People are having stress dreams about losing their AirPods

Hope, a 19-year-old college student at the University of Texas, had just walked off a plane from a family vacation when she had a sinking realization: she had left her AirPods onboard.

She soon grew desperate. In an effort to get back her beloved earbuds before the plane left for its next destination, she climbed onto the wing. But she was unsuccessful, and the plane took off with her struggling to cling to the wing — still trying to retrieve her AirPods.

It was literally a nightmare scenario. "I woke up crying," she said. 

The whole ordeal had been an exceptionally vivid dream.

Hope, a design student who asked to be identified by her first name only, says she, like most people, has had stress dreams in the past. But this one — the only, so far, to feature her AirPods — affected her much more than other dreams. Read more...