Pandemic Nightmares: COVID-19 Lockdown Associated With Increased Aggression in Female University Students' Dreams.

COVID-19 dream content analysis dream recall nightmares sleep threat simulation

Journal

Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2021
Historique:
received: 21 12 2020
accepted: 09 02 2021
entrez: 22 3 2021
pubmed: 23 3 2021
medline: 23 3 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated stressors have impacted the daily lives and sleeping patterns of many individuals, including university students. Dreams may provide insight into how the mind processes changing realities; dreams not only allow consolidation of new information, but may give the opportunity to creatively "play out" low-risk, hypothetical threat simulations. While there are studies that analyze dreams in high-stress situations, little is known of how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted dreams of university students. The aim of this study was to explore how the dream content of students was affected during the university COVID-19 lockdown period (March-July, 2020). Using online survey methods, we analyzed dream recall content (

Identifiants

pubmed: 33746860
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.644636
pmc: PMC7973031
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

644636

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 Kilius, Abbas, McKinnon and Samson.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Erica Kilius (E)

Sleep and Human Evolution Lab, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada.

Noor H Abbas (NH)

Sleep and Human Evolution Lab, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada.

Leela McKinnon (L)

Sleep and Human Evolution Lab, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada.

David R Samson (DR)

Sleep and Human Evolution Lab, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada.

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