Can you video-record your dreams? Scientists may just be close to doing it
Dreams are an alternate world to our reality. Famed psychologist Sigmund Freud described dreams as a way for humans to experience their deepest desires?those that they could not fulfil in real life. However, often we are left wondering what we dreamt about at night....
“Spoonbenders”
The novel ?Spoonbenders? by Daryl Gregory tells the story of a family of psychics? who aren?t doing very well. You?d think a bunch of people with supernatural talents could use them to get ahead in life, but the three adult siblings in the Telemachus family are...
I AM I AM I AM Seventeen Brushes With Death
Two remarkable poems written in the latter half of the 20th century ? Wislawa Szymborska?s ?Could Have? and Jane Kenyon?s ?Otherwise? ? address the shadow life that presses itself against us in every living moment. ?It could have happened. / It had to happen?; so...
Why do we dream? Matthew Walker explores the theories in this exclusive essay…
First, when you were dreaming last night, you started to see things that were not there?you were hallucinating. Second, you believed things that could not possibly be true?you were delusional. Third, you became confused about time, place, and person?you were...