Comparison of dreams with waking consciousness has traditionally focused on claims that the dreaming mind maintains only a simple awareness of perception and emotion, but lacks the self-reflective ...

A new study suggests that people who are experienced meditators have dreams that differ in at least two interesting ways from non-meditators. The study was conducted by Elizaveta Solomonova, Tore ...

When I was 18, I had a dream one night that really stuck out to me. I was walking around on the surface of Mars — or at least some sort of planet caked in red rocks and dust. I wasn’t wearing an ...

Lucid dreaming changed Dr. Denholm Aspy’s life. A visiting research fellow at the University of Adelaide, Aspy (who recently changed his surname to Adventure-Heart) was set to focus his Ph.D. program ...

In simple terms, lucid dreaming can feel like a "virtual reality" experience, Alex Dimitriu, MD, a double board-certified physician in psychiatry and sleep medicine and founder of Menlo Park ...

Lucid dreaming has all manner of benefits, from honing your skills to defeating PTSD - if you can learn to control it ...

From therapy to running and conversing with strangers, we asked experts what the basics are of starting anything new ...

Lucid dreaming happens when you’re aware that you’re dreaming. You’re able to recognize your thoughts and emotions as the dream happens. Sometimes, you can control the lucid dream. You may be able to ...

If you want to try lucid dreaming, some strategies, including performing reality checks, can help train your mind to recognize its own consciousness. Lucid dreaming is when you’re conscious during a ...

Instead, the world behind my eyelids has recently been a distressing place to wander. I don't have nightmares, exactly, but my vivid dreams are decidedly bad. I dream that I desperately need to ...