Epidemic Dreams: Dreaming about health during the COVID-19 pandemic. (arXiv:2202.01176v1 [cs.SI])

The continuity hypothesis of dreams suggests that the content of dreams is
continuous with the dreamer's waking experiences. Given the unprecedented
nature of the experiences during COVID-19, we studied the continuity hypothesis
in the context of the pandemic. We implemented a deep-learning algorithm that
can extract mentions of medical conditions from text and applied it to two
datasets collected during the pandemic: 2,888 dream reports (dreaming life
experiences), and 57M tweets mentioning the pandemic (waking life experiences).
The health expressions …

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