in a study published in frontiers in psychology , finnish researchers used artificial intelligence to help analyze the dreams of 811 people. they found that while over half of people were sleeping more since the pandemic began, 10 per cent were having a harder time falling asleep, and more than a quarter were waking more frequently during the night. nightmares were most consistent in the groups that reported the highest levels of stress.
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for people whose stress levels increased during the pandemic, nightmares tended to have revolve around unnerving scenarios like overcrowding, falling, murder in the night, an elderly person in trouble, apocalypse, being chased and danger. pandemic-related dreams were more common in the stressed-out category and included people who flaunted physical distancing, such as mistake hugs, crowds, and parties.
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