Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lindsay Kohler is a behavioral scientist and future of work expert. Not getting proper sleep can impair your ability to work.

In a world filled with distractions and constant demands on our attention, dreams offer a rare opportunity to connect with our subconscious mind and unlock hidden truths. In 2025, more people are ...

In a new paper in the journal Neuroscience of Consciousness, researchers asked dreamers, both lucid and otherwise, to dream ...

Picture this: You’re flying through the clouds, swimming with dolphins, or strolling through a beach at sunset—all of it happening while you’re sound asleep. Now, imagine being fully aware of all of ...

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I awoke this morning from a disturbing dream. In the dream, I was…typing. Actually, I was cutting and pasting within a document in an effort to format it correctly for a blog post. I’m not kidding. I ...

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Most of us have them at one time or another — dreams about work, either because our jobs have so monopolized our time and attention that we can't even forget them when we're asleep or because we're ...

The unconscious mental voyages to weird places and with stranger people, the daytime rambles that are only slightly more rational — I’ve always been good at dreaming. To my chagrin, but not my ...

Our dreams often repeat the message our unconscious is trying to transmit. Even in one simple image of two friends at an amusement park, Isabelle's dream, described here, repeats the sensations of ...