Dreams sometimes feel just as real as the waking world, their themes and ideas bleeding into our everyday experiences. We sleep about a third of our lives away, give or take, and we have private ...

For all of its “Matrix”-like convolutions and “Alice in Wonderland” allusions, the new film “Inception” adds something significant to the ancient ruminations about reality’s authenticity – something ...

The Zen teacher Chuang Tzu dreamed he was a butterfly. When he woke, he wondered, "Am I a man who dreamt about being a butterfly ? Or am I really a butterfly who now dreams about being a man?" This ...