In 1893, psychologist Mary Calkins led a sleep study by candlelight, rousing the participants — one man, one woman — throughout the night to ask whether they were dreaming and to describe the ...

Delving deep into the thoughts and brains of a variety of dreamers, scientists are asking important questions about the purpose of this mysterious realm we escape to at night. Do dreams allow us ...

Although we don’t remember it all, pretty much everyone will dream about five times a night. In terms of REM, those dreams start off very short and grow longer as the night progresses – in the ...