Published research sleep report · English · original text
A Tiger’s Grip and Slugs in a Car
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 642 (header and two Qualtrics metadata records included); dream_text field
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I don't recall the setting I was in but I do remember being with some random strangers surrounding me. I was about to go outside for a run and all of a sudden a ferocious tiger attacked me and wrapped his entire body around me so I could feel the sensation of being choked to death and it being hard to breathe. I was trying to fight off the tiger and try to get disentangled from its body and had to use one of my elbows to push the head of the tiger away so he would not try to bite me in the face or head. I kept looking around asking for help but nobody around me seemed fazed by the fact that a tiger was attacking me and said they couldn't help me. Finally near the end of the dream I was able to get some kind person to help me. They used a tranquilizer dart to put the tiger to sleep and I could feel the pressure of the tiger decrease from my body. I was finally able to disentangle the tiger from my body and felt relieved and happy. I wanted to thank this kind person for helping me but then the dream suddenly ended and I couldn't remember what happened next. I also had another dream where I remember I was sitting in a moving car and all of a sudden saw these round slug like animals crawling next to me. I was trying to remove them from the car by picking them up and trying to force them out of the open window and quickly closing it behind them but they kept coming inside the window for some reason.
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 642 (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
- d195077bb8b4cde72500b64d453a09eadf5cfb753f9d703225ed7189d1f5773a
- Source file SHA-256
- c563072bf021d36cde8a842b481205162bd6a86622275fe0a41107b869afa844
Content notes
- Animal threat
- Fear
Connections in the Loom
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