Podcast: Dreamy Audio
Episode: 57
Title: Old House Computer Placement
Host: Lewis Moten
Release Date: Circa November 3, 2005 – May 5, 2006
Restored Date: January 17, 2026
Duration: 6:01
Channels: 1 (mono)
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Encoding: MP3, VBR (~130 kbps)
File Size: 1.5 MB
Summary
This dream returns to a former home now altered and partially occupied by a neighbor, where the narrator is urgently trying to re-house a rack of servers. Each possible location fails for a different reason: rooms no longer fit, the backyard has connectivity but exposes the machines to weather, and shared spaces are unreliable because someone else might need them. The task becomes a looping logistical puzzle, driven by the need for stability, security, and uninterrupted connection.
As the search widens, the property itself transforms—sheds expand into massive garages, walls disappear between buildings, and a chicken coop becomes a potential data center. Yet every solution is undermined by cold, access, or ownership. The dream ends with the narrator climbing toward the attic of the house he once slept in, aware that the space is no longer truly his, and that control has quietly shifted elsewhere.
Analysis
This dream centers on control, ownership, and responsibility. The servers represent long-term commitments—work, identity, or knowledge—that require stable environments. The inability to place them reflects anxiety about relying on spaces, systems, or people no longer fully under your control, especially as external pressures loom.
Related Dreams
This episode connects to #35 (structural design and accessibility problems), #41 (work pressure bleeding into dream logic), and #53 (workspaces that resist use). Together, they form a recurring theme of productivity constrained by environments that subtly reject the dreamer.
Similar Dreams in History
Dreams about lost or altered homes are famously reported by Franz Kafka, whose journals describe rooms that no longer accept their occupants, and by Carl Jung, who noted that houses in dreams often symbolize the psyche—especially anxiety over which parts are still “inhabitable” during periods of change.
Transcript (auto-generated)
I just threw this at my old house in Lake Marshmallow. And my next door neighbor, now pretty much lived at my old house. And he made a lot of changes. Things really weren’t the way they were set up. I had to go a few servers on a rack. Then you had to put in a safe location. And I would try putting them in different rooms at the house.
But there was always a reason why it wouldn’t work out. So I started putting them in different areas of the backyard. And the problem was they were exposed to the elements. The problem was they had to be in certain locations in the backyard because they were directly connected to the internet. So I had to make sure that the locations where there was a wireless connection would give the strongest strength. And I eventually found two different spots.
But it wasn’t good to have it outside. So I started looking around. And one place I saw was a mobile home that I could put them in. The problem was that my neighbor would sleep back in there sometimes or he would need to go home to go traveling.
So it wouldn’t work out. Then I saw this land rover sitting next to the shed in the backyard. I looked in there.
There may have been room, but you know just the idea was it just wasn’t going to work out because you know it’s a Land Rover, it’s always being used. So that looks in the shed itself. Turns out that it had changed a lot and that where the big giant cinder bricks all on the inside wall and workshop lights up top and it looked like it could fit 12 cars in there. It was like a big giant garage. You know on the very small mobile home, but the one wall was removed between the shed and the chicken coop so that they were all one big building. So that, I was thinking about putting it back in there in the chicken coop area.
But maybe fencing it in or something so nobody else would take it. The only problem was it gets cold and winter is coming up so I didn’t know if there would be problems with the computers if it got too cold. So then I start thinking maybe I should put them up in the attic in the house itself where I used to sleep at. So I got the morning all the way to the place to try to find the right area to put these things. The house wasn’t mine anymore to, I don’t know, it was kind of, the house was under my neighbor’s control.
