Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
The sound of the ambulance siren blaring, videos of health workers and patients covid-19 who were in the ER, until the expressions of condolences spread on social media made the days darker. Every day, the hope that the pandemic is just a nightmare turns out to be an illusion.
Many people experience vivid and frightening nightmares during the worst of the pandemic. But it all depends on the extent of your trauma – losing a loved one or being a healthcare worker on the front line of a Covid-19 intensive care unit – nightmares can be excruciating.
Quotes CNN, Psychologist Deirdre Barrett has collected various dreams including nightmares since the corona virus came lurking. Many people have dreams of death when our subconscious contemplates the very real threat of Covid-19. Other dreams cast viruses as invasive predators, often insects.
“There’s locusts with vampire fangs, swarms of wriggling worms, swarms of flying insects that can be bees or flies or bees, and armies of cockroaches racing after the dreamer,” said Barrett, an assistant professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School who has authored and edited many books. about dreams, including Pandemic Dreams.
During this time of the pandemic, Barrett revealed that women are the hardest hit and have the scariest dreams.
“Many of the worst nightmares I’ve had during the pandemic have come from nurses and doctors on the front lines.”
“I would say the people who have the most direct experiences with death and dying, are those who are physiologically prone to anxiety, stress and trauma, and those who have had previous traumas who tend to have the longest struggles with nightmares.”
He said someone had even ‘wandered’ into dreamland by looking at a morgue where someone was embalming a living Covid-19 patient.
Barrett continues to follow the pandemic dream. He has collected from at least 76 countries more than 14 thousand dreams, two thirds of which are from the United States. In his ongoing data analysis, he has seen a change in our dreams since vaccinations began and states and local communities began to reopen.
“Dreaming is simply thinking in a very different state of the brain. There is a lot of research on the so-called dream consistency hypothesis, which has been proven quite well: The more a person thinks about a certain topic during the day, the more it will appear in their dreams at night ,” he said.
“What we do know is that when people experience the same traumatic event, many will dream of it as soon as it happens.”
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