- (Dis)Ability: These dreams mention the impacts of one's physical or mental (dis)ability on one's American Dream.
- Access: These dreams refer to the importance of accessibility or opportunity to access public goods (e.g., health insurance).
- Ambivalence: These dreams refer to both a high regard and high disregard for the American Dream or question it.
- Belonging: These dreams refer to a sense of social connection, sometimes within and sometimes outside of the United States.
- Career: These dreams mention the impacts of occupational paths on one's American Dream.
- Collective: These dreams describe cumulative advancement as a central aspect of the American Dream, including equality of opportunity and equality of access.
- Discrimination: These dreams mention experiences of individuals being subjected to unjust or prejudicial treatment.
- Education: These dreams value the impacts of academic knowledge on one's American Dream.
- Existential Threat: These dreams describe concerns about one's ability to exist due to external threats (e.g., climate change, authoritarianism, discrimination).
- Family: These dreams refer to the importance of family, including maintaining familial relations or creating a family in the future.
- First Generation: These dreams refer to the experience of being a first-generation American.
- History: These dreams refer to reconciling with past events or representations of the past.
- Homophobia: These dreams include experiences of anti-LGBTQ discrimination.
- Immigration: These dreams mention experiences of global movement as it relates to the American Dream.
- Intergenerational: These dreams show how the idea of the American Dream has been passed on to consecutive generations.
- Love: These dreams refer to a romantic or intimate relationship.
- Mediated: These dreams refer to the dominant narrations of the American Dream in mainstream media.
- Music: These dreams are explaining one's interpretation through a music medium.
- Personal Satisfaction: These dreams value personal improvement and satisfaction as a key aspect of the American Dream.
- Privilege: These dreams mention the impact of some forms of privilege (economic, social, racial, etc.) on their view of the American Dream.
- Racism: These dreams mention individuals' experiences of being subjected to race-based discrimination.
- Religious Freedom: These dreams see the freedom of practicing one's religion as a core value of the American Dream.
- Sexism: These dreams include experiences of gender-based discrimination in American daily life.
- Socioeconomic Opportunity: These dreams mention the influence of one's social class and/or financial agency on their path to their American Dream.
- Time-Dependent: These dreams refer to the changes in the American Dream through time.
- Travel: These dreams mention non-American narratives through the lens of the American Dream; International travel to understand the American Dream; This can include people with non-American narratives or any reference to international (non-American) experiences as a US-born individual
