Why we’re having vivid dreams at the moment, according to an expert:
“We know that dreams are functionally very important for clearing the emotional pathways, so I would say that when our waking life is more vivid then so is our dream life,” she points out. “At the moment, the pandemic that we’re all having to deal with will probably be mainly responsible for that vivid dreaming process. Our routines are suddenly all upside down. The rules have changed. We’re overloaded with information on a 24/7 basis. We can’t really avoid that really anxious exposure.
“So I think what we’re seeing at the moment, and certainly what I’m hearing from people that I’m working with, is that our dreams are having a lot of anxiety. There’s a lot of anxious content in these dreams. There are more nightmares, people are experiencing dreams that are waking up and disturbing them.
The anxiety-inducing situation we're all facing could mean our dreams need to work harder to help us process our emotions.aspects of their life that they might be missing in the lockdown or the quarantine.
“I would be very surprised to hear anyone say that they weren’t having vivid dreams,” she says. “The longer this lockdown and quarantine goes on the more our dreaming world will have to do a lot of extra work. “Until we can start making the abnormal more normal, I think we’re going to see the results of the world what we’re living in in our dreaming life.”
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