Sol Luckman

I was fortunate to receive the book free for purposes of review.

I found it highly enjoyable and an easy read. In fact it is as easy to read as a children´s book, and I understand it is intended for young adults. I don´t really fall into that category, ha, ha, but this only goes to show that it is suitable for all age groups.

We follow the life and heroic adventures of Max Andrew Diver, who from an early age has had amazing lucid dreams in which he flies to various destinations throughout the world, and probably further. He sometimes finds himself at the edge of a different world. At one stage he begins to collect physical objects in his dreams and bring them back home, for example, he brings back a magical bracelet he found in the Giant´s Causeway.

Max´s father, Captain Thomas Diver, is a renowned pilot and astronaut, while his mother Cynthia, who died when giving birth to Max, was an anthropologist who specialized in cryptozoology – the study of such creatures as the Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot.

Max was born with “the caul”, that is, a “removable membrane like a rubbery bubble of skin attached to his newborn head”. It has special powers of protection and perhaps it is it that gives Max such exceptional powers as regards dream travelling.

The nickname “Snooze” was given to Max by his father because he could fall asleep anywhere, anytime.

Max has a good friend, of the female persuasion, with the unusual name of Tuesday Monday, who is extremely knowledgeable in paranormal matters, and whose mother, a (good) witch, explains to him that he has a double aura and two life lines on his hand, showing that he lives in two worlds and has “literally” become two people.

Captain Diver is lost at sea, and Max experiences in one of his realistic/real dreams that he disappears into a vortex.

The list of characters includes: Professor Andrew Icarus, a likeable and friendly anthropologist, and former lover of Max´s mother (before she married Thomas Diver, of course); Dr. Morrow, a mysterious character who seems to want to exploit Max´s superpowers; Raul, Max´s college roommate; Zana, a friendly Sasquatch (Bigfoot), with whom Max communicates telepathically; and Maxwallah, Max´s twin.

The book is full of “alternative” science. We learn about space-time and time-space, traveling with the dreambody and reciprocal theory.

The other day I synchronistically and serendipitously caught an interview with the author, Sol Luckman, in which he talks about these concepts and reveals that they are not by any means his own invention but actual science, and refers to the books of Dewy Larson, which he also refers to in “Snooze”; here we can learn more about the above-mentioned concepts.

Max takes off (in the dream world) in search of his lost father, who is apparently alive but in trouble. There he meets not only with his own twin, but those of others (and the author explains in the interview that this matter of our having twins in other universes, or whatever, is also science (as far as I understand).

I absolutely recommend that you read this original and fascinating book, which contributes to expanding our world and consciousness. I now look forward to reading the author´s other books, both fiction and non-fiction,… (meer)