In simple terms, lucid dreaming can feel like a "virtual reality" experience, Alex Dimitriu, MD, a double board-certified physician in psychiatry and sleep medicine and founder of Menlo Park ...

New research suggests that a combination of therapy and sound-induced lucid dreaming can help people with narcolepsy have fewer nightmares. Reading time 2 minutes Vengeful, fire-breathing demons ...

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 is the state of becoming aware one is dreaming while still being within the dream. To what end? That awareness may allow one to influence the dream itself, and the possibilities of that ...

Lucid dreaming, the phenomenon where dreamers become aware they are dreaming and can influence their dreams, is now recognized as a distinct state of consciousness. Research led by Çağatay Demirel ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

If you want to try lucid dreaming, some strategies, including performing reality checks, can help train your mind to recognize its own consciousness. Lucid dreaming is when you’re conscious during a ...

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 ...

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 ...