But, how do dreams work? Most dreaming occurs during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, a stage of the sleep cycle where brain activity increases, the body becomes temporarily paralyzed, and vivid dreams ...

We tend to think—correctly—that our experiences on any given day can become incorporated into our dreams that night. In the late 19th century, Freud coined the term "day residue" to refer to this ...

Dream worker Louise Rosager wears Interior dress, Alejandra Alonso Rojas scarf, Alexis Bittar earrings and cuff. Two weeks after I lost my sister, she visited me in a dream. Was it her, or was the ...

What do dreams do? Dreams are a way for our brains to process stress and emotionally charged memories. This is one of the most well studied, commonly held theories about dreaming—that our brains ...

That’s a really interesting question, and people have been asking it for thousands of years. But it’s difficult to answer ...

Two weeks after I lost my sister, she visited me in a dream. Was it her, or was the dream a construction of my psyche, made to process this sudden loss? Either way, it shook me to my core. Since ...