When we are asleep our brain does not switch off. It keeps working, but not as hard.
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The Ixil people of Guatemala dream of the places where their dead, massacred during the country’s armed conflict might be located.
Sleep paralysis and exploding head syndrome can help explain things that go bump in the night.
The most interesting part of our body that changes during sleep is our brain.
Niamh, age 7, wants to know why we have scary dreams. But after 200 years of study, dreams are still very much a mystery.
People have long been fascinated with sleepwalkers. Is it dangerous?
Researchers are trying to train synaesthesia-like associations in people who don’t have the condition.
… and more meaningful.
Lucid dreaming is showing some promise in treating nightmares. Could it help treat some mental illnesses, too?
It seems we do dream of the things we try to suppress.
Sleep is often overlooked as a treatment for brain injury, but new research could be about to change that.
About half of us will experience at least one lucid dream in our lives, where we are aware and may be able to take control of it. What can this tell us about consciousness?
It’s been 60 years since first TV ad aired in the UK. What could the next 60 bring?
Brain activity during the dreaming phase of sleep is remarkably similar to brain activity when we’re awake and processing new visual images, new research shows.
When you sleep your brain consolidates memory and encodes experiences. A recent study sought to show how this was happening.
You may have read last week that a team of researchers has developed, for the first time, a way to detect the contents of people’s dreams. But what can we glean from this research? During the same week…
For most of human history, dreaming has been seen as a second “reality” in which altered forms of perception provide insights into ourselves and others, our fears, fantasies and motivations or even the…
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