"The social-cultural stress is kind of permeating the air,” says Jade Wu, a sleep psychologist and host of the Savvy Psychologist podcast. We experience not just individual stress, but societal stress, and we underestimate the effects of bad economic news and masked grocery store clerks on our psyches. “I like the stay-at-home mandate and the simplicity it brings,” she says.īut just like the virus itself, stress is a lurking, undetectable threat. The coronavirus dream themes seem obvious - lack of control, feeling trapped - yet Golodner says she's anxiety-free. Lynne Golodner, owner and chief creative officer for Your People LLC, a marketing and public relations firm in suburban Detroit, recently dreamt that she was stuck in Iran and couldn't reach her children. Stress may affect dreams even if you don't feel stressed. “We symbolize the threat in our dreams and try to work with it and integrate it into our conceptual system,” McNamara says. Disasters such as tornadoes and earthquakes are another frequent symbol. In the dreams that Barrett is collecting on the Harvard site, bugs are a common metaphor: People report dreams involving swarms of insects such as cockroaches and grasshoppers. "We don't know for sure why we use metaphors and bizarre images, but the general consensus is that it puts some parameters around ill-defined threats,” he says.
Humans process fear-related experiences through REM sleep and dreams, and invisible threats such as COVID-19 can make dreams more bizarre, says Patrick McNamara, a professor of psychology at Northcentral University and the author of The Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams. The most obvious cause of disturbing dreams is pandemic-related anxiety.
But why? And does age affect your dreams? Coping with stress A group of London psychoanalytic theory students are collecting dream recaps on, and two Bay Area sisters are doing the same on, where nearly 2,600 dream descriptions have been posted not just by Americans, but from people in countries such Israel, Italy, Pakistan and Brazil.
More than 2,500 respondents have shared details of more than 6,000 pandemic dreams on a survey site launched by Deidre Barrett, an assistant professor of psychology at Harvard University. In a survey commissioned by Kelly Bulkeley, director of the Sleep and Dream Database, nearly 30 percent of respondents said they had experienced an increase in dream recall.
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