As you may recall, much of my writing inspiration comes from my dreams and I have often written about dreams in my blog.
I recently came across an interesting article on Casper about so-called “quarantine dreams” or “coronavirus dreams.” These are anxiety-ridden dreams that can leave you feeling confused and anxious, long after you’ve woken up. Indeed, the proper way to label these dreams would be to call them anxiety dreams.
The infographic below covers 15 common anxiety dreams, what they mean, and the best ways to cope. I was shocked to realize that I’ve had seven of these (!) in the past months. Now I’m worried that I may be more stressed than I’ve realized! My only consolation is that I’m obviously not the only one…
Nicholas C. Rossis 
I think these advice areas are useful in general, but I don’t know if there’s an absolute consensus about how dreams actually work? One’s own personal philosophy can also be an influence, I’m sure. I know our work patterns are somewhat different right now, but I can just imagine the response of an orthodox employer to an employee ringing up and saying: “Oh, I can’t come into work today: last night I dreamt my house was on fire!” 😉 Cheers, Jon.
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Lol – I would use that excuse but I’m self-employed and my boss is a harda$$! Darn…
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Most of my dreams are concerned with past events in my life, and are rarely ‘disaster’ dreams. Though the falling dream is something I had a lot when I was younger.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Lucky you 🙂
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Always wondered about the teeth one.
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Same here. And it’s a recurring one, too.
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Reblogged this on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog and commented:
Dreams explained?
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Reblogged this on Jeanne Owens, author and commented:
I often have weird dreams. Some of them I think later might make good stories. Others just leave me thinking WTF? A few dreams I’ve had lately I’ve researched elements of (like one the other day about lava) and have me thinking they’re likely related to something I may be subconsciously be feeling anxious about.
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I just realized, yesterday, that your blog has an identical twin. Did you do that on purpose? Looking through the lists of the blogs I follow, and the bloggers that follow me, I saw that the List of blogs I follow has your blog twice. I thought it was strange how, recently I’ve noticed that your posts have been showing up on the reader, twice a day. I mean, the same post, a few hours apart. The weird thing is, one post is complete, and the other post is cut off after the first paragraph or so. That time I re-followed your blog, I must’ve followed your blog’s identical twin instead.
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I have a WordPress.com-hosted blog and a self-hosted one. The reason is explained here: https://nicholasrossis.me/2016/01/07/my-old-new-blog/
In a nutshell, when I moved to a self-hosted solution my stats tanked because I lost anyone finding my posts on their WordPress feed. But the self-hosted blog lets me have all sorts of plugins etc, so in the end I decided it’s worthwhile keeping both, even if it means I have to spend some extra time uploading my posts.
As for the cutting-off thing, that’s just the WordPress.com theme I use.
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Good idea.
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Reblogged this on Marina Costa and commented:
I have the school-related ones too, and getting late. Very interesting!
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I’ve had a lot of these too! I suffer from bad anxiety all of the time though! xo
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Now I wonder if I do, too, and haven’t even realized it 😀
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