We spend one-third of our life sleeping and 20 percent of that time is spent dreaming.
During the pandemic, studies show people are experiencing more vivid dreams than normal.
“Related to your daytime or thought process and it may be related to consolidated to memories, Sanjay Singh, Director of Neurology at CHI Health tells KLIN News. “But it is certainly impacted by daytime activities and thought processes.”
Singh says medically they don’t know why we dream and that continues to be a phenomenon.
During a time of crisis and anxiety, it’s not uncommon for people to experience an increase in abnormal dreams.
Singh says it’s because people work from home where there is an urgency to sleep longer, meaning you sleep more.
“The latter phases of your dream period are longer. So if they’re longer and you wake up during them then you remember your dreams really, really well. That’s what they call a vivid dream.”
Singh says the dream phase is called REM or rapid eye movement and it rotates every 90 minutes.