The Reincarnation of Peter Proud by Max Ehrlich

For instance, when a person sees a dream, where they are being tortured by the enemy, they insist their friends to torture them on the next day in real life too. They thought, “that the soul makes known its natural desires through dreams” (Encyclopedia, 2020), and because of that, they mimicked the events of the dream in real life. Iroquois Indians, for example, believed, that dreams were messages from spirits. Other one, besides the plain curiosity, is the events of a certain dream - he is swimming in a lake, when a woman called Marcia appears on a boat, and instead of helping him on, she hits him with a oar, and watches as he sinks to the depths.īecause Peter is into Native American history, he is familiar with other explanations to his condition, that modern medicine doesn’t provide. One of Peter’s motivations to investigate more of the origin of the hallucinations, is the need to sleep well at nights. Without occasional dreaming, you are not able to sleep, which leads to many short- and long-term problems, such as low energy and impairment of resistance. Dreaming keeps the brain occupied at night, and allows the rest of the body to recover. When he agrees to participate on sleep studies, it turns out, that he is not dreaming at all, but his “dreams” are more like hallucinations, because of the repetitive and memorable nature of them. Doctors can’t find any medical reasoning for his pain, nor his weirdly realistic dreams. Peter also develops occasional hip pain, which lasts for few hours, and stops as suddenly as it starts. The dreams seem to be more of memories of some sort, than just night time visualizations. Peter begins to experience really violent and detailed dreams about a man, who somehow resembles him of himself. Peter lives with his girlfriend Nora, but like any other relationship that he’s been in, he doesn’t see anything serious coming out of this one either. At the age 6 he already could name every single Indian tribe there is.

He teaches about Indians and has always been interested in the Native American culture. Peter Proud is a college professor in Los Angeles, but unlike his colleagues, he comes from a wealthy family and mostly works for fun, and not because he has to. I watched the movie and wasn’t the biggest fan (maybe because I don’t like old movies at all), but the book was a whole different story (literally). Movie adaptation of the same name was released in the spring of 1975. The Reincarnation of Peter Proud is Max Ehrlich’s 1973 published thriller, science and speculation fiction novel. I absolutely adore the flea markets here, and found this book in one of them. Mainly because my boyfriend spends his summer here too, but also because some of my childhood friends and my mother live here. Now, that I’m on my summer break from school, I’ve spent a lot of my time in my hometown. Image from - The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975), 2018 Blu-ray cover.

The Reincarnation of Peter Proud by Max Ehrlich