How Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Our Sleep and Our Dreams?
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- Publish Date:
- 23 July, 2021
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- Covid
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By Wiley July 23, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted our sleep and dream activity. In a recent study published in the Journal of Sleep Research, people woke up more often, had more difficulty falling asleep, recalled more dreams and dreamed lucidly during lockdown than after lockdown.
People also reported more dreams related to “being in crowded places” during post-lockdown than lockdown.
For the study, 90 adults in Italy recorded their dream experiences and filled out a sleep-dream diary every morning.
“Our results … confirmed that both sleep and dream measures showed critical differences between lockdown and post-lockdown periods,” the authors wrote.
Reference: “The impact of the end of COVID incarceration on pandemic dreams, as assessed by a weekly sleep diary: A longitudinal study in Italy” by Serena Scarpelli, Maurizio Gorgoni, Valentina Alfonsi, Ludovica Annarumma, Valentina Di Natale, Emilio Pezza and Luigi De Gennaro, July 20, 2021, Journal of Sleep Research.
DOI: 10.1111/jsr.13429
