Dreaming during Covid-19 pandemic: Computational assessment of dreams reveals mental suffering and fear of contagion
medRxiv May 21, 2020 Natália Bezerra Mota, Janaína Weissheimer, Marina Ribeiro et al. 7 citations preprint
Neuroscience and psychology agree that dreaming helps to cope with negative emotions and learn from experience. The current global threat related to the COVID-19 pandemic led to widespread social isolation. Does dreaming change and/or reflect mental suffering? To address these questions, we applied natural language processing tools to study 239 dream reports from 67 individuals either before...