Another class of drugs that affect REM sleep and dreams are the anti-depressants, particularly the selective serotonin reuptake blockers (e.g., fluoxetine, paroxetine, etc).

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

A persistent idea suggests that consuming cheese before sleeping could cause nightmares. A recent Canadian study provides ...

Walker, too, believes that dreams and REM sleep have benefits — but he says it’s not the only stage of sleep that matters. In fact, he says, extensive evidence suggests that slow-wave, ...

REM sleep is the stage in which one dreams and it gets a lot of attention, often from those looking to improve their sleep. But experts say all stages of sleep are important for getting proper ...

But I don’t want to lose sleep entirely. I want to shut the valve on my vivid dreams by tweaking or wiping my REM sleep. That, by comparison, appears less hazardous.

Although dream psychoanalysis may have only begun in the last century or two, people have studied dreams for far longer: Aristotle wrote about dreams as early as 325 B.C., according to Kryger.

Jumping spiders appear to move their eyes during sleep, similar to the way humans do during REM sleep — raising the question of whether spiders might dream as well.

Octopus may experience REM sleep, and dream, much like we do. This is the first time this kind of sleep has been observed beyond vertebrates. Depositphotos. View 3 Images 1 / 3.

In humans, dreams are directly linked to a part of the sleep cycle called REM (rapid eye movement) or active sleep. Changes in the electrical activity of the brain can be measured with an ...

In short we do not have any good handle on the evolution of REM sleep and thus the evolution of dreams remains a mystery as well. That is why study of the content of dreams is so important.