Sleep study in Finland: "epidemic" has become a "collective nightmare"

More than a quarter of the study participants reported frequent nightmares after the "epidemic".

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A sleep study conducted in Finland and published this week indicated that the Coronavirus epidemic has become a collective nightmare.

Hundreds of volunteers, who were included in the study, spoke about their dreams to scientists at the University of Helsinki, during a lockdown due to the Corona virus, earlier this year.

Dreams related to lost passports, closed borders, overcrowded spaces, and a death that appeared over and over again in those reports.

Shaking hands or hugs, too, became nightmares.

The sleepers described this as an inappropriate violation of the rules of social distancing in their dreams.

The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, also used reports on sleep patterns from 4,000 Finns.

More than a quarter of the participants talked about nightmares that occur more frequently than before the "epidemic", and about a third of them said that they woke up several times during the night.

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