
Podcast: Dreamy Audio
Episode: 52
Title: Dreams Within A Dream
Host: Lewis Moten
Release Date: Circa October 29, 2005 – May 5, 2006
Restored Date: January 17, 2026
Duration: 17:19
Channels: 1 (mono)
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Encoding: MP3, VBR (~130 kbps)
File Size: 4.2 MB
Summary

In Dreamy Audio #52, the dream begins with a film about covert mind manipulation that quietly becomes real. An experiment starts inside a building where participation feels mandatory, and a passing subway car subtly alters perception, plunging the narrator into layered dream states where meaning slips—receipts won’t read correctly, symbols refuse to resolve, and reality registers only after delay.
At home, this altered reality fractures shared truth. The narrator experiences comfort and play—interacting with a small dog believed to be alive—while his spouse recognizes loss and danger. A garden hose becomes fire instead of water, a red tank turns into a runaway rocket, and the dream escalates into aerial drift over military sites before ending in a crash, revelation, and the unsettling sense of dreams nested within dreams.

Analysis
This dream centers on fractured consent and mismatched realities. The inability to opt out reflects anxiety about unseen systems shaping thought, while conflicting perceptions with loved ones highlight fear of emotional isolation. Fire posing as water suggests danger hidden inside comfort, and layered dreams signal uncertainty about what can be trusted.
Related Dreams
This episode connects strongly to #41, where work and perception blur under pressure, #45, which explores hidden danger beneath ordinary settings, and #47, where playful surfaces mask harm. Together, they form a thread about unreliable realities and unseen consequences.
Transcript (auto-generated)
I dreamt that I went to this movie about people who could maleinipulate someone’s mind so that they could do things without knowing that they did them. And somehow it was actually happening to me. And I was in this building and a voice came over to ask us to please get it set in your place to prepare for the experiment to begin. Apparently I had been though before. I didn’t like it but I felt like I had to go through it anyway.
So I just found these pieces of metal posts and touched them with my hands. The speaker said that people who do not want to participate should leave now. But I didn’t believe that that was an option. And just as I was putting my hands on the posts and waiting, a subway car came into the building and just as it passed, I could feel my mind being changed a bit. And that somehow I knew I was in this other dream world. And I was being meant to see what I saw. But something else was probably really happening. And I was on the train.
And things were odd. Like I had a receipt in my hand. It was a regular receipt from a store but it was really thick. And when I tried to shake it, it didn’t move like paper. I tried to look at it and I couldn’t make out what the real things were saying on it. But then I kept it up and I thought I could actually read what it said. I thought it was odd that it seemed like things took a lot of register. I looked at another part of the receipt and I still had the same problem. And I realized, well, now there’s something there. But it doesn’t make sense. Like there was the price of the whole thing that I had just bought.
But it wasn’t like… I knew it was supposed to say something about $50. But the way that it was written was different characters didn’t really say $50. It just had these weird symbols and such.
And finally I looked at it and it really did say $50. And… I don’t know. I suddenly was over and… I’m going home and my wife asks how my day was.
I say I was fine. And then I saw a movie. And I tried to explain to her what I saw. And that apparently it was real.
But she didn’t exactly believe me because she thought that I was kind of joking. And things. So later I’m playing with a little Chihuahua dog.
Yeah. And he’s running around and playing. And I’m playing with him.
And my wife is just going around doing some things in the kitchen while I put the dog. And as I start mentioning something about him. She makes a reference to a broken window.
And I look up and I don’t see a broken window. And then she starts to catch on that I’m actually playing with this little dog. But the actual thing that happened was that this little dog had died a while back ago. We got another dog and that one died. And now we had a third dog that was outside.
That you could see if you looked out the broken window. Now she was aware of this because her mind was not messed with. But mine was. My mind felt like everything was just fine.
And the things are the way they were. And she starts asking me not to torment her. By pretending that our little dog is still alive and running around and playing. And suddenly she starts catching on that in my reality that he is alive. And she starts handing me food and taking it home and I feed him just fine.
At least to me I feel like I’m feeding him. So, she’s trying to tell me that he’s not alive, that it’s all my mind. And we end up on the front lawn of the house and apparently the grass is, uh, unhealthy because it hadn’t been watered. And she’s trying to tell me not to use the hose because there’s, uh, methane in it, in the water and it’s flammable.
And I don’t hear what she’s saying or at least I hear something else. And I get the hose and turn on and I can just smell really fresh water and I start spraying it all over the place. I water the lawn and having fun and there’s, um, a neighbor had to, I sprayed it and, uh, it goes out. Well, the neighbor had to stop the water, the fresh water stops working in it and then, um, it catches on fire but I don’t see it.
It’s just the reality. It’s that wherever my water hits it, the water turns to fire which is actually like a methane or alcohol. It’s not real water that I’m spraying. And then, um, you know, I’m going to other places where I’m in the yard and then I, um, attempt to turn off and everybody gets worried. Um, because once you turn it off, there’s so much pressure that something could explode. So I turn it off and then the, um, there’s noises where this metal thing, uh, it looks like an oxygen tank that the hose is connected to and that starts making noises and my wife and I, we just start running and running and running and running and my brother’s behind us telling us to keep running and suddenly we hear something that could explode but we keep running and the tank’s coming at us in it and almost gets angel.
You know, suddenly I’m on top of the tank and it’s, it’s like a propelled rocket. I remember the city and, um, one of the people from the place that was doing experimental dreams called me on my phone and this woman is asking me where I am. And I’m telling her, um, over such and such a street in this street and this woman doesn’t realize I’m actually in a rocket or something over top of these streets. And then, uh, I tell her now I’m over top of this other street. And then I start seeing things like, um, like people waving me, waving at me, military people telling me to go in a certain direction.
And then I’m going over top of, uh, hidden Russian bases and I see American bases and this is all in the same city. I’m telling this woman what I’m seeing. Um, and she’s telling me that she doesn’t like where this is going and she realizes that I’m in a, uh, dream state. And, um, she’s trying to tell me I have to come in to the place that they, uh, do this stuff.
But, you know, I’m in the middle of this dream thing and she’s like, well, I don’t like where this is going, but, uh, let’s see what happens. And, you know, I’m still passing over these different bases, these American bases and Russian bases. And finally I begin to land and everything is fine. But then I didn’t land. I had actually crashed at one of the first bases I saw and it’s not a base.
Uh, it’s a, it’s a hill next to a building. And, uh, my legs apparently were hurt and someone was helping me out of something that I was strapped to, like a seatbelt. And they were helping me, they were letting me know, they were telling me to show me which buttons to hit to get out of this belt. So I hit the buttons and it was hard to, uh, to move around. And then I just, my hand got up and this very tiny missile was on the ground next to me and so I picked it up and we pretty much did it.
And that was what I was actually, uh, coming on. It’s still this big giant red oxygen tank. This tiny rocket was, uh, carrying me around the city if that really was happening. Dreams, thin dreams, huh? I’m good to know, really dreams. Simulate it, dreams, within dreams. It’s more of what it is. It’s just weird.
