Podcast: Dreamy Audio
Episode: 11
Title: Out for Lunch
Host: Lewis Moten
Release Date: April 25, 2005, 8:11 pm
Restored Date: January 16, 2026
Duration: 4:27
Channels: 1 (mono)
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Encoding: MP3, VBR (~130 kbps)
File Size: 1.1 MB
Summary
In this eleventh Dreamy Audio entry, Lewis Moten recalls a dream that begins with a familiar coworker dynamic flipped sideways—riding as a passenger in his own car, then being left behind in a parking lot. Confusion compounds as car parts seem to belong to multiple vehicles, boundaries blur, and personal belongings quietly disappear.
The dream escalates into confrontation through competition: an impromptu basketball challenge meant to resolve lingering frustration. Expectations collapse as teams are mismatched, ringers appear, and fairness slips away, leaving the dream suspended in irritation, imbalance, and unresolved grievance.
Transcript (auto-generated)
So I was dreaming that one of the old guys I used to work with was going to go out to lunch with him. And he got in a car and then I got in after him, the passenger side. I realized it was my car.
I made some kind of comment that it was odd to be sitting as a passenger because it’s usually only if there’s some kind of emergency. So we drove around and arrived at a parking lot where he was trying to find a parking space. And then he went in to go get the food while I was there.
He just left me there. And I noticed that he left the door open. So I went around and I was going to close it until I realized the hood appeared to be open.
And when I went to close it, my hands were actually on somebody else’s head that they had laid in front of ours. The guy next to us had a car. It was apparently taking apart. He had the hood off.
He had the door off. And then I made some kind of, I kind of laughed along with him. And I was like, you know, I thought this was mine.
And then I went around and I actually closed the driver’s side door of my car. And then he noticed something about the sweater that I had on. And somehow he got me. He kept getting all of my sweaters.
Turned out that had like 10 or 15 of them. And he kept getting them. And then when the person who I came with came back, we got back in the car.
I was like really mad at him. We hadn’t left yet. So we challenged these guys to a game of basketball.
And so we’re all getting ready. And then we realized one of the guys is really bad. Apparently he hasn’t even played basketball. He’s paid to be in a crowd and root for the team.
And he can’t even handle the basketball. So we’re thinking, yeah, we’re going to do pretty good. And then it turns out that he’s not even going to be playing against us. They’ve got two other people who really know their stuff. Who we hadn’t even met before. And they’re really good. And we start complaining because we’re like, well, our problem is not with these two guys. It’s with the other two. And then they brought another person who was supposed to be playing with us. It was going to be a three on three game. But this other person is really, really bad. I’m going to stop there.
