A study from the American Heart Association and Brigham and Women’s Hospital finds that sleep patterns vary by state, with ...

An international consortium of researchers has created the largest-ever database compiling records of brain activity during sleep and dream reports.

Ever noticed how fevers don’t just bring body aches and chills but also strange, vivid dreams? Many describe these “fever ...

A new study reports that dreams featuring supernatural beings or events can influence a person’s feelings of closeness to God ...

When you wake up in the morning, it might feel like your brain just switched on at the ring of an alarm, although you still ...

Neuroscientists probing the boundary between sleep and awareness are finding many types of liminal states, which help explain ...

As you sleep, your mind creates fantastic and bizarre stories, rich with visual details – all without any conscious input ...

Sleep-like slow-wave patterns persist for years in surgically disconnected neural tissue of awake epilepsy patients, ...

Researchers trace how different sleep stages may fine-tune what we remember, trading specifics for more general knowledge.

Busy people sometimes say that they will “sleep when they are dead.” The irony is that sleep deprivation harms your health ...