New research examines dream recall and potential links to daydreaming, mental health issues, and even brain alterations that ...

For years, researchers have examined the role of dreams in bereavement, as well as so-called “continuing bonds”—the ways in which people maintain a connection with lost loved ones.

Many studies have looked into the importance of dreams for our health and well-being. In one study, researchers woke people just as they were going into REM sleep. They found that those who weren ...

Vivid dreams happen most often during the rapid eye movement (REM) sleep stage, when the brain is particularly active. Some people, especially women, said they were able to recall their dreams ...

Interest in dreams, and our memories of them, rose during the Covid pandemic, when, according to a large multinational study, some people, particularly women, said they were able to recall their ...

Lucid dreams are when you know you’re dreaming while you’re asleep. Studies suggest that about 50% of all people have had at least one lucid dream. About 20% of lucid dreamers have them monthly.

To what end? That awareness may allow one to influence the dream itself, and the possibilities of that are obvious and compelling enough that plenty of clever and curious people have formed some ...

Is it true that some people dream in color and others in black and white? It was once believed that most people dreamed mostly in black and white, and color dreaming was thought to be associated ...

“Reports of nightmares and erotic dreams are nearly universal,” Jandial says, while people rarely report dreaming about math. Jandial says the lack of math makes sense because the part of your ...

Does this mean that blind people can dream in visual images? In some cases, they can. A 2014 study found that people who were not born blind but had lost their vision later in life sometimes ...

It was once believed that most people dreamed mostly in black and white, and color dreaming was thought to be associated with psychological issues. Science has since dispelled those myths.