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The Dream Way & 340 Pages of Bonus Content: Now Free to the World

Posted on 27. Sep, 2009 by Anthony 'Dream' Johnson in Articles

Today I release what has been long forgotten- my book, and it’s bonus content.

In total

• 5 PDF Documents

• 442 Pages

• 167,086 Words

All written by me personally, edited by a close friend- and I even had some simple design work done back in the day (see above).

Oh man…where to begin?

Fresh of the 2007 convention, I was on a bit of a high. Seemingly out of thin air, I had just pulled off something really cool. Never before had I done anything even remotely like that in my life.

But that high was short lived. Soon after- around my 19th birthday- I got kinda pissed. I still wasn’t enjoying the success I thought I deserved at that point in my life- it just didn’t “add up”.

Stubborn and simple minded as I am, my immediate solution was to take a bootcamp with one of the larger companies. I quickly realized, while that was a decent enough idea, the financial end of it just didn’t make sense- I would be putting myself in substantial debt for a workshop with someone I had never met.

Scratch that idea- by literally tearing in half the multi-thousand dollar student loan I took out (wish I kept it for memories sake).

My next idea was to simply go out to a bar or club, every night, until I had 3,000 approaches under my belt (or the fall semester ended, whichever came first).

This was mid August 2007. I went out every night until early December, without skipping a beat, or taking a sip of alcohol. Many nights,  I was flyin solo. I didn’t care- I had set my goal and “nothing would stop me”- not even blatant warning signs of being emotionally and mentally TOAST.

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The question you’re probably asking yourself now is, did I find that “success”?

You bet your ass I did. And not even far in- the night before my birthday (August 23rd/24th, my birthday being August 25th), I met a 24 year old girl in downtown Orlando at a club called Antigua.

It was on.

Long story short, my old room mate Slikk managed to hold off my drunk (former) best friend Curtis, and we hooked up later that night at the infamous “Project Orlando”.

Woohoo! My first Same Night Lay (which is what I then used to define “success”).

And the fun didn’t stop there- it was a snowball effect all the way through the rest of 2007- and even trailed off into mid 2008. Weekend after weekend, girl after girl… hell, I even managed to hook up with my 3rd grade crush.

It was a bit of a Cinderella Story, but there was a dark side to all of this- a price to pay so to speak for what I like to call “cheating”. Essentially, I made up for lost time with women growing up, in a very short amount of time.

The result was 3 months of heaven and hell- with no gray area. For sure, some of the highest highs, and lowest low of my life- legitimate thoughts of suicide? Yep. Lose most (all) of my friends?

Pretty much.

Do I regret it now?

Certainly not, it was a part of my path, and I appreciate that time of my life as much as any other.

Do I advise for or against it?

I spoke about just that this year actually. The short answer- for some people, going out every night is a viable option and can be done in short bursts (think of it as a “dose” of strong social medicine). For most people though, anything more than a fun and lighthearted wild burst (on very rare occasions) is too much.

As for doing it solo (at any point), that’s something unique to the individual, and therefore something you will have to decide for yourself. I’ll tell you this though, it will amplify any negative or positive effects of “going out every night”, for any length of time.

Anyway, I spend the first ~25 pages of The Dream Way detailing my history with women, my role with the convention up to that point in time, and a few key adventures I had growing up in my first 2 years of college- including my short trip to San Fransisco, meeting a famous young pickup artist named “Devious”, and then making out with a girl at 2 in the afternoon- in a MACY’S BATHROOM.

I shit you not, I’ve done some stupid and wild shit in my past- and to this day =).

I detail it all (well, up to certain points in time) in the content I’m releasing to you guys today- absolutely free. Keep in mind, this content once cost anywhere between $42 and $80 dollars. I spent thousands of hours living and learning the experiences and ideas in these e-books, and dozens upon dozens of hours writing it all and getting it up on the web- and it sold, left and right.

Why did I stop then?

