Psychologist Westley Youngren explains why we dream, why nightmares are so important to study, and lucid dreaming is ...

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.

Are you dreaming right now? No? Are you sure? How would you know if you were in a dream? Our waking life feels so convincing that we rarely stop to question it. But dreams often feel equally real ...

*This week is Brain Awareness Week. Every day this week, prominent researchers from the International Association for the Study of Dreams are reviewing their work on ...

I routinely control my own dreams. During a recent episode, in my dream laboratory, my experience went like this: I was asleep on a twin mattress in the dark lab room, wrapped in a cozy duvet and a ...