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As Idaho's COVID-19 Cases Surge, A Look At How Our Dreams Have Changed

Original art by Deirdre Barrett
A close-up of the cover of 'Pandemic Dreams' by Deirdre Barrett.

 

Your eyes close, and you’re asleep. Suddenly you’re out in public without a mask on. Or, you’re wearing a mask, but no one around you is and they’re getting way too close to you. 

 

These are a couple of common dreams that Harvard Medical School Psychology professor Deirdre Barrett says many people experienced in the first phase of coronavirus anxiety.  

Barrett has spent her career studying the way trauma shows up in dreams and her new book, “Pandemic Dreams” recounts these dreams and others as fear about the virus changed over time. 

 

Barrett joins Idaho Matters to talk more about how our dreams have mapped our collective anxieties about the coronavirus. 

 

You can find her book for preorder online

As COVID-19 cases spread through the U.S. and Idaho, we’re committed to keeping you updated and informed. You can get updated info on cases, closures and how to stay healthy at any time on our Coronavirus news blog.

 

Have a question or comment for the show? Tweet @KBSX915 using #IdahoMatters

 

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Molly Wampler is a newsroom intern at Boise State Public Radio. Originally from Berkeley, California, she just graduated from the University of Puget Sound in Washington state. There, Molly worked for her university's newspaper but is stoked to try her hand at and learn all there is to learn about radio journalism.

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