WHEN an ancient Egyptian sought an encounter with Bes, the god of fertility and childbirth, they would draw an image of the deity on their hand, wrap that hand and their neck with black cloth, and ...

Dreaming while being aware that you're dreaming: this is what lucid dreamers experience. This phenomenon, at the border between sleep and wakefulness, is fascinating more and more people around the ...

Considering how much of our lives we spend sleeping – years and years, if you added up all our time in slumber – it’s remarkable how much mystery still surrounds this most fundamental of behaviours.

In Nightmare Obscura, the sleep scientist explores how dreams impact waking life and the growing research into techniques to control them. How do dreams affect our lives? Researchers are taking dream ...