Dreams

Recurring dreams may feature taking a test the dreamer didn’t study for, having to make a speech or being attacked. Here's why our sleeping brain comes back to these unpleasant dreams again and again

For people who have been blind since birth, brain scans alone can't reveal if they dream in images.

People have described extraterrestrial encounters that take place in a dreamlike state, and experiments suggest that such experiences may be lucid dreams.

Octopuses switch between "quiet" and "active" sleep, where they turn vivid colors.

Researchers have successfully achieved real-time communication with a sleeping person by invading their dreams in several independent experiments.

Researchers at MIT have developed a new method called targeted dream incubation (TDI) for planting suggestions that can shape a sleeper's dreams.

They’re not a cache of Easter eggs.

Although the exact cause of these experiences remains a mystery, the authors say the phenomenon may be tied to certain sleep abnormalities.

How were your dreams last night?

A new, limited-time-only burger at Burger King has a peculiar selling point: It's supposed to give you nightmares.