The Zen teacher Chuang Tzu dreamed he was a butterfly. When he woke, he wondered, "Am I a man who dreamt about being a butterfly ? Or am I really a butterfly who now dreams about being a man?" This ...

Trapped Between Dreams and Reality: The Science Behind Sleep Paralysis: By Ambika Mondal Key InsightsSleep paralysis isn’t rare, dramatic, or mystical. It’s a real experience that sits at the ...

Over the years, fans have frequently pointed out the connection between Satoshi Kon’s 2006 anime ‘Paprika‘ and Christopher Nolan’s 2010 blockbuster ‘Inception.’ At first glance, these two films could ...

Some mornings, you wake up and the dream is right there. Clear and vivid. You might still feel the emotion in your chest, and it can take a few minutes to remember where you are and what was real.

While some people struggle to try to remember vague details of their dream from the night before, others are attempting to lucid dream. This form of dreaming is admittedly rare, but it involves being ...

Screening in competition at the 37th edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival, Yoshida Daihachi’s “Teki Cometh” is based on a 1998 novel by Tsutsui Yasutaka about a retired professor, Watanabe ...

Citizens of this world—and of the New Jerusalem. In the 1930s, the precocious Jewish New York intellectual Delmore Schwartz wrote a story called "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities," the title of which ...

This summer's mega-hit movie Inception, is a welcome, albeit excessively frenetic, confusing, manic meditation on the elusive nature of reality. While its premise is ostensibly about the main ...