Transcript: The '10 Pages in One Night' Trick

Dreaming of money? Rob Long says Haraka Baraka is the answer

This is Rob Long with Martini Shot for The Ankler.

I have a friend who is having financial trouble, and he told me that one of the things he’s noticed about himself — and he’s a fairly practical, no-nonsense person — is that he’s spending a lot of time daydreaming about money.

Like, winning the lottery or finding a lot of cash somewhere or having some rich foreigner hit him with a car and getting a huge settlement, which seems like a very complicated needle to thread.

The really strange thing, he told me, was that he always daydreams about huge windfalls. His current financial straits aren’t all that dire — he’s not going to lose his house or anything — but he’s unable to fantasize realistically, about somehow getting just the figure that would put him right, about a modest tax refund, an unexpected royalty check, something realistic and quite possible. Instead, it’s always piles of cash and oversize checks and cars driven by Middle Eastern princes which clip him enough to rain money but not enough for sad online tributes.

“Is that normal?” he asked.