IT’S JUST A BAD DREAM
Dec 23, 2020
4 minutes
COMPILED BY MAXINE PETERS
BEEN having really weird dreams lately? If the answer is yes, you’ve got something in common with millions of people around the world – and it’s all the pandemic’s fault.
At least five research teams around the world have discovered that ramped-up stress levels and enforced isolation are having a negative impact on our dreams and sleep patterns.
Withdrawal from our usual daily stimuli is leaving our minds with a “dearth of information” to draw on for our nightly meanderings, sleep experts believe, forcing our minds to delve into our unresolved past.
“We normally use REM [rapid eye movement] sleep and
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