Scientists Read Dreams Using Brain Scans!

Using imaging tools and computer analysis, Japanese scientists could determine the images appearing in the dreams of a group of test subjects with 60% accuracy. In essence, the researchers were able to read dreams from the participants' minds! A group of researchers at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology…

Sleep on It: Why Regular Rest Makes for a More Productive Lifestyle

When a boss catches an employee napping at work, are they likely to be fired or will the employer realize that getting some rest doesn't always need to be seen negatively; the employee may simply have been recharging their batteries? No prizes for choosing the right answer there. Unfortunately, taking…

How to Remember Dreams with These 8 Tips

If you're used to forgetting your dreams, there are techniques that can improve this. Our mysterious world teaches us how to remember dreams. In case you never knew, the area that's responsible for creating long-term memories, the prefrontal cortex, lies dormant when we are sleeping. This is why dreams are so hard to…

Why Do Our Deceased Loved Ones Visit Us in Our Dreams?

Sometimes strange things happen to us when we close our eyes to sleep. For some of us, we're visited by deceased loved ones. American scientists found that 60% of women and 40% of men often have dreams of deceased relatives and friends. In the dream, living and dead people meet and…