Caffeine can make it difficult to fall asleep, but new research suggests it continues to affect your brain long after you’ve ...

Coffee can help you stay awake. But what does caffeine actually do to your brain once you're asleep? Using AI, a team of researchers has an answer: it affects the brain's 'criticality'.

There is something comforting about realising that, even in Homer’s day, people wondered what the hell their dreams meant ...

If you've ever taken these meds to help you sleep, you may find you knock out and sleep hard on the first night that you're ...

Sleep paralysis leaves 20% of people temporarily unable to move while fully conscious, often accompanied by hallucinations.

Using the snooze function on an alarm clock is a common practice, a study has found, even though it isn't recommended by sleep experts.

Lucid dreaming, the phenomenon where dreamers become aware they are dreaming and can influence their dreams, is now recognized as a distinct state of consciousness. Research led by Çağatay Demirel ...

Lucid dreaming—a rare state where the dreamer knows they are dreaming—activates the brain in ways that are distinct from both normal dreaming and wakefulness. A new study published in The Journal of ...

Articles, Films and practical Guides on sleep and dreams, part of Psyche’s coverage of self-knowledge and personal growth.

Using electroencephalograms (EEGs), which measure electrical activity in the brain, researchers have shown that lucid dreaming “constitutes a hybrid state of consciousness” with aspects of ...

By sending precise sound waves into specific brain regions to stimulate neural activity, Prophetic is offering a new tool in the growing category of “consciousness tech.” Welcome to part three of ...