Published research sleep report · English · original text
Flooded Drawers and a Squirrel Holding a Spoon
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 718 (header and two Qualtrics metadata records included); dream_text field
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I remember a small moment from 2 different dreams, as I woke up several times during the night. The first dream I remember, my partner and I were moving and we had some furniture outside. We were taking the drawers out of our dresser, and upon doing so, the drawers were overflowing with water, and there was water all around us...like a flood. I remember the weather was cloudy, but not raining. There were other people around, but I don't know who they were. I wasn't happy in this dream, and this is what I remember right before waking up.
In another dream, I was in a kitchen cooking something. It was dark and the walls were wooden, looked something like an old cabin in the woods. I dropped the wooden spoon I was using to stir what I was making, and the spoon went halfway under the door to outside. I went to grab the spoon and a squirrel from the other side of the door grabbed ahold of it and wouldn't let go. I couldn't open the door to scare it off, so I grabbed another wooden spoon to push under the door & try to scare it away...then I woke up. I remember being upset when I woke up. No other people were around in this dream.
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 718 (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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