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

There's nothing quite as good for your health and well-being as getting good, quality rest. It can work wonders for your body and mind and there's a lot of research around sleep and its importance in ...

In The Brain Never Sleeps, author Karen van Kampen explores the role dreams play in wellbeing – and how you can work with ...

Neuroscientists managed to change people's dreams - and the results shed light on their function ...

All the most commonly prescribed drugs for mental and emotional disorders affect dreams—typically via their effects on REM sleep. Under healthy conditions REM sleep ‘turns on' when activity levels of ...

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

The researchers observed 25 healthy adults between the ages of 21 to 41 to see how certain noises affected their sleep. Over the course of a week, the participants were exposed each night to just ...

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

On the flip side, sleep also may be used to supercharge your memories and improve your recall. “In part, while we are ...

Q I have frequent nightmares about being chased where I wake up flailing my arms and legs and crying out. It’s manageable at home but problematic for sleep on long-distance flights. I’ve woken up to ...