Dreams appear to allow the brain to break free creatively in ways the conscious mind can not In A Nutshell Researchers successfully steered people’s dreams toward specific unsolved puzzles by playing ...

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 ...

NPR's Short Wave talks about babies' perceptions of rhythm, how sleep may help us solve puzzles and why snakes may be able to fast so long.

One brain teaser that's currently stumping people involves fixing the equation shown below by making a small adjustment. This ...

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.