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. Now, with ...

A 2023 study found a strong link between the content of dreams and the consolidation of newly formed memories, revealing that your sleeping brain isn't just resting but actively working. While it is ...

The scientific study of dreams has fallen on hard times. In an era dominated by cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychoactive drugs, and computer models of the mind, dreaming seems less relevant to ...

A new study by neuroscientists at Northwestern University validates the possibility of influencing dreams and offers a crucial step to support the theory that dreams in REM sleep — the rapid eye ...

Experiments involving playing music during sleep have revealed a type of dream engineering that doubled subjects' ...

Why we dream is a divisive topic within the scientific community, and the neuroscience field is saturated with hypotheses. Inspired by techniques used to train deep neural networks, a neuroscience ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Dreams have long held a certain mystique, captivating humanity ...