Dreams Articles
Sleep paralysis: why you wake up frozen, and why someone is in the room
You wake up, you are awake enough to know where you are, and your body will not move. Often there is a presence in the room. Sleep paralysis is a well-documented glitch at the border of REM sleep, it is common, and the things that make it more frequent are mostly things you can change. Here is the mechanism, who gets it most, and what helps.
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Why Do I Keep Having the Same Dream? A Psychologist on Recurring Dreams
If the same dream keeps coming back, it's tracking something in your life that hasn't moved. Here's what recurring dreams are, why they repeat, what they can tell you about your mental health, and what it takes to make one stop.
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What Does It Mean to Dream You're Trapped in a Building? A Psychologist Reads Her Own Dream
I dreamed about an office building nobody was allowed to leave, with a fake ocean on one floor and a real river under another. Here's the dream in full, how I read it as a psychologist, and what dreams like this can tell you about your mental health.
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