Morning of November 5, 2014. Wednesday.
This is one of those impersonal dreams where I am seemingly not a part of the dream itself. I am not disembodied - or invisible while in physical form either, just not seen by the other characters (or impressed by them in any way either).
There is a setup for a new (fictional) reality show. Somehow, the people that the focus is on in each episode will supposedly never learn of what had happened regarding the show's involvement or even that the show exists, which does not seem possible unless the show is only broadcast in certain regions outside of where each featured character lives, but even then, it seems unlikely (of course, this being a dream, such logic is moot).
In the episode in-dream, an older man had been looking for gold in a certain region in a desert for a long time. The idea of the television show is for the producers to give a person what they had been looking for in an indirect way. In this case, the show's producer pretends that they have found the gold the man was looking for but that it is rightfully his, yet it is all a precise setup.
A ghost town that exists on the side of a mountain near a cliff is rigged so that it will explode and scatter the gold that the producers had placed there. The man is notified after this event. Prior to the next televised scene, I notice that there are also a large amount of collectible comic books as well as valuable stamps in display pages covered by transparent sheets. I am not sure why these are a part of the scene as the older man was apparently only interested in finding his gold, the idea of which he had heard many stories about throughout his life. Although the man had apparently searched the ghost town before, the producers explain that explosions of unknown cause (perhaps old unstable dynamite going off) had somehow caused the gold to be uncovered. The man seems to believe this.
He picks up a piece of gold from many other pieces that are spread all about the landscape in a blast aftermath pattern but he seems disappointed and perhaps thinks it is fool's gold. It seems to be like pieces of gold foil around white chalk, which comes off easily, like a loose "skin". However, it is later revealed that the man had asked another source about the value and the gold there is apparently far more valuable than he had thought, even more valuable than "normal" gold. However, it is possible that this was an additional setup by the television producers and the "gold" may not be worth anything. It is even possible that the money the man gets for the (possibly worthless) "gold" is through an arrangement of the television producers rather than a real buyer, all without the man's knowledge of such.
Somehow, this seems to be some sort of play about how television is not what it seems and provides only false "values" and trickery. From false histories and fake and often impossible scenarios regarding almost every product advertised (and wrongly worded affirmations in PSAs that sometimes project the opposite "message"), it sometimes seems such a waste, it really is like "fool's gold".
