10+ Best Articles on Dreams

When you fall asleep and start dreaming, you're actually doing very important work. According to sleep scientist Matt Walker, dreams act like a form of "overnight therapy." In fact, your dreams may…

Converging lines of research suggest that we might be misunderstanding something we do every night of our lives.

The ability to control our dreams is a skill that more of us are seeking to acquire for sheer pleasure. But if taken seriously, scientists believe it could unlock new secrets of the mind

«It has been hard to get someone to lucid dream in the noisy, constrained environment of an fMRI scanner. But it can be done»

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«our loss of a sense is only temporary, then the rapid conquest of brain territory may not be so helpful. And this, we propose, is why we dream.»

Major brands like Coors, Microsoft, and Burger King want in on our dreams — and researchers are concerned about it.

Dreaming experiments involved real-time conversations between sleepers and scientists

«he likens it to the first conversation using a telephone or talking to an astronaut on another planet. Dreamers live in a “world entirely fabricated of memories stored in the brain,” he says. Now, researchers appear to have found a way to communicate with people in that world.»

Such stuff as dreams are made on: the characters who populate your dreams have their own minds, separate from yours

«However, the way that your brain keeps much of the dream ‘script’ and dream characters’ minds outside of your immediate awareness isn’t just a fascinating quirk that’s worth exploring out of personal interest. Rather, some of my colleagues and I believe that it might play an important role in the biological function of dreams, helping to explain why we evolved to dream at all.»

Dream-hacking techniques can help us create, heal and have fun. They could also become tools of commercial manipulation

«Since sleep loss is known to increase risk-taking behaviour, one might expect to be hit with targeted ads for online gambling.»

Dreams are subjective, but there are ways to peer into the minds of people while they are dreaming. Steven Strogatz speaks with sleep researcher Antonio Zadra about how new experimental methods have…

“Perhaps dreams are an arena that can enable supracognitive powers to perform calculations and perceptions of reality that may be incomprehensible in our wake state.”

Our floodlit society has made sleep deprivation a lifestyle. But we know more than ever about how we rest—and how it keeps us healthy.

Can electrical impulses in the brain explain the stuff that dreams are made on? What a new consciousness-detector reveals