In a health and wellness culture that reveres sleep, popular but under-researched topics are lucid dreaming and vivid dreaming. But what exactly do those terms mean? And how might they improve our ...

After analyzing many previous studies on lucid dreaming, researchers have defined it as a state that differs significantly from both REM sleep and wakefulness. The awareness of dreaming during a lucid ...

A way into lucid dreaming is to ‘really get obsessed with your dreams’, says Dr Ken Paller.Illustration: Carmen Casado/The Guardian Usually, we don’t have much say in what we dream about. Our brains ...

Lucid dreaming takes regular dreams to a whole new level. Roughly one in two people have reported experiencing lucid dreaming at least once in their life, but only about 1/10 say they've had two or ...

Dreams are often unpredictable - some can get a bit scary and others may be inspired by our desires, random thoughts or fears. The disturbing thing about dreams is that we do not often know it isn’t ...

Dreams can be weird: sex dreams, stress dreams, dreams about your ex who you thought you were totally over. But have you ever had a dream so frustrating, upsetting, or bizarre that you wished you ...

Have you ever had a dream where, suddenly, you thought, “This isn’t real!” and felt fully aware within it? Perhaps you began controlling the dream, soaring over city skylines, revisiting old friends, ...

I routinely control my own dreams. During a recent episode, in my dream laboratory, my experience went like this: I was asleep on a twin mattress in the dark lab room, wrapped in a cozy duvet and a ...