
Podcast: Dreamy Audio
Episode: 5
Title: Video Camera Installation
Host: Lewis Moten
Release Date: April 19, 2005, 9:27 am
Restored Date: January 16, 2026
Duration: 3:35
Channels: 1 (mono)
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Encoding: MP3, VBR (~130 kbps)
File Size: 905 KB
Summary
In this fifth Dreamy Audio episode, Lewis Moten recounts a workplace dream where a hidden device is installed inside a bathroom stall under the guidance of higher-ups. What begins as casual curiosity quickly turns into unease when a camera and monitor reveal unexpected surveillance.
The dream centers on rationalizations—technical “workarounds” meant to ease privacy concerns—while discomfort lingers. Installed not out of necessity but because it could be, the device becomes a symbol of boundary erosion, normalization, and unease disguised as innovation.
Transcript (auto-generated)
So streaming that I went to, I was like at work or something and I went to the bathroom and one of my coworkers was helping one of the really higher up bosses to install a device and one of the stalls and they didn’t show me what it was. I heard a lot of flushing and then they spoke amongst themselves and decided that I should try it out and they just looked over to me and closed the door and said just walk on in. Well I opened up the door, well everybody else left except for my coworker. I opened up the door and as soon as I walk in I see a video camera staring right at me on top of a television.
And the first words out of his mouth was like, so what do you think? And I was pretty concerned about privacy because all of a sudden I’m on a television set and I wasn’t even aware that there was a video camera or anything that was going to be there. Very surprised. I expressed my concern and then one of the things was that the camera wasn’t looking at the toilet itself. It was just looking right at the door as you come in and if you would sit down the camera would be looking the opposite direction.
And pretty much in the dream he was like saying, you know, there’s tricks around this if the camera’s not looking right at the person when they need to do their business. And I was like well I’d be looking around to see if there’s any other cameras that I’m not aware of. I’d be feeling very uncomfortable the whole time. And then I went right outside the stall and I expressed concern that it’s looking at the urinals across from it. And he adjusted the camera a little bit so that they wouldn’t be looking at the urinals either.
I don’t know how that was done. And he said, I was asking if there was some concern or problems. They were saying no. If they were just installing it because they could it was just a toy. Really weird stuff.
