Dan Sherman

Dan Sherman is a novel by Colin J Platt.

I was inspired by all things to do with science fiction. I have been a fan since childhood. The spiritual side of my life has also been long running, from Christian roots to Yoga.

Dreams have also played a big part. I wrote them down for 20 years. I have had many lucid dreams. These are real experiences, and with time, they improve to the extent that you begin to wonder which is the real life? Of course I can't expect you to believe me unless you experience them yourself.

This then is an invitation to anyone out there who can relate to these Dan Sherman adventures. Are they real? You ask me. All I can say is access the Guardian database.

Onwards my friends!

Dan Sherman. Space Guardian

‘All Worlds’

prologue

‘Dan, you must kill it, the voice said. That is a Devil-Beast and could rip you in half if you let it. Why are you holding back? You are a potential Guardian-Of-Space. You have to be ruthless sometimes.’

‘Why can’t I just let it move on, I don’t want to hurt it?’

‘You are expected to bring back the Devil-Beast to the lower astral plane where it belongs, and the only way to do that is to kill it in this plane.’

‘But how did it get to this level in the first place?’

‘That doesn't concern you; please do as you are bid.’

I am standing not more than ten yards from the monster who is by now

eyeing me up suspiciously. It has the look of the proverbial devil but much larger, it has a tail, large hands with long claws, horns, and eyes which resemble a goats. In fact it is everything you would expect from the Hell-worlds.

‘You are standing in my way.’ It said.

I am in fact standing before a hidden-portal, the kind that higher entities use to access the inner worlds.

How the monster can see this door is baffling me.

‘How did you manage to get here?’ I said.

‘I am going to pull out your bowels first, small man, and then I am going to eat them before your eyes, and then I will eat your eyes, ha.’

‘You will not get any answers from this creature, Dan, please do as you are ordered.’

I realize that I have no alternative but to fight this entity. I transform myself into the menacing form of Cloft the Tourgen clone. This is a thing that I have become so used to in my dreams, I feel like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Cloft is eight feet tall with tiger like skin and teeth and claws which could rip apart any creature on Earth, of course we aren't on Earth, though. The Monster sees me transform into Cloft.

‘You better move out of my way Beast-man.’ It said.

I am now being informed that these adventures of mine in the inner worlds are going to be recorded for potential Guardians to use while asleep. I have to refer to you in future as students. I apologize if you are more than that. Please be patient and log into the Guardian’s database.

I move towards the monster with confidence. I know I can easily kill it.

For student purposes: Cloft is one of the strongest creatures in the Universe or I should say Multiverse. As you already know, being Student-Guardians, you have access to a network of unlimited knowledge and time;

by that, I mean we can travel anywhere on the inner planes and once you are accepted by the Guardians you can also travel anywhere in time and space on the physical plane. That is exactly what I am being lined up for. Please be aware that you are unlimited and as such eternal. I grab the monster by the throat while he tries to claw into my stomach. I rip its head off.

I am now being informed that I will not remember any of my experiences when I wake up; this is for my protection. I am now going to be debriefed at the astral sub base.

Students please prepare your selves for the start of Dan Sherman’s adventures in time and space. Onwards my friends.

Overview

I wake up, in a sweat, my heart pounding. What is happening? Every night for a week the same dream! I am standing on a lonely road, and looking across at a tall man who is beckoning. I can read the street

sign, it says Giants Seat Lane. I can also make out the town sign; it is Kelsay. Now I think about it I couldn’t make that out before!

What does it all mean? Maybe I should go there? Ha. Get real, Dan! Me, a school teacher, who had to take early retirement through bereavement after my wife and kid got killed in a car crash, go to a place I don’t even know exists. Well, I will soon find out, where is my Road atlas? I don’t believe it! It does exist. Maybe I should go there? Then do what? Do I really think a tall man is going to beckon me? I must be going crazy. But it will be a day out and I do need a change of scenery. I have been moping about here long enough. I see it is up in Northumberland, that’s a three hour drive!

In the car I feel excited like I used to be when Elaine was alive, and John, my Son, Killed on this very same road. I will be nearing the memorial soon, It was put there by some people who think it is right to leave flowers at places on the road where people who they never met were killed! But who am I to say. I just like to remember them, and not mourn them at some place where no one goes. What’s this? There Is a group of people standing at the memorial? Maybe they are broke down somewhere on the road. But there is no emergency call box here! My God! It is Elaine and John and the tall man from my dreams. I put the brakes on as I Pass by at speed. I pull onto the hard shoulder, I look around but they are gone!

I carry on in a state of puzzlement, and disbelief. What the hell just happened! Am I still dreaming? I must stay calm like I used to be when I studied Yoga. It was the only thing that kept me sane after the accident, I am feeling pretty excited as I pull into a pub car park In Kelsay, I ask a man who is smoking outside if he knows where Giants Seat lane is. He said, ‘There is nothing there, just a track, which goes nowhere, also It is a place where ghosts have been seen and UFOs.’ Now my interest is caught, I thank him and start off in the direction he gave me. After several minutes of driving and thinking, I came to a cross-roads, I also stare in disbelief as the tall man from my dreams is beckoning me!