Lucid dreaming takes regular dreams to a whole new level. Roughly one in two people have reported experiencing lucid dreaming at least once in their life, but only about 1/10 say they've had two or ...

In a health and wellness culture that reveres sleep, popular but under-researched topics are lucid dreaming and vivid dreaming. But what exactly do those terms mean? And how might they improve our ...

Lucid dreaming (LD) is one of the most fascinating parts of human consciousness, where you realize you are actually dreaming ...

Dreams appear to allow the brain to break free creatively in ways the conscious mind can not In A Nutshell Researchers successfully steered people’s dreams toward specific unsolved puzzles by playing ...

New research from Northwestern University suggests that dreams may play a more active role in creative problem-solving than previously demonstrated.

Lucid dreaming is a surreal phenomenon in which people are consciously aware that they are in a dream. Çağatay Demirel, from Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Medical ...

A lucid dream is one in which the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming. It is often triggered by a sudden recognition of some strange characteristic of a dream. In a lucid dream, one has the ...

Scientists are increasingly convinced that what happens in your dreams does not stay there. A growing body of research ...

A small study hints that you can "trigger" memories of specific puzzles while a person dreams and that the dreamer may be ...

Dreams and REM sleep have long been associated with creativity. Why is that? Sleep is about a lot more than just restoration.

I was sitting in my room when I asked myself, “Am I dreaming right now?” I looked around at my surroundings and immediately noticed a large elephant standing in the middle of my room, hardly fitting ...