Published research sleep report · English · original text

A Tornado beside the Road-Trip Diner

Anonymous research participant

The American dream: Election night dreams predict overnight change in feelings about the election and the future (2026) · Dreaming and the Election 2_November 7, 2024_10.58_anon.csv; logical CSV record 77 (header and two Qualtrics metadata records included); dream_text field

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I remember being in a car with a colleague of mine and we stopped at a diner to get diet cokes and take a break from our road trip. While we were waiting, a customer was served the wrong food which put our drink order behind in getting served to us. Then, as we were waiting, the restaurant started saying they were closed due to weather. The sky became very dark and a tornado developed across the street from us. It passed over the building creating some damage and scaring us and all the other customers but, as far as I know, everyone was ok.

Source & context

An anonymous adult participant’s complete English self-report from the morning after the 2024 United States presidential election, released with the Livingston, Putnam and Wamsley study. One survey report remains one account even if it recalls several scenes. The report records the participant’s dream and recollection, not verified events or an editorial political position. Participant identifiers, political ratings, demographics, waking-memory responses and other survey fields are not included. This is published research material, not a Synastry community submission or a new contributor count.

William H. Livingston, Adam L. Putnam and Erin J. Wamsley (2026), The American dream: Election night dreams predict overnight change in feelings about the election and the future. Original anonymous survey release, OSF 69qwu, CC BY 4.0. Article DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0357370. Dataset creators are not the dreamer.

The source study collected reports on the morning of 6 November 2024 about the preceding night. Exact participant timestamps and identifiers are excluded. The repository/article year is not a personal dream dateline.

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The original researchers publicly released the anonymous source CSV in their CC BY 4.0 OSF project. The primary article records Furman University IRB approval and written participant consent. Only the manually reviewed dream_text field is reproduced; no participant identifiers or survey profiles are included. Source spelling, punctuation and complete narrative wording remain unchanged. English title and navigation themes are editorial additions. Dataset creators receive credit separately from the anonymous dreamer.

Source locator and text provenance

Dreaming and the Election 2_November 7, 2024_10.58_anon.csv; logical CSV record 77 (header and two Qualtrics metadata records included); dream_text field

The original text and redactions are preserved. The page title is an editorial navigation label.

No narrative wording changes. Source spelling, punctuation, line breaks and trailing whitespace preserved in the complete narrative field. Paragraphs provide display breaks only. English editorial title and navigation themes added. All non-narrative survey fields excluded.

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Account text SHA-256
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Source file SHA-256
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Content notes
  • Tornado
  • Storm damage

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Titles, theme labels, illustrations and map connections are editorial navigation aids. They are separate from the account’s words and do not establish connections between real people.