Do dreams participate in memory processing? There is good evidence that both REM and NREM forms of sleep participate in various forms of memory processing but what about the mentation that accompanies ...

Dreams are excursions of our central nervous system, unfolding when the body is at rest, but our brains are in thrall to rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. For people with a rare condition, their whole ...

The simulation hypothesis states that we are characters in a computer simulation. Scientists have taken this hypothesis seriously I think because it offers interesting potential explanations for a ...

Both Salvador Dalí and Thomas Edison are said to have used dreams to stoke their creative process. To spark new ideas, the men would let themselves drift off to sleep for just a few moments, and then ...

Some mornings, you wake up and the dream is right there. Clear and vivid. You might still feel the emotion in your chest, and it can take a few minutes to remember where you are and what was real.

You wake up groggy, head heavy, body sluggish — and the obvious culprit seems to be the vivid, relentless dreams you were having all night. It’s an intuitive conclusion, and most people never question ...

What new research on the avian brain and REM sleep in birds might reveal about our own dream lives. By Maria Popova I once dreamed a kiss that hadn’t yet happened. I dreamed the angle at which our ...

Some mornings, you wake up and the dream is right there. Clear and vivid. You might still feel the emotion in your chest, and it can take a few minutes to remember where you are and what was real.