We've seen dream engineering in blockbuster movies like Christopher Nolan's Inception, and a new study shows that the science ...

Hearing a sound while working on a complex puzzle, and then hearing it again during sleep, helped lucid dreamers better ...

New research now shows how dreams during REM sleep help the brain rethink problems and find creative solutions naturally.

The next time you wake up with a solution that seemed impossible the night before, consider thanking your dreams. A new study ...

Could the same method one day power sleep-time ads? It's like the movie Inception, but without Leonardo DiCaprio, unless you imagine him. Researchers used carefully timed sound cues to nudge dream ...

For many years, the idea that “sleeping on it” would provide an individual with some time in which their subconscious mind would work through a problem or problems has generally been accepted as ...

Got a problem? Science says you should sleep on it.

A pair of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently discovered hints that the process of compressing information can solve complex reasoning tasks without pre-training on a large number of ...

New research from Northwestern University suggests that dreams may play a more active role in creative problem-solving than previously demonstrated.

Humans have long believed that dreams could be a source of creativity and a means to solving problems. It is often said that many famous ideas were in.

Math puzzles test readers' critical thinking skills by challenging them to solve problems. Math puzzles can boost analytical ...