Dreams

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.

Without these genes, there's no REM sleep.

In waking life, such a case of quickly forgetting recent experiences would surely land you in a doctor's office. With dreams, however, forgetting is normal. Why?