Published research sleep report · English · original text
Floating Above a City with a Glowing Tree
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 929 (header and two Qualtrics metadata records included); dream_text field
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I dreamt I was in a vibrant, surreal landscape that felt both familiar and strange. The setting was a fantastical city with rolling hills, towering spires, and iridescent mist. I was standing on a balcony overlooking the city, feeling a sense of wonder and curiosity.
In the dream, I was with a group of people, including a close friend from childhood, an older mentor figure, and a mysterious stranger. My friend was their usual self, but the mentor figure seemed younger and more energetic than I remember. The stranger was enigmatic, with an otherworldly aura. As we explored the city together, I felt a sense of excitement and joy. We wandered through winding streets, discovering hidden gardens and marveling at the architecture. The stranger led us to a grand central square, where a magnificent tree with glowing leaves towered above us.
Suddenly, the dream shifted, and we were all floating above the city, looking down on the breath taking landscape. I felt a sense of weightlessness and freedom. The mentor figure began to sing a haunting melody, which seemed to harmonize with the city's energy.
The dream faded slowly, leaving me with a lingering sense of enchantment and a hint of melancholy. It was a pleasant dream, filled with a sense of connection and wonder.
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 929 (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
- 1695eb793a9659f3a1d52b0198f0d853f7e85e65f0c400011cfc192ee62e8278
- Source file SHA-256
- c563072bf021d36cde8a842b481205162bd6a86622275fe0a41107b869afa844
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.