Sleep and lucid dream researcher Stephen LaBerge has proposed that the sensations of astral projection, or an out of body experience, may be a specific type of lucid dream. These so-called out of body dreams may be related to wake-induced lucid dreams, which occur at...

For as long as human beings have tried to understand what dreams are, they have also asked, “What is the meaning of dreams? Where do dreams come from, and what are they trying to tell us?” While the scientific definition of dreams can reveal the neural processes...

If you look in the dictionary, you’ll find the definition of dreams as follows: a series of images, ideas, emotions and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The definition of dreams today also encompasses daydreams and states...