Health care workers are reportedly having dreams reminiscent of combat veterans and 9/11 responders

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Dreams are getting a lot of attention during the coronavirus pandemic, which isn't surprising considering experts believe there has rarely ever been "collective dreaming" on such a broad scale, The Associated Press reports.

It's even less surprising that health care workers are bearing the brunt of the nightmares. Many people, no matter their profession, have reported having what are considered lower-level anxiety dreams during the pandemic, but "health care providers are the ones who look like a trauma population," said Deirdre Barret, a Harvard University professor who is surveying dreamers across the world (she has collected 6,000 dream samples from about 2,400 people.)

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.