After analyzing many previous studies on lucid dreaming, researchers have defined it as a state that differs significantly from both REM sleep and wakefulness.

Victorian anthropologist Edward Tylor argued that dreams of dead relatives convinced early humans they had souls. Émile ...

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

What if you could experience all the benefits of dreaming—emotional healing, creativity boosts, memory processing—without ever closing your eyes? Scientists have uncovered that certain psychedelics ...

The simulation hypothesis states that we are characters in a computer simulation. Scientists have taken this hypothesis seriously I think because it offers interesting potential explanations for a ...

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

Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, the period in which we experience vivid dreams, was discovered by scientists in the 1950s. Because REM sleep is associated with dreaming, on the one hand, and eye ...

Dreams can be weird: sex dreams, stress dreams, dreams about your ex who you thought you were totally over. But have you ever had a dream so frustrating, upsetting, or bizarre that you wished you ...

Imagine standing in a quiet meadow; the emerald grass blades and yellow flowers sway with a gentle breeze. As a brook murmurs in the distance, everything feels weightless and soft. Then, with a sharp ...

Recent groundbreaking scientific findings have unveiled a surprising link between the timing of our dreams and cognitive health. This connection, if further validated, could shift the way we ...