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Hearing a sound that we associate with a positive experience while we sleep, with the same sound also being played during a specific type of therapy, makes bad dreams occur less frequently

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Nightmares can be eased by hearing sounds linked to good experiences

Listening to a specific piano sound while practicing a type of therapy that can ease nightmares reduced people's bad dreams when the same sound was played as they slept

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Sleeping mouse

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Rapid eye movements during sleep reveal where mice look in dreams

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Daydreaming has a dark side – is your fantasising holding you back?

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Daydreaming has a dark side – is your fantasising holding you back?

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Listening to friends tell you about their dreams helps develop empathy

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Listening to friends tell you about their dreams helps develop empathy

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Science with Sam sleep

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Science with Sam: Why can’t we stay awake indefinitely?

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Sleeping man

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People can answer questions about their dreams without waking up

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How the strangeness of our dreams reveals their true purpose

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How the strangeness of our dreams reveals their true purpose

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Why does 'falling' in dreams happen?

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Illustration of a doctor's dream that involved her investigating quails' eggs as a possible covid-19 cure

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How coronavirus is affecting your dreams – and what to do about it

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A man covered in fake blood is being scared by another man holding a chainsaw and a woman with a scarred face who's holding him down

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Scientists studied a ‘haunted house’ to understand why we love horror

To understand why many of us enjoy being scared, a team of scientists studied the people visiting a haunted house set in a dilapidated factory

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Dream on: My year pursuing the third state of being

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We dream even when under general anaesthetic

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A drug's weird side effect lets people control their dreams

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We've started to uncover the true purpose of dreams

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