Sleeping on a problem might be more powerful than we ever imagined. Neuroscientists at Northwestern University have shown that dreams can actually be nudged in specific directions — and those dream tweaks may boost creativity. By playing subtle sound cues during REM sleep, researchers prompted people to dream about unsolved brain teasers they had struggled with earlier. An astonishing 75% of participants dreamed about the cued puzzles, and those puzzles were solved far more often the next day.

If you’ve ever experienced a dream while knowing that you were dreaming, you’ve had a lucid dream. As interest has grown in optimizing sleep for self-im...

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Dr. Dean Radin, IONS Chief Scientist, addresses the question of whether psychic abilities run in families in a Mystery Wire interview.

Watch the first-ever video documenting live two-way dream communication. Have you ever felt drawn toward choices without knowing why? Or, as seen in the mov...

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A journey following in the footsteps of Basho, Japan's greatest poet, to Tohoku's 'deep north'.

Near-death experiences are profound psychological events that typically occur in people close to actual or perceived death. New research has examined some ...