For centuries, humans have marveled at the strange theater of their nightly visions. We wake with fragments of impossible ...

That dream where you're falling from the sky and jerk awake is actually pretty common. On average, a person will have between one and six dreams a night, and the most vivid ones occur during REM sleep ...

Have you ever woken up with vivid memories of a dream, only for them to fade within minutes? Or perhaps you rarely remember your dreams at all? While some people recall intricate dream sequences every ...

You're back in school and suddenly have to take a test, despite not having been present to learn any of the material. Your teeth are suddenly falling out. You run into an acquaintance you haven't seen ...

Imagine standing in a quiet meadow; the emerald grass blades and yellow flowers sway with a gentle breeze. As a brook murmurs in the distance, everything feels weightless and soft. Then, with a sharp ...

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Do they predict the future or simply rehash the past? By figuring out why we dream, researchers are hoping to nail down what the nightly cavalcade of images and events means. Ever since Sigmund Freud ...

Not everyone experiences sleep and dreams the same way. Why do most of us forget our dreams, while others remember them in vivid detail? If you're someone who rarely remembers their dreams, don't ...

In a previous post, I mentioned there are five ways to understand the language of dreams, including that dreams are extrasensory, that is, they express dream material that is not derived from sense ...

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 ...