Light sleep is the beginning of your sleep cycle and your body's way of winding down. Breathing, heart rate and muscle changes prepare your body for the deeper sleep to come. Light sleep is broken ...

After analyzing many previous studies on lucid dreaming, researchers have defined it as a state that differs significantly ...

A study using electroencephalography found that the extent of memory retention after sleep is associated with time spent in ...

A new study highlights how important uninterrupted sleep is to recovery after a traumatic brain injury, finding that ...

RBD is marked by loss of REM sleep atonia, leading to physical dream enactment. Polysomnography is essential to confirm RBD and rule out other disorders. Idiopathic RBD is a strong predictor of ...

Young jumping spiders dangle by a thread through the night, in a box, in a lab. Every so often, their legs curl and their spinnerets twitch—and the retinas of their eyes, visible through their ...

*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 ...

Imagine awakening to find yourself completely unable to move or speak, perhaps feeling intense pressure on your chest, struggling to breathe, or even seeing strange figures in your bedroom. This ...

Imagine standing in a quiet meadow; the emerald grass blades and yellow flowers sway with a gentle breeze. As a brook murmurs in the distance, everything feels weightless and soft. Then, with a sharp ...