Podcast: Dreamy Audio
Episode: 17
Title: Bombing a Truck
Host: Lewis Moten
Release Date: May 1, 2005, 12:32 pm
Restored Date: January 16, 2026
Duration: 2:16
Channels: 1 (mono)
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Encoding: MP3, VBR (~130 kbps)
File Size: 588 KB
Summary
In this seventeenth Dreamy Audio entry, Lewis Moten recalls a tense, looping dream set in the backyard of his childhood home. An old truck endlessly circles the yard as every attempt to stop it—timed mines, carefully placed explosives—fails due to timing, motion, and inevitability.
When the truck finally stops, certainty fractures. Others hesitate, misread danger, or listen the wrong way, while he moves decisively toward the garage, convinced he understands what’s happening. The dream closes on isolation in clarity—being the only one who knows when to run, and where.
Transcript (auto-generated)
There was this 18-year-old truck in the backyard of the house I grew up in in Gwelmer, Maryland, in White Marsh, Maryland, and it kept going around in circles and circles. I kept laying down mines with some kind of timed grenades by its tires that would take 30 seconds, but by the time they went off the truck was already on the other side of the circle that I kept going in. Eventually I just threw down bombs in an entire circle.
And then the truck was sitting by the garage and the bombs didn’t go off. And everybody else who was with came up and started looking around at him. And the guy was talking to us. He wasn’t in the truck anymore.
He was just saying that we didn’t have a clue. So I start walking towards the garage and told everybody to run. And everybody else, nobody would run. And one of the guys said, you’re going the wrong way. And he was listening for the truck in the other direction. But I knew I was going in the right direction. And the guy who was in the truck originally was telling me that nobody else had a clue but me. That’s about it.
