Waking up from a nightmare can leave your heart pounding, but the effects may reach far beyond a restless night.

Suffer from frequent nightmares? Study suggests they can triple your risk of death - Bad dreams every week carry about the ...

Late-night sweets, cheese and crackers might be serving more than a taste, but some weird dreams too, as per a new study.

Research shows eating patterns and sensitivities are linked to nightmares, with sleep quality affecting dream intensity and ...

Recent studies have bolstered the long-held idea that recurring dreams are often — but not always — bad ones. In a 2022 survey by Michael Schredl, head of the sleep laboratory at the Central ...

The reasons why we might have a greater propensity for negative dreams are not fully understood, but Schredl says dreams typically overdramatize something in our waking life—even a small feeling ...

Most of our dreams are quite mundane. So much so that certain neurons, MCH neurons, which produce the melanin concentrating hormone involved in regulating sleep and appetite, located in the ...

Scientists have several theories about why we dream, but we've never really figured it out. Here are some of the most popular theories.

Other theories about why we dream have begun to emerge in recent years, too, and some were discussed at a panel in June 2024 at the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) annual ...

Other theories about why we dream have begun to emerge in recent years too, and some were discussed at a panel in June 2024 at the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) annual ...

And when we have REM rebound, what we'll find is all our dreams tend to be very intense," he said. During REM, people can't regulate their body temperature.

A sleep specialist explains what can cause bad dreams and what we can do about them. (News4JAX) While you might not always remember your dreams, we often remember the ones that scare us awake.