In the depths of night, as consciousness fades and dreams take hold, some individuals possess a remarkable ability: they can recognize they’re dreaming and even direct the narrative of their nocturnal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Humans have done everything from splitting the atom and photographing a black hole, yet our understanding of why we dream remains something of a mystery. Perhaps one of the most perplexing dreaming ...

A lucid dream is when you know you are dreaming and can sometimes control the dream. Writing in a dream diary can help you have more lucid dreams by making you more aware of your dreams. Reality ...

I routinely control my own dreams. During a recent episode, in my dream laboratory, my experience went like this: I was asleep on a twin mattress in the dark lab room, wrapped in a cozy duvet and a ...

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 ...