But, how do dreams work? Most dreaming occurs during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, a stage of the sleep cycle where brain activity increases, the body becomes temporarily paralyzed, and vivid dreams ...

Dream worker Louise Rosager wears Interior dress, Alejandra Alonso Rojas scarf, Alexis Bittar earrings and cuff. Two weeks after I lost my sister, she visited me in a dream. Was it her, or was the ...

Dreams were once thought to be messages from the gods or omens of the future; we now understand that they are neither. In 1900, Sigmund Freud believed that the contents of dreams cannot be taken in ...

That’s a really interesting question, and people have been asking it for thousands of years. But it’s difficult to answer because dreams are difficult to study scientifically. Think about it: how easy ...

We spend a large portion of our lives sleeping. That might seem like an evolutionary disadvantage, given sleep leaves us immobile and potentially vulnerable to attacks for hours on end — but evidence ...

In the late nineteen-nineties, a neuroscientist named Mark Blumberg stood in a lab at the University of Iowa watching a litter of sleeping rats. Blumberg was then on the cusp of forty; the rats were ...

Two weeks after I lost my sister, she visited me in a dream. Was it her, or was the dream a construction of my psyche, made to process this sudden loss? Either way, it shook me to my core. Since ...