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Flying from a Gray Cafeteria to a Childhood Home

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 258 (header and two Qualtrics metadata records included); dream_text field

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The part of the dream I remember took place in an extremely large cafeteria in some kind of higher education setting. The room, though enormous, was very sparsely populated. Everything from the floor, the walls, the tables and chairs and the food stations were metallic gray in color. The people manning the food stations wore forest green smocks and caps. All of them were obese. I was in the process of ordering a cheeseburger when I noticed that one of the walls was made entirely of glass. Outside that wall of glass was a cement wall that stood about four feet tall. It was a thin wall. On the other side of the wall was an enormous parking lot. I left the food station and went to the glass wall. Then, I was outside standing on the cement wall and realized my car was gone. I panicked. And then, I gently squatted a little bit, through my arms up in the air and I started to float over the parking lot. There were no cars at all in the lot. I moved my arms a bit and started to float ahead and rise higher at the same time. I then held my arms at my sides as I slowly flew around. I flew away from the parking lot and above a large group of trees. I flew even higher and got a bit nervous that I might not be able to come back down to the ground. That fear soon vanished as I navigated lower and flew just above the tree line. Eventually, I came to the front yard of the house I lived in when I was 8 to 13 years old. No one was around, so I landed on the lawn. I walked up to the side door of the house and opened the door. Inside looked like an attic stuffed to the rafters with old, wooden furniture. There were brass lamps all over the place. It was very dusty. I ducked under a wooden beam and came to a kitchen which reminded me of my great, great Aunt's kitchen in the Bronx from when I was around 5 years old. All the cabinets were open and nothing was in them except for a can of shaving cream. I noticed the old linoleum floors and felt a sense of nostalgia. Then I woke up.

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.

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Dreaming and the Election 2_November 7, 2024_10.58_anon.csv; logical CSV record 258 (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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  • Anxiety

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