Why we dream, what dreams do, and how researchers study them.
Dream Research
Within five minutes of waking, most of a dream is gone. Within ten, nearly all of it. The proposed explanations range from neurochemistry to the possibility that forgetting is the point.
Dream Research
Interpretation cannot be tested. Counting can. The system that turned dream reports into data is sixty years old and remains the reason we know anything reliable about dream content.
Dream Research
Daydreaming and dreaming share a brain network, a loosening of control, and a tendency to go somewhere you did not intend. The boundary between them is considerably less firm than the words suggest.
Dream Research
After seventy years of laboratory research the confident claims are fewer than the popular literature suggests. Here is what has actually held up, and what has not.
