An international team of neuroscientists has unveiled the world’s largest open-access database of brain activity during sleep and dream reports, marking a major leap in the scientific study of human consciousness.

Called DREAM (Dream EEG and Mentation), the project compiles more than 2,600 awakenings from over 500 participants across 20 separate studies, offering an unprecedented resource for understanding when, how, and why we dream.

Published in Nature Communications, the initiative is a collaboration among 53 researchers from 37 institutions across 13 countries. Coordinated by Monash University in Australia and supported by the Bial Foundation, the database integrates electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings with detailed dream descriptions, standardis

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