I woke up once with such a vivid image of a hawk circling overhead that I lay there for ten minutes just trying to hold onto it. I could feel the shadow it cast. I had no idea what to make of it, so I ...

What new research on the avian brain and REM sleep in birds might reveal about our own dream lives. By Maria Popova I once dreamed a kiss that hadn’t yet happened. I dreamed the angle at which our ...