Sleep

Researchers have successfully achieved real-time communication with a sleeping person by invading their dreams in several independent experiments.

Here is the science behind 13 Halloween horrors come to life.

Researchers at MIT have developed a new method called targeted dream incubation (TDI) for planting suggestions that can shape a sleeper's dreams.

The main function of sleep may change as our brains do.

No one knows how consciousness works in the brain, but a team of neuroscientists seems to have found an engine that keeps it going.

A new video shows the rhythmic sloshing of cerebrospinal fluid in the human brain during sleep.

Although the exact cause of these experiences remains a mystery, the authors say the phenomenon may be tied to certain sleep abnormalities.

If you're not a morning person or a night person, but more like a midday person, don't feel left out.

Sleep learning, the way people commonly think of it, is almost certainly impossible. But researchers are discovering types of learning that occur during sleep, with exciting applications.

Scientists have yet to find a truly sleepless creature. But is sleep really necessary for survival?

A new study may have uncovered why a poor night's sleep is bad for your heart and blood vessels.

There's a new way of looking at insomnia.

This bad habit could raise your risk of serious eye infections and even lead to vision loss.

How did people wake up before the invention of modern alarm clocks?

A new, limited-time-only burger at Burger King has a peculiar selling point: It's supposed to give you nightmares.

Without these genes, there's no REM sleep.

Skimping on just one night's sleep may lead to changes that could promote weight gain and muscle loss.

Doctors have a very good reason for this recommendation.