Ned recounts anxiety dreams: bombing on stage, his back growing hair and developing cancer, losing his abs despite exercising, and walking through a chocolate lane with Hershey's Kisses falling. The dreams mix humor with real fears about performance, his body, and health.
You know, you have these dreams that you're gonna fall on stage, slip in front of 1,000 people. Walk out without your training shorts on or something, yeah, whatever those old things are. You know, I've had dreams that, you know, like I would get up backstage, and this is kind of a funny story, I had this constant dream that I had like, I'm like, you know, backstage getting out of the lead, and all of a sudden somebody looks at me and says, man, your back, you have hair on your back. And so I'm having 5 people shaving my back. And then the cancer starts growing. You know, it's a nightmare. It is, man. That's the dream I had, man. Then I have to walk on stage with a half-shaved back. And I don't know, I always said, you know, like, just imagine. And I had these weird dreams. Oh, I would have a dream where I would be driving to the contest and all of a sudden I look at myself and I'm fat. I have this big belly. You put on 60 pounds. Yeah. And I'm like, where's my abs go? And now I'm trying to do these push-ups and things thinking— just things that because Because we subconsciously think about it so much. You're so consumed with it, and then you almost start dreaming about it. You know, sometimes I dream about chocolate, like I'm in a chocolate lane, because I love candy. Yeah, I bet. So I once had a dream that I walked through this chocolate lane and there's Hershey's Kisses falling on me and I'm just eating them. It's like a bad belly guy.
