We still don’t know much about the experience of being aware that you’re dreaming—but a few researchers think it could help us find out more about how the brain works. When I was 19—long before I ever ...

A new study reveals that immersive dreams are linked to deeper perceived sleep.

In a new paper in the journal Neuroscience of Consciousness, researchers asked dreamers, both lucid and otherwise, to dream about solving a specific puzzle they’d failed to solve before falling asleep ...

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 ...

Scientists have long tried to decode every dream we have. Some say it’s survival training, others say it’s memory at work, ...

In a world first, a new study conducted by a California-based neurotechnology company has recorded two-way communication between sleeping individuals during lucid dreaming. Using special tracking ...

After analyzing many previous studies on lucid dreaming, researchers have defined it as a state that differs significantly from both REM sleep and wakefulness. The awareness of dreaming during a lucid ...

Talk about a dream, kill a conversation. Write about one and risk a more effective soporific than melatonin. Yet, even though cartoonist Roz Chast acknowledges that "Only shrinks are interested, and ...