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COVID-19 is making its way into our nightmares, a study of lockdown dreams has found

A study of sleep and dreams carried out by researchers based in Helsinki, Finland has found that anxiety surrounding coronavirus features in more than half of our nightmares.

The team sourced sleep and stress data from 4,000 people during

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