Podcast: Dreamy Audio
Episode: 33
Title: Simple Magick
Host: Lewis Moten
Release Date: Circa October 9, 2005 – May 11, 2006
Restored Date: January 16, 2026
Duration: 5:15
Channels: 1 (mono)
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Encoding: MP3, VBR (~130 kbps)
File Size: 1.3 MB
Summary
In this thirty-third Dreamy Audio entry, Lewis Moten describes discovering a form of magic that feels precise and physical: concentrating to relocate books from a desk to a shelf. The excitement grows as gestures not only move objects but cause them to fall, convincing him that intention is directly shaping the world.
Seeking validation, he shares the experience with his wife, which leads to a board game designed to teach healing magic. As he studies a shifting symbol—woman, tree, abstraction—the image dissolves the more he focuses, ending the dream on the instability of meaning when observed too closely.
Analysis
This dream explores the tension between control and uncertainty. The successful magic reflects confidence in personal agency, while the dissolving symbol suggests that meaning resists fixation. Together, they point to a deeper idea: creativity and belief thrive in motion, but collapse when forced into rigid explanation or proof.
Transcript (auto-generated)
So what James was about, I guess you could say magic. I was trying to transport objects from one place to another. So I’d be sitting on my computer desk. There would be some books on top of it. And I would concentrate and hold my hand in front of a book.
And then slowly move my hand down. And the book was supposed to disappear. And it did. I did it to another book and it also disappeared. I looked over and on the shelf were the two books.
They had appeared, I don’t know if you say, apparated. But they appeared on the shelf but the ends were halfway on the shelf. So the next thing I did was I held my hand way up high and slowly moved my hand very low. And as I did this, one of the books fell. And then I did it again.
Any other book fell. And I was so excited because this would appear to be real magic affecting the physical world. And I went down to my wife and I told her about it. She didn’t quite believe me at first. Once I explained to her in more detail what I was trying to do and what I had done previously.
I had gone to the shelf and prepared it to be the point in where the book should appear. She then, with her friend, got a board game of some kind. And the game was special, and that it was for teaching healing and other beneficial magic of some kind.
I started to look at some of the things. The game was laid out like a monopoly board, but it was different colors. You have a square that you walk around with different squares on the edges. The middle is just one big square.
But this one, the middle was actually inset, and that it was a little bit lower than the rest of the board. My eyes became fixated on one of these little squares at the end. The angel was showing me in the one way the image looked like a woman silhouette.
It was an orange background and a blue silhouette. And then when you turn around, it looked like a tree. And then as I looked at it more and more, this silhouette kept changing. It was hard to even see what it was anymore. You know, it’s like anything in a dream. The more you look at it, the more you can’t see it. The details are just going away.
