On average, you have between one to six dreams a night, the strongest occurring during REM sleep. Nobody remembers all the dreams they have, but if you've ever woken from a particularly unsettling ...

By the late 1970s and 1980s, researchers confirmed lucid dreaming was real. They did so by devising a way to tell when sleep study participants had these intense dreams. Before they fell asleep ...

and any effect that lucid dreams have on your sleep comes with its pros and cons. There are many benefits to lucid dreaming, but it’s hard to know where to start. Ahead, our experts explain what ...

Everybody knows that he needs sleep, up to about eight hours a night, but not until last week did hardheaded medical scientists report that dreaming is even more essential to health than sleeping.

However, theories continue to abound about exactly what they could mean and the exact reasons why we dream when we sleep. Until scientists can figure out exactly why humans have them, we’re ...

“I think it makes a lot of sense to do what you can to make dreaming a more pleasurable experience,” says Audrey Wells, MD, a sleep medicine physician and CPAP expert. Meet the ...