Patients in a minimally conscious state remain capable of dreaming during...
The question of sleep in patients with seriously altered states of consciousness has rarely been studied. Do vegetative' patients (now also called patients in a state of unresponsive wakefulness) or...
View ArticleBrain imaging study: A step toward true 'dream reading'
When people dream that they are performing a particular action, a portion of the brain involved in the planning and execution of movement lights up with activity. The finding, made by scanning the...
View ArticleDouble duty
When Collin Stultz was 4 years old, his Jamaican parents moved their family to Brooklyn, N.Y., in search of a better life. The Stultzes wanted their children to achieve the American dream which, to...
View ArticleMass participation dream experiment launches
Is it possible to influence people as they sleep and give them their perfect dream? Today sees the launch of a new study that uses a specially designed iPhone app in an attempt to improve the dreams of...
View ArticleFantasizing about your dream vacation could lead to poor decision-making
Summer vacation time is upon us. If you have been saving up for your dream vacation for years, you may want to make sure your dream spot is still the best place to go. A new study has found that when...
View ArticleResearchers devise a way to manipulate a rat's dreams
(Medical Xpress)—Cognitive scientists working at MIT have devised a means for not only altering the dreams of rats, but of demonstrating a way of testing what they've achieved, offering evidence that...
View ArticleTaking terror out of nightmares: Tips for parents
(HealthDay)—Nightmares are common in children and upsetting for both youngsters and parents, but there are some things you can do to manage and prevent them, an expert says.
View ArticleDream symbols could help in psychotherapy
(Medical Xpress)—Dream images could provide insights into people's mental health problems and may help with their treatment, according to a psychology researcher from the University of Adelaide.
View ArticleStudy shows differences in brain waves between people who recall dreams and...
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at Lyon Neuroscience Research Center and University Lyon in France, have found that people who regularly recall their dreams have different alpha brain wave patterns than...
View ArticleDreaming is still possible even when the mind is blank
Isabelle Arnulf and colleagues from the Sleep Disorders Unit at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) have outlined case studies of patients with Auto-Activation Deficit who reported dreams when...
View ArticleDreams: Full of meaning or a reflex of the brain?
It's a question that has long fascinated and flummoxed those who study human behavior: From whence comes the impulse to dream? Are dreams generated from the brain's "top" - the high-flying cortical...
View ArticleCobweb or cotton candy? Headband aims to control dreams
(Medical Xpress)—A dream can be explained as a story that happens while we sleep. Some have dreaded dreams at one time or another of climbing a stairwell that never ends or meeting up with a monster or...
View ArticleNew study analyzes content of nightmares and bad dreams
According to a new study by researchers at the University of Montreal, nightmares have greater emotional impact than bad dreams do, and fear is not always a factor. In fact, it is mostly absent in bad...
View ArticleWhy does the brain remember dreams?
Some people recall a dream every morning, whereas others rarely recall one. A team led by Perrine Ruby, an Inserm Research Fellow at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, has studied the brain...
View ArticleMass participation experiment reveals how to create the perfect dream
Today psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman from the University of Hertfordshire announces the results of a two-year study into dream control. The experiment shows that it is now possible for people...
View ArticleElectrical stimulation of brain alters dreams, study finds
Scientists on Sunday said they had used a harmless electrical current to modify sleep so that an individual has "lucid dreams," a particularly powerful form of dreaming.
View ArticleAwake within a dream: Lucid dreamers show greater insight in waking life
(Medical Xpress)—People who are aware they are asleep when they are dreaming have better than average problem-solving abilities, new research has discovered.
View ArticleCan we train ourselves to control our dreams?
A new national study at the University of Adelaide is investigating how people can mentally prepare themselves to influence their dreams.
View ArticleLucid dreams and metacognition: Awareness of thinking—awareness of dreaming
To control one's dreams and to live out there what is impossible in real life - a truly tempting idea. Some persons - so-called lucid dreamers -can do this. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute...
View ArticleOvernight experiment creates social brain lab, yields new insights about...
Neuroscientists in Toronto have shown that crowdsourcing brain data with hundreds of adults in a short period of time could be a new frontier in neuroscience and lead to new insights about the brain.
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