In the depths of night, as consciousness fades and dreams take hold, some individuals possess a remarkable ability: they can recognize they’re dreaming and even direct the narrative of their nocturnal ...

In a health and wellness culture that reveres sleep, popular but under-researched topics are lucid dreaming and vivid dreaming. But what exactly do those terms mean? And how might they improve our ...

Dreaming while being aware that you're dreaming: this is what lucid dreamers experience. This phenomenon, at the border between sleep and wakefulness, is fascinating more and more people around the ...

A way into lucid dreaming is to ‘really get obsessed with your dreams’, says Dr Ken Paller.Illustration: Carmen Casado/The Guardian Usually, we don’t have much say in what we dream about. Our brains ...

Dreams can be weird: sex dreams, stress dreams, dreams about your ex who you thought you were totally over. But have you ever had a dream so frustrating, upsetting, or bizarre that you wished you ...

Lucid dreaming takes regular dreams to a whole new level. Roughly one in two people have reported experiencing lucid dreaming at least once in their life, but only about 1/10 say they've had two or ...

Humans have done everything from splitting the atom and photographing a black hole, yet our understanding of why we dream remains something of a mystery. Perhaps one of the most perplexing dreaming ...

Lucid dreaming, when one becomes aware of the fact they are dreaming while still asleep, is a sought-after experience because the dreamer can choose what they would like to experience and attempt to ...

Have you ever known you're dreaming while you're asleep? Our guests try practices to help induce lucid dreams, and we hear what they can teach us about consciousness. Scroll down for transcript.

If you want to have a dream where you know you’re dreaming, you might be in luck. A phone app seems to boost users’ odds of having lucid dreams. Before bed, the app has users listen to a specific ...