Believe your dreams have value and tell yourself before bed you want to remember them. 

Dreams are an opportunity to work through things that frighten us in real life, to play out worst-case scenarios in an environment where they have no consequences. 

Most dreams are actually less bizarre than people think. When we dream, the logic centres of our brain – the frontal lobes – go dark, and chemicals associated with self-control, like serotonin and norepinephrine, drop. At the same time, the emotion centres light up: we have a perfect chemical can...

In lucid dreams, you become aware you’re dreaming. You can take control of the plot. They can be anything from a brief moment where you’re in a nightmare and tell yourself: “this is a dream” and wake up. 

Dreams offer the opportunity to think in a different way and show new answers to problems, 

Dreaming helps us consolidate new memories: we replay salient experiences from the day, reinforcing new pathways in our brains.