People who spend more of their night in rapid-eye-movement sleep report more intense, story-like dreams, and two federal ...

For centuries, people have wondered what separates being awake from being asleep, dreaming, or unconscious. Scientists have ...

All the most commonly prescribed drugs for mental and emotional disorders affect dreams—typically via their effects on REM sleep. Under healthy conditions REM sleep ‘turns on' when activity levels of ...

You did it! You finally won the lottery, and you're making plans to spend all that cash ... but then you're startled awake by your alarm clock. It was just a dream (sigh). Whether or not you remember ...

In his wildest dreams, HHMI Investigator Massimo Scanziani never imagined he'd study sleep. But, when a postdoc in the lab suggested studying eye movements in sleeping animals, Scanziani's curiosity ...

Sleep strips away consciousness, but it does not shut the brain down. PET imaging of 37 volunteers has shown that regional ...

If we are ever to really understand dreams we are going to have put them in evolutionary context. But dreams are mental phenomena and not a directly observable physical trait. So how can we study the ...

REM stands for rapid eye movement — a stage in the sleep cycle when your brain is almost as active as when you're awake. Getting enough REM sleep is crucial, as it helps you store information and ...

Nearly one-third of our life is spent asleep. It is a highly active and organized process that is essential for both physical ...

Sound machines may not be the sleep saviors many believe. Researchers found that pink noise significantly reduced REM sleep, while simple earplugs did a better job protecting deep, restorative sleep ...