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 ...

For millennia, people have been fascinated by dreams. “What a weird and wondrous experience it is that we get thrown into these virtual worlds where we meet people, we interact with them, where we can ...

There is a general consensus that sleep is important for learning. It is thought that memory traces are reactivated in the brain and then actively strengthened during sleep. Several researchers have ...

Dreams of flying? Nightmares of teeth falling out? Falling off a cliff? As a sleep scientist at the University of Montreal, Michelle Carr has pretty much heard it all. She even says the content of ...

A growing body of research suggests that some dreams might indicate the existence of physiologic changes before conventional ...

In a recent blog I discussed how bursts of brain activity during NREM sleep correspond with whether or not people recall dreams (see here). A recent paper published in Social, Cognitive and Affective ...

Perimenopause is a significant transitional phase in a woman’s life, marked by fluctuating hormones and various physical and emotional changes. One often overlooked symptom that can disrupt sleep and ...

Discover the fascinating reasons behind hypnic jerks and the sensation of dreaming about falling while you sleep, explained ...