Here are a few of the big questions hovering over the Pyeongchang Olympics, about to get underway in South Korea: Which Russian athletes will be allowed to compete? How will the North Korean team fare? Can the United States top its highest number of Winter Olympics medals — the 37 it won eight years ago in Vancouver? But way up on my own list of burning questions is this: What do these athletes dream about? In particular, what are their anxiety dreams — the ones that make them wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night? We all have anxiety dreams — often they're about exams we're unprepared for or being onstage and not knowing our lines. These dreams can help us work through problems. "Anxiety is the most common emotion reported during dreams," neuroscientist Robert Strickgold told NPR in 2016. I figured that Winter Olympics athletes — competing in sports that can defy gravity and threaten catastrophe at high speeds on snow and ice — were bound to have some doozies. So I asked
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