Research shows power of dream fulfilment for children with life-limiting illness
Fulfilling the dreams of children with life-limiting illnesses can empower them and their families and could have an enduring positive impact, according to new University of Stirling research.
View ArticleArt and science unite in unique study of neurofeedback
In 2013, art and science merged like never before at Toronto's Nuit Blanche art festival when guests were given the opportunity to participate in an scientific experiment investigating neurofeedback....
View ArticleCan vitamin B supercharge your dreams?
A University of Adelaide researcher is calling for participants to assist in a new national study investigating whether vitamin B can enhance dreaming.
View ArticleThe ability to control dreams may help us unravel the mystery of consciousness
We spend around six years of our lives dreaming – that's 2,190 days or 52,560 hours. Although we can be aware of the perceptions and emotions we experience in our dreams, we are not conscious in the...
View ArticleWas Freud right about dreams after all? Here's the research that helps...
It is the most well known – and perhaps infamous – theory of dreams in the Western world. At the turn of last century, Sigmund Freud published his book, The Interpretation of Dreams, arguing that our...
View ArticleCould we one day heal the mind by taking control of our dreams?
About 50 per cent of us will at some point in our lives experience "waking up" and being conscious while still in a dream – possibly, we may even be able to act with intention in it. Such "lucid...
View ArticleConsuming violent media linked to 13x surge in violent dreams
The violent and sexual media you consume during the day may infiltrate your dreams at night, new research suggests.
View ArticleExpert says economic stress played role in increasing U.S. death rate
Greater stress and anxiety resulting from economic insecurity may be at least partly to blame for the U.S. death rate that the government announced Dec. 8 has increased for the first time in a decade,...
View ArticleNew research suggests we also dream during non-REM sleep cycles
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers with members from institutions in the U.S., Italy and Switzerland has found evidence that suggests people have dreams during both REM and non-REM sleep cycles. In...
View ArticleRecording bad dreams in rats
A trio of researchers working at New York University Neuroscience Institute has recorded what appear to be bad dreams in the brains of rats as they sleep. In their paper published in the journal Nature...
View ArticleAn epidemic of dream deprivation: Review finds unrecognized health hazard of...
A silent epidemic of dream loss is at the root of many of the health concerns attributed to sleep loss, according to Rubin Naiman, PhD, a sleep and dream specialist at the University of Arizona Center...
View ArticleNew neurocognitive theory of dreaming links dreams to mind-wandering
Dream expert G. William Domhoff, a distinguished professor emeritus and a research professor of psychology at UC Santa Cruz, has spent decades chasing the riddle of dreams and their meaning.
View ArticleWant to control your dreams? Here's how
New research at the University of Adelaide has found that a specific combination of techniques will increase people's chances of having lucid dreams, in which the dreamer is aware they're dreaming...
View ArticleRecurring nightmares could reflect your daily frustrations
People who are frustrated because their basic psychological needs for autonomy, relatedness and feeling competent are not met are more likely to have a recurring bad dream and to analyze their dreams...
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