hile COVID-19 has made most of our physical lives smaller, it appears to have made our dream lives bigger. A March 2020 poll found that a third of Americans experienced greater dream recall, and, as COVID-19 dragged on, people began describing ever more vibrant visions. “As That doesn’t surprise Deborah Bryon, who holds a doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Denver and is chair of the dream exam (think: the bar exam for dream interpreters) for certifying prospective members of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. “Dreams can be a way that we try to metabolize and work through things,” Bryon says—and, boy, have the past two years delivered some serious baggage. To start the unpacking, we asked Bryon to help us make sense of common symbols that might be appearing in your slumber.
