Ancient societies revered dreams. Modern science tells us why.
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Depression might be similar to dreaming.
A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.
This is not your average dream interpreter. Nightmares, as explained by a neuroscientist.
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When you wish upon a star, it probably makes a difference who you are.
Thomas Edison was on to something...
How one man's divine dream became a poultry-shaped reality.
Do aliens dream about meeting us, too?
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A technique called targeted memory reactivation could improve common treatments for nightmare disorder.
A team of scientists has warned that marketers seek to advertise in our dreams. Will our sleep be commercialized against our wishes?
Are dreams, hallucinations, and near death experiences all connected?
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From DMT elves, to God, to the figures in our dreams — why are humans so obsessed with the supernatural?
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The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer's suggestive simulation.
Only humans can voluntarily conjure new objects and events in our minds.
We cannot afford to dream about living on other worlds while we continue to destroy ours.
Adopting a healthy scepticism towards inherited ideas means “emptying the container of the Self.”
Scientists want to use dream hacking devices to improve your creativity and memory.
Humans are already so integrated with technology that the dream of transhumanism is a reality. Can we handle what comes next?
Our brains might be flooded with the hallucinogen DMT as we die, leading to vivid dreams.
“Like real dreams, it does not explain, does not complete its sequences," film critic Roger Ebert once wrote about "Mulholland Drive."
Pain makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. What's puzzling is why so many of us choose to seek out painful experiences.
In New Zealand, ambitious Kiwis want to launch a lawn mowing business; in South Africa, it's cooking gas refills. Start-up dreams vary widely.
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy utilizes a non-ordinary state of consciousness to heal.
A University of Oxford professor explains how conscious machines are possible.
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Dreams are weird. According to a new theory, that's what makes them useful.
Hubble's deepest views of space revealed fewer than 10% of the Universe's galaxies. James Webb will change that forever.
For decades people have arranged to freeze their bodies after death, dreaming of resurrection by advanced future medicine. Many met a fate far grislier than death.
Lonely humans will become infatuated with AI-fabricated personas.
Big dreams and big telescopes are back at last, but everything depends on sufficiently funding NASA, the NSF, and the DOE.