After analyzing many previous studies on lucid dreaming, researchers have defined it as a state that differs significantly ...

Carry-over effects pose an intriguing oneiric paradox: the dream is not real, but it has real effects on our body and ...

Your Brain's Night Shift A 2023 study found a strong link between the content of dreams and the consolidation of newly formed ...

Your heart is racing. You are ducked behind a dumpster on a street you haven’t walked since high school. Someone is chasing you. You can feel your heartbeat in your ears. You reach into your pocket ...

We often hear stories of people who’ve learned from their dreams or been inspired by them. Think of Paul McCartney’s story of how his hit song “Yesterday” came to him in a dream or of Mendeleev’s ...

Getting over an ex is hard... especially when they start haunting you in your dreams. But don’t worry too much. Dreaming about an ex-partner is not some subliminal sign that you should get back ...

Of all my memories of that summer in Peru—drinking pisco in the desert, finding a mummified baby, unwrapping it under less than scientifically optimal conditions— the one that stands out most is the ...

It’s easy to dismiss a dream as your imagination running wild, but if you pay attention, a dream can be a very powerful tool, carrying important divine messages that enhance your life. The dream ...

In a health and wellness culture that reveres sleep, popular but under-researched topics are lucid dreaming and vivid dreaming. But what exactly do those terms mean? And how might they improve our ...

After a lifetime of admiring cheetahs, their grace and speed – yet knowing how deadly they could be – Emily Foster felt strangely unafraid when she came face to face with two of them. One had an ...

Have you ever had a dream where you knew you were dreaming? This unusual state of consciousness is called lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming has long been a topic of interest in dream research. The term ...