You’re backpacking—perhaps camped at high elevation—and you just had another absolutely bonkers dream. Many of us experience ...

Lucid dreaming has all manner of benefits, from honing your skills to defeating PTSD - if you can learn to control it ...

Ian Sample puts listeners’ questions on dreams and nightmares to Dr Michelle Carr, director of the Dream Engineering Laboratory in Montreal’s Centre for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine, and author ...

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 ...

For millennia, people have been fascinated by dreams. “What a weird and wondrous experience it is that we get thrown into these virtual worlds where we meet people, we interact with them, where we can ...

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Marijuana affects dreams. Stoners say they don't have dreams but if they stop smoking for a few days, they are flooded with dreams. Is there any psychological research supporting this? Sleep and ...

In a recent thoughtful review of the potential relationships between sleep fragmentation and the clinical phenomenon of ‘dissociation,’ van der Kloet and colleagues (Dalena van der Kloet, Harald ...

The genre of science fiction has a lot to say about sleep. Here are 11 great stories, from TV, film and books.