It has happened to everyone. That illusory sense of familiarity that arises when we are in a new situation. I'm talking about deja vu, of course. What is the science behind deja vu and its causes? James Lampinen, professor of psychology from the University of Arkansas, explains that déjà vu is…
Science constantly reveals new truths about our most important and mysterious organ, but its functions and possibilities never cease to amaze us. Here are a few facts about the human brain and memory: 1. You cannot tickle yourself. Examining the patient who is afraid of tickling, doctors usually try to…
Here is a short list of techniques that will help you learn to control your dreams. However, don’t expect immediate results because even if you train hard (say, a few times a week), most probably, you will see some success in lucid dreams a few weeks or even months later.…
Everyone has fears and either keeps them private or talks about them openly. Some people get trembles and shaky hands at the fear of public speaking, others are afraid of heights, high speeds, or stuffy confined spaces. Irrational fears are a common thing, but finding a way to overcome phobias…
During sleep, bad memories become less clear, claim U.S. researchers. A group of researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago developed a technique that makes it possible to change human memories during sleep. The study was published in the journal Nature Neuroscience. Previously, many experiments on animals and observations of…
Deja vu is one of the little-known and mysterious phenomena of our psyche. It has happened to many people to feel like a new situation in their life has already been experienced before in all the details. But how and when? This phenomenon is called déjà vu, which means ‘already…
There is a branch of science called oneirology which studies dreams. This discipline combines features of neuroscience, psychology, and even literature but does not provide the answer to the important question of why people dream. There is no clear answer to this puzzle yet, but there are some interesting hypotheses,…
Everyone knows the tricks our memory plays on us sometimes. Have you ever experienced the feeling when you seem to remember images, words, and events that, in fact, were nothing but a figment of your imagination and never took place in reality? These are false memories, and we are all…
