The Dream Lounge

The Dream Lounge

You're focused on the wrong shit

How to pull your head out of your butt

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Anthony Dream Johnson
Jul 13, 2025
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Walking with my little angel.

What’s up man.

Welcome to another exciting episode of The Dream Lounge. Did you miss me bucko?

Don’t worry, I missed you too.

Today I’m going to yell at most of you for focusing your time and energy on dumb shit, during your one precious life on this earth.

First a quick story.

My father was a piece of shit on his best day as I’ve written about before. Normally he was just a violent drug addict (alcoholic). The idea that he was simply a crazy monster 24 hours a day his entire life is a bit cartoonish though, not real life.

He was a real person, built a family, made millions, and was married for 40 years. I paid close attention to him growing up, learning a lot from him. Mostly how not to live.

For example while everyone was getting shit faced in high school and college, I didn’t drink alcohol until I was 27 and had just divorced my hooker ex-wife. That was also in spite of being around tons of alcohol in my youth, approaching thousands of women as an aspiring PUA…

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