Dreams

While you’re fast asleep, your brain is busier than ever. But what’s actually going on? Are we detoxing, learning, or protecting our health? Here’s what happens to your brain when you sleep. As a neuroscience researcher, the role of sleep is fascinating to me. We spend about a third of our lives sleeping, but why […]

To learn what’s going on with vivid dreams in quarantine, we looked at the latest research. From there, two dream experts helped us put it all in context. The phenomenon of dreaming is as fascinating as it is mysterious. And as far as the long social distancing season of 2020 goes, it seems as though […]

Looking to get more quality zzZz’s and stress less? Enter: valerian root for sleep. It befits a plant as legendary as this one to have a name like valerian. It honestly sounds like a Game of Thrones character we thought was going to be a villain, but who just turned out to be fairly benign […]

I’ve always been drawn to the metaphysical, mystical, and mysterious, so I jumped at the chance as an undergrad to take a course on dream psychology. Since it provided me with the tools to gain illuminating, actionable insights into pressing dilemmas, I fondly remember the class as my favorite within my entire eight years of […]