I dreamed that I was in some kind of hotel in some kind of social event and that Obama and I knew each other. He made arrangements to meet me in a hotel room where we spend a nice romantic night and he gave this beautiful Orange/Red $700 dress for me to wear the next day. He treated me like a gentleman and was sure that i was taken care of all along. He asker me several times not to be upset at him and to please understand him. The next day …

My dad and I happen upon a church where Barack is speaking. Entering, I feel a strong sense of being different from the mostly black congregation. Barack stands at the pulpit, but he is old and pale with a receding, red afro. I am surprised that he is so much less attractive than in my mind. I know the religious right in the congregation are plotting his downfall. Then something odd falls from his person. It is a round object that resembles a child’s rubbery, flashing Spike Ball. I know …

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“I serve as a blank screen,” Barack Obama says in The Audacity of Hope, “on which people of vastly different stripes project their own views.”  Dreams are an ideal source for gaining insight into people’s projections onto Obama.  Dreams, as current scientific research has shown, are meaningfully connected to people’s concerns and feelings in waking life—including their political views.  The dreams gathered on this website open a unique window into the unconscious dynamics of Barack Obama’s meteoric rise to the U.S. Presidency, revealing the collective hopes, desires, and fears he …