The science behind the strange coronavirus dreams (and nightmares)

I earlier this month, my friend Claire Arkin, 30, a not-for-profit workers in Berkeley, Cali., Said that she had been strangely alive and specific dreams. In it was a fancy gala, but instead of wearing an evening gown and diamonds visiting locker room, wrapped in toilet paper “as a kind of status symbol f-ked up,” he said. A few days later, he dreamed of men who make them on a fictitious dating application had made anxious by social distance does not need to stay six feet away from her. Many people have to make their dreams more during the global crisis crown of attention. How many places in the world lockdowns announced, I started to ask about social media notice, publish, if they are the only ones who were with bizarre dreams and memorable a growing number of people in these places. Some people who claimed never said remember their dreams that came to mind for the first time. A recent “survey Dream” led by Deirdre Leigh Barrett, assistant professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School, seems to confirm that the incidence has increased by vivid dreams than the spread of the virus worldwide. This would not be unprecedented: Studies have shown that events like 9/11, the way people have changed dreamed of a time so that their intense and memorable dreams in the days after the attacks. It seems possible that the crown pandemic that has personally affected nearly everyone on Earth, could have a similar effect. Unravel how and why events like this affect our dreams, however, is difficult. Despite the great popular interest in the subject, still dreams rather poorly understood by science. We know that our brains are asleep to encode long-term memory for use, and we also know that dreams to be a part of this process, or a byproduct of it. Some studies show that sleep rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep in which we have vivid dreams, it is also critical to our health, assist in the regulation of emotions and learning. But the complex interactions between events in our daily lives and our dreams is not yet fully understood. One thing we can safely say that the current Crown crisis has led to a lot of stress and anxiety for many millions of people. Research has shown that the increased anxiety during the day can lead to more negative content in dreams, dreams that some people who have reported on their COVID-19-related speech. They described the dreams of corpses and friends or alone watched attacked or killed, and other terrifying, surreal events that concern real feel. “A dream that I remember vividly a week ago a good friend watching smothered by a huge black snake to death on the ceiling, as one aspect anaconda,” says Colby Rutledge, 30, who lives in New Haven, Conn., And works family organization Child care. Stress and anxiety can also cause more to remember our dreams because they disturb our sleep. Good sleeper is hard to believe, but everyone wakes course several times during the night, at the end of each cycle of 90 minutes sleep. Without this brief revival, we would not even think about our dreams because after Michael Nadorff, director of clinical research doctoral program at Mississippi State University psychology department and an expert on the link between nightmares and mental illness. Nadorff says that when we wake up, take our brains for about five minutes, the memory code to start. This means that when you wake up for a couple of seconds, you do not remember, but you are awake for 10 minutes to use them again. And if you have a higher level of anxiety, you are more likely to stay awake long enough to encode memories and remember your dreams. “In general, my sleep was pretty bad last month,” said Veronica Torres, 34, a musician who lives in Brooklyn. “I often wake up to go to the bathroom and wake up to check my phone to see if I was still able to start another day. I think it’s my body trying to put the fear of this moment in time expressed. Especially in nightmares . “An increase in vivid dreams could also be explained by the changes that the pandemic has forced on the lifestyles of the people, explains Courtney Bolstad, a graduate student at Mississippi State, the scientific works of Nadorff employees. “The rhythm of social theory is that the rhythms us during the day, when we get if we see our friends, our circadian rhythm may influence,” says Bolstad. “If you are not things you usually do during the day that could mess with your circadian rhythm Messing with sleep could.” The most intense battles of REM sleep tend later in the sleep cycle to happen, says Bolstad. If you sleep later because you are out of work or working from home, it’s more likely that you get to this longer, deeper periods of REM, which produce some of our vivid dreams. And if your sleep is the fear negatively affect the brain may try to “catch up” in REM sleep, when the potential to create more bursts of vivid dreams all night. Dreams are also connected to the brain encodes memories and emotions is a big part of the memories of the brain are important enough to decide to keep. “The most beautiful consolidated memories with emotional content,” explains Katja Valli, an associate professor in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Skövde, Sweden. “These memories are [those that are essential] for the survival and function of every day. We learn trivial things like forgetting what we had breakfast for 2 weeks, but if you see a car accident, or you have a fight with a friend, this