“ I dreamed several times that unprotected people came to my house and I was very afraid of being contaminated.", for example, reports having very literally dreamed of a fifty-year-old during confinement. My ceiling was collapsing, water was pouring out of the roof" says a young man.
2020, the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps the world, and it doesn't spare sleep. A sharp increase in the number of morning dream memories has been reported worldwide" observes researcher Valentina Elce, first author of a publication in the journal Communications Psychology dissecting the factors influencing the ability to remember dreams. An observation that does not surprise Perrine Ruby, co-director of the Sleep, Dreams and Cognition team at Inserm and author of the book "Dreaming during confinement" (EDP Sciences) from which the dream stories at the beginning of this article are taken. There frequency of dream memories is increased by intra-sleep awakenings of at least two minutes", she explains, but anxiety linked to the pandemic is a factor that favors these night awakenings.
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