Published research sleep report · English · original text
A Convention Hall Waiting for Election News
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 262 (header and two Qualtrics metadata records included); dream_text field
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In my dream, I was in a large, crowded convention center that felt like a mix of a rally and a celebration. There were red, white, and blue decorations everywhere, with banners reading “Victory” and “USA.” I felt like it was the night of the election results, and everyone seemed optimistic and excited, but there was a lot of nervous energy too.
The setting was familiar yet strange, as if it were a combination of real places I'd been, like an event hall, but with a grand, almost exaggerated design – bright lights, high ceilings, and big screens showing live news coverage of the election results. It was night, and outside through the glass walls, I could see city lights shining in the distance.
I was with a group of people who were mostly my age or older, and they all seemed to be Republicans. Some of them were friends or family members from real life, but others were unfamiliar. There were men and women, dressed in business or patriotic attire, and everyone was anxiously watching the screens and chatting about what states had already been called. At one point, someone announced that they had just projected a win for a crucial swing state, which brought on a huge cheer from the crowd.
I remember feeling a mix of hope and tension, intensely wanting Donald Trump to win. I felt a strong sense of unity and pride with the people around me, all hoping for the same outcome. At one point, I wandered away from my group to get a better view of one of the large screens, and that’s when I realized that someone was giving a speech from a stage in the center of the hall. It was a familiar political figure, though I can’t remember who it was, and they were reassuring the crowd to stay hopeful and trust the process.
The dream felt intense, and I was fully engaged in it. I remember that each new state result felt like a major win or loss, and my emotions would rise and fall with each announcement. Eventually, I felt a surge of excitement as a significant number of states were called in Trump’s favor, and people began celebrating as though the victory was assured. I felt elated, like all the anticipation had paid off. There was a sense of relief, hope, and happiness that everything I’d been waiting for had come to fruition.
At the end of the dream, I was standing with a close friend, and we were talking about what the future might look like. I woke up with a lingering feeling of optimism and relief, almost as though the dream had been real. It was definitely a vivid and emotionally charged dream, reflecting all the hope and anticipation I'd been feeling in real life.
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.
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 262 (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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