Dreams in the Time of Coronavirus

Photoshop,
written by Lynn Limbert
(08,12,2025)

During the COVID-19 pandemic isolation periods many people took up new hobbies and leisure activities. my Nanna chose to begin writing down a dream journal. All though not as frequent she still writes the occasional funny dream she’s had.

Each picture had a different configuration of three of the fore colours. We have three types of cone photoreceptors in the retina that are sensitive to red, green, and blue light. The brain processes Theas colours to make up every other colour. When you close your eyes in a dark environment, and you still see colours you are experiencing phosphenes. These visual sensations come from internal pressure or spontaneous electrical activity within the retina stimulating the visual cortex. And I chose to only use Theas three colours to represent what we see at night.

Many of her dreams featured people and places from her daily life like her house and family, local shopping centre and friends or the park and an old work colleague (and the occasional random celebrity of the telly).

The therapist and my pyjamas: “I went to visit a therapist and while talking I became aware I was wearing pyjamas. The bottoms looked odd as one leg was the right way and one was inside out”

Dough baby: “Two sinister men from the FBI sneak in the doorway and try to steal my dough baby. I have to keep very alert to stop them”.

The scrawny cats: “I discover a load of extra cats. They all look scrawny and withered and there is a large rat amongst them”.

Daydream penguins: “Lying in bed by a huge window and a family of Penguins were drifting through the sky in front of me” “my Mum was not convinced”.

The Rampaging Tiger: “The children (Sean, & Emma) and I where inside but there’s a tiger rampaging around the garden”.