The authors of a new study found that dreaming was linked with a specific pattern of brain activity in a region at the back of the brain that they call a "hot zone." Studying our dreams could be a ...

Rahul Jandial explains why we dream, what happens in the brain during this process, how these patterns remain constant across ...

and it turns out the dreaming brain is as active as the waking brain – sometimes even more so," he said. Just 8% of Americans say they never recall dreaming after waking up, according to a 2004 ...

Neurosurgeon Rahul Jandial, author of This Is Why You Dream, describes dreams as something ‘elusive’ that resists strict ...

dream sleep actually provides at least two benefits for the brain. The first is actually creativity, because it's during REM sleep and dreaming specifically when the brain starts to collide all of ...

Some dreams may also help our brains organize our thoughts and events of the day. Others may simply result from normal brain activity and mean very little, if anything. Researchers are still ...

Given the extensive research on sleep and the human brain, it's easy to understand why we close our eyes and go to sleep every night. But it's much more difficult to explain why we dream.