Well, as long as everybody's now talking about sleep as the next feminist issue, I thought I'd tap into what actually happens when most of us sleep: we dream. Not all of us, I suppose. An old boyfriend of mine used to maintain that he dreamt mostly...

As my back sank against the cold tile wall, my arms flailed madly in a final, futile effort to keep IT from getting me. My heart, pounding on the door of my chest, wanted to be let out. I looked up into the harsh light and cried out the answer the...

Also called lucid dreaming, conscious dreaming is a state where you are aware that you are in the middle of a dream and can then start to control the goings-on of the experience. You can do anything that you can imagine while having a lucid dream,...