Latest about Dreams
Do your dreams change as you age?
A young child's dreams and an elderly hospice patient's dreams can be very different. What has research found about how our dreams change over time?
Do people dream in color or black and white?
Whether we report having dreams in color or in black and white may be influenced by the media we watch, or perhaps that simply influences the way we remember them.
Can you dream during non-REM sleep?
People report vivid dreams during rapid-eye-movement sleep. But is this sleep stage really the only time we dream?
Why are recurring dreams usually nightmares?
Recurring dreams may feature taking a test the dreamer didn’t study for, having to make a speech or being attacked. Here's why our sleeping brain comes back to these unpleasant dreams again and again
Do blind people 'see' images in their dreams?
For people who have been blind since birth, brain scans alone can't reveal if they dream in images.
'Alien abduction' stories may come from lucid dreaming, study hints
People have described extraterrestrial encounters that take place in a dreamlike state, and experiments suggest that such experiences may be lucid dreams.
Do octopuses dream of 8-armed sheep? New study hints at human-like sleep cycle in cephalopods
Octopuses switch between "quiet" and "active" sleep, where they turn vivid colors.
Lucid dreamers can hear and answer questions while still asleep, scientists find
Researchers have successfully achieved real-time communication with a sleeping person by invading their dreams in several independent experiments.
