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Goelitz, Ann

doi:10.1023/a:1012219314370

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“…Finally, previous studies have supported the usefulness of dream interpretation in managing emotions surrounding illness or death (DeCicco et al, 2010;Goelitz, 2001). COVID-19 has caused difficulty for many people, as they may have experienced job loss and are encouraged to remain in their homes, and distance from friends and family.…”

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“…Anxiety and stress surrounding the virus was likely partially due to fears about getting sick or dying from COVID-19. Based on this assumption, it might thus be useful for participants, or anyone else experiencing waking day COVID-19 based anxiety, to engage in dream interpretation to lessen these waking day emotions (DeCicco et al, 2010; Goelitz, 2001). Because previous studies have shown that dream interpretation is useful to decrease stress regarding an illness or to address concerns about the illness or death, this may also be a useful method to help the general public reduce their anxiety about getting the virus, or potentially dying of COVID-19 (DeCicco et al, 2010; Goelitz, 2001).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Pandemic dreaming: The effect of COVID-19 on dream imagery, a pilot study.

MacKay¹,

DeCicco²

2020

Dreaming

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COVID-19 has changed the way that people around the world live their lives, consequentially spurring various mental health difficulties. The current study aimed to determine whether people experienced distinct dream imagery during the early phase of the pandemic in Canada. The dreams of Canadian university students were recorded for 2 weeks during the beginning of Canada's experience with COVID-19. The dream imagery was analyzed and compared to a control group; t tests show that the COVID-19 group had significantly more imagery of location changes, animal, head, food, and virus-related dream imagery compared to the control group. This dream imagery is consistent with previous findings of the dream imagery of individuals experiencing waking day anxiety, suggesting that waking day concerns about COVID-19 may be affecting individual's dream imagery. In addition, the increased amount of imagery related to the virus, food, and head imagery suggests that specific aspects of COVID-19 and the global response are reflected within sleep mentation. As concerns and anxieties regarding the virus are pervasive, affecting many people during both waking and sleep, it is suggested that dream interpretation may be a beneficial approach to alleviating COVID-19-related stress.

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confidence: 99%

Pandemic dreaming: The effect of COVID-19 on dream imagery, a pilot study.

MacKay¹,

DeCicco²

2020

Dreaming

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“…From a clinical perspective, dream narration can also be an opportunity to identify individuals' needs and bring out memories, concepts and emotions, which might otherwise remain silent (Cartwright, 2011;Goelitz, 2001). At the same time, it can be a useful tool for identifying individuals who are exposed to conditions of greater distress or vulnerability.…”

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confidence: 99%

Dreaming during lockdown: a quali-quantitative analysis of the Italian population dreams during the first COVID-19 pandemic wave

Borghi

Bonazza

Lamiani

et al. 2021

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This study aims to explore the emotional experiences related to the lockdown during the first pandemic wave, analysing the dreams of the Italian population. Through an online survey spread throughout the country, participants completed the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21), the Resilience Scale (RS) and were asked to narrate a dream they had during the lockdown. The dreams were qualitatively analysed through the thematic content analysis. Logistic regression analyses were then conducted to verify the relationship among the categories that emerged and between these categories and the DASS-21 and RS scores. In the dreams 8 categories were identified (Places, Characters, Relationships, Actions, Danger, Death, Processes, and Emotions) composed of specific sub-categories, which seem to compose a sort of narrative structure of the dream. Some sub-categories were found to be predictor of depression and resilience or with exposure to COVID-19. Dreams can be a valid tool both to understand the experiences of the population during the pandemic and to evaluate those at risk of developing distress in clinical practice.

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“…This dream gave her confidence and soon after the dream she was discharged from the hospital. Dreamwork with cancer patients (DeCicco, Lyons, Pannier, Wright, & Clark, 2010; Goelitz, 2001), for example, can be very beneficial. Systematic research using longitudinal designs, however, have to be carried out in the future.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%