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15 Interesting Facts about Dreams

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. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a normal stage of sleep
characterized by rapid movements of the eyes. REM sleep in adult humans
typically occupies 20-25% of total sleep, about 90-120 minutes of a night’s
sleep. During REM 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.

15. You can experience an orgasm in your
dreams. You can not only have s e x as pleasurable as in your real life
while dreaming, but also experience an o r g a s m 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.

Just read the bold words, the others are TOO WORDY!