Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung were both early researchers in the field of neuro psychology and the study of dream patterns associated with sleep. Although not all of Freud and Jung's theories have withstood the test of time, without their groundbreaking research our conscious and unconscious mi...

"It is impracticable, however, to keep our sleep free from stimuli; they impinge upon the sleeper from all sides- like the germs of life which Mephistopheles complained- from without and from within and even from parts of his body which are quite unnoticed in waking life. Thus sleep is di...

Through the ages, all people have been fascinated with dreams. The earliest recordings of dreams date back 5000 years to Mesopotamia. Since then, different cultures have different explanations of what they are and some even have special ways to try and evoke dreams. Ancient Egyptians gave specia...

REM, or rapid eye movement, sleep is a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as the paradoxical stage of sleep, the muscles are relaxed, except for minor twitches, during this phase. Although the muscles of the body are relaxed and considered "temporarily...