What if our problems are rooted in the past, not the past one remembers or others can tell us about but the past that occurred in another lifetime? What if the key to a rich, full life lies in resolving that past by connecting with that experience. Such is the central theme posited by Robert E. Bonson, an author fascinated with these types of experiences, known as past life regression, for the last thirty years.

Janice Weston has a great job but is frequently harassed by her coworker friends for not dating men. One of those friends suggests she try a new age class that might help her get in touch with whatever causes her to avoid men.

Waiting for her are two psychics who believe that Janice holds the key to a disaster about to destroy innumerable lives, the deliberate destruction of a dam. But Janice gets caught up in her own drama arising from her first trip into her own past as a beautiful Spanish woman who dies a dreadful and suffocating death. But Clarene Davis keeps dreaming about the looming disaster and finally, with the help of a friend, Janice and some local Sheriff Department help obtains enough information to try to avert the devastating flood about to wreak the havoc desired by its designer.

Incredible Dreams is a fast-paced, intriguing work whose plot swirls the reader rapidly to its complex conclusion. The puzzle becomes clear very soon but the means of solving the riddle connecting Janice to the looming disaster area takes a while to unfold, which adds more to the mystery.

Nightmarish dreams, Spanish and Mexican conquerors, gold, theft, visions of terror and a very normal presentation of another paranormal world fill these pages with a story that would probably make a great movie!

Good yarn, Robert Bonson, and neatly crafted!

Reviewed by Viviane Crystal - January 2, 2005

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