Were anxiety and fear predominant dream emotions for you in 2024? If so, you’re not alone. More than 70% of the 13,000 dreams collected in 2024 by the Dream Decoder app featured fearful or anxious emotions, revealing how deeply modern life’s stressors may be resonating within us. On the brighter side, as the year unfolded,

In my work is an experiential and dream therapist, I often invite my clients to enter their dreams, allowing their nocturnal imagery to re-form in their mind’s eye. Most people I ask can do this quite easily, and some produce a virtual torrent of imagery. But not everyone can, and I used to think of

How Technology is Making Our Dream Worlds More Accessible and Malleable One aspect of dreams that makes them so mysterious is that they are notoriously difficult to study. While those who dream vividly or lucidly can accurately report their detailed dream content, most of us imperfectly capture fragments of our dreams and are left with

One of the most enduring paradoxes in the field of dream research is the mystery of dream amnesia. Why do we forget most of our dreams, even though they’re often vivid, emotionally charged, and potentially important for our survival? A recent paper by Zhao and colleagues offers an elegant solution to this puzzle. Here’s the