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trump, bowie, rickman

25 Monday Jan 2016

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For the past weeks, the terms atop the social dream language board involves three men: Donald Trump, David Bowie, and Alan Rickman.

Bowie and Rickman are the latest examples of celebrities (or even the characters they portrayed) making appearances in numerous dreams across the world following their death. I call this the “Robin Williams” effect, as his was the first celebrity death after I started collecting social dream data.

As well, there is an incessant and truly fascinating stream of dreams involving Donald Trump — see the latest here.

The Trump trend is not just interesting, it is also hugely statistically significant. Trump dreams, in fact, are currently more common than Obama dreams. I’ve had my eye on the Trump trend since last August, but here is a chart showing how that initial spike has become a sustained trend:

many dreams of trump (more than obama, even!)

many dreams of trump (more than obama, even!)

Interestingly, there are many such dreams that also involve Bernie Sanders:

So put that in your hat for election 2016.

dreams of the lottery

11 Monday Jan 2016

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Take a look at how deeply some invented phenomenon can inject itself into the collective unconscious — by far and away the most potent dream trend of 2016 is a spike of people dreaming of the lottery:

dreams of "lottery"

dreams of “lottery” as of 1/11/2016

As the “powerball” is being hyped as the largest lottery in recorded history, people have focused so much psychic energy on it, that massive numbers of people are dreaming about it. Just today:

You can read about the first lotteries in 16th Century Venice here.

And don’t forget to focus on your real dreams as well…

dreams of gun control?

05 Tuesday Jan 2016

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I posted just two weeks ago about an uptick in the number of dreams about “guns” and “America”:

Two interesting and perhaps co-related trends: dreams of “America” and “guns” are both up over 300% over the last year.

Today, as Obama announces that he will bypass Congress and unveil new gun control measures over the next few days, we might be getting an idea of why. Indeed, take a deeper look; we saw an unbelievable number of dreams specifically about gun control, like the following just in December:

And my favorite:

The degree to which this is resonating in the collective unconscious leads me to believe that there may be more to this than some background checks, and I hope it doesn’t have to do with the situation on Hammond Ranch in Oregon.

I’ve more to post, but no time — cheers for now.

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