Pandemic Dreams: Network Analysis of Dream Content During the COVID-19 Lockdown
Frontiers in Psychology October 1, 2020 A. Pesonen, J. Lipsanen, R. Halonen et al.
We used crowdsourcing (CS) to examine how COVID-19 lockdown affects the content of dreams and nightmares. The CS took place on the sixth week of the lockdown. Over the course of 1 week, 4,275 respondents (mean age 43, SD = 14 years) assessed their sleep, and 811 reported their dream content. Overall, respondents slept substantially more (54.2%) but reported an average increase of awakenings...