15 interesting facts about DREAM
Dreaming is one of the most mysterious and interesting experiences in our lives. It is also known that many artists have received their creative ideas from their dreams. But what do we actually know about dreams? Here are 15 interesting facts about dreams – enjoy these!
Now, share your dream stories in the comment section!
1
You Forget 90% of Your Dreams
Within 5 minutes of waking half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.
2
Blind People also Dream
People who became blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion.
3
Everybody Dreams
Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder). If you think you are not dreaming – you just forget your dreams.
4
In Our Dreams We Only See Faces That We already Know
Our mind is not inventing faces – in our dreams we see real faces of real people that we have seen during our life but may not know or remember. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces throughout our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams.
5
Not Everybody Dreams in Color
A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. The remaining number dream in full color. Studies from 1915 through to the 1950s maintained that the majority of dreams were in black and white, but these results began to change in the 1960s. Today only 4.4% of the dreams of under-25 year-olds are in black and white. Recent research has suggested that those changing results may be linked to the switch from black-and-white film and TV to color media.
6
Dreams are Symbolic
If you dream about some particular subject it is not often that the dream is about that. Dreams speak in a deeply symbolic language. Whatever symbol your dream picks on it is most unlikely to be a symbol for itself.
7
Emotions
The most common emotion experienced in dreams is anxiety. Negative emotions are more common than positive ones.
8
You can have four to seven dreams in one night.
On average you can dream anywhere from one or two hours every night.
9
Animals Dream Too
Studies have been done on many different animals, and they all show the same brain waves during dreaming sleep as humans. Watch a dog sleeping sometime. The paws move like they are running and they make yipping sounds as if they are chasing something in a dream.
10
Body Paralysis
During REM (Rapid eye movement) sleep the body is paralyzed by a mechanism in the brain in order to prevent the movements which occur in the dream from causing the physical body to move. However, it is possible for this mechanism to be triggered before, during, or after normal sleep while the brain awakens.
11
Dream Incorporation
Our mind interprets the external stimuli that our senses are bombarded with when we are asleep and make them a part of our dreams. This means that sometimes in our dreams we hear a sound from reality and incorporate it in a way. For example you may be dreaming that you are in a concert while your brother is playing a guitar during your sleep.
12
Men and Women Dream Differently
Men tend to dream more about other men. Around 70% of the characters in a man’s dream are other men. On the other hand, a woman’s dream contains almost an equal number of men and women. Aside from that, men generally have more aggressive emotions in their dreams than the female lot.
13
Precognitive Dreams
Results of several surveys across large population sets indicate that between 18% and 38% of people have experienced at least one precognitive dream and 70% have experienced déjà vu. The percentage of persons that believe precognitive dreaming is possible is even higher – ranging from 63% to 98%.
14
If you are snoring, then you cannot be dreaming
This fact is repeated all over the Internet, but is there any scientific evidence to support it?
15
You can experience an o*gasm in your dream
You can not only have sex as pleasurable as in your real life while dreaming, but also experience an o*gasm as strong as a real one without any wet results. The sensations felt while lucid dreaming (touch, pleasure and etc..) can be as pleasurable and strong (or I believe even stronger) as the sensations experienced in the real world.
Now, share your dream stories in the comment section!
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Comments (13)
ok, in my dreams i often fly, sometimes i sail, sometimes i have to fly like a bird.Sometomes i fly in old builfings, high buildings like churches or castles.Sometimes i have to use a lot of power not to go or fall down.
But one thing is very intersting. I started to eat MSM a lot , because its good for the health. I took quite a lot of it every day. In that times i had many dreams in one night, i woke up , speaking to myself loud : what a good dream ! Looked at the watch, fall again to sleep and after only 15 minutes i woke up again, had another dream, this went one for three or 4 times. So much dreams ! Ah, ok. msm is methylsulfonulmethan. You cab google for it. Just try msm and dreams , its interesting. Sorry about my english :-)
Im a very active dreamer. Most ppl only remember one dream (the most recent one) when they wake up, because the other dreams get overwritten by the brain. Kinda like when u overwrite something on ur computer. My brain don't work exactly like that thou, so i remember most of the dreams when i wake up. Some nights i can have 4-5 different dreams and i can remember them all when i wake up in the morning. I do find this quite interesting, and also its fun to be able to remember all the "adventures" the brain has put u through during the night :)
@ galu85 If I am not wrong to understand your dream then this is the most commonly experienced nightmare. The meaning of such type of dreams is that someone, something (possibly something as obscure as an emotion) is making you feel threatened.
dreams could be a gate to some mysterious unknown dimensions...