Dreams keep our brains ticking over. They wash the thoughts from the day’s events at a molecular level. They might even help us imagine what’s possible during our waking hours.
Articles on Dreams
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Wakefulness drugs like Modafinil point to a new frontier of technosleep driven by personal goals rather than medical need.
REM sleep behavior disorder is characterized by acting out dreams, which may include shouting, kicking and punching during sleep.
By learning what parts of the brain are crucial for imagination to work, neuroscientists can look back over hundreds of millions of years of evolution to figure out when it first emerged.
Why your eyes move during the REM stage of sleep has puzzled scientists for years. Researchers measured mice brains to look for a possible explanation.
Gaiman’s dream goes by many names, each inspired by different ideas of what dreams and nightmares have been to people throughout history.
Your background and life experiences seep into the mind’s eye, quietly shaping whether you believe your dreams can come true.
Dreams help us regulate our emotions and adapt to stressful events. Repetitive content may represent an unsuccessful attempt to integrate difficult experiences.
A curious kid asks: what do blind people experience in their dreams?
A hospice doctor spent 10 years studying the end-of-life experiences of over 1,400 terminally ill patients.
The level of anger and sadness in our dreams may be related to how much we suffer mentally with social isolation.
Spontaneous thought, or mind wandering, occupies up to 50% of our time awake. In a time of COVID, the unruliness and unboundedness of our minds might be a great escape.
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Why is the coronavirus affecting my sleep and dreams?
Dreams that are more vivid, more frequent and more striking… Lockdown seems to trouble our nights as well as our days, and there’s reason to believe that’s not just a figment of our imagination.
Listening to other people’s dreams can help to improve your empathy levels.
At times of anxiety and trauma an increase in unusual or vivid dreams and nightmares is not surprising.
During times of stress and anxiety we either dream more or remember our dreams more often, as a way of coping with challenging circumstances and new information.
A period of intense dreaming in 1964 shaped the entire body of the late Joseph Shabalala’s songs. In these rare in-depth interviews, he spoke of his beliefs and inspirations.
Fish may not have eyelids to close, but they sleep – and perhaps even dream.
Research on lucid dreams is still in its infancy, but some induction techniques already hold real promise - and most can be tried in the comfort of your own bedroom.
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Director, Appleton Institute, CQUniversity Australia
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Université de Montréal
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Professor of Psychiatry, Université de Montréal
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Sleep Researcher, Appleton Institute, HealthWise Research Group, CQUniversity Australia
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of East London
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Associate Professor at Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University
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Lecturer in Psychology, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Psychology, Swansea University
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Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology, University of Surrey
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Director, Care Collaborate Connect, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Course Director, Psychology of Advertising Masters Programme, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, RMIT, RMIT University
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Professor of Cognition, Lancaster University
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Royal Holloway, University of London
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Associate lecturer, University of Sussex