Published research sleep report · English · original text
An Encounter with an Ex and a Difficult Line Dance
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 828 (header and two Qualtrics metadata records included); dream_text field
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I should say I didn't find out election results until this morning
I have the barest images of three separate dreams.
The first two dreams I tried very hard to remember when I woke up one point to use the bathroom. Unfortunately the first one has slipped away, but I remember it being a very mild dream. The second dream, I remember very little about it, but at one point an ex of mine was in it. I believe we were at some type of public event and happened to bump into each other. We chatted pleasantly and nothing in particular happened.
The third dream I remember being upset or frustrated about something, and I was trying to talk to a friend about it. But then I realized we were in like a large dance floor where people were doing a line dance. So I thought I should try to do the line dance to try and fit in. It was very simple, but for some reason I couldn't seem to get it right. Then I woke up.
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 828 (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
- c563072bf021d36cde8a842b481205162bd6a86622275fe0a41107b869afa844
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