I recently had a dream about Obama. The dream jumps from the White House, an airport, a park, a meeting room and a school. In all venues all I can see is his tall head talking and smiling. Around him, as in one unit, are two levels of men, clustered close to him, keeping him away from the crowds. I recognize Rahm Emanuel as one of them. These men try to get his ear. In each venue Hillary Clinton is at the edge of the crowd trying to get Obama’s attention. She looks tired while Obama is energized. The phalanx always redirects him away from her, so he cannot see her. I wake up feeling very sad about that.

From a mid-fifties woman in California

The dreamer originally supported Hillary Clinton but shifted allegience to Obama after the primaries.  Her dream came in August of this year, when Obama was giving a series of town hall meetings.  This was also the time just after the woman’s father died, and she felt the dream was ultimately more a reflection of her feelings about her father’s death than about Obama’s presidency.  

Still, the relationship in the dream between Clinton and Obama does mirror a lingering sense of melancholy among many 0f her supporters about what happened to Clinton in the primaries–not just losing, but the way she lost, exhausted and disrespected, with everyone’s attention focused on the tall dazzling man.   

Other dreams with this theme appeared among the reports on the original website.   This one, coming several months into Obama’s presidency, suggests the Obama-Clinton dynamic remains a potent personal and cultural metaphor for unresolved feelings of loss and injustice.