Our brains try to convince us that dreams are real, often incorporating our doubts into the dream's narrative. Why does this ...

While dreaming is a common occurrence, they can be unnerving and sometimes very scary. They feel real but are most often ...

Dreams can be weird: sex dreams, stress dreams, dreams about your ex who you thought you were totally over. But have you ever had a dream so frustrating, upsetting, or bizarre that you wished you ...

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 ...

Lucid dreaming fascinates hackers. Every few years for over a decade now, we’ve seen a serious project dedicated to studying or taking advantage of this phenomenon, and the interest in this ...

In other lucid dreaming studies, sleepers have signaled lucidity with eye movements, allowing researchers to distinguish brain activity during these episodes. But to learn the content of these dreams, ...

Of the four people in the study, two showed surges during cardiac arrest of gamma waves, the fastest oscillations in the brain, which are associated with consciousness and lucid dreams.

I nodded along, not wanting to seem crazy, and missed my chance at becoming lucid in this dream. The Brain’s Resistance When you question reality in a dream, your brain will come up with various ...