Published research sleep report · English · original text
Searching the Childhood House for a Missing Cat
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 312 (header and two Qualtrics metadata records included); dream_text field
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In my dream, I was in a familiar setting—my childhood home. The rooms were dimly lit, with a sense of quiet that felt heavy, almost unsettling. I was searching everywhere, calling out for my cat, who had somehow gone missing. I could feel the growing panic and sadness as I checked each room, from the cozy living room to the small, cluttered attic.
I remember seeing a few people in the dream, though their faces were blurry. They seemed to be family members, maybe in their 30s or 40s, and they were vaguely supportive but distant, almost as if they couldn’t understand the depth of my worry. I felt a strong sense of isolation because, despite their presence, it felt like I was the only one truly searching. I was calling my cat’s name, looking under furniture and out the windows into the dark backyard, feeling anxious and heartbroken.
At one point, I thought I heard a faint meow, and my heart leapt, but when I turned around, there was no sign of my cat. This brief moment of hope followed by emptiness was especially painful. The whole dream had a mix of sadness and yearning, and it left me with a lingering, unpleasant feeling when I woke up. I was relieved it was just a dream, but the emotions still felt vivid.
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.
Source locator and text provenance
Dreaming and the Election 2_November 7, 2024_10.58_anon.csv; logical CSV record 312 (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.
- Account text SHA-256
- 2cdc8f7112c3828221a996bd70ef855d27f766899ca89167799f282acdfe5e50
- Source file SHA-256
- c563072bf021d36cde8a842b481205162bd6a86622275fe0a41107b869afa844
Content notes
- Animal concern
- Distress
Connections in the Loom
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.