Published research sleep report · English · original text
Gobs of Putty in an Old Family Bathroom
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 627 (header and two Qualtrics metadata records included); dream_text field
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My dreams are always so odd and rarely make any kind of sense, I also tend to forget some details once I am awake for the day. Last night in my dream, I was in a place that felt both familiar and unfamiliar at the same time....I think it was an old family property. The dream setting was dark in nature, dark in a literal sense, not so much a metaphorical sense. My oldest brother was there and so was my mom. We were staying in this dilapidated, small, like...shack thing...I am not sure. My brother was telling me about some random guy, seemed mentally challenged, who would often just kind of roam around the property. I don't really remember exactly. The part I recall the most vividly was being in a bathroom and there was some type of putty and a silicone caulking all over the tub, almost like little kids were attempting repairs. It was gobs and gobs of this stuff all over the walls of the bathtub and I was trying to figure out how it got there. I cant recall what feelings I felt. I woke up missing my dad, but I do not recall him being in the dream physically or even being mentioned. It was very bizarre, but not out of the ordinary for me.
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 627 (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
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- Source file SHA-256
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