Bad Dreams Are Good

Your night life prepares you for what’s to come.

 Dreams Can Help People Deal With Grief and Breakups

During painful transitions such as breakups, divorce, and the loss of loved ones, dreams can become so vivid that even the biggest skeptics take notice of their nocturnal visions.

 I’m a lucid dream researcher – here’s how to train your brain to do it

Various techniques have been developed and tested to induce lucid dreams in recent years, but as yet none are reliably and consistently successful across individuals. That’s not to say that they won’t work on you though – while research in this area is in its infancy, some techniques already hold real promise. Here are the techniques with the most potential, most of which you can try at home.

14 Common Dreams and Symbols and Why They’re Important

“There’s no single, definitive meaning for symbols and images in dreams,” Bergmann notes. “But just as a smile usually means that someone is happy, these dream images are so common, that they do have a generally accepted meaning.”

Does Spicy Food Cause Bad Dreams?

One expert explains how a pad thai dinner might seem to bring on nightmares but the meal size is most important, Heidi Mitchell writes...

Dreamsphere App Will Analyze Your Dreams So Your Friends Don't Have To

Have you ever woken up from a crazy dream and immediately texted your friend to get help deciphering it? I do it probably like once every other week, and I’m pretty sure even my best buds are getting a little sick of debating why that one particular person from my high school suddenly made a cameo, despite that I haven’t seen her in years. Well, lucky for them, there’s now a new app that can do that for me.

New Clues for How to Remember Dreams

A new study suggests that there are distinct differences in brain function between people who remember their dreams and those who don't.

Was Freud right about dreams after all? Here’s the research that helps explain it

However over the past decade or so, a new series of experiments have begun to demonstrate that at least one part of Freud’s theory might have been correct after all: that we dream of things we are trying our best to ignore.

What People Around the World Dream About

I have found that, across cultures, dreams often entail a return to mysticism or the divine, and allow people to engage in magical thinking without stigma. But I’ve noticed population-specific trends as well. Violent nightmares are common in the gang-ridden border towns of Mexico and the war zone of eastern Ukraine. Scenes of nuclear war still haunt the “duck-and-cover” generation in both the East and the West. Blessings by gods and goddesses are frequently reported in heavily religious India, whereas in more secular Western populations, those same functions are often performed by celebrities.

Where Do Dreams Come From?

Dreamland might not require so much imagination after all.