In a health and wellness culture that reveres sleep, popular but under-researched topics are lucid dreaming and vivid dreaming. But what exactly do those terms mean? And how might they improve our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A way into lucid dreaming is to ‘really get obsessed with your dreams’, says Dr Ken Paller.Illustration: Carmen Casado/The ...

Lucid dreaming takes regular dreams to a whole new level. Roughly one in two people have reported experiencing lucid dreaming at least once in their life, but only about 1/10 say they've had two or ...

Dreams can be weird: sex dreams, stress dreams, dreams about your ex who you thought you were totally over. But have you ever had a dream so frustrating, upsetting, or bizarre that you wished you ...

Lucid dreaming has long sat in a gray zone between folklore and science, described by sleepers who insist they can steer their dreams while skeptics questioned whether the experience was anything more ...

“I was being pursued by frightful monsters. I was fleeing through an endless series of interconnecting rooms, always experiencing difficulty in opening the dividing doors and closing them behind me, ...

Have you ever had a dream where, suddenly, you thought, “This isn’t real!” and felt fully aware within it? Perhaps you began controlling the dream, soaring over city skylines, revisiting old friends, ...

Key points A lucid dream is one in which the dreamer is consciously aware that they are in a dream. Experiments have shown that it is possible to communicate with individuals in the lucid dream state.

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

I routinely control my own dreams. During a recent episode, in my dream laboratory, my experience went like this: I was asleep on a twin mattress in the dark lab room, wrapped in a cozy duvet and a ...