I am going to travel to another country to finish my novel. #1

Eraldo Guiva
3 min readMar 1, 2024

I Swear, it’s not a procrastinator’s excuse.

But to explain it to you, I need to ask you first. What do you think about your dreams at night?
This is the first chapter talking about the development of my first novel.
There are various theories about our dreams. From our everyday problems and situations to messages from the spirit world. Like the vast majority of things in life, there are two ways of interpreting some things. You can see everything as just something random from our subconscious or as something relevant to our lives. I’m the second type. And maybe if you’re one of the first group of people you’ll think I’m crazy.

Many Native American “tribes” believe that when a dream happen more than once it is important. I’ve had some pretty strong spiritual experiences to know when to trust a dream and this time I’m going to follow my instincts again. But what was the dream I had that I need to travel to another country to finish writing the story? What’s the point of that?

The dream began like any other, we cant explain. We are just there. I was in the middle of a small town in the interior of Brazil. No buildings, small simple houses made of stones and bricks with exposed cement covered on all sides. Then i saw her. My great-grandmother . She didn’t say anything to me, she just…

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Eraldo Guiva

Brazilian. I lived in a couple countries. Essays and Tougths about Culture,History,Japan and Life