Can we not see how a whole nation is reviving an archaic symbol, yes even archaic religious forms, and how this mass emotion is influencing and revolutionizing the life of the individual in a catastrophic manner?    ~ C. G. Jung, The Concept of the Collective Unconscious

Gathering, organizing, archiving – and eventually writing about – our dreams of Trump and the rising threat of autocracy – in order to see what themes emerge in the collective psyche

What guidance do our dreams have offer?

How does the individual and collective unconscious respond to the strain of this moment in history?

Let’s listen:

• He was walking north up Fifth Avenue with a sub-machine gun, shooting everyone. Rocking a Davy Crockett fur hat…

• I’ve had several Trump dreams that range from punching him in the face to getting sexually accosted.

• I also had a dream about Hillary the night of the election. I was holding her on my knees & hugging her while crying. I don’t know if that was the result of my surgery meds

• After the debate where he creeped up on Hillary, I dreamed he was trying to find me to do me harm.

• My friend, who is a very logical thinker and not dramatic (who also doesn’t often share his emotions/fears), told me he woke up in the middle of the night to thunder, but his first, very real thought was, “Trump did it. We are at war.” Life in America, 2017.

• Dreamed I was watching my buddy Keanu Reeves fronting a band in a small venue, when Donald and Melania arrived, and had shitty seats. He seemed kind of sad, and I felt almost guilty for not liking him. Donald kept dropping my name – which I hadn’t told him- both to impress Keanu and to let me know I was being surveilled. I didn’t care and decided that I would not be controlled by that.

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I am Martha Crawford, a writer, a psychotherapist for 25 years. I now facilitate groups on death, dreams, mysticism, community resilience, group development and psychologies of liberation. You can learn more about the scope of my work and my stance at my primary website:

I have collected and sorted over 3000 dreams about Donald Trump and the Trump administration through this blog, private emails, personal communications, and via the now inactive @45dreamsproject twitter feed (I left the site before it became X) , in the first three years of his administration starting shortly after the 2016 election. I paused the collection in 2019. This site shares the first fourteen of twenty-eight chapters examining the themes and patterns that emerged.

I have (sadly) resumed collecting Trump dreams in November 2023 on Blue Sky @45dreams.bsky.social as I began encountering them again in my practice and on social media.

You may comment on any page of this website and leave a dream which will be anonymized before it is posted. If you wish to share a dream with me via email please click here:

The complete outline with relevant dream count is available here. There is also a proposed table of contents and fourteen sample chapters posted at this site which you can find via the menu bar.

You may read more about this project by visiting the menu bar and clicking “Media” including articles in The New Yorker and Huffington Post.

I also collect dreams about the climate crisis at The Climate Dreams Project, (and that project was discussed recently in this article at Time Magazine).

If you have further questions about this project, my dream collection work or my groups and services please visit my webpage and/or contact me via https://www.whatashrinkthinks.com/

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