A particular sort of dream control helps people mold their minds, practice real-life skills, and even shape their waking ...

Another theory suggests that dreams are simply a side effect of memory consolidation —the brain’s way of replaying and ...

When people have dreams, an area near the back of the brain seems to wake up. And specific patterns of brain activity in that area can even reveal what we're dreaming about.

In 2004, Swiss scientists shared the results of a study of a 73-year-old woman who lost all of her capacity to dream after experiencing a stroke that affected parts of her occipital lobe, located ...

In a nutshell Scientists have mapped brain activity during lucid dreaming for the first time, showing increased gamma activity in the precuneus region at the moment of becoming lucid During lucid ...

Such loss of dreaming--along with visual disturbances--following damage to a specific part of the brain goes by the name Charcot-Wilbrand syndrome, named for the eminent neurologists Jean-Martin ...

Lucid dreaming—a rare state where the dreamer knows they are dreaming—activates the brain in ways that are distinct from both normal dreaming and wakefulness. A new study published in The ...

Scientists believe they have located the part of the brain where people's dreams are created. A team from the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland, made the discovery after treating a woman who ...

THE CARTOON BRAIN . Ironically, I’d only just learned about liminal dreaming myself. Sure, I’d read about hypnagogia and hypnopompia once upon a time; they both merit a few pages in an ...

As part of these studies, ... In fact, the brain’s failure to inhibit movements during dreams is a sign that the brain is already beginning to be damaged because ...

A very fast brain rhythm helps the left brain and right brain communicate better while running—and even while dreaming—research in rodents shows. The fast rhythm linking the left and right ...