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Were some dreams in ancient Roman poetry the precursor to film?
In Virgil's "Aeneid," the fallen Trojan prince Hector appears to Aeneas and advises him to flee Troy with his family. In perhaps Shakespeare's most well-known play, the ghost of Hamlet's father appears to Prince Hamlet to tell him his brother, Claudius, murdered him. And in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge receives a dreamlike visit from the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley.
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The Art of Dreams
A compendium of various artworks in which dreams are depicted, including works by Blake, Grandville, Hokusai, Redon and Dürer.
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What Do Plane Crashing Dreams Mean? 12 Dreams About Danger And Disasters, Explained
Sleep is supposed to be a place of safety, relaxation, and no-consequences dreams about going on a long weekend camping trip with the cast of Magic Mike XXL — but when going to bed means a night full of plane crashing dreams and other dream-time disasters, sleep can feel less like a sanctuary and more like a bad action movie. If you’ve been having nightmares full of towering tsunamis and raging fires lately, don’t freak out.
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Dreams and Anna Karenina
If the dream is father to imaginative literature, Tolstoy may be the novelist who most closely hews to its deep structures. By Janet Malcolm.
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A Sleep Researcher’s Attempt to Build a Bank for Dreams
For many people, listening to just one person describe their dreams is a nightmare. But for G. William Domhoff, it’s a calling; as a dream researcher, he listens to them professionally. But even a dream doctor has his limits...
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A dream-traveller’s guide to the sleeping mind
Almost 100 years ago, an English aristocrat found the secrets of dream control. Her adventures explored the limits of consciousness – which modern science has only now rediscovered. By David Robson.
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Her Hair
While riding my university shuttle, I used to stare at women’s hair. They were mostly young white women like me, who would sit in rows facing each other at the front of the bus, compulsively checking their phones. I would ride to campus in the afternoons and just gaze, marveling at how well-coiffed they were, all of them with the same long, straightened, voluminous hair—the hair that sets the standard for all other hair... By Rachel Wilkinson.
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Read the Lost Dream Journal of the Man Who Discovered Neurons
An exclusive look at the dreams Santiago Ramon y Cajal recorded to prove Freud was wrong. By Ben Erlich.
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Researchers find neural switch that turns dreams on and off
At the flip of a switch, UC Berkeley neuroscientists can send a sleeping mouse into dreamland. The researchers inserted an optogenetic switch into a group of nerve cells located in the ancient part of the brain called the medulla, allowing them to activate or inactivate the neurons with laser light.
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Sleep Paralysis Is an Inescapable Waking Nightmare
Once, when I was 17, I woke up in the dark and couldn’t move. I could hear, at least. That’s why I was awake to begin with: someone was banging on the front door in the middle of the night, insistent, sharp, angry. I could see, too. My eyes were open to the ceiling above me. My head, though, was locked into position by some invisible vise. I tried to yell, to warn my parents about the angry intruder outside, and the...
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The Crazy Attempt to Build a Database of Dreams
How one 1950s professor tried to build a gigantic database of thoughts and feelings. By Jeff Nunokawa.
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Why Sleep? Why Dream?
When you sleep, where does your consciousness go? By Robert Lawrence Kuhn.
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Sleep Paralysis’ Demons
Influenced by Culture and Fed by Our Fears. By Rachel Nuwer.
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Down From the Trees, Humans Finally Got a Decent Night’s Sleep
Humans sleep more deeply but for shorter periods than other primates’ habits, a study finds. The pattern may have helped humans evolve more powerful brains. By Carl Zimmer. (Dec. 17)
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The ability to control dreams may help us unravel the mystery of consciousness
About half of us will experience at least one lucid dream in our lives, where we are aware and may be able to take control of it. What can this tell us about consciousness? By Dan Denis and Giulia Poerio.
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No, you haven’t read this déjà vu story before
Two-thirds of us have experienced feeling déjà vu -- the belief you've been here or done that before, when you know there’s absolutely no way you could have -- but researchers are trying to find out what causes it. By Sandee LaMotte.
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When Anxiety Gives You Bad Dreams That Give You More Anxiety and Bad Dreams
I can't tell you what a good dream feels like because I've never had one. By Sarah Emerson. (Jan. 20)
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Yes, You Can Feel Real Pain in Your Dreams
A dream researcher explains how it works. By Jillian Rose-Lim.
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The Aspirational Science of Predictive Dreaming
Some scientists say psychic dreams are real. Explaining how they happen is another issue altogether. By Geraldine Cremin. (Jan. 27)
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What is the real reason we sleep?
It is surprisingly hard to pin down why we snooze, partly because sleep does so many good things that we can't tell which is the crucial one
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