I had this dream the other night that I was eating the tips off of the top matches.

And it was like this compulsion that I couldn't stop.

I would light a match, blow it out, and then bite off the burnt crispy tip.

And I went through a whole box of matches.

Later when I woke up, I still had this sort of nauseating sulfurous taste in my mouth.

That's one of my producers, Zoe, recalling a dream she had.

Lately, we've been hearing from a lot of people who've been experiencing strange or even upsetting dreams.

And I'm one of them.

I'm not sleeping very much these days, but the other night I had a dream that I was painting.

And I'm not really a painter.

It was a large canvas with lots of reds and lots of oranges.

As I was painting, I suddenly realized that I was also standing on a stage with a huge audience watching over my shoulder.

It made me feel very self-conscious.

And when I woke up, I still felt anxious.

Many blamed these dreams on the unique stress and circumstances of this pandemic.

It is anecdotal for now, but researchers are already hard at work trying to make sense of it all.

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent.

And this is coronavirus.

Fact versus fiction.

One of the early anxiety dreams I had as we were just getting used to this pandemic was that I dreamed that I was trying to put a hood on my cat to protect him from something toxic in the air.

And the hood would make him not breathe in the toxins.

And I was so scared that I wasn't going to get the hood on him in time to protect him.

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