Following deep sleep, REM sleep is the next critical phase of sleep cycles, characterized by more dreaming that’s also extra ...

Dating back to Freud in the early 20th century, sleep scientists have speculated that these dreams are our minds' way of assessing and sorting through our daily memories. But how exactly our minds ...

Dreams are still just very mysterious. The fact that we haven’t gotten a scientific consensus on why consciousness doesn’t require physical presence in the world – that you can be sleeping ...

They did so by devising a way to tell when sleep study participants had these intense dreams. Before they fell asleep, the participants were asked to move their eyes in a certain pattern ...

Everybody needs an average of about 1½ dreaming hours, usually spread over six or seven dreams during a night’s sleep. These findings were reported to the American Psychiatric Association at a ...

Your pre-sleep phone habit isn’t just keeping you up later—it’s actually reprogramming your dreams in ways science is just beginning to understand. We all know the basic problem with bedtime ...