Face Your Fears

While our more enjoyable dreams are spurred by wishes and desires, nightmares are a manifestation of other common feelings like stress and anxiety.

As the sun sets over the city on the second day of the disaster, the apprehension for the days that follow is palpable for all.

The eerie green of the porch against the oddly purple sky gives a spooky feeling to the whole image.

"The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal."

A chorus of cheers and applause echoed through the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory after the interplanetary rover Curiosity signaled it had survived a harrowing plunge through the thin Mars atmosphere.

In response to high-profile attacks on hotel maids, two Manhattan hotels will equip their room attendants with panic buttons.

Fashion Week is always an occasion for sickness paranoia. In past years, sniffles in the front row have drawn icy stares. The fear is founded. Models are particularly susceptible to the flu and can pass out.

More therapists are using virtual environments to help people work through phobias, and use avatars to recreate complex social situations.

'Cock-a-doodle-doo' symbolizes the break of dawn in many countries. Scientists, by putting roosters under constant light conditions, have proven that their startling crows are under the control of a biological clock.

Vacationing in California, Hitchcock was struck by a story in a newspaper: "Seabird Invasion Hits Coastal Homes." From this peculiar incident, the master of suspense created one of his strangest and most terrifying films.