Comparison of dreams with waking consciousness has traditionally focused on claims that the dreaming mind maintains only a simple awareness of perception and emotion, but lacks the self-reflective ...

'It sounds mind-bending, but a lucid dream is essentially any dream where you're aware that you're dreaming,' writes Taylor Claudia Picard-Deland likes to fly in her sleep. She takes off like a ...

A new study suggests that people who are experienced meditators have dreams that differ in at least two interesting ways from non-meditators. The study was conducted by Elizaveta Solomonova, Tore ...

In simple terms, lucid dreaming can feel like a "virtual reality" experience, Alex Dimitriu, MD, a double board-certified physician in psychiatry and sleep medicine and founder of Menlo Park ...

Lucid dreaming changed Dr. Denholm Aspy’s life. A visiting research fellow at the University of Adelaide, Aspy (who recently changed his surname to Adventure-Heart) was set to focus his Ph.D. program ...

"Lucid dreaming happens when you become aware that you are dreaming and have the ability to control what's happening in your dream," says Dr Shelby Harris, a clinical psychologist specialising in ...

Have you ever had a dream that felt so real, you were convinced it was actually happening? Or maybe you’ve had a dream that left you feeling scared, anxious, or unsettled. Whatever your experience ...

In the depths of night, as consciousness fades and dreams take hold, some individuals possess a remarkable ability: they can recognize they’re dreaming and even direct the narrative of their nocturnal ...

Lucid dreaming takes regular dreams to a whole new level. Roughly one in two people have reported experiencing lucid dreaming at least once in their life, but only about 1/10 say they've had two or ...

"While lucid dreaming, certain areas of your brain start to work similarly to when you’re awake — even though you’re still sleeping," Dr Harris explains. "Your frontal cortex — the part of your brain ...