Preemptive apology: This post contains no answers. We're simply here to speculate on the reasons behind cheese dreams or — as they're more historically known — cheese nightmares. Read… 11/07/13 3:40pm 11/07/13 3:40pm

My air conditioner induces nightmares. I'm serious. If I don't sleep with it on, I wake up in the middle of the night sweating, but if I do sleep with it on, I wake up in the middle of the night convinced I'm being stalked by anti-choicers who secretly implanted a dead baby inside of my womb that I'm forced to carry… Read… 7/24/13 6:40pm 7/24/13 6:40pm

Minnesota woman Lori Christensen has been charged with three felony counts of aggravated stalking and violating a harassment order after ignoring a restraining order placed against her by her neighbors, the Hoffman family of White Bear Lake, MN. The Hoffmans claim that Christensen's harassment began years ago with… Read… 5/30/12 11:50am 5/30/12 11:50am

Aimee Copeland, a 24-year-old Georgia woman who contracted a flesh-eating virus after cutting open her leg on May 1st, has regained consciousness, but remains in critical condition at an Augusta hospital. Copeland was using a homemade zip line near the Little Tallapoosa River when the zip line snapped, causing her to… Read… 5/15/12 5:45pm 5/15/12 5:45pm

Robert D. Hitt, a 35-year-old convicted rapist who was released from prison in January, has been arrested after breaking into a home in the University District of Seattle, WA and holding its six female residents hostage at knife point. Hitt then forced the women to remove their clothes and lie face down on the floor … Discuss… 3/15/12 12:00pm 3/15/12 12:00pm

This ought to set your heart into overdrive: Hope Trott, a 3-year-old from Maine, woke up in the middle of the night on Wednesday and left her house all by herself. She then proceeded to walk a mile in fresh snow to a grocery store, because apparently she thought her mother was inside buying a pizza. It's not clear… Read… 2/23/12 11:15pm 2/23/12 11:15pm

Warning: Looking too deeply into this bear's eyes could scar you for life. Rather than being a source of comfort, as teddy bears were designed to be, this mess of a toy is the stuff nightmares are made of. Plagued with some kind of hearts-based skin disease (Is this what global warming is doing to all the polar… Read… 12/30/11 6:15pm 12/30/11 6:15pm

Recent findings suggest that among patients seeking emergency psychiatric evaluation, those suffering from severe nightmares may be more likely to commit suicide than those with undisturbed sleep. [EurekAlert] Discuss… 6/09/09 10:40am 6/09/09 10:40am

• Researchers have announced that women are more talented at picking out "cute babies" than men because of our reproductive hormones. • Read… 1/22/09 5:40pm 1/22/09 5:40pm

Elisabeth Fritzl, the woman who was imprisoned and raped by her father for 24 years, was released from a psychiatric hospital in Austria today. Her father's trial will take place in March. [Guardian] Discuss… 12/29/08 12:40pm 12/29/08 12:40pm

The son of the "British Fritzl," the man who impregnated his two daughters 19 times, says he lived in fear of his father, who was abusive, and hopes he "rots in hell." Ditto. [Guardian] Discuss… 12/19/08 9:40am 12/19/08 9:40am

[New York, February 18. Image via Splash.]