
Podcast: Dreamy Audio
Episode: 28
Title: College, Simulations, Pirate Ships
Host: Lewis Moten
Release Date: July 7, 2005, 4:16 am
Restored Date: January 16, 2026
Duration: 6:34
Channels: 1 (mono)
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Encoding: MP3, VBR (~130 kbps)
File Size: 1.6 MB
Summary
In this twenty-eighth Dreamy Audio entry, Lewis Moten recounts a dream split between academic frustration and reluctant adventure. In college, he’s asked to privately help a teacher diagnose a simulation problem involving immovable boulders, yet every accurate restatement is rejected, escalating into doubt, exclusion, and the temptation to quit—mirrored later by prizes offered publicly that he chooses not to pursue.
The dream then shifts to an “educational” sea voyage that skirts treasure for moral reasons before disaster strikes. Amid wreckage and danger, he rescues stranded crew and quietly gathers meaningful objects for an unconscious older sister, ending on care, protection, and value chosen for someone else rather than reward for himself.
Dream Analysis
This dream weaves together themes of misunderstood competence and ethical restraint. The immovable boulders suggest fixed constraints others refuse to acknowledge, while the rejected accuracy points to authority that won’t validate lived expertise. The later voyage reframes success: not public reward or recognition, but protecting others and choosing meaningful value over sanctioned prizes—implying an internal compass stronger than external approval.
Transcript (auto-generated)
Hello, and welcome to another episode of Lewie’s Dreamy Audio. Please remember that everything I say, people, events, and opinions may seem real, but they are not. If you would like to post your own dream interpretations, then feel free to leave a comment on the blog over at dreamyaudio.blogspot .com or send an email to louismonton.com Hello, everybody.
Today is July 7th, 2005. This recent dream, I woke up, or I didn’t wake up, but I was in college, and I was doing pretty good. I was in the second week, and I was in two classes.
This was the second one. And my boss asked me to the back of the classroom and explain to the teacher in private how to solve a problem that he was having with software. And the teacher was saying that he had some big rocks in the field, and the airplane simulation was trying to land in the field. These rocks were just huge, giant boulders, and the software that I had created was the airplane simulation software. Anyway, the teacher was complaining that the software didn’t pick up or detect the boulders, and the simulation keeps failing.
So he can’t really test this with a real airplane until the simulation works perfectly. And he pretty much flat out refuses to move these boulders off the field. They’re just too big, too heavy. I repeat back to the teacher what I understand his problem to be, and he completely disagrees. And this just really confuses and aggravates me because he continues to explain to me what the problem is. I continue to repeat back to my understanding of his problem.
And it’s the same exact thing, and he keeps disagreeing that that’s what the problem is. Anyway, he gets so upset that he tells me that I should have gone to a class to learn the software. And I’m upset because I already did this exact class that he’s talking about, but I did the one on the day before the one he is referring to.
It’s pretty much the same class. So anyway, I’m in class later on, and the teacher is on the stage, and I am just considering just quitting the class altogether. And he’s on the stage asking people to give the value of fractions.
So if I say four fifths, you would say point eight. He’s throwing out packages of shirts and sleeping bags and stuff to anyone with the right answer. They’re wrapped up in, well, it looks like garbage bags, but they’re tightly bound up. I would have liked to have one of these things myself, but I decided not to participate.
The teacher knows that I just don’t want to take part because of the little feud that we just had. He gives out almost everything that he has, and there’s just a few left. The last ones are like the grand prizes or whatever.
One has a camera tripod and the other has a big thing of bread. Wow, really great prizes. Anyway, he says he’ll give them out at the end, but first everyone has a break to go and dance and get something to eat. I get up and I go to the back and I get some orange juice and a chicken sandwich.
I already had a frozen pop in my hand that I was eating. Let’s skip ahead to the next stream. We are all on a ship and we’re told that it is an educational adventure. We may go past some islands with some treasure, but we’re probably not going to stop by them. We arrive near one of the islands and a lot of us see that there is treasure on the island. The captain comes over to confirm that there is treasure, but he says this is a grave site. He shows us why we shouldn’t go there. Skip ahead a little bit and our ship is crashed against the bank and a capsized ship.
It’s in the middle. The capsized ship is rotting and all of the crew is scattered outside around this capsized ship and they’re tiny. So I try to reach some of the crew members and they try to claw my fingers and I eventually try really hard to pull them from the ship and their fingernails are digging into my fingers.
Fortunately I was able to get everybody inside and we were able to get inside without being detected by a bin of parts on the other side of this giant ship that we were hiding from. So I was on our ship trying to collect things here and there and these were pretty much things for my older sister that would probably look pretty valuable to her. And I was trying to grab them so I could give them to her when she was conscious again. Apparently she was asleep or just knocked out or something. I found a metal tin that was golden color and I also found some kind of a chain necklace with something on the end like a ring or something.
And the necklace was also golden color. I can’t really think of anything else so I’ll probably just close with that. So leave a comment on the blog about your dream analysis or what not and I’ll write back to you and see what’s going on. That’s dreamyaudio.blogspot .com. Thanks.
