New research now shows how dreams during REM sleep help the brain rethink problems and find creative solutions naturally.

Lucid dreams are associated with regions of the brain that control memory, emotion, and self-awareness, meaning that the ...

Dreams and REM sleep have long been associated with creativity. Why is that? Sleep is about a lot more than just restoration.

New technology aims to help you induce a lucid dream at will, enabling you to enter a state of consciousness where anything ...

An international consortium of researchers has created the largest-ever database compiling records of brain activity during sleep and dream reports. One of the first analyses of the database confirmed ...

There may even be a way to step in and change the nightmare narrative—stimulating the brain to allow the dreamer to take control of the experience, all the while remaining asleep. The seeds of future ...

A study tracking over 200 participants found that people with a positive attitude toward dreams and an interest in their ...

Neuroscientists studying the shifts between sleep and awareness are finding many liminal states, which could help explain the disorders that can result when sleep transitions go wrong Yasemin ...

In this video, pediatric anesthesiologist Max Feinstein, MD, talks to researchers at Stanford University. The team, led by Boris Heifets, MD, PhD, studies altered states of consciousness, including ...

Dreams are subjective conscious experiences generated by the brain during sleep. That’s it. That’s all we know with certainty about dreams. They occur without our control or self-reflection (I’m ...

Emotions are one of the most frequently studied dream content variables, primarily because they are strongly present in most dream reports. We know quite a lot about negatively toned dreams mainly ...

The pillow is cold against your cheek. Your upstairs neighbor creaks across the ceiling. You close your eyes; shadows and light dance across your vision. A cat sniffs at a piece of cheese. Dots fall ...