What is the weirdest dream you’ve had since the start of the lockdown?
A recent “Dream Survey” conducted by Deirdre Leigh Barrett, an assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, seems to confirm that the incidence of vivid dreams has increased as the virus has spread around the world.
In Barrett's survey, respondents have reported dreams that are clearly related to the coronavirus — contracting the illness themselves, or having an aging parent become sick.
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Others are more metaphorical, like dreams about insects and while many are experiencing wilder dreams but doctors and nurses may be experiencing the phenomenon more intensely than others.
KZN listeners had a few things to say about their dreams during lockdown.
Tracey Feeke: "I dreamt I was working at checkers and my boss sent me up the road to type out some weird document and said if I don't do it by end of the day I'm fired was weird coz I am an unemployed stay home mom 😂 also that could have been done at work."
Pretty Cele: "hahaha dreamt of my payslip showing that I will get paid r4000. I couldn't sleep after."
Mhlongo Wandile Lunga: "Chasing after a car naked for my pj's which were being sent to china than I have to wear them when they bring them back."