The Science Of Dreams

You don’t need a sleep lab to notice it: a few drinks before bed, and suddenly you’re having bad dreams, and they’re more vivid and stranger than ever. Science backs this up. Alcohol alters sleep architecture, that’s the technical term for the stages and cycles your brain moves through at night. Normally, you cycle through […]

Ever woken up from a dream that felt like an entire movie or maybe like you lived months, years, had a kid or another life? Then you realize you’d only been asleep for half an hour? It’s one of the strangest tricks of the subconscious. Dreams have their own sense of time, stretching and folding

It’s strange the way our minds can paint entire universes behind closed eyes… yet for some, that inner movie screen stays completely blank. Aphantasia, if you’ve never heard the term, is the condition where a person can’t visualize mental images. No “mind’s eye.” No picture of a loved one, no mental replay of a sunset,

Sometimes it feels like dreams have a mind of their own, one night you’re flying through moonlight like a superhero, and the next you’re stuck in a hallway that won’t end, chased by… something. Bad dream ensues. So how do you get more of the first kind and less of the second? Can you choose

I’ve heard people swear they read an entire book in a dream once. Front to back. Some even claim they’ve scrolled through text messages or checked their email, crystal clear but when they wake up and try to quote what they read, nothing. The words vanish like mist. Why Reading in Dreams Feels Real (Even

Experiencing a bad dream can be troubling, leaving you anxious and struggling to fall back asleep. Maybe it freaked you out so much that you don’t even want to go back to sleep. We put together a guide that offers practical strategies to help you calm your mind and return to sleep after a bad

If you’re looking for a little sexual healing in your dreams, we’ve put together some techniques that can be helpful to increase the chances of, and guide you to learn how to have a sex dream, at will. If you’re like me, you’re probably thinking (or singing) the Olivia Newton John song: let’s get physical,

We all dream, even if we don’t always remember them, but some dreams are a lot more common than others, popping up more frequently than other themes or dream symbols, and spanning across countries and time. We’ll take a look at the 50 most common dream Is and break down what the most popular dream