Psychologist Westley Youngren explains why we dream, why nightmares are so important to study, and lucid dreaming is ...

Night hags and night mares. Succubi and incubi. Sleep has long been a demon-haunted world. In olden days such visitations were thought to drain the dreamer of life-energy and, though modern science ...

Have you ever had recurring nightmares and wondered where they were coming from? While you may not have gone to bed anxious, you certainly woke up that way. Despite the extremity of these so-unwelcome ...

Anyone who sleeps has had a nightmare at one point or another. But if the frightening dreams are happening frequently, it may be an ominous sign for health. Adults who reported having nightmares every ...

New research suggests that there’s a link between having regular nightmares and dying early. People who had weekly nightmares were three times as likely to die early as those who had them less often.