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:

I dreamed all the gun control folks got sick of all the inaction, and organized an armed attack on the NRA. With assault rifles.

— Heslin (@Heslin) December 30, 2015

Dreamt I’d been shot in a pub whilst debating gun control with Ben Carson. A spectator wanted to prove a point about Android gun interfaces.

— John de Jong (@momomoto) December 27, 2015

had a dream bernie sanders asked me what i'd do about gun control over coffee in wafra…

— HBG (@hbalghanim) December 25, 2015

just took a nap & had a dream that i met Obama & we talked about gun control ????????

— ashley bresnahan (@ashcashley_) December 17, 2015

Woke up from my nap & had a dream about gun control.

— amy (@lucieramy) December 15, 2015

I had a dream I was in Mrs. Bontomasi's debate class debating about gun control and she was so proud of me

— Felicia Navidad (@FeliciaVacante) December 6, 2015

I had a dream about gun control policy so that's where I'm at right now.

— Mike Zula (@MGZula) December 6, 2015

Just dreamt I was hover boarding eating pizza & talking gun control with Justin Bieber

— The Knocks (@theknocks) December 6, 2015

I had a dream last night that ISIS sympathizers attacked innocent US citizens and the media was only worried about gun control.

— Mathew Dobson (@mathew_dobson) December 6, 2015

Had a dream I was taking the SAT and the writing prompt was about gun control #stoked

— Jane Lervik (@JaneLervik) December 5, 2015

And my favorite:

I dreamed Obama's speech on #SanBernardino points out that places with the strongest gun control laws have the most violence, e.g. Chicago

— Lois Rogers (@lois_rogers) December 6, 2015

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.