People Everywhere Are Reporting Vivid and Strange COVID-19 Dreams

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[Dreamer 1] I had a dream that I was in a concert venue.

I don't know why, but it like transformed

into like a really hot, busy GAP.

I could see clothes and people strewn about,

people rummaging around, like, big piles.

And then I realized that I wasn't wearing a mask.

And it was that feeling of like, I am naked in public,

oh shit.

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[Dreamer 2] Since the pandemic,

I've had a lot vivid dreams.

[Dreamer 3] There was like all these giant dinosaurs.

[Dreamer 4] Literally, the Wiggles.

[Dreamer 5] Since I've gotten, like, more sleep,

they've definitely been more clear.

[Dreamer 6] Like, a half-human-half-giraffe.

[Dreamer 7] Fires and demons everywhere.

[Dreamer 8] Since we don't have a realistic image

of virus particles, there were invisible monsters.

[Dreamer 9] I had this one dream where I was tasked

to find two radioactive lizards before anyone else does

to save the town.

They're like a pair sorta like,

they're like, you now, boyfriend-girlfriend lizards.

But, they're like really powerful.

[Dreamer 10] I was in this big hotel

which had rented out dozens of rooms for some big party.

This kid, he wants us all to have an orgy.

And then suddenly, I realized there are hundreds of people

in these rooms and there's a global pandemic.

We're all going, yes, exactly.

We're all going to die.

[Dreamer 11] I was underground

and I was making some sourdough.

And there was, like, these higher beings,

like, authority figures that were kind of walking

around the classroom to make sure that we're making

the sourdough right.

And then somehow, it starts getting real mushy

and turning into this paint.

There was a bad energy about it.

Like, you felt like you couldn't do anything wrong.

[Dreamer 12] We were being led out of a school bus

by a group of people

who were wearing some sort of hazard suits.

[Dreamer 13] There was, like, an old lady and an old man.

It was almost like I was trying to get into the dream,

but those two characters, like, wouldn't let me enter.

[Dreamer 12] And you don't see their faces.

And to me, that's always been kind of scary.

[Dreamer 14] I was on the beach and I was contemplating

on whether I should get into the water and whatnot.

But the water, it looked dirty and there was oil floating

on the surface, but also I wanted to be in the ocean.

The texture was like slimy and I started, like,

kind of choking on the oil.

It doesn't feel like how water should at all.

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[Dreamer 15] So, this is a place that I stumbled upon.

You imagine your typical Asian market,

but it's a combination of the wet market and a night market.

Those are the best.

And I just remember hovering over it

and seeing that the wet market is also a stage

where people are demonstrating BDSM techniques.

And everything feels so normal.

[Dreamer 16] I was opening doors

and eventually found my way out of the building.

In the car was one of my childhood best friend's grandmother

who actually passed away several years ago.

[Dreamer 17] She leaned over and took my hand,

and she looked at me with these beautiful, big, blue eyes.

And she just said, Honey, don't worry.

[Dreamer 16] And she drove us home.

Oh first, she stopped at Dunkin Donuts

and then she drove us home.

[Dreamer 18] I can't remember having a specific gender,

just sort of being a figure that I'm attached to.

[Dreamer 19] I just remember, like, how it felt so vivid

to be touched by him.

It was like fire on my skin.

[Dreamer 20] And I see them go

and they open up the fridge, and they open up a drawer,

and they pull out three cans of Campbell's Tomato Soup,

and they put them in my arms.

And then, I wake up.

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[Dreamer 14] I feel like our dreams are really active

because our lives are so still.

[Dreamer 17] I think the dream came from a deeper place

where I was really looking for some kind of reassurance

because I didn't have a lot of family close

to me at the moment.

[Dreamer 20] I guess that was my brain's way

of kind of attempting to provide a comfort,

even if it comes in confusing and sometimes anxious ways.

[Dreamer 14] I've also really loved sleeping, recently.

Like, it's like something I look forward to

at the end of the day now.

Because I guess there's nothing else to look forward to.

But I'm like wow, I can't wait to, like, go to bed.

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