Serena Scarpelli, Michael R Nadorff, Bjørn Bjorvatn, Frances Chung, Yves Dauvilliers, Colin A Espie, Yuichi Inoue, Kentaro Matsui, Ilona Merikanto, Charles M Morin, Thomas Penzel, Mariusz Sieminski, Han Fang, Tainá Macêdo, Sérgio A Mota-Rolim, Damien Leger, Giuseppe Plazzi, Ngan Yin Chan, Markku Partinen, Courtney J Bolstad, Brigitte Holzinger, Luigi De Gennaro
INTRODUCTION: A growing number of studies have demonstrated that the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has severely affected sleep and dream activity in healthy people. To date, no investigation has examined dream activity specifically in COVID-19 patients. METHODS: As part of the International COVID-19 Sleep Study (ICOSS), we compared 544 COVID-19 participants with 544 matched-controls. A within-subjects comparison between pre-pandemic and pandemic periods computed separately for controls and COVID-19 participants were performed on dream recall and nightmare frequency (DRF; NF)...
2022: Nature and Science of Sleep