Tag: dreams

  • Nation & World

    What pandemic dreams may come

    Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor of Psychology Deirdre Barrett created an online survey to collect dreams of people during the pandemic.

    10 minutes
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  • Nation & World

    Dream saga of WWII

    As part of a project by Professor Deirdre Barrett to resurrect a study started in 1940, a group of Harvard undergraduates probed the dreams of British officers captured early in World War II and held in a German prison camp.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The power of dreams

    Professor Kimberley C. Patton suggests dreams are “a language of enigmatic parable” that Western culture generally prefers to dismiss. “There’s a devaluation of dreams in the West,” said Patton, something the ancients would have found incomprehensible.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Waking up to how we sleep and dream

    The Oct. 27, 2005 issue of the prestigious science journal Nature devotes almost 40 pages to bringing readers up-to-date on what happens during sleep. Three of the articles are by Harvard Medical School scientists who discuss such things as an on-off sleep switch, and learning while we sleep.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Investigating phenomenon of sleep

    Alexander Schier’s transparent fish are helping him understand the basic secrets of human development: how early embryonic cells communicate so that some develop into heart tissue, some into brain cells, and others into tissues that form the rest of the body.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Researchers learn to control dreams

    For years, scientists have been stymied in their quest to understand dreams because they are unique events that cannot be replicated.

    1 minute