
Answers in Your Dreams
When you fall asleep, you enter an alternative state of consciousness--a time when true inspiration can strike

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Answers in Your Dreams
When you fall asleep, you enter an alternative state of consciousness--a time when true inspiration can strike

Lucid Dreams Unlock Clues about Consciousness
Becoming aware of your sleeping self could relieve anxiety or tap the creative unconscious

Preschool Tests Take Time Away from Play--and Learning
The trend in early education is to move from a play-based curriculum to a more school-like environment of directed learning. But is earlier better? And better at what?

10 New Ways to Peer Inside the Human Mind
Artistry abounds in these 10 maps of the human mind

Minuscule Eye Motions Reveal Your True Thoughts
Tiny subconscious eye movements called microsaccades stave off blindness in all of us—and can even betray our hidden desires

Culture of Shock
Fifty years after Stanley Milgram conducted his series of stunning experiments, psychologists are revisiting his findings on the nature of obedience

Fiction Hones Social Skills
Reading fiction can strengthen your social ties and even change your personality