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

For director and screenwriter Shatara Michelle Ford, real life can offer the richest kind of cinema. After garnering critical acclaim for their debut feature, Test Pattern, a 2019 film that peered ...

"Test Pattern" filmmaker Shatara Michelle Ford's ambitious sophomore feature is both an intimate exploration of identity and a rallying cry for a new kind of world. There’s this dream Z (Denée Benton) ...

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Real life? Hard pass. I get that sixteen hours a day, seven days a week. The other eight hours? I’m in the land of dreams and nightmares! It’s awesome! It’s freaky! And it’s definitely more exiting ...

I routinely control my own dreams. During a recent episode, in my dream laboratory, my experience went like this: I was asleep on a twin mattress in the dark lab room, wrapped in a cozy duvet and a ...

At the start of In Your Dreams, a new DreamWorks Animation movie available to stream on Netflix on November 14, 2025, we meet a 12-year-old girl named Stevie. She is stressed. Her mind sparkles with ...

Source: The story of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons What are dreams made of and are they important? Questions like this are still the subject of scientific ...