Are you having nightmares about the coronavirus? You are not alone

A collective blog appeared on the Internet i dream of covid ("I'm dreaming about coronavirus"). In it, netizens share dreams they saw during self-isolation.

For example, a San Francisco resident dreamed that he walked around the city in crocs and stepped on a needle infected with a coronavirus. To another person from Georgia in a dream, the doctor sprinkled salt on his thigh, tasted it and said: “You definitely have COVID-19!” And then ordered the hospital to be evacuated.

Strange dreams during quarantine report many people. Specialists called the reason for the change in sleep schedule. In the self-isolation mode, there was no need to get up for work in the morning, we began to move less, but at the same time eat and sleep more.

By words Dylan Selterman, a social psychologist who runs the Dreams, Relationships, Emotions, Attraction, and Morality (DREAM) laboratory at the University of Maryland, the COVID-19 epidemic is affecting our dreams. Many scientists believeThe reinterpretation of dreams: an evolutionary hypothesis of the function of dreaming

that in a dream our brain is trying to prepare us for the difficulties in reality, creating something like a "virtual training".

Comes to the point where the Tetris players continueReplaying the Game: Hypnagogic Images in Normals and Amnesics lay cubes even in a dream - this is how their brain prepares for new tests.

If you are experiencing something in reality, then dreams will also be disturbing. For example, after the 9/11 event, they had bad dreamsA Systematic Change in Dreams after 9/11/01 many Americans who were not even at the scene of the attack. That is, our dreams are influenced not only by subjective experience, but also by the mood of society.

Perhaps in many years the blog i dream of covid will be useful for historians. How now the book "The Third Reich of Dreams" by the German journalist Charlotte Beradt, describing the dreams of Berliners during the Second World War, helps to better understand that era.

It is only natural for you to have disturbing and strange dreams while isolating yourself. Don't worry about this. Selterman says nightmares can even gain - if you start keeping a dream diary, you will get to know yourself better or learn to see lucid dreams, in which you will control what you see.