COVID CORNER
LONDON’S COVID DREAMS
A collaborative project between the Museum of London and the Museum of Dreams at Western University in Canada is curating peoples’ dreams during the coronavirus pandemic, collected recordings of conversations between volunteers and psychoanalysts in which they discuss their dreams and their possible meanings.
The Guardians of Sleep project (its name inspired by Freud’s description of dreams as the ‘guardians of sleep’, wherein dreams are seen as night watchmen who help to preserve the integrity of the mind) seeks to record the powerful, bizarre and sometimes unsettling thoughts and images engendered by the pandemic.
Across the globe, vivid dreams have been a feature of 2020, attributed variously to the fact of many people working from home and therefore staying asleep for longer, or
