{"id":808,"date":"2020-12-27T17:46:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T22:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/?p=808"},"modified":"2020-12-27T17:46:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T22:46:43","slug":"journey-into-infinity-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/?p=808","title":{"rendered":"Journey Into Infinity Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Where I immortalize and serialize a short story I wrote way back in 1992 \ud83d\ude42 (Edited, of course, for clarity and . . . editing!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Okay . . . I didn&#8217;t think I was crazy, but how else could I explain what was happening to me? Weird dreams . . . some of them nightmares . . . it got to be that I dreaded going to sleep, or even having an idle moment that might lead to a daydream! Sure &#8211; my parents and teachers praised me: &#8220;What a good, hard working student!&#8221; But deep inside, even at that young age, I know that they would send me away if I told them what I experienced. However, as I entered high school and then college, I started to have an inkling of what might be happening.<\/p>\n<p>My situation became clearer my last year of college. I saw a talk show on TV &#8211; I don&#8217;t remember which one &#8211; where the host and guests were discussing ESP, astral projection, alternate realities, and other topics. It was interesting, so I decided to visit a used bookstore and look for some books that might shed light on the topic and my situation.<\/p>\n<p>I asked the retail worker at the front desk to direct me to the section on parapsychology (the general topic I remembered from the talk show). He directed me to the section on metaphysics and left me to my own devices. I browsed for hours, never having seen such a variety of books on such diverse topics. I picked out several books, but I was leaving the section a large, leather-bound book caught my attention. It felt as if I was being drawn to it. I stared for a few moments, then shuffled slowly closer. As I reached out for it, an electric tingle shot through my whole body, as if I&#8217;d touched a live wire. I convulsively grabbed the book, dropping the other ones I&#8217;d intended to purchase, and bolted out of the store, leaving the clerks shouting behind me. As I drove home, the only thing on my mind was the book I now possessed.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where I immortalize and serialize a short story I wrote way back in 1992 \ud83d\ude42 (Edited, of course, for clarity<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/?p=808\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Journey Into Infinity Part 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}