How To Sleep Better – Why You’re Having Vivid Dreams And Night Terror During The Quarantine.

⁠Many people are dealing with sleep right now, from intense hallucinations and nightmares to elevated rates of insomnia.

This makes sense, because “we are wired to stay awake in the face of danger,” a clinical psychologist says. “In that way, it’s normal to have struggled with sleep throughout all kinds of difficult situations.”⁠

 The pandemic of COVID-19 has made even the sleep feel stressful.

The challenge right now is that the threat of a global pandemic is not so “tangible,” they add. When people are in a stressful situation, their sleep often improves when the problem is resolved.
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However, it is unclear when the COVID-19 pandemic will end and life will return to normal.

Why your dreams are so vivid

“If you are spending two hours in front of the news media, or you end up reading about COVID-19 before bed, it’s pretty likely that that’s going to come up in your dreams at night,” Martin says. On the other hand, if you’re doing something neutral or even pleasant, those themes are more likely to appear in your dreams.

How to Get More Sleep and Have Fewer Nightmares

Do something relaxing that you wouldn’t mind dreaming about half an hour before going to bed: read a book, talk to your family, or look at photos of past vacations, for example.”You can also have a positive impact on your dream stuff,” 

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