Like I talked about this year with Dream and his Angels, I wanted to stop competing with the speakers. I realized long ago my true passion in this community is the convention, period. Nothing will get in the way of that or compromise it.

My thoughts on life, women, work, school, and so on- have evolved much since publishing what follows. As such, it didn’t feel “right” to sell them for much anymore- I knew I was capable of much more. For a while, short of illegally downloading them, they were not available.

A few months ago I then realized it was stupid to just have them sitting around on my lap top- I wrote them to help people. Agree with the content or not currently, I know it resonates with a lot of people at certain points in their lives, and I know the books have helped a lot of people.

I put them up for about 1/10th of the price they were at before, but paradoxically, they sold less. This was puzzling, but with the 2009 convention rolling around the corner, I didn’t have much time to think about it, so it sat there, not reaching it’s own potential as a book.

Well, eff that!

It’s time to release The Dream Way and it’s accompanying e-books, free to the world. Why the hell not? I have nothing to lose, only to give and gain, by helping you guys.

All books are download able and printable. You are free to do with them as you wish (just don’t try to sell them as your own, I’ll personally hunt you down and kick you in the balls if you do).

In fact, I encourage you to share this post with your friends, or even e-mail the PDF files yourself to friends that you think would benefit most.

• The Dream Way: The Story and How-To Book for Getting Laid With Your Wii
  
  • Yes, the title reads right, and yes that is a Nintendo Wii it refers too. As previously stated I spend the beginning of the book detailing my personal history with women, and life. It’s a bit long, but fun to read, and most say quite inspiring- but I’ll leave that call to you. After that I spend the rest of the book detailing my thoughts on picking up women- trying to look past the BS we are fed growing up, and get down to what worked for me. The major theme of the book is the infamous Same Night Lay, which is what I had the most success with and felt qualified to write about. Of course, you can imagine where the Wii comes into “play” . 102 pages in length.
• The Dream Chronicles
  • Raw and largely unedited, these are my “field reports” from many years ago (the early days)- including my senior prom night where I lost my virginity. They are complied neatly into the document, and only censored to ensure my friends remained anonymous. There are also a number of bonus journal posts from that time period in my life added into the book to make it more “complete” and fill in any blanks the reports left.  123 pages.
• My Transformation
  • Similar in format to The Dream Chronicles, but more relevant to The Dream Way- My Transformation is the nightly journal I kept during those 3 brutal months of soberly approaching women (almost like a machine) at bars and clubs for over 100 days straight. Not one night was skipped, in practice or in writing. Watch line by line as I venture through a decision that never left my life the same. At the end of the book there are also bonus “lay reports” that happened after that time period, but I felt were worth adding. Many of these women were discussed and referred to in The Dream Way. 196 pages.
• The Lost Chapters
  • Additional chapters that did not make it into The Dream Way before my month long backpacking trip to South America (right before the 2008 convention). A bit hard to explain, but I believe most will enjoy them none the less after reading the above content. 13 pages.
• The Making Of
  • A behind the scenes look at The Dream Way, this will prove interesting to anyone wanting to release their own e-book or anyone curious about how it was made. Additional hint not discussed in this document- the majority of this book was written in a very short amount of time (I seem to work better under pressure). 8 pages.

Other interesting bits of information.

• I spoke about The Dream Way a lot in one of my 2008 speeches- you can find it here.
• I was originally going to require people add me on Facebook, follow me on Twitter, or join the forum to get the above content free- but then I realized that was pretty gay. If you guys want to do those things you will- if you don’t, then so be it. I have no interest in forcing people to do anything, so, enjoy the content with no strings attached =).
• www.TheDreamWay.net is going to re-direct to this very blog post. This should make it easy to direct a friend to the content and help spread the word.
• Dream Vitality will be released some day, but I’m not in any rush- quality first.

And that’s about it guys. Thanks, and I hope you enjoy what I’ve written.

-Dream

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