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During this unsettling time of the global pandemic, have you had more weird dreams or even nightmares?

I've had a few dreams that were quite strikingly related to the pandemic.

So one, just a week or so ago, I woke up from a dream where in my dream I was in Berlin with my

family. I spent a while living in Berlin. I have many very close and dear friends that are there

that I'm really missing. And it's one of the hardest things in the current situation, not knowing when I'll be able to travel back to Germany,

where I'm originally from. And in my dream, I was there with my family, with my partner and

our two-year-old daughter, visiting my friends and incredibly happy to see them. And then there

was suddenly this shift into darkness.

And I kind of realized, oh goodness, the virus is out there. We could be getting infected,

where we're putting ourselves at risk by being here. And this was, I think, around the time that we had moved back into lockdown,

but before we went into stage four here in Melbourne. And then the next

stage was that I was actually breaking the law by being there. And by, you know, by moving through

Berlin with my friends, we weren't physical distancing. And I was suddenly worried that the police

was going to be after us. And so it really morphed into one of these anxiety dreams.

And it was quite striking, I think, for that mix of feelings when I woke up that I

really had this mix of nostalgia and, you know, being happy about seeing friends and being

in a place you love.

But then it was immediately tinged with

this very negative aftertaste and anxiety, you know, guilt over having done something wrong,

and all of these things were mixed in. And I think that mixture of things is something that

everybody probably experiences quite a lot right now as well, like you're having a wonderful walk in the park,

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