Published research sleep report · English · original text
Friends Discussing Resilience Around a Table
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 873 (header and two Qualtrics metadata records included); dream_text field
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The dream was almost a flashback of a table of friends I sat with, following the election results of 2016. It was a somber mood, with many fearing for the future. In the dream, there was a similar tone, but people were a bit more indifferent this time. As a group of relatively younger voters, having been through two Obama terms, and a previous Trump term, there seemed to be more of a feeling that ultimately, whomever is in office will not affect our day to day experiences. While there may be impactful laws or policies, we are each ultimately in control of our happiness, and the trajectory of our successes. People in my dream spoke of resilience, and focus on what’s most controllable. These align with the conscious thoughts I have had following presidential elections. Hope, and confidence in the future should come from within, and not be based on who is in office. I feel a bit of sympathy for those who approach elections and candidate support with a high level of fanaticism, as they seem to have a skewed idea of how they will be impacted, and also rest their laurels on an almost mythological idea of how their lives are set to change should their candidate be elected. It’s almost a way of living vicariously through something / someone else, rather than making the effort to control their own lives and fate. My dreams in the present day, are a bit more hopeful than they had been following disappointments in the past, as life experience has reminded me that it’s up to 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.
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Dreaming and the Election 2_November 7, 2024_10.58_anon.csv; logical CSV record 873 (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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