We only remember a fraction of our dreams, and even those slip away if we don’t try to remember them—here’s why. Skip to main content. Scientific American. September 30, 2023.

In the late 1800s scientists began to interrogate the neurological basis of dreams. That changed in Sigmund Freud’s time but later changed back.

But shortly after Calkins’s work, interest shifted to what dreams meant, Zadra said, at least in part because of Sigmund Freud. Starting around 1900, the founder of psychoanalysis presented ...

Dreams have provided scientific breakthroughs and are a source of transrational knowledge. Read on to learn how you can use dreams to accelerate your own personal growth.

Dreams are imaginary sequences—some with clear narratives, and some without—that play out in people’s minds as they sleep. Most dreams consist of a series of images, sensations, and emotions ...

Our dreams can haunt us. But what are we to make of them? From omens and art to modern science, we tell the story of dreams and the surprising role they may play in our lives. (Originally ran as ...

It even goes by its original name: Little Shop of Dreams. I stumbled across it last month while visiting Maggie Sooth, a distinguished professor of real-life studies at the university.

Why do some remember their dreams, but others don’t? For decades, scientists have pondered this question. Now, a new study sheds more light on the factors influencing how we remember our dreams.

Dreams are the common ground where we meet friends, enemies, relatives, people long dead or even strangers. Sometimes, we even meet altered versions of ourselves,doing things we would never do ...

The Third Reich of Dreams. By Charlotte Beradt. Translated by Damion Searls. Princeton University Press; 152 pages; $24.95 and £20 In 1933, after Adolf Hitler had taken power, a German housewife ...