Following one exceptionally disturbing dream when he was young, Victor began to memorialize some of these visions in writing. In this particular dream, detailed in Chapter 15, soothing voices from a dark entity attempted to convince him to let go of his worries, his problems, and his hold on life. Decades later, he can still recall surrendering to the promise of peace and the subsequent feel of his consciousness being pulled down and back--out of his body. A similar description is provided in Chapter 23. This feeling elicited a terror-response where an instinctive fight to pull himself back ensued. The violent aftermath and physical pain later laid the foundations for the Resonance of Souls trilogy. Victor contends that conceding to the malevolent request that evening would have doomed his soul to an unknowable fate. He believes that whoever would have woken that morning (if he woke at all) would not be him.

In a more recent experience, as the ringing ripped through his head and he fought with dark, ephemeral phantoms within a dream, Victor discovered a simple, but powerful way to end the nightmares. The description in Chapter 41 tries to paint a vision of this dream. This was the dream that initiated the writing of Envious, book one in the Resonance of Souls trilogy.

Several attempts to write the story ended in the circular file. It wasn’t until Victor simply drew upon his own experiences with an idea for a whole story that the writing began to feel right.