When Inception hit theatres ... wearing a wedding ring only in dream sequences. In reality, it mysteriously vanishes. This subtle detail — easily missed by the untrained eye — suggests that Cobb’s ...

If you’ve ever felt like you were in a movie and watching a movie at the same time while you were dreaming, you have probably experienced lucid dreaming. But you may not have known that’s what ...

After analyzing many previous studies on lucid dreaming, researchers have defined it as a state that differs significantly from both REM sleep and wakefulness. The awareness of dreaming during a ...

A recent study by Radboud University Medical Center explores the science behind lucid dreaming, where one becomes aware of dreaming and can sometimes control the dream. Researchers examined brain ...

Lucid dreaming is a surreal phenomenon in which people are consciously aware that they are in a dream. Çağatay Demirel, from Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Medical ...

In a groundbreaking study that brings the mind-bending movie Inception to mind ... two-way communication between people, in a lucid dream state! Now that statement, challenges not only our ...

(Wow—so it kind of is like Inception.) If you haven’t experienced a lucid dream before and are curious about having one, there are methods you can try to teach your brain how to do just that ...

This signal, which I had learned to make through practice, was tracked by the electrodes and told the experimenters I was lucid: asleep yet aware I was dreaming. I remembered the task they had ...

Scientists looked into the efficacy of an app that claims to help people lucid dream — and found it was a runaway success. Published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition, this study out ...

Lucid dreams, in which sleepers become aware that they are dreaming, have long fascinated scientists. Today, this awareness is taking on a new dimension, promising an unprecedented interaction between ...

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 ...