Some mornings, you wake up and the dream is right there. Clear and vivid. You might still feel the emotion in your chest, and it can take a few minutes to remember where you are and what was real.

In today's The Daily Why, a new series from India Today Science, we try to understand the mechanism that triggers dreams, and the one that makes us forget them.

Although my experience with dream journaling didn’t produce the results I was hoping for (improving my memory of both my dreams and in general), it was a fun experience that you can start at any time.

Sleep can be a time of peaceful rest and happy dreams or a terrifying ordeal of nightmares to endure, depending on the kinds of images that fill people’s heads at night. *Billed as $4.00 plus GST ...

It may seem hard to believe for those who rarely remember their dreams, but psychologists have found strong evidence that sleep and dreaming are closely intertwined with the dynamics of memory.

Imagine standing in a quiet meadow; the emerald grass blades and yellow flowers sway with a gentle breeze. As a brook murmurs in the distance, everything feels weightless and soft. Then, with a sharp ...

A recent paper published in Scientific Reports shows that dreaming of a visual learning task is associated with improved post-sleep memory performance (Plailly et al., 2019). This study follows ...

Anthony Bloxham once received research funding from the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) to support PhD research in 2018-19. People have pondered whether dreams have a purpose ...