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This chapter reviews studies from different countries about the influences of the COVID-19 pandemic on dreaming. These find that direct content about the pandemic is reported by many dreamers and that general dreams have been more anxious throughout this period. The chapter then focuses in detail on a survey of 12,000+ pandemic dreams by the current author and three analyses of it: (1) a qualitative reading for literal and metaphoric themes, (2) a comparison with normal-era dreams utilizing the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, and (3) a comparison with waking conversation about COVID-19 as differentiated by a deep learning algorithm.
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Barrett, D. (2023). Dreams and Nightmares During the COVID-19 Pandemic. In: BaHammam, A., Pandi-Perumal, S.R., Jahrami, H. (eds) COVID-19 and Sleep: A Global Outlook. Progress in Sleep Research. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0240-8_18
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