Neuroscientists studying the shifts between sleep and awareness are finding many liminal states, which could help explain the ...

Several studies in the past decade have revealed that up to a quarter of unresponsive patients with recent brain injuries may possess a degree of consciousness that's normally hidden from their ...

An international collaboration of scientists has created the largest-ever public database of brain activity recordings and accompanying dream reports. In a first analysis of this resource, the ...

Nearly 8% of the general population experiences sleep paralysis, but people are unaware that REM sleep disruptions can create terrifying waking dreams ...

After analyzing many previous studies on lucid dreaming, researchers have defined it as a state that differs significantly from both REM sleep and wakefulness. The awareness of dreaming during a lucid ...

A new study has revealed that sleep isn’t quite the unconscious state we thought it was as individuals respond to verbal communication by contracting their facial muscles in some stages of sleep. A ...

Neuron, Cell Press’s prestigious neuroscience journal, is publishing a special issue on consciousness research on May 15, 2024. The collection of reviews, commentaries, and interviews reflect the ...

Consciousness has long been treated as philosophy’s most stubborn mystery, yet a growing body of neuroscience is now tying ...

While it is certainly true that rapid eye movement (REM) sleep functions, in part, to promote a healthy waking mind, there are compelling reasons to believe that the opposite is the case as well: the ...

Vol. 7, No. 2/3, SPECIAL ISSUE: COGNITION AND DREAM RESEARCH (Spring and Summer, 1986), pp. 251-258 (8 pages) Published By: Institute of Mind and Behavior, Inc. Reports of lucid dreaming (dreaming ...

In the narrative of the Story of Creation, there are so many deep ideas, cryptic details, each one a world of its own. One of these fascinating points is the account of the creation of Chava, the ...

I have no doubt that numerous nonhuman animals (animals) are conscious beings, and I know I'm not alone in taking this strong and uncompromising position. Whenever I publish something to this effect ...