Wake up in a cold sweat again? Your funky dreams — before or during the pandemic — might seem like surreal, foreign spaces within your own head. But the scenes you see and feel are reflections of your own life and what you’re going through when you’re awake.
“Dreams are written by you and for you, about your life,” says Teresa DeCicco, the head of the Sleep and Dream Lab at Trent University in Canada. She and other researchers around the world are working out the reasons why we dream, as well as ways to help improve people’s quality of life based on what their deep-sleep endeavors look like. Or as DeCicco puts it, “there’s some good, good research going on, talking about what the heck we’re doing tonight.”
Much of what you’ve probably heard about how dream analysis works — like cracking open a book to look up the ...
