Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lucid dreams occur due to activity in the prefrontal cortex of the brain—the part responsible for self-awareness and reflection.

Sleep is a semiconscious state, but there are neurons firing in the brain even when all seems quiet. Now brain activity during the deepest sleep phase could make it possible for people to communicate ...

Have you ever had a dream that felt so real, you were convinced it was actually happening? Or maybe you’ve had a dream that left you feeling scared, anxious, or unsettled. Whatever your experience ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – In a health and wellness culture that reveres sleep, a popular but under-researched topic is lucid dreaming or vivid dreaming. But what exactly do those terms mean? And how might they ...

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 ...

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 ...

A visiting research fellow at the University of Adelaide, Aspy (who recently changed his surname to Adventure-Heart) was set to focus his Ph.D. program on nonverbal communication until he had a lucid ...

In his sci-fi film Inception (2010), Christophe Nolan imagined his protagonist slipping into other people’s dreams and even shaping their contents. But what if this story wasn’t so far away from real ...

What are sleep paralysis demons? Sleep paralysis demons are nightmarish hallucinations that often accompany episodes of sleep paralysis. This occurs when the temporary paralysis, which is a normal ...