the responsibilities and issues of adulthood, they seem to be the most susceptible to the pull of that marginal realm, the fantastic that is found in their dreams. What if they were pulled into that world more completely? How would that affect their lives in the other two-thirds that they spend awake?
This is what brought me to my fantasy series. To explore dreams and the potential real fantasy world we have access to.
My characters are a 15-year-old Hispanic, Lamont Corazon, and an 18-year-old Jewish, Basha Edelman, both living in 1979 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The villain, a dead god, Tezcatlipoca, who seeks revenge and freedom from imprisonment, tries to lure Lamont and Basha into opening the gate of dreams and thus give Him/Her release from their prison and brought back to power in the Waking World.
The first novel in the series explores that plot line and the ‘Romeo-Juliet’ situation of my two heroes who deal with the seemingly unbridgeable age gap created by their High School. The novel chronicles their intertwined lives, how they come to learn and respect each other, need each other, and thus ultimately fall in love.
The second novel has a subtext plot line of what happens to gods who are forgotten. The previous villain, the dead god, Tezcatlipoca, discovers that her life has become enmeshed with the two people she previously tried to trap and deceive. Tezcatlipoca realizes that by creating the land of Dreams, it became imprisoned and that only with the aid and assistance of Lamont and Basha can Tezcatlipoca hope to be redeemed, fulfill the purpose behind the land of Dreams, and ultimately be helped by learning to help others and to regain worshipers.
Lurking behind my novels as another subtext is the world of Dreams itself. It was inspired by the fantasy writing of H. P. Lovecraft and his own Dream cycle of stores. Lovecraft may have created this world, but he never fleshed it out and considered how it worked. Other authors over the years have also used this setting, but they never considered how the world of dreams would interact with the Waking World and how this Dreamland could actually work. This is what I do in my novels.
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