is emotionally strong and it will be easier consolidated. this may also explain why we tend our emotional dreams concentrate material. “” I have no dreams were compared with those of my father is alive and I I’m confused, “says Elissa real, 30, who lives in Sonoma County, California, and operates at whole foods. Her father died at the end of last year. “At the end of the dream I realize that he is really dead, or that he did not, when I look back in the picture I just took from us. Dreams are really detailed and very realistic. I wake up, to put straight. “Sherry Margolin, 65, is a piano teacher and musician (and my second cousin), who lives in Paris, where every moment is limited to a radius of a mile from the place where they live, unless you have not a special permit. “Pre-pandemic has had, I play a lot of dreams live on stage or in a test, but with unexpected twists, like a song I’ve never heard or artists who have long been dead,” he says. “Now I dream of traveling by train or on a long drive through Sonoma County, California, where I aged, aged 17-28 experienced” For most of the people has become the most dramatic way of life in this crisis has changed is through physical contact with people who reduced usually see. This does not mean that these people appear in our dreams have stopped. “I have dreams is that they feel incredibly real; they are talking about decisions with friends and EXE files,” says Bijal Shah, 34, who works in marketing in New York, he said. “And ‘this strange clarity that, although I keep waking up.” It ‘was the impact of social isolation on dreams, some case studies little’ research and were unpublished thesis. One unpublished study very Jarno Tuominen, Valli doctoral student in psychology at the University of Turku in Finland, can provide some insight. His research has been a concept inspired by that theory social simulation that would be postulated that dreams have a social content that would be expected based on our daily lives, an adaptation that we can improve our social skills, thereby increasing our ability to successfully reproduce. In Tuominen study that is currently trying to scrutinize the revised and published issues have been deprived of their smartphones and computers, and isolated on a remote Finnish island for a week. It has been said interact with people other than paper notes for investigators. The subjects kept detailed journals dream before, during and after isolation. The study found that subjects dreamed their close friends and family when they were isolated. And while the proportion of subjects who dreams socializing involved during isolation from, did not go to zero as opposed to their real social contact. In addition, many of these dreams Featured close friends and family. Another graduate student Valli, Monica Bergman, conducted research based on interviews in 1970 with Holocaust survivors who were imprisoned in the concentration camp of Auschwitz during World War II. The resulting study (which was adopted in June for the publication has been) examined how changes in dream content fields. It was found that people dream during his time in the camps, most remembered about their friends and family while separated from the people, as then, when they were reunited. These studies suggest that our dreams are sensitive to our social environment during the day, and may explain why some of us to dream more close friends and family at the time. Such dreams are emotionally charged and are therefore exactly the kind of dreams that the brain is able to impress. “I had a dream the other night, of course, embarrassing,” says Emah Fox, 41, a musician in Melbourne, Australia. “I was driving along a main road and my family were following, but had to stay 300 meters behind me.” It was another resident Melbourne Michelle Reeves, 38, who works in educational technology, he said through the frightened dreams performances by closed “they landed me to lose sight and they completely separated and lost. My parents, my old dog, my cousin and animals all my life, my grandparents.” dreams were “in largely immersed in events that happened when I was a kid. “ultimately, there is but little in the way of research on the impact of an event such as this pandemic, for the simple reason that there is never a reality, how was it. The crisis-9 more comparable / 11-hurricanes tend to include earthquakes a sudden and dramatic wave and accompanying trauma and anxiety. Corona, however, has created a unique combination of boredom and anxiety constant low level. Modern technology has given us “together”, allowing you to stay physically distinct, which means they are not really separate, even in quarantine. It ‘still an open question as a boost called differs from a personal hang out, but some research shows the digital communication is less effective to see us bonding and building relationships of other people in person. The truth is that scientists can not say exactly what the pandemic is doing to our brains until you have not had the opportunity to study. Valli says with scientists around the world people about their business dreams during this time to start relief. “In a year we will know much more about this subject,” he says. “This crisis affects nearly every person. It is a naturalistic experiment unhappy world.” Correction April 20 The original version of this travesty school history in which Jarno Tuominen is a doctoral student. And ‘the University of Turku, Finland, is the University of Skövde.
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