Articles for tag: Brain and dreaming, psychology of dreams, Science of Dreams, Why we dream

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The Science of Dreams: Why Our Brains Create These Nightly Adventures

Suhail Ahmed

  Every night, as the lights go off and our muscles slacken, the brain stages a private film festival that no one else can see. These dreams can feel so vivid that we wake up sweating, laughing, or suddenly heartbroken, even though nothing has really happened. For centuries, people treated dreams as omens or secret ...

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Our Dreams May Hold Clues to Future Events, Scientists Suggest

Suhail Ahmed

  Most of us wake from a vivid dream with a strange aftertaste of meaning, a feeling that what we just saw was more than random mental noise. For centuries, those moments have been dismissed as superstition or wishful thinking, overshadowed by the hard edges of science and statistics. Yet a growing number of researchers ...