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As the weather turns to fall, the chill in the air and the shortening of days makes people more inclined to be indoors and to sleep. And it is when in deep REM sleep that scientists say that people have dreams.
Why do we twitch as we fall asleep? Why is yawning contagious? Why do we see bright spots when we close our eyes? These three sleep related mysteries are revealed.
Want to avoid the chance of waking up in a cold sweat following a stomach-churning nightmare? Then sleep on your right-hand side, according to new research.
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According to new research, rats dream about places that they want to go next. This is a theory from neuroscientists following some classic maze and hidden food experiments.
A team of researchers in Denmark has compared the dreams of sighted and blind individuals. Their findings show that the blind have four times as many nightmares as sighted individuals, and they are more sensory than visual.
Montreal -
The University of Montreal has analyzed nightmares in both sexes and discovered more emotional themes, such as interpersonal conflicts in women and more disasters and calamities in men's nightmares.
Does sleep help the body to wash away toxins and other unwanted chemicals? New research suggests that sleep clears out interstitial clutter in the mouse brain.
Japan scientists say that specific visual experience during sleep is represented by brain activity patterns shared by stimulus perception, providing a means to uncover subjective contents of dreaming using objective neural measurement.
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Poor Tinkerbell was left heartbroken after she was refused entry into Animal Kingdom and told to get changed into clothes that Disney World gave her.
According to a new study women suffer more from nightmares than men because they find it harder to switch off their emotions when the day is drawing to a close.
The exit door is open and more than previously reported, California residents are rushing through it looking for greener pastures that haven’t turned as brown as the state’s golden luster is tarnishing.
Seriously. People are dreaming of Sarah Palin. The writers of Slate have shared some of those nighttime fantasies and are encouraging their readers to share their own dreams of Palin.
Martin Luther King died 40 years ago today promoting a dream of equality and prosperity for all of America. Can Americans say today that his dream has been fulfilled?
Researchers have created a robot that mimics your dream and presents an interpretive dance of those dreams. It is able to represent the physical movements of the human and tries to repeat that behavior.
You've just laid down after a hard day exhausted when you hear the screaming. Your child is having another nightmare. Or is he? The problem could be a night terror and they are different than the standard nightmare.
The world's first female astronaut Valentina Tereshkova, marking her 70th birthday on Tuesday, says she still dreams of flying to Mars -- even on a one-way ticket.
MANNHEIM (dpa) - Why it is that we dream still remains one of the great mysteries. But in answer to the question of how we dream, scientific researchers have come up with some important answers.
Contributing a lot to this knowledge has been observat...
ROME (dpa) - For most people, the interpretation of dreams is better left to psychiatrists. For some Italians deconstructing Morpheus, one of the sons of the god of sleep, could turn you into a millionaire.
Like their Freudian counterparts, these dr...
