Source: Chip, my dog, is sleeping and dreaming. This image is the personal property of Mark Shelvock, the author of this article. We humans spend approximately one-third of our lives sleeping 1, and ...

From Freud to Kahneman, these ten books map the ideas that quietly shape how we interpret behaviour, suffering, joy, and choice. Written by psychologists who transformed their fields, each work ...

Hitting, fighting, chasing, shooting, killing—these are not only common themes in the news each day, they are also recurrent features of our dreams at night. Few studies have focused specifically on ...

Human beings spend about 26 years of their life asleep, with the average person having between three to seven dreams each night. That means you spend a lot of your lifetime in dreamland. Maybe you’re ...

MANNHEIM (dpa) – Why it is that we dream still remains one of the great mysteries. But in answer to the question of how we dream, scientific researchers have come up with some important answers.

It's not easy to control your emotions in your dreams. More often than not, dreams are bizarre and don’t seem to have any relation to reality. Sometimes, though, your dreams can feel incredibly real.

In ancient times, people saw dreams as vessels of meaning that contained divine messages and had the power to alter history. Alexander the Great was on the verge of breaking ground for his new city ...

Despite how unique our individual lives are, many of us share the same dreams at night. The most common dream themes include flying, falling, snakes, water and losing teeth. These aren’t coincidences.

Dreams can get pretty weird sometimes. When you wake up from one that was particularly bizarre or vivid, you might feel relieved it was only a dream, one you’ll never have to experience again. Well, ...