Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lindsay Kohler is a behavioral scientist and future of work expert. Not getting proper sleep can impair your ability to work.

As Hobson described, dreams were “meaningless electrical discharge” (1977). This view is echoed in a lot of colloquial ...

New technology aims to help you induce a lucid dream at will, enabling you to enter a state of consciousness where anything ...

Picture this: You’re flying through the clouds, swimming with dolphins, or strolling through a beach at sunset—all of it happening while you’re sound asleep. Now, imagine being fully aware of all of ...

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I awoke this morning from a disturbing dream. In the dream, I was…typing. Actually, I was cutting and pasting within a document in an effort to format it correctly for a blog post. I’m not kidding. I ...

Most of us have them at one time or another — dreams about work, either because our jobs have so monopolized our time and attention that we can't even forget them when we're asleep or because we're ...

Our dreams often repeat the message our unconscious is trying to transmit. Even in one simple image of two friends at an amusement park, Isabelle's dream, described here, repeats the sensations of ...

Test your knowledge of how sleeping and dreaming work. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. We spend a large portion of our lives ...