Dreams and REM sleep have long been associated with creativity. Why is that? Sleep is about a lot more than just restoration.

Hearing a sound while working on a complex puzzle, and then hearing it again during sleep, helped lucid dreamers better ...

Got a problem? Science says you should sleep on it.

Dreams appear to allow the brain to break free creatively in ways the conscious mind can not In A Nutshell Researchers ...

New website offers educational content and tools for exploring dreams and personal dream experiences Dreams are not ...

For many years, the idea that “sleeping on it” would provide an individual with some time in which their subconscious mind would work through a problem or problems has generally been accepted as ...

Ana Fernández-Arcos, ​​42, is a neurologist specializing in sleep medicine and a researcher at the Pasqual Maragall Foundation in Barcelona. She talks to EL PAÍS by phone from her office at 11 a.m. on ...

A 2008 review paper showed that across several studies, when participants sleep in the laboratory, about a third of the time, they dream about the laboratory. The author (Schredl, 2008) suggested this ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – In a health and wellness culture that reveres sleep, a popular but under-researched topic is lucid dreaming or vivid dreaming. But what exactly do those terms mean? And how might they ...

All the most commonly prescribed drugs for mental and emotional disorders affect dreams—typically via their effects on REM sleep. Under healthy conditions REM sleep ‘turns on' when activity levels of ...

Millions of Americans rely on medication to manage hypertension, but what happens when those pills meant to protect your heart start interfering with your rest? Understanding how blood pressure meds ...