If you want to try lucid dreaming, some strategies, including performing reality checks, can help train your mind to recognize its own consciousness. Lucid dreaming is when you’re conscious during a ...

Lucid dreaming takes regular dreams to a whole new level. Roughly one in two people have reported experiencing lucid dreaming at least once in their life, but only about 1/10 say they've had two or ...

Have you ever had a dream where, suddenly, you thought, “This isn’t real!” and felt fully aware within it? Perhaps you began controlling the dream, soaring over city skylines, revisiting old friends, ...

A lucid dream is when you know you are dreaming and can sometimes control the dream. Writing in a dream diary can help you have more lucid dreams by making you more aware of your dreams. Reality ...

A visiting research fellow at the University of Adelaide, Aspy (who recently changed his surname to Adventure-Heart) was set to focus his Ph.D. program on nonverbal communication until he had a lucid ...

When Christopher Mazurek realizes he’s dreaming, it’s always the small stuff that tips him off. The first time it happened, Mazurek was a freshman at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. In the ...

When you lucid dream, you’re aware you’re dreaming while sleeping. A person might use lucid dreaming to problem solve or heal emotionally mentally, or physically. Not everyone lucid dreams, though.

Insomnia is a disorder in which individuals have difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep for at least three nights a week, and this sleep disturbance causes distress and waking dysfunction.