I had this dream the other night that I was eating the tips off of the tops of

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. I went through a whole

box of matches and then later when I woke up I still had this sort of nauseating

sulfurous taste in my mouth. I couldn't get rid of it. Many of us have been

reporting strange and disturbing dreams lately. Researchers shown that

traumatic and disruptive events, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, wars, a

pandemic. All of them can lead to an increase in these anxious and tense

dreams. I got to tell you I've also had my fair share of weird dreams in the

last year. I typically really haven't remembered my dreams but lately I

found myself dreaming about being in the driver's seat of a car with honestly

no idea where I was headed. My mouth was essentially full of this gum-like

material and I had no teeth as far as I could tell. When I looked around in that

car that I was driving with no destination I saw my girls except they had all

aged at least another 10 to 15 years. I woke up with my heart racing I was

sweating I felt like I had lost so much time and I was without any direction in

my life. It was an anxious dream. You can probably hear it in my voice even

right now. So many of you have been telling us about your own strange and even

upsetting dreams. So I decided to revisit an episode from last May when we spoke

to a noted dream researcher about how COVID-19 doesn't just play a role in our

waking lives it can also haunt us when we sleep. I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta seeing

ends chief medical correspondent and this is coronavirus fact versus fiction.

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