Published research sleep report · English · original text
Swimming Toward a Secret Tidal Cave
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 959 (header and two Qualtrics metadata records included); dream_text field
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It was a familiar dream that I have had before. Well maybe not the details of the dream but the setting of the dream was familiar. I dreamed of swimming, the rough rocky shoreline of Maine, large waves slamming against the shoreline as I swam. I was swimming to get away from something, but I am not sure of what. Off the coast of Maine there is a large break where the water has cut through the land creating a small island of sorts. I was swimming towards the break in between the island and the coastline. There in previous dreams I have discovered a secret, ancient cave. Someone years ago had discovered this cave as well, and had left many artifacts behind, forgotten by time. I'd say the previous person was a scientist as they had developed a way to use the tidal waters to create electricity in the cave, so it was well lit and have several comforts you would expect. The electricity did not work all the time, only when it was a higher tide. I can remember in my dream wanting to get to this cave, to this familiar place that was just for me to explore. I woke up before I made it to the cave.
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 959 (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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