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Today, Explained

Quarantine dreams

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Think you’ve been having exceptionally strange dreams lately? Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett says it’s not a figment of your imagination. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The first dream I remember very vividly was a person was murdering someone next to me and

1:34.4

sitting on me as though I was a piece of furniture. I remember thinking to myself, I need to be as

1:41.6

still and quiet as possible, or this person is going to murder me also. I was curled in a ball

1:49.7

and crying, but also hoping that the murdering person who was sitting on me wouldn't notice that I

1:58.0

was not furniture. People have been having some really intense dreams during this pandemic,

2:05.4

and the staff here at Vox heard about so many of these that we decided to formally do a call out

2:10.5

for some voice memos, and we got hundreds of responses here are a few of our favorites.

2:18.7

Hi, I'm Ellery. I'm 16. I'm from Manhattan, Kansas. An odd dream I had during quarantine was

2:26.1

one of my grandmother's had a baby and I was told to go visit her, her and her baby, and I looked in

2:33.2

the crib and there was a dog in the crib and I just played with the dog in her bedroom.

2:38.2

In my dream, I was a big company meeting and everyone was gathered in person instead of like on

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Vox and they were announcing big legoffs and they had brought a special guest to tell us about it

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