Matthew McConaughey is sharing one other weird “moist dream” anecdote together with his followers.
In his Lyrics of Livin’ publication revealed on Friday, January 9, McConaughey, 56, defined how a saucy dream in 2001 led to him being concerned in a WWE-style wrestling battle in a small African village.
Within the publication McConaughey recalled sleeping at a resort in Dublin, Eire in July 2001 when he had the dream.
“I had a moist dream,” he wrote. “I used to be floating downstream on my again within the Amazon River, wrapped up by anacondas and pythons, surrounded by crocodiles, piranhas, and some freshwater sharks. African tribesmen lined the ridge to my left, shoulder to shoulder, so far as my eyes might see. I used to be at peace. Eleven frames. Eleven seconds. Then I got here. Once more.”
The Magic Mike actor defined that the imaginative and prescient impressed him to make a journey to Africa, so he purchased a ticket to “the large continent the moist dream was calling me to.”
“I purchased a one-way ticket to Bamako, the capital of Mali, then hitchhiked 9 hours to the port metropolis of Mopti, the place I met a information named Issa who had a ship,” McConaughey continued.
To be able to preserve his actual id hidden, McConaughey recalled telling people who he met that his identify was David and that he was a author and boxer.
After phrase bought round at a small African village {that a} stranger, who claimed to be a champion boxer, was of their midst, McConaughey was approached by villagers who needed to problem him to a battle.
Matthew McConaughey. (Photograph by Tibrina Hobson/Getty Photos)
“Standing over me now was a a lot bigger shirtless man, extra able-bodied, carrying a burlap sack tied round his waist. He pointed at my chest, then his, then towards a Huge. Dust. Pit,” McConaughey wrote. “I checked out Issa. He smiled. ‘That is Michel. He’s the true champion wrestler of the village.’ My coronary heart began racing. Then I heard my very own voice whisper, Take the problem or you’ll eternally remorse not realizing. Go away your scent. I stood up, pointed to his chest, then mine, and walked towards the pit. The villagers went batsh*t.”
McConaughey went on to explain the violent battle between the boys that occurred throughout spherical one of many battle.
“Head-to-head, we spun in a couple of circles measuring the opposite’s would possibly earlier than Michel lifted me up and into him, my chest to his face, then body-slammed me to the bottom, knocking the wind out of me. One for him,” McConaughey wrote. “The group howled as he tried to pin me. I countered, whipped my hips, swung my leg over his head, and slammed him again. One for me. For minutes we circled, flipped, and smashed one another into the dust. Neither of us might pin the opposite. The chief broke it up. I used to be bleeding, hyperventilating, knees and ankles torn.”
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The actor mentioned the battle continued for one more spherical because the pair confronted off in opposition to each other till there was a stalemate with each of them “locked within the dust, fully spent, till the chief stepped in and referred to as it.”
Trying again later, McConaughey mirrored that this WWE-style battle went down “all as a result of I chased down a moist dream. Actually.”
It’s not the primary time the Dallas Purchaser’s Membership star has claimed a moist dream had modified the trajectory of his life.
In November 2025, McConaughey claimed in one other version of his publication {that a} saucy dream led to him discovering love with spouse Camila Alves.
“I had met, hung out with, and severely dated some great girls in my life, lots of whom I’m nonetheless pals with at the moment, however in the end they have been all stops, no stays,” McConaughey wrote on the time. “In my mid-30s, I used to be searching for a lifetime lover, a finest pal, and a mother-to-be. I used to be searching for extra, I used to be searching for the one, I used to be searching for her.”
He added, “Then I had a moist dream.”
