Dreams are not random mental noise. A large study of more than 3,700 dream and waking reports found that what we experience during sleep is shaped by both our personalities and the world around us.

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In Paul Tremblay’s new A.I. dystopia, “Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep,” an experimental technology gives its heroine control over somebody else’s body. By Emily C. Hughes Emily C. Hughes is the ...

OpenAI has, in a series of steps, improved the memory of ChatGPT. Initially, every conversation with ChatGPT was completely isolated. Later, you could explicitly ask the chatbot to remember specific ...

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Dreams are more structured than they seem, shaped by both personal traits and real-world experiences. Researchers found that the brain doesn’t just replay daily life—it reshapes it into imaginative, ...

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Near-death experiences, or NDEs, are unusual psychological phenomena provoked by a brush with death, such as feelings of immense joy or out-of-body experiences. A new pair of studies explores the ...

While some people struggle to try to remember vague details of their dream from the night before, others are attempting to lucid dream. This form of dreaming is admittedly rare, but it involves being ...

It’s fair to wonder what that was all about when you wake up from a dream where you were unprepared for a test—and you haven’t been in school for years. But while the details of what runs through your ...

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