‘Trapped in Boxes That Are Getting Smaller’: Why Your Anxiety Dreams Are Getting Worse

Bad dreams infected with pandemic themes are evolving to postapocalyptic ‘Mad Max’ scenes

Robert Roy Britt
Elemental
Published in
6 min readOct 6, 2020

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Dreams often reflect the things humans worry about and can be influenced by wars, natural disasters, or other crises, previous research has shown. Multiple new studies…

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Robert Roy Britt
Elemental

Editor of Aha! and Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB