Published research sleep report · English · original text

A Snake Appearing Beside the Neighborhood Pool

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 729 (header and two Qualtrics metadata records included); dream_text field

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Last night I had a dream that I was at my moms neighborhood pool and I was with all my friends I have made from her neighborhood. They are all around my age and have kids that are close to my kids age. We were relaxing at the pool and the weather was very sunny. It felt great outside. All of a sudden we saw a poisonous snake on the pool deck. My son started screaming and saying that he felt the snake bite him. At this point I woke up terrified.

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.

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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 729 (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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Account text SHA-256
2e65e2b6214f81396b239163f85dda68952a34c6391393c7c42855bf5f562a57
Source file SHA-256
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Content notes
  • Animal threat
  • Child in danger

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.