For centuries, humans have marveled at the strange theater of their nightly visions. We wake with fragments of impossible ...

Subscribe in BBC Sounds to be notified when new episodes are released.

Lucid dreaming has all manner of benefits, from honing your skills to defeating PTSD - if you can learn to control it ...

Dreams can be weird: sex dreams, stress dreams, dreams about your ex who you thought you were totally over. But have you ever had a dream so frustrating, upsetting, or bizarre that you wished you ...

For millennia, people have been fascinated by dreams. “What a weird and wondrous experience it is that we get thrown into these virtual worlds where we meet people, we interact with them, where we can ...

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

A growing body of research suggests that some dreams might indicate the existence of physiologic changes before conventional ...

Ever wake up and wonder why on earth you were flying or why your childhood pet was giving you life advice? We've all been ...

In a recent thoughtful review of the potential relationships between sleep fragmentation and the clinical phenomenon of ‘dissociation,’ van der Kloet and colleagues (Dalena van der Kloet, Harald ...

Millions of Americans rely on medication to manage hypertension, but what happens when those pills meant to protect your heart start interfering with your rest? Understanding how blood pressure meds ...

REM stands for Rapid Eye Movement and it’s seen as the deepest stage of the sleep cycle. As the name states, REM sleep is ...