As the number of COVID-19 cases has increased, a Harvard researcher reports receiving thousands of responses to an online dream survey she created. The researchers concluded this arose from increased emotional arousal after the trauma.
At least one small study after 9/11 showed a significant increase in something called “central image intensity” (the central image is considered the emotional focus of a dream).
What’s more, doctors aren’t surprised to hear reports of anxiety-related dreams about COVID-19. “It’s important to realize that this is part of human nature and to know you are not alone.” “People say they feel alone in having so many strange dreams, but it is a significant phenomenon, and it’s happening with some frequency during the pandemic,” she says. Susan Rubman, PhD, a Yale Medicine psychologist and sleep specialist, agrees, noting that these dreams and nightmares are surprisingly common. “Some think it’s a way for us to work out our daily stresses or preoccupations during the day.” “Nightmares and bad dreams, in general, have not been shown to be unhealthy,” she says. People are reporting strange, intense, colorful, and vivid dreams-and many are having disturbing nightmares related to COVID-19.īut Christine Won, MD, a Yale Medicine sleep specialist, who has noticed an uptick in patients reporting recurrent or stressful dreams, provides reassurance that this is no cause for concern. Apparently, it has even invaded our dreams. Now, that could all be 100% complete and total crap, but it's the theory that makes most sense to me.Whether the cause is stress related to working from home, wearing masks, lack of day care, or limited access to health care, COVID-19-related anxiety has spilled into nearly every aspect of our lives. You have these dreams, so you think about them a lot, which makes you more likely to dream about them, each time making those connections stronger and the dreams more likely (and possibly more vivid). So, if you've spent all day thinking about a particular thing, you're more likely to dream about it.so you're creating a feedback loop. It's basically electricity following the path of least resistance So how does this relate to dreaming? Well, MRI images show that when you sleep, your synapses fire randomly.so the connections that are most likely to fire are the ones with the strongest most 'established' connections. When you learn something, those connections become permanent, making that memory much easier to recall. This is why if you're trying to remember a phone number while looking for a pen to write it down, repeating it over and over to yourself makes it easy to remember.you're keeping the connections that represents that number active. The more you repeat something, the stronger these connections become, so if I gave you a 10 digit number right now, you might remember it for few minutes, but because it's a new connection and the connection is newly formed and weak, it breaks down easily, so you forget it easily. When a specific set of synapses fire across these connections in a specific order, that sequence is how your brain remembers the word 'banana'. A synapse fires which creates a chemical connection to another synapse. (Super-simplified) Your brain creates memories by forming connections in your brain. There are lots of different theories as to what dreams actually are, here's the one that makes sense to me: So it basically means you are getting rest. You seem to already identify that there's always conflict, so perhaps this is something you need to look into in real life and deal with.Īs to being rested - if you're having dreams (which most people do even if they don't remember them) it means you're in REM sleep which is essential for being rested. Then read through it, and see if you can see patterns that apply to real life. Write down everything you remember as soon as you wake up. That said, if you wake up with enough memories of your dreams, a dream journal might be a useful thing.
#Vivid dreams meaning free
There is absolutely nothing supernatural about it it's just your thoughts given free reign and there's absolutely no guaranty that your brain isn't just throwing random things at you. Now, having your subconscious have free-reign especially when your amygdala is turned off, might give you some insight into your life at the moment. Regardless of how vivid, that's all dreams are. Dreams are basically your subconscious processing recent events, and sometimes non-recent events that were possibly triggered somehow.
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