“Dreams of a safe place suddenly overtaken by the virus speak to contagion’s terrifying invisibility, says Cathy Caruth, a professor at Cornell University who has studied trauma for 30 years. Pandemic dreams, she says, are reminiscent of the experience of Hiroshima survivors, who worried about invisible radiation exposure, and also of some nightmares described by Vietnam veterans.”
Read more in Gillian Flaccus’s Washington Post article on COVID-19 collective dreaming, dream samples and Twitter dream libraries: `Infecting our dreams’: Pandemic sabotages sleep worldwide
