{"id":8808,"date":"2020-05-20T01:25:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T01:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/20\/covid-19-dreams\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:33:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:33:27","slug":"covid-19-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/covid-19-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Having coronavirus nightmares? Here&#8217;s what you can do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article appearing in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/wellness\/nightmares-bad-dreams-coronavirus-why-how\/2020\/05\/16\/dbd21db0-96d8-11ea-9f5e-56d8239bf9ad_story.html\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/strong>, Erin Wamsley, associate professor of psychology at Furman University, explains why our dreams might be more vivid and memorable during the time of COVID-19. She says we aren&#8217;t dreaming more, but changing sleep patterns and wakefulness could contribute to dream recall. \u201cThe memory for dreams is fleeting,\u201d she says. \u201cThe more times you wake up, the more times you have a chance to capture that dream in memory.\u201d Read on to learn strategies for curbing those pesky recurring dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Wamsley is principal investigator at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.furmansleeplab.com\/\">Furman Sleep Lab<\/a><\/strong>, where she studies how the brain processes memories during sleep and rest, as well as the relationship of sleep-dependent memory processing to dream experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article appearing in The Washington Post, Erin Wamsley, associate professor of psychology at Furman University, explains why our dreams might be more vivid and memorable during the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,79,48,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-neuroscience","category-psychology","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}