Yahoo Lifestyle A Woman Went Viral For Asking If Other Women Also Woke Up In The Dead Of Night As Trump Was Elected, And Literally, Everyone Did
Ladies, the night of Election Day, did you also jolt awake at the witching hour with a strange, almost prophetic sense that Trump won?
On one of my "is-this-really-happening" doomscrolls over the weekend, this question, presented by @heartmeggieheart in a now-viral TikTok, stopped me and 5 million others in our tracks. "Social experiment for the women," she began.
"Who else woke up between 2 and 4 a.m. the morning after the election right as they were announcing basically that he won?" she continued.
"At first, it was just, like, this despair. Like, I already knew what happened. It wasn't the doom of knowing Trump was president — that was there for sure — but there was just this energy shift," she explained of her experience.
Meggie said that every friend she talked to had similar experiences jolting awake on election night, ultimately leading her to make the video since she couldn't stop thinking about it. "When I talked to my sister and a couple of friends, I found out we’d all woken up around the same time, all feeling that same weird, intense pull," she told BuzzFeed.
In the video, she explained, "[They all] had the weirdest feeling that was like, 'Don't look at my phone. don't look at my phone. don't look at my phone,' and they did. It felt like a timeline shift."
"It feels like we're being experimented on in another timeline, and I fucking hope it's the shortest experiment of all time," Meggie continued in her video. "But it's weird. Are we witches? Yes, obviously. Clearly, that was our first call to the coven, and we need to gather," she ended.
Since publishing the video, thousands of women shared that they, too, had similar experiences waking up around the time Trump's win was announced already knowing the outcome. "I abruptly woke up at 3am with a complete feeling of dread and I already knew. I didn't even have to check. Unexplainable feeling," one person wrote.
"Yup. Was in a dead sleep and sat up at 3am with the nastiest feeling in my stomach," another person said.
"Omg yes my body told me before they polls did," this user wrote.
Another woman shared that her 4-year-old daughter also woke up screaming…so, that’s comforting.
The conversation also made its way to Twitter, with women sharing more oddly similar experiences.
someone made a tiktok asking if any other women woke up at 3 am the night of the election with a *knowing* that trump had won, and it was so bizarre bc i totally did. like, i was *jolted* awake at 3 am and could barely make myself check my phone.
— emily may (@emilykmay) November 10, 2024
"So we all had the same experience," the top comment on Meggie's post read.
"That's our gut feeling ladies!" another person wrote.
I, for one, also jolted awake with an all-knowing dread around 4 a.m. on election night, so coming across Meggie's TikTok and thousands of women explaining their similar experiences was both validating and eerie.
Whether you think this strangely collective experience was a "timeline shift," women's intuition, collective rage, or simply pure coincidence, let me know your own experience and thoughts below. As Meggie said, it's time to gather. 🧙♀️🧙♀️🧙♀️
