Answers in Your Dreams
When you fall asleep, you enter an alternative state of consciousness--a time when true inspiration can strike
Features
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
Departments
Signal for Consciousness in Brain Marked by Neural Dialogue
- From the Editor
Sparks in Your Sleep
- Letters
Letters to the Editors, November/December 2011
- Head Lines
What Just Happened?
Sniffing Out a Good Time
How Partners Prevent Addiction
City Living Can Heighten Social Stress
Photos with Strange or Funny Details Deemed Most Memorable
Putting Insomnia on Ice
Why Some People Say "Sorry" Before Others
Brain Conducts a Subconscious Reality Check
Bad Smells Impair Learning
Crab's Brain Encodes Complex Memories
Neurons Offer Clues to Suicide
Moods Change in Response to Our Subliminal Goals
Motions Unmask Moods
Gossip Shapes What We See
Therapy in the Air
- Illusions
Sculpting the Impossible: Solid Renditions of Visual Illusions
- Perspectives
Is Free Will an Illusion?
- Consciousness Redux
Probing the Unconscious Mind
- Reviews and Recommendations
MIND Reviews Books: November/December 2011
Roundup: Train the Brain
- Ask the Brains
Are We Biologically Inclined to Couple for Life?
- Head Games
Head Games
- Mind in Pictures
Frankenstein's Origins Trace Back to Ben Franklin
- Calendar
MIND Calendar: November/December 2011
- We're Only Human
On the Trail of the Orchid Child
- Facts and Fictions in Mental Health
Two Big Myths about Grief
