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

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 ...

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.

And the differing story lines of our dreams engage different parts of the brain; By DAISY DUNNE FOR MAILONLINE . Published: 12:33 EDT, 10 April 2017 | Updated: 12:38 EDT, 10 April 2017 .

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 ...

A compelling part of the study identified that the same parts of the brain in charge of certain actions when awake, such as identifying speech or faces, became active when dreams contained those ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...