INFECTIOUS DREAMS.

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  • Author(s): Nielsen, Tore
  • Source:
    Scientific American. Oct2020, Vol. 323 Issue 4, p30-35. 6p. 4 Color Photographs.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      COVID-19; SLEEP; DREAMS; SOCIAL distancing; RAPID eye movement sleep
    • Abstract:
      The article discusses How the COVID-19 pandemic is changing our sleeping lives. Topics include The subject matter of many COVID-19 dreams directly or metaphorically reflects fears about contagion and the challenges of social distancing; and Empirical studies also show that REM sleep aids in problem-solving that requires access to wide-ranging memory associations, which may explain why so many dreams in the 2020 surge involve creative or strange attempts to deal with a COVID-19 problem.