Marple sleeping murders5/9/2023 However, buying the dream home she had set her eyes on, Gwen begins to be troubled by memories, which she thinks are from another life. She has no memories as far as she knows, she has never been in England. Gwenda and Giles Reed return to England from New Zealand. Fortunately, she had Miss Marple to help. One would go mad.that is what nearly happened to Gwen. What if one has witnessed a murder as a toddler? What if one's childhood psyche had repressed that incident, until it came back to haunt one as a distorted vision in one's beautiful new home which one suddenly realises is none other than the venue of that Sleeping Murder? I will not dwell on the Freudian aspects of this incident: just point out the fact that childhood traumas, however trivial, have lasting impacts. It was only a poster of Naraka (the Indian hell) which I saw as a child, in that house, which left a lasting impression on me. The mystery of this dream was solved later. Also, the place is full of the images of the tortured victims of these deities, their silent screams, mutilated bodies and blood. Their pictures are hung all over the walls, and their ugly idols leer up at me. Inside, it is a prayer room dedicated to evil gods. I open it and enter, even though my better sense counsels against it. I am walking around the compound of my maternal grandfather's ancestral home, when I reach a dilapidated building in a secluded corner. As a child, I was troubled intermittently by a nightmare.
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