Empirical investigations that search for a link between dreaming and sleep-dependent
memory consolidation have focused on testing for an association between dreaming of what …

Over the past 60 years, the impact of psychotropic drugs on dream recall and content has
been scarcely explored. A review of the few existing experimental results on the topic leads …

First-person reports of major depressive disorder reveal that when an individual becomes
depressed a profound change or 'shift'to one's conscious experience occurs. The depressed …

Therapies focused on lucid dreaming could be useful for treating various sleep disorders
and other conditions. Still, one major roadblock is the paucity of systematic information on …

Lucid dreams—dreams in which the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming—are
generally positive and empowering experiences, for which a variety of benefits have been …

The International Lucid Dream Induction Study (ILDIS) investigated and compared the
effectiveness of five different combinations of lucid dream induction techniques including …

Dreaming is a special topic to investigate with a scientific approach. Its main characteristic is
to be difficult to access and to observe which prevents many experimental approaches from …

Lucid dreaming—the phenomenon of experiencing waking levels of self-reflection within
one's dreams—is associated with more wake-like levels of neural activation in prefrontal …

The boundaries between waking and slee**—when falling asleep (hypnagogic) or
waking up (hypnopompic)—can be challenging for our ability to monitor and interpret reality …

Why do some individuals recall dreams every day while others hardly ever recall one? We
hypothesized that sleep inertia—the transient period following awakening associated with …