Real-world scientists have succeeded in intentionally changing the contents of a person’s dreams, even reducing the frequency of nightmares, but the process isn’t quite as cinematic as Christopher ...

Sleep has been shown to have a long list of physical and mental health benefits, and now a new study suggests it could also help to "erase" bad memories. That’s according to researchers from the ...

Lucid dreamers who heard puzzle-linked soundtracks while sleeping were more likely to solve those unsolved problems the next ...

Currently, the first-choice treatment for PTSD is exposure-based psychotherapy, where therapists help rewire the emotions associated with the traumatic memory in the patient’s brain, shifting from ...

In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers detailed a way to weaken the recall of negative memories by reactivating newer, positive memories during ...

Most humans can recall specific events and past experiences for long periods of time. This capability, referred to as episodic memory, is known to be in great part supported by the activity of neurons ...

That’s according to researchers from the University of Hong Kong, who implemented a procedure called “targeted memory reactivation” (TMR) to reactivate positive memories and weaken painful ones during ...