Abstract
This article examines the creative potential of dreams in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Inspired by the work of Charlotte Beradt, who collected dreams during the Nazi regime, we collect dreams during the Covid-19 pandemic to explore their content and meaning. We consider the pandemic to be a collective rupture and a singular experience that impacted all aspects of everyday life. Our research highlights two main categories of fantasies or anxieties that emerged during the pandemic: the constant sense of threat and the sense of stagnation and waiting. As we illustrate in this article, death and vulnerability became recurrent themes in dreams. The focus of the research was on analyzing the experience of the pandemic through dreams and understanding how dominant discourses influenced the arousal of distress.
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