Light sleep is the beginning of your sleep cycle and your body's way of winding down. Breathing, heart rate and muscle changes prepare your body for the deeper sleep to come. Light sleep is broken ...

Like a drowsy crystal ball, AI can now use sleep to predict your medical future In A Nutshell Stanford researchers trained an ...

RBD is marked by loss of REM sleep atonia, leading to physical dream enactment. Polysomnography is essential to confirm RBD and rule out other disorders. Idiopathic RBD is a strong predictor of ...

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

Discover LucidMe Pro, a smart AI-powered sleep mask that tracks brain-wave signals in real-time to understand dreams as they ...

*This week is Brain Awareness Week. Every day this week, prominent researchers from the International Association for the Study of Dreams are reviewing their work on ...

Physical activity is one of the most beneficial things you can do for your mental and cognitive health at any age. And ...

Imagine awakening to find yourself completely unable to move or speak, perhaps feeling intense pressure on your chest, struggling to breathe, or even seeing strange figures in your bedroom. This ...

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 ...

Young jumping spiders dangle by a thread through the night, in a box, in a lab. Every so often, their legs curl and their spinnerets twitch—and the retinas of their eyes, visible through their ...

You wake up to your partner telling you that you had an entire conversation with someone named Bob last night, or your roommate mentions you were giving what sounded like a presentation in your sleep.