'Most vivid, immersive, kind of spatial temporal emotional dreams happen in the morning,' she said. Sleep patterns affect dreamsĮlizaveta Solomonova, sleep researcher and postdoctoral fellow at McGill University in Montreal, says the connection between vivid dreaming and morning sleep is clear. So our brains took that extra morning sleep and ran with it.

The change in sleep patterns makes sense, considering that many people the world over started snoozing past their usual wake-up time when the morning rituals of going to the gym, hustling the kids off to school or commuting to work vanished. In Russia it was a whopping 90 minutes later. In North America, people slept in 45 minutes later on average. The variations in sleep patterns depended upon the lockdown states in each nation. That was especially true in the first few months of COVID-19's global grip. More people have been sleeping longer and, crucially, later during the pandemic. In addition to seeing patterns of insomnia and anxiety that are keeping people tossing and turning deep into the night, the team found something else. Jeff Huang of Brown University in Providence, R.I., gathered data from 100,000 sleep app users around the world. The world over, where sleep and dream patterns are being studied, there are tales of people having dreams they perceive as being more vivid and more memorable than usual.Īnd there may be reasonable explanations for it, according to researchers.

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