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    COVID CORNER

    Sep 10, 2020 4 minutes

    CORONA-DREAMING

    Many people have reported experiencing unusual or more vivid dreams during the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdowns. One explanation for the increased vividness of some people’s dreams is that being confined at home deprives the brain of external stimuli. And as compensation, the brain generates additional ‘sense data’ in dreams. Another explanation is that working people usually spend their lives in a state of mild sleep deprivation (waking up early for the commute to work). Now that many people are on furlough or working from home, they’ve switched off their alarm clocks and are consequently enjoying a full night’s sleep each night; which, it’s been suggested, means increased REM sleep and therefore more intense dreams.